When you think about an innovative school, you link it to an open-minded environment where the collaboration and the inclusion of key stakeholders are ensured. Within the SOCI@LL project, the SOCI@LL network will be created to reach this aim!
The SOCI@LL partners met up from 8th to 11th October 2018, in Nicosia (Cyprus) for the 2° SOCI@LL Transnational meeting, hosted by CARDET. On that occasion, it was discussed the next steps to be undertaken for providing the basis of the SOCI@LL network which will foster more inclusive educative communities across Europe.
The first two days (8th-9th October) were focused on reviewing the state of the art of the SOCI@LL research and its main findings, that together will contribute to give a general overview of the current practice on inclusive education in Cyprus, Italy, Poland and Portugal.
On 10th – 11th October, a two-day training was addressed to schools and local authorities’ partners of the project to provide them with the tools and methods needed for the creation of open partnerships in the education field, through a collaborative and participative approach inside and around schools.
The SOCI@LL project started on January 2018 and its ultimately goal is to create a Virtual Social Lab which will foster cross-sectorial relations at local and European level as well as laying down the foundations for real inclusive learning opportunities, supported by innovative resources developed within the project.
The SOCI@LL network is the first step in order to reach the main purpose of this platform with key features of a social lab. The network will foster and sustain meaningful alliance between main actors and will generate systemic changes through its core resources including the SOCI@LL roadmap, Educative Assets, Guiding Tools for Social Inclusion Platforms and finally the Virtual Social Lab.
The SOCI@LL next steps will be:
- The finalisation of the SOCI@LL Roadmap, including the Report on the State-of-play and best practices;
- The creation of the SOCI@LL Network, with inclusive alliances inside and around schools;
- The development of various educative assets for schools comprised by a toolkit for school leaders on how to create and sustain culturally sensitive and inclusive systems inside and around school and a toolkit for teachers on how to drive and put into practice curricular innovation and multicultural learning in and out classrooms.
About the project
SOCI@LL – Whole school social labs: Innovative and participatory approaches for citizenship education and social inclusion is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, Key Action 3 Support for policy reforms – Social inclusion through Education, Training and Youth.
Partners
The project involves the following partners:
- Coordinator: INOVA+ (Portugal);
- Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos (Portugal);
- Agrupamento de escolas Abel Salazar, S. Mamede de Infesta(Portugal);
- Centre for the Advancement of Research and Development in Educational Technology CARDET (Cyprus);
- Agios Athanasios Municipality (Cyprus);
- Private Grammar Modern Schools (Cyprus);
- Center For Citizenship Education Foundation-CEO (Poland);
- Ząbki Town (Poland);
- Szkoła Podstawowa Nr 3 Im. Małego Powstańca W Ząbkach (Poland);
- Istituto di Istruzione Secondaria Superiore “Alessandro Volta” (Italy);
- Oxfam Italia Onlus (Italy);
- Licei “Giovanni da San Giovanni (Italy);
- CESIE (Italy).
For further information
Read more about SOCI@LL.
Visit wholeschoolsociallabs.eu.
Follow SOCI@LL on Facebook.
Contact school@cesie.org.
