Examine how inner development concepts align with, complement, or extend established academic and sustainability competence frameworks, such as learning outcomes, transversal skills and education for sustainable development approaches. The analysis will identify where existing frameworks already capture relevant dimensions, where gaps remain and how inner development can be positioned in relation to higher education priorities.

Gather input from academic experts and students through structured workshops and focus groups in order to ground the framework in both pedagogical knowledge and lived learning experience. These consultations will inform the project’s conceptual development by identifying perceived relevance, practical needs and potential barriers to implementation in higher education settings.

Develop a 9-unit Digital Learning Guide that provides educators with structured, flexible and adaptable material for introducing inner development into teaching and learning. Each unit will include explanatory content, practical examples, suggested activities and tools that can be adapted to different disciplines, course formats and institutional contexts.

Support educators in integrating inner development into their teaching through a combination of experiential workshops, mentorship circles and a co-developed teaching toolkit. This strand will focus on strengthening pedagogical confidence, exchanging teaching practices and providing concrete methods for designing and facilitating learning activities that reflect the project’s aims.

Test the framework, Digital Learning Guide and teaching toolkit through pilots carried out across partner institutions and within different disciplinary environments. The pilots will allow the partnership to assess how the materials function in practice, how they need to be adapted for different contexts, and what kinds of student and educator responses they generate.

Promote wider uptake of the project results through multiplier events, digital communication activities and open access publication of the project outputs. This strand will make the project accessible to academic staff, students, policymakers and other stakeholders, while also supporting longer-term reuse through the project website and partner channels.