Inclusive Education – by Default or by Design Erasmus Project

Project Title

Inclusive Education – by Default or by Design

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

“Inclusive Education – by Default or by Design” is a partnership project between 6 general schools from Bulgaria, Poland, Turkey, Portugal, Greece and Spain. We have found 6 cross points between our schools:
1. The increased diversity of the general classroom over the last 3 years.
2. 1900 of our 3200 pupils face multiple obstacles. 3 out of 5 of our pupils live near poverty and are at risk of social exclusion.
3. Five of our six schools have geographical obstacles linked to the place situated.
4. Enhanced awareness of our educators as many as possible stakeholders to be involved to affordable and high quality early childhood education and care.
5. High motivated pupils and school staff for expanding school international networking through Erasmus+ strategic partnership and eTwinning projects.
6. Urgent needs for analyzing the existing opportunities and design new ones with the purpose of implementing new elements into school curricula according the current and upcoming national and European reforms in inclusive school education.
The main goal of the project is to increase through transnational cooperation our capacity with the focus on the improvement of schools’ actions and enhancing our efforts to make general education more inclusive.
We aim to achieve two concrete objectives:
1. To identify the ‘by default’ problems and opportunities addressed to the needs of pupils and staff in the general education.
2. To create and implement ‘by design’ solutions for the provision of inclusive education through exchanging practices and ideas and developing appropriate methods and instruments, skills and capabilities.
Our expected results are:
1. Identification of our pupils’, teachers’, and our schools’ needs through data collection on European level (a Partnership Portfolio with researches, observations and other evidence materials for inclusive education).
2. Reduction of the obstacles our pupils are facing (at least 700 out of 1200 vulnerable pupils are fully inclusive in education and feel happier and self-confident in the end of the project).
3. Equal access of disadvantaged pupils for participation in the project activities is provided and every child’ talent is recognised.
4. Expanding international peer to peer cooperation and new skills’ development (6 transnational trainings -3 short-term joint staff training events and 3 short-term exchanges of pupils).
5. Establishement of an operative and efficient school network at international level (including eTwinning virtual projects).
6. Meet our school staff’s needs of shared knowledge and best inclusive practices. New skills and competences, including English and other foreign language skills and ICT competences, are improved.
7. Inclusive educational technology and knowledge transfer channels on 4 levels: local, regional, national and international are designed.
8. At least 30 good inclusive school practices (5 per every school) are exchanged and a common Practical Guide for inclusive schools is elaborated.
9. Publishing at least 12 (2 per a partner) video lessons via eTwinning, YouTube channel, school websites for raising awareness about inclusive school education.
10. The wider community and decision-makers are made aware of the importance of inclusive education.
11. ETwinning online courses for teachers are developed.
12. Integration of new practices and improvement of the school curricula with significant elements of every-child-oriented education.
All our 3200 pupils, 430 teachers, 140 entire staff, parents and other stakeholders will be involved in the project activities. All our 1900 pupils with fewer opportunities will be fully engaged in the local project activities. Some of them will participate in short-term exchanges of groups of pupils. In the 6 transnational mobilities 56 pupils, 60 teachers and 52 accompanying staff from all partner schools will take part.
Our project will produce a set of resources to support long-term development of our pupils, staff, schools and other stakeholders as parents.We will improve:
– Access to general education of disadvantaged children overall
– Social skills and school performance of our pupils
– Well-being of all pupils regardless the social obstacles and other difficulties they are facing
– School’s inclusive conditions for learning and teaching and curricula
– International and local relationships between pupils, teachers, parents and school managers
– Motivation to work, learn and teach in a multicultural environment.
During and after the end of the project “Inclusive Education – by Default or by Design” our partner schools will turn into school practice all the best practices we will exchange and develop in this European school partnership.
Our objectives for the 2 years of the project implementation are based on our core belief that if we create a vibrant partnership for inclusive school education, our project will increase the positive impact on a wider audience in the United European Society.

Project Website

http://inclusiveducation.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 139500,59 Eur

Project Coordinator

Deveto osnovno uchilishte “Peyo Yavorov” & Country: BG

Project Partners

• INSTITUT CAMPCLAR
• NURI OZ ILKOKULU
• Escola Básica e Secundária da Ponta do Sol
• 1st Primary School of Amfissa
• Szkola Podstawowa im. Marii Konopnickiej w Przeczycach