<< Background >>In response to the need for greater expertise and wider participation in digital sustainability skills, DIGI-Step aims to improve the digital skills of higher education teachers in delivering sustainable development courses. It seeks to address the deficits in participation in sustainable development studies from students across a range of disciplines, whilst also strengthening and enhancing institutional capabilities, capacities and expertise in providing online and distance learning in a manner that is comparable to traditional, face-to-face studies. It will create a Sustainable Development E-learning (SDEL) course to support students who wish to enrich their existing studies with sustainable development teaching components which may not usually be offered as part of their existing programme of studies.<< Objectives >>The project will create course content and e-learning materials, and crucially will support staff capacity development through the development of training guidelines, a handbook for course development and digital delivery and draw on the expert evaluation from external stakeholders and end users. The project partnership will deliver the following key objectives:- Developing Sustainable Development e-learning course components using innovative participatory tools and utilises digital pedagogies to provide an online learning platform that fosters a collaborative and participatory experience and opens the possibility (through ECTS accreditation) of students integrating sustainable development components into their existing course of study.- Designing training materials in scorm format files ready to be uploaded to any learning management system, which supports faculty staff to deliver online courses and utilise the e-learning tools to provide an engaging, rounded, participative learning experience for students. - Producing a Handbook for Digital Course Implementation which provides a blueprint for others looking to replicate elements of the Training Programme and course development which enables the widening training of faculty staff for creation and delivery of online courses and digitalization of existing courses.- Creating an evaluation and feedback framework document which details the external feedback on the e-learning course development and teaching framework.- Implementing a dissemination strategy that raises awareness on the importance of offering sustainable development teaching to a range of student disciplines and emphasising the employability of sustainable development knowledge and the importance of digital skills.<< Implementation >>Three Universities and one research centre will take part in the project – The Technical University of Dresden, the University of Lodz, the West University of Timișoara and the South East European Research Centre. E-learning content development will be provided by the digital training specialists ISQe.The project outputs will be shared with the wider higher education community and external stakeholders through a staff training school (hosted by TU Dresden), and four evaluation events (taking place in Dresden, Lodz, Timisoara and Thessaloniki). These events will also aid in developing digital skills for faculty staff and providing an evaluative framework to further inform and develop the DIGI-Step project results.The project will directly impact 15 faculty staff through the training school. The portfolio of multiplier events will attract 100 local participants (25 from each country), who will be encouraged to join the project’s Evaluation Framework which will help teaching staff to adopt, modify and embed the project results, tools and resources in their own institutions and identify wider applications of the content.<< Results >>The key results of the dissemination strategy are to target specific groups that cover different areas of society (i.e., quadruple helix). Beyond academic beneficiaries directly engaged in the project, we determine that DIGI-Step will be of benefit to organisations interested in CSR and sustainability, as well as Higher Education teachers and professional trainers who can benefit through engagement with the digitalization and e-learning components of the course.