There is an international need to help lower secondary schools embrace the challenges emerging from the current shift from mostly classroom-based education to a more flexible, technology-supported learning environments, to re-think learning spaces and to safeguard both teachers’ and learners’ well-being. In this forum, we will present an Erasmus+ Project named FreeEd: A Framework for Efficient and Engaging Hybrid Education in Lower-Secondary Schools which aims

·       to define a framework for hybrid education (combining classroom learning with web-based distance learning) in lower secondary schools,

·       to collect and share best technology-supported education practices in the project countries: Austria, Estonia, Finland and Romania,

·       to help lower secondary teachers develop their reflective practice and their digital and pedagogical competencies, and

·       to provide recommendations to education technology developers.

In this forum, we will present publications, webinar series, in-service teacher training courses and an international teacher community created in this project to support efficient and engaging hybrid education in lower-secondary schools.