✦ Our Consortium · 2025–2028
TET4CL brings together four European institutions united by a shared commitment to transforming early childhood education through technology, play, and collaboration.
The University of Patras is is a leading research-intensive institution in Greece with strong international recognition. Active across Natural Sciences, Engineering, Health Sciences, Humanities, and Social and Economic Sciences, UPatras is distinguished by its high-impact research output, innovation, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Since its establishment in 1964, the University has pursued a strong European and global orientation, participating in international research programs, consortia, and strategic partnerships.
With a clear commitment to excellence, extroversion, and digital transformation, UPatras plays a key role in advancing scientific knowledge and shaping the social and technological transitions of the modern era. UPatras is one of the largest higher education institutions in Greece, hosting approximately 54,000 students, supported by more than 1,400 academic and research staff, and operating over 180 specialized research laboratories across its departments.
The University of Patras maintains an extensive network of international collaborations and institutional agreements worldwide, with strong participation in European initiatives such as Horizon Europe and Erasmus+, reinforcing its role as a key contributor to research, innovation, and knowledge exchange at the European level.
UiT – The Arctic University of Norway is the world’s northernmost university and a leading institution for research and education in the High North. Located in Tromsø and across Northern Norway, UiT addresses globally significant issues such as climate change, Arctic resource management, Indigenous perspectives, marine ecosystems, space physics, and health innovation.
With around 15,500 students and 3,300 staff, UiT offers research-based education across health sciences, social sciences, humanities, education, law, economics, technology, and the arts. The university hosts internationally recognized research centers and collaborates closely with Arctic institutions, including the Fram Centre.
A founding member of the University of the Arctic, UiT maintains more than 200 international partnerships worldwide and offers a broad range of English-taught programs. As a multi-campus university, UiT plays a central role in regional development and international cooperation in the Arctic.
The University of Malta (UM) is the sole public and highest teaching institution in Malta, with its structures being in line with the Bologna Process and the European Higher Education area. UM has a 400-year history and presently hosts 11,500 students, including 1,000 foreign/exchange students from nearly 92 different countries, following full-time or part-time degree and diploma courses. The study programmes are designed to produce highly qualified professionals with research experience who will play key roles within industry, commerce, and public affairs. Around 3,500 students graduate each year.
The University of Malta values equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and is committed to making the necessary changes to ensure an equitable environment while celebrating diversity, promoting inclusion, and protecting the human rights of all individuals working or studying within this entity. For this purpose, a gender equity plan taking an intersectional approach was created and is publicly accessible on the UM website.
The UM team is represented by the Institute of Digital Games (IDG, um.edu.mt/digitalgames, institutedigitalgames.com) covering TET4CL aspects relevant to digital learning and STEAM approaches.
Infinitivity Design Labs (IDL) is a French innovation studio specialising in the design of human-centred digital learning experiences. Founded on the principle that technology should serve people — not the other way around — IDL operates at the intersection of learning science, interaction design, and emerging technology to create solutions that are engaging, inclusive, and built to last. IDL’s expertise spans the full spectrum of digital learning design: from e-learning and game-based learning to gamification, user experience design, big data analysis, and artificial intelligence. This multidisciplinary approach enables IDL to tackle complex educational challenges with both creative ambition and rigorous methodological grounding, bridging the gap between cutting-edge research and real-world implementation.
Active across European and international contexts, IDL has a strong track record of participation in EU-funded research and innovation projects, working alongside universities, public institutions, and private organisations to co-design training solutions, learning programmes, and workforce development experiences. IDL’s work is characterised by a commitment to accessibility, longevity, and meaningful impact — ensuring that the tools and platforms it builds continue to serve their communities well beyond the life of any single project.
Within TET4CL, IDL leads the design and development of the project’s learning portal, bringing its full expertise in UX, information architecture, and digital pedagogy to bear on creating a platform that is accessible, engaging, and designed to grow with the needs of the consortium and its audiences.
