All-Inclusive School Erasmus Project

Project Title

All-Inclusive School

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 : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Disabilities – special needs; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

The project started from the analysis of the different approaches to educational support for pupils with disabilities in the partner countries (IT, RO, ES, DE, BE) and their effects on the level of school and social inclusion and involved staff needs. ALL-INCLUSIVE SCHOOL aimed to strengthen the methodological and digital skills of teachers/educators to favour the inclusion of students with mild intellectual disabilities (DSM-5), aged between 12-19, through the creation of innovative and digital Outputs to be used by teachers to manage diversity and promote the inclusion in class. In this sense, the project focused on the 2030 Agenda objectives 4-Quality education and 10-Reduce inequalities.

The partnership, strategic for the realization of the mission, gathered different actors creating a team of partners endowed with complementary skills but equally committed to promoting inclusion at school:
– 2 secondary schools (ITS CALVI, Colegio Huerta Santa Ana)
– 2 public bodies connected to school system (LandKreis Kassel, Vaslui County School Inspectorate)
– 1 cooperative VET center (IRECOOP ER)
– 1 Specialized Educational Center (CJRAE)
– 1 educational and digital services cooperative (Archilabò)
– 1 University specialized in Special and Inclusive Education (UCLL)
Besides the partners staff, the project involved over 90 stakeholders in the Outputs development and dissemination stages: schools representative bodies, bodies that deal with teachers training, innovation and Open Educational Resources, educational services cooperatives, NGOs/associations that provide services to support disability.
More specifically, over 200 teachers/educators participated in the data collection for the Outputs, in the framework of an evidence based approach. The teachers, direct target, were also involved in TESTING and PILOTING activities; the latter also involved students, including those with mild intellectual disabilities (indirect target).

ALL-INCLUSIVE SCHOOL has created 3 transnational Outputs, available online in different languages ​​(IT, EN, DE; ES, RO, NL) and modalities:
*ALL-IN IDENTIKIT: research-analysis for the development of the Inclusive European Teacher Identikit, starting from the “Profile of inclusive teachers” (EASNIE 2012). The research has mapped skills – in particular digital – teaching strategies and methodologies , pedagogical guidelines to encourage inclusion at school, with particular attention to cooperative approaches and the support of digital technologies.
*ALL-IN TEACHER KIT: practical guide to the use of innovative cooperative teaching strategies and methodologies with ready-to-use tools, activities and examples, to support the work of teachers and educators in promoting inclusion. The guide, which can be downloaded or browsed online on the project website, is structured on the basis of the All-in Identikit and includes:
26 practical activities and 18 methodologies related to the organization of learning
20 methodologies and 5 examples of assessment activities of the “learning to learn” skill
A focus on the methodology of the Social Books Creator, third Project Output
*ALL-IN SOCIAL BOOK CREATOR: tool for the cooperative creation and sharing of open, inclusive and accessible digital contents (Social Books), which consists of:
-SBC Editor, Web App for the cooperative creation of Social Books
-SBC Cooperative Press, a collaborative repository of highly accessible digital texts and Social Books

For the good outcome of the project, the following activities were realized:
-6 TRANSNATIONAL MEETINGS, with frequent intermediate virtual meetings
-5 MULTIPLIER EVENTS (1 for each partner country) for the final dissemination of the Outputs and the project as a whole.

The quality and sustainability of the project were guaranteed by:
-An articulated activities planning
-strategies and tools aimed at implementing / monitoring / evaluating the actions
-a wide communication and dissemination plan involving the transnational network of stakeholders
-the partners commitment to stimulate the Outputs usability by making them available in different modalities and through different channels.
All the tools and materials were in fact widely disseminated and promoted at local, national and European level throughout the project, also thanks to the use of eTwinning and School Education Gateway platforms, in order to reach and involve a large number of teachers and educators at European level and beyond.
The impact is currently measurable in the short term, differently on partners, teachers, students and other stakeholders, from the local to the international level, primarily in terms of skills strengthening and improved digital technology use in favor of inclusion.
In the medium-long term the project will have an impact in terms of cultural, methodological and technological change on school systems starting from the inclusive and digital teaching practices that teachers / educators will be able to implement.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 274750 Eur

Project Coordinator

IRECOOP EMILIA ROMAGNA SOC. COOP. & Country: IT

Project Partners

• LANDKREIS KASSEL
• CENTRUL JUDETEAN DE RESURSE SI ASISTENTA EDUCATIONALA VASLUI
• ISTITUTO TECNICO STATALE IGNAZIO CALVI
• UC LIMBURG
• Archilabò Società Cooperativa Sociale
• Inspectoratul Scolar Judetean Vaslui
• HUERTA SANTA ANA S.COOP.AND.