http://rightnet.edu.eu : Youth of Europe connect to a ” Right” net Erasmus Project

Project Title

http://rightnet.edu.eu : Youth of Europe connect to a ” Right” net

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

This project was implemented within the Erasmus+ programme and was on the education of pupils with learning difficulties and/ or students with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND). This sensitive group of students faces great difficulty integrating into not only the educational system but also to the community and is more likely to leave school. Five (5) countries – Greece, Cyprus, Span, Turkey and the UK – with different educational policies towards students with learning difficulties and/ or SEND were chosen to participate in this project. With this project, we have tried to find the appropriate and adequate procedures to give these students equal opportunities in education for easier integration and transition in the mainstream education.
A total of 85 teachers, members of the teaching staff of the participant schools and 58 students got involved in the project.
The project lasted two years and, as planned, three (3) Coordinator meetings and four (4) teaching/ learning meetings took place. Mathematics, Arts, Computer Science and Physics were the subjects we taught. We have decided to teach these subjects in order to see how students with learning difficulties and/ or SEND can cope with different level of studies. The teachers of the five countries taught the same educational topic from these four subjects. The other teachers, the accompanying persons and the pupils evaluated the different educational methods at the end of each meeting.

At the end of the project, we produced a proposal with teaching methods suitably adapted to students with learning difficulties and/ or SEND in Mathematics and Physics. We have found in the Arts and Computers Science, students with learning difficulties and/ or SEND respond the same as their mainstream classmates.

At the end of the project, we submitted as planned:
• Videos of all the lessons (http://learningdifficulties.eu/results/, in section 5-Videos of the lessons)
• A video clip to promote and disseminate the project (http://learningdifficulties.eu/results/, in section 4-videoclip)
• A printed book of 172 pages (http://learningdifficulties.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/ebook21.pdf)
• E-book version too (http://www.calameo.com/books/0048231979df0b85749af)
• An up to date website – http://learningdifficulties.eu/
• New Mathematics curriculum proposal (http://learningdifficulties.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Math-Curriculum….pdf)
• New Physics curriculum proposal (http://learningdifficulties.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Physics-curriculum.pdf)
• A presentation of the five educational systems to the Greek multiplier event(http://learningdifficulties.eu/results/, in section 6-The educational systems of each country)
• Evaluations and feedbacks from teachers, accompanying people and pupils for all the lessons and all the topics (http://learningdifficulties.eu/results/, in section 2- The evaluation of the project)

All the results have already been uploaded into the Erasmus+ Dissemination platform, the Etwinning website https://twinspace.etwinning.net/15661/pages/page/152718, the http://learningdifficulties.eu/ website and the websites of the individual schools. There were also published in local newspapers and were presented into at the multiplier event that took place in Kilkis, Greece on 28th June 2016. Teachers, SENCOs, governors and local newspapers have attended the multiplier event where the results were evaluated and changes to the Greek educational system were extensively discussed. Easier transition points for students with learning difficulties and inclusion into mainstream education were the two main areas of discussion.
The long run benefits that may result from the evaluation of the results of the plan are also the main aims of the project that is the non exclusion of students with learning difficulties from school and the inclusion of as many of the students as possible into typical classrooms.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 230073,45 Eur

Project Coordinator

1o GENIKO LYKEIO PALLINIS “Pierre de Coubertin” & Country: EL

Project Partners

• LICEUL TEHNOLOGIC TICLENI
• Budapest X. Kerületi Zrinyi Miklós Gimnázium
• Zespol Szkol Lacznosci im.prof. Stanislawa Fryzego
• Akif Palali Anadolu Lisesi
• Hristo Botev
• IES EMILIO JIMENO
• Liceo Bertrand Russell Cles