Results of the Focus Group Interviews in DigiSET (WP 2, MS7).

This report presents the results of the focus group interviews conducted in Work Package 2 of DigiSET – The Academy of Digitally Sustainable European Teacher, an Erasmus+ project (Grant Agreement No. 101249272). Between June and July 2026, project partners carried out 20 focus group sessions with 77 teachers and education stakeholders across eight European countries (Austria, Bulgaria, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Romania, Spain and Türkiye) to validate competence needs and inform the development of the DigiSET competence framework and training programme. Recordings were transcribed, translated where necessary, and analysed in MAXQDA using a combined deductive and inductive coding approach, yielding 2,340 coded segments organised into nine main categories. The findings address teacher competences for purposeful and inclusive digital teaching, the meaning of a "digitally sustainable teacher", the role of AI as support while retaining human pedagogical judgement, inclusion and fairness, environmental responsibility, open educational resources (OER), and the conditions needed to embed and scale such practice within education systems. Based on the interview evidence, the report derives proposed competence areas for DigiSET and formulates implications and recommendations for the project's subsequent work, including its thematic areas of gender-unbiased AI, systems thinking, AI for adaptive learning and the inclusion of students with learning difficulties.