specific LEArning Disorders no more! Erasmus Project

Project Title

specific LEArning Disorders no more!

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Disabilities – special needs; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

CONTEXT
LEAD!, specific LEArning Disorders no more! is a project aimed at increasing SOCIAL INCLUSION starting with school education and decreasing Early School Leaving (ESL) empowering students with the right competences. Indeed the project wants to identify and defeat the barriers that students with Specific Learning Disabilities meet at school when they start writing and reading. EUROPE 2020 Strategy wants to reduce ESL to less 10 % around EUROPE, and, according to EUROSTAT (Disability statistics – access to education and training), 1 out of 4 people in EUROPE who faces BASIC ACTIVITY DIFFICULTIES, leaves the school prematurely. According to EPALE (JULY 2017) there were around 35.67 million students with such disabilities, 13.88 million coming from PRIMARY SCHOOL and 21.700.000 from secondary school.

OBJECTIVE
LEAD! wants to empower and support students (9-14 years old) in developing the right competences about the ADAPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES and their use thanks to the support of an INNOVATIVE PLATFORM, MY SKILLS. The learning material will be validated according to the EUROPEAN GUIDELINES OF THE VALIDATION OF NON-FORMAL AND INFORMAL LEARNING (CEDEFOP) and, at the end of the learning path, students will have the chance to get the EUROPEAN ADATPITVE TOOL LICENCE.

TARGET GROUP
The DIRECT TARGET GROUP of the project is represented by students with SPECIFIC LEARNING DIFFICULTIES (SLD) with age range 9-14 years old.
The INDIRECT TARGET GROUP is instead composed by teachers, headmasters, tutors and trainers and all the school and no school staff dealing with students with Specific Learning Disorders. In pointing out the this target group, families have to be considered as indirect beneficiaries of the project due to the fact that they will exploit project results with their children.

ACTIVITIES
In order to reach its objective, LEAD! wants to promote forefront knowledge regarding the adaptive technologies (and their use) and create the EUROPEAN ADAPTIVE TOOL LICENCE targeting students with LSD (age 9-14). Students with SEN (SPECIFIC EDUCATIONAL NEEDS), which include students with Learning Specific Disorders, indeed have a higher probability to leave school prematurely compared to those students without disabilities ((Early School Leaving and Learners with Disabilities and/or Special Educational Needs, European Agency for special needs and inclusive education, 2017). To reach its objective, LEAD! will develop and adapt to distant learning a training course targeting the adaptive technologies which it will adapted to MY SKYLLS PLATFORM. At the end of the learning path, students can award the EUROPEAN ADAPTING TOOL LICENCE which it will support them to ACQUIRE the NECESSARY learning competences and, on the other side, it will be the quality LABEL that it will certify to the teachers that the students are ABLE TO USE THE ADAPTIVE TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 224422 Eur

Project Coordinator

ENFOR & Country: IT

Project Partners

• LIFELONG LEARNING PLATFORM
• UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLADOLID
• Inspectoratul scolar judetean Iasi
• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO2 “GIOVANNI PAOLO II”