Europe simply cannot afford to waste talent. Therefore, nine organisations strongly committed to talent development in higher education have now joined forces to develop tools that can help teachers spot and stimulate talents. Their WeTalent project has received EU funding under the Strategic Partnerships program within Erasmus+ Key Action 2, allowing it to run from September 2017 to August 2020.

The project WeTalent (Working in Europe to connect Talent development in higher education) addresses the problem that talented students in European higher education are not sufficiently challenged. As a consequence, young people do not fully develop their talents and the skills they need to have an excellent start in society. They might even drop out of education. One way to handle this problem is to better equip teachers. Therefore, nine organisations will work together to develop tools which help talented young people reach their full potential. These tools are integrated into the WeTalent Wizard, an e-learning environment helping teachers to foster talent. It is developed in an international process of co-creation and consists of three parts:

1. an instrument for teachers to self-evaluate their views towards talent development (MeTalent Mirror)

2. an instrument to spot talented students (YouTalent Spotter)

3. an integrated e-library consisting of texts, images and minimovies enabling teachers to implement a research-based talent development program (WeTalent e-Library).

The consortium consists of nine partner institutions and is led by the Hanze University of Applied Science (the Netherlands). In Münster, the International Centre for the Study of Giftedness (ICBF) at WWU Münster is involved.