European School Heads Association (Netherlands)
ESHA, the European School Heads Association, is the leading network for European school leaders. Members of ESHA are national associations for school heads and deputy school heads within primary, secondary and vocational education. Nearly all European countries are represented within ESHA by one or more associations. The ESHA members represent nearly 120.000 school leaders in Europe. The ESHA network is an international community in which experiences, visions and views between the members, research organizations, policy makers and teachers are exchanged and in which new ideas are born.
The aim of ESHA is to research and disseminate good practices of innovation through the ESHA magazine Headstart (about 15.000 subscribers), conferences, ESHA leadership webcasts/podcasts/webinars, modern media such as The ESHA Twitter account, Linkedin, the ESHA website and the ESHA newsletter.
ESHA works closely together with the EC to improve the quality of school leaders and by doing so, improving the quality of European education as a whole. ESHA is a partner in several European projects related to several topics such as 21st century skills, entrepreneurship, STEAM education, diversity, quality management, dropout prevention, child abuse, emotional intelligence, artificial intelligence and digitalization.
ESHA is currently coordinator of the MicroVET project on microcredentials. ESHA coordinated the European Education Policy Network and is now one of the lead partners of the Educational Leadership Network Europe. ESHA organizes network meetings for her member organizations.
