While the COVID-19 pandemic is still taking place and it is not entirely clear what its consequences hold for us, one of the facts that remains certain is that the lockdown has introduced drastic changes to education systems around the world. In fact, switching to digital schooling has caused significant disturbances to education systems. At the same time, it has opened up new opportunities to revise and advance existing teaching methods and tools. One of them consists in the transnational interconnectedness of today’s world that makes the challenges we are currently facing teach us to be more united and promote international knowledge sharing and cooperation. In this respect, the KEEP project represents the European initiative to set in motion and expand such transnational sharing of innovate practices and knowledge. The general objective of the KEEP project is to help reducing school underachievement and low involvement in the learning process among students in Europe caused by their inability to physically attend schools. In order to achieve it, the following specific objectives were set: 1. Contribute to overcoming and preventing school failure in Europe increased by COVID-19 pandemic2.Assist the improvement of European teachers’ pedagogical and digital skills and competences3.Strengthen teachers’ and students’ engagement to support students’ learning4.Help to safeguard the inclusive nature of education in Europe following COVID-19 PandemicIn order to achieve these objectives the following activities will be undertaken during the project realisation. Firstly, digital schooling practices that were implemented during COVID-19 in partnership countries (Belgium, France, Greece, Poland) will be identified with a help of tailor-made interviews with teachers operating in various environments and working conditions. Secondly, the result of the interviews will be thoroughly analysed in order to devise Teachers’ portraits that will be subsequently shared with European education community through the dedicated web page. Along with creating the Teachers portraits, the KEEP project will detect and disseminate the practices that can be retained and used after the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on these two types of deliverables, dialogue and knowledge-sharing between European educators and teachers will be launched and further supported through a dedicated web page with the project’s results and dedicated forum. To sum up, the full name of the project, Key engaging educational practices used by secondary school teachers to keep connected with their students following COVID-19 pandemic (KEEP) speaks for itself. Through the KEEP project realisation, we seeks to reveal, examine, share, and, most importantly, discuss practices that were used by secondary school teachers in order to keep students involved in the learning process. Thus the project’s main participants are secondary school teachers facing challenges related to digital schooling. It is foreseen that thousands of European secondary school teachers will benefit from the project. Moreover, school leaders, local educational institutions and policy-makers as well as researchers in education will benefit from the KEEP project realization, published documents and events. The main methodology applied in the KEEP Project will be structured around the development of the outputs. ·Creating a situational review of the best national and international digital schooling practices·Preparing the “national” eco-systemic contextualization of the practices for each partnership country ·Conducting interviews with a selection of teachers and devising their portraits·Devising analytical summary of these practices ·Disseminating and launching the dialogue around the project’s findings in Europe·Realising a report of the lessons learned and recommendations for future actionsThus the KEEP project will strengthen the professional development and digital pedagogical competences of secondary-level teachers by making them acquainted with best practices used by their colleagues to keep their students connected and engaged with learning experience. Promoting knowledge sharing and networking between teachers is at the heart of the KEEP project realization. We expect that the teacher portraits, practices overview and discussions around them that will result from the KEEP project will inspire European teachers to develop and expand their own practices in a time when digital education is crucial to the success of every student. Moreover, through collegial reflection and exchange on the teachers’ digital practices following COVID-19 pandemic, the KEEP project will eventually allow a better understanding of the European E-Teaching ecosystem, which in its turn could facilitate and promote further exchange of experiences and practices between European partners inside and outside the project.