Dear All
A short greeting from Marcelo and me to thank you all for your hard work on ExtenDT2 this year. It has been a pleasure working with you all and seeing you at the physical meetings.
We wish you all Happy (Christmas) Holidays, and much rest from work!
God Jul och Gott Nytt År
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Shamim & Marcelo
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Dear All
Thank you very much for your all your efforts for the RP2 reporting. I am attaching the draft Technical Report sent to our PO and Davinia Hernandez-Leo, the EC expert reviewer, this afternoon so they can prepare for the Final Review .
Note: We have asked for an extension of the draft financial reporting part (Section 7.2) as some partners have unfortunately not been able to provide this information yet.
Marcelo and I would like to thank you all for your contributions to the reporting and all your hard work during 2025.
It has been a pleasure working with you all, and we both look forward to seeing most of you in Brussels in January for the Final Review. For now, we wish you all a relaxing and well deserved holiday break.
Happy Christmas and all very best for 2026.
Shamim and Marcelo
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Dear all,
Can you pls reply if you are planning to participate or organise any event with exceptionally high-level international interest in 2026? (See below)
Best,
Thea
From: Marcelo Milrad <marcelo.milrad(a)lnu.se>
Date: Thursday, 30 October 2025 at 21:23
To: Christothea.Herodotou [She/Her] <christothea.herodotou(a)open.ac.uk>
Cc: Shamim Patel <shamim.patel(a)lnu.se>
Subject: FW: Project events with exceptionally high-level international interest in 2026
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Hi Thea,
Please have a look at the e-mail below. Thank you for your help with this.
Regards.
Marcelo
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From: FUENTES MATEOS Angel <Angel.FUENTES-MATEOS(a)ec.europa.eu>
Date: Wednesday, 29 October 2025 at 11:47
To: FUENTES MATEOS Angel <Angel.FUENTES-MATEOS(a)ec.europa.eu>
Subject: Project events with exceptionally high-level international interest in 2026
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Dear coordinators,
I am contacting you about an important request regarding the communication of your projects. Please forward this email to the work package leader for communication, if needed.
Please inform me if you intent to participate or organise any event with exceptionally high-level international interest in 2026.
E.g. participation to UN or international conferences or other well-known events at global/international level. The purpose is to find projects for Cluster 2 that can be promoted by the European Commission. Please let me know if you have any relevant activities by 31 October CoB.
Best regards,
Angel
Angel M. FUENTES, PhD
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Dear all,
I attach the last newsletter of the project.
If you have any feedback pls share with me.
Thanks to @Saraswati.Dawadi<mailto:saraswati.dawadi@open.ac.uk> for preparing this.
Best,
Thea
Dear all
As I informed you before, I am currently contributing to producing a couple of project outputs. I have reorganised the event log now. So, please ignore the link that I shared with you before as I have produced a different document now. So, could you please follow this Link<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l6mhT4BC_ck63_EXn9qDhq19-ouwpZRZ/ed…> and update the sheet by 5th of September, if that is possible for you. Thanks
Best wishes
Saraswati
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Dr Saraswati Dawadi| Research Fellow
Institute of Educational Technology,
The Open University, Jennie Lee Building, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
Email: saraswati.dawadi(a)open.ac.uk<mailto:saraswati.dawadi@open.ac.uk>
Telephone: +44 (0) 1908368753
Mobile: +44 (0) 7424711775
www.open.ac.uk<http://www.open.ac.uk/>
Dear all,
Hope you are well, in the roadmap of publications doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a8eOpdMNTXBlxsRbRx2JRbQKVLNU0Yj1PxRFO4x… I expressed interest in writing a paper about:
“What is the impact of engaging with design thinking on students' critical thinking, reflection, and empathy?”
I’m thinking of collating survey data from across partners and conduct a statistical analysis of pre/post responses considering for contextual factors such as country, school type, student performance, age, gender. This will address some of the criticism we received from mis4TEL reviewers last year regarding the paper we published and which we addressed by adding the below:
“In addition, we aim to address two limitations of this study: a) analyse data considering for the sample’s heterogeneity e.g, different ages,
backgrounds, school type, locations, enabling comparisons between e.g., different types of schools, and an understanding of the conditions under which the proposed intervention may work (or not) well”
Would you be interested in contributing? Pls let me know and I can draft a plan with activities and meetings to take this forward.
Best,
Thea
Dear All
Fyi: Attached you can find D7.3: Cycle 3 Evaluation Report.
This is complete for up to M36, with an Addendum to be added for the 3-month extension by NKUA, SIMPLE and LNU.
As noted on Friday’s OMT meeting the deliverable is lean, with tables and graphs summarising evaluations and the focus being on interpretation of quantitative data.
If you have any feedback, please contact Richie by Monday 15 September.
Thank you to Richie, the TCD team and everyone who has contributed to this deliverable.
Kind regards
Shamim
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Shamim Patel (ACA)
Project Manager | Exten.(D.T.)2 Project
Linnæus University
Office of External Relations
SE-351 95 Växjö | Sweden
M: +46 (0)705 898396 | lnu.se<https://lnu.se/en/>
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Dear all
I trust this email finds you well. I am planning to produce a draft newsletter by early September. Therefore, may I request you all to send me your news (a maximum of 150 words for each news item) by 5th of September. You could also send me a relevant picture if you want me to include it in the forthcoming newsletter. Thanks.
Best wishes
Saraswati
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Dr Saraswati Dawadi| Research Fellow
Institute of Educational Technology,
The Open University, Jennie Lee Building, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
Email: saraswati.dawadi(a)open.ac.uk<mailto:saraswati.dawadi@open.ac.uk>
Telephone: +44 (0) 1908368753
Mobile: +44 (0) 7424711775
www.open.ac.uk<http://www.open.ac.uk/>
Dear All
Fyi: Attached and linked here you can find D3.3: Report on Training Material and Guidelines for Teachers - Final Report<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kVzt1yEdEqptQfZmCOSHWaxmY1b3te2f/view?usp=…>.
This deliverable was ready for submission on Friday, before its due date (M36). However, due to a technicality in the Portal could only be submitted yesterday with our PO’s help when he was back from his summer break.
Thank you to the OU team and the reviewers for their work on this deliverable.
Kind regards
Shamim
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Shamim Patel (ACA)
Project Manager | Exten.(D.T.)2 Project
Linnæus University
Office of External Relations
SE-351 95 Växjö | Sweden
M: +46 (0)705 898396 | lnu.se<https://lnu.se/en/>
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Dear all,
This is the sister project event on the 29th of Sept in Brussels: https://nettskjema.no/a/clusterpolicyworkshop#/page/1
Are any of you joining?
Also, teachers are needed to join the event and take part in the workshops, can any of your participants join?
I will be joining.
Best,
Thea
