Edul@b Participates in the Kick-Off Meeting of the European SAILeR Project in Varaždin, Croatia
On 4 and 5 December 2025, the city of Varaždin (Croatia) hosted the kick-off and coordination meeting of the new Erasmus+ project SAILeR – Streamlining AI in Learning Reimagination. UOC was represented by researchers from the Edul@b Research Group, Dr. Lourdes Guàrdia and Dr. Marcelo Maina, who are part of the international project team.
SAILeR is an Erasmus+ project led by Professor Blazenka Divjak (Faculty of Organization and Informatics – FOI, University of Zagreb), and has a consortium formed by Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany), University of Oulu (Finland), University of Groningen (Netherlands) and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain). The project has a global budget of 400,000 euros and will be developed between 2025 and 2028, with the aim of involving approximately 1,000 teachers from Europe and around the world.
A new look at learning design
The SAILeR project deepens the international innovation trajectory that gave rise to the Balanced Design Planning (BDP) tool — a globally recognized learning design tool with nearly 3,000 users worldwide. In this new phase, SAILeR aims to explore learning design from a renewed perspective: starting from the teacher’s vision of the course or program, and reinforcing their role as a key agent in pedagogical decision-making.
To do this, the project will integrate learning design tools, learning analytics and artificial intelligence, with the aim of providing an environment that facilitates the formulation of a “design vision from the teaching perspective” within the BDP tool.
Edul@b participation and next steps
During the kick-off, the international team began the first work activities aimed at bringing learning design closer to teachers, establishing the foundations of the new environment that will facilitate the creation of this teaching vision. Edul@b’s participation in SAILeR reinforces its line of research in technopedagogical design, learning analysis and AI literacy, and consolidates the group’s presence in European projects that seek to transform higher education.
