MULTI-ESKOLA: Multilingual strategies and tools for teachers to promote an inclusive education Erasmus Project

Project Title

MULTI-ESKOLA: Multilingual strategies and tools for teachers to promote an inclusive education

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Progress in promoting equality and inclusion is one of the cornerstones of the ERASMUS + programme, especially significant when it comes to vulnerable groups such as the case of immigrants collective, and more specifically young immigrants who are immersed in phases of education and professional training.

The reality offers worrying statistics when it comes to assess immigrant students´ performance (lower than the figures for national classmates) and drop-out figures (over the national average in all the European countries). Linguistic adaptation is a central issue in the mentioned educational phases, that can contribute to improve not only the academic results but also social inclusion of immigrant students.

However, it requires the design of appropriate environments and teachers prepared to meet the challenges that undoubtedly generates multilingualism. And those are the central targets of MULTIESKOLA project.

MULTIESKOLA project is designed to respond to the challenges of multilingualism in educational centres focusing on:
– The need of all the students to develop language competences both in mother tongue and in other language to facilitate their social and labor inclusion.
– The development of trilingual educational models and excellence models that clearly respond to the current social and labour market demands.
– The respect for the minority languages, official and non-official, that coexists in many European regions in educational (formal and informal) environments.
Thus, the project main goal was to respond to the new challenges of European schools and i-VET centres by providing resources for the development of an inclusive education and training, from the perspective of multilingualism.

The MULTIESKOLA project has clearly targeted the target group of teachers, as well as school directors and I-VET centers. Its development has focused on the design of a Toolkit of educational resources for teachers, within the framework of the priority “Strengthening the profile of the teaching professions”. This result allows to improve the professional skills of teachers of secondary schools and initial vocational training, promote continuous and peer learning through the creation of a learning environment that allows the interaction between teachers, experts, the educational community in general and representatives of parents, among others.

The project was initiated by a team formed by 5 European organizations, directly linked to the field of education and training, thus representing the target groups of the project.

The main activities carried out include, first of all, a research phase, with interviews with managers, directors and teachers at different centers, which has allowed collecting ideas and data in each participating country and which has been a key information base for the approach of the contents of the Toolkit.

Next, the Toolkit of Educational Resources for Teachers has been designed and developed, a tool that includes four thematic working areas (peer mentoring, Diversity and interculturality, Edutainment and Motivation), and offers training content, practical tools and resources useful in the day to day of the teacher.

In addition, the transversal management, evaluation and dissemination activities have been developed. The latter has been especially relevant, and the partners have managed to involve a large number of educational centers and stakeholders in their local and national contexts, thus achieving a significant impact on the target groups of the project.

It is interesting to note that, in fact, at the end of the project, there are already a significant number of educational centers and teachers that are using the Toolkit to organize their school activities (curricular and extracurricular ones). The partners are receiving very positive feedback, and it is foreseen that this use will also allow an update and adaptation of the Toolkit to new ideas, needs, approaches, and even thematic areas, in a medium-long term.

The MULTIESKOLA Toolkit has from its origin, a vocation to be a living product,open to the contributions that are received from the teachers who use it, and who enrich it with their comments and ideas.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 121992 Eur

Project Coordinator

SAN JOSE-MARISTAK & Country: ES

Project Partners

• 36.6 Competence Centre (Scotland)
• Krakowskie Centrum Zarzadzania i Administracji Sp. z o.o.
• SCHOLENGROEP 1 ANTWERPEN
• XXI INVESLAN, S.L.