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This book is the result of a collaborative process between the EMBRACE partners from August 2024 to June 2025 and describes the frameworks that steer the digital competency development of higher education teachers, for example, the European Commission papers 2030 Digital Compass: the European way for the Digital Decade, the Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027, and several papers on Artificial Intelligence, the UNESCO document on Transforming the digital landscape of higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the national policy/legal documents, such as Política Nacional de Educação Digital in Brazil, and Estrategia Nacional Digital de Colombia 2023 – 2026 in Colombia. Further, it presents five case examples of institutional guidelines and action plans to support teachers’ digital competency development. Finally, it draws general concluding remarks on the main aspects to consider in the institutional practices related to teachers’ professional development and the use of digital pedagogy in Latin American.