SOCI@LL – Whole school social labs: Innovative and participatory approaches for citizenship education and social inclusion

Objectives

Fostering social inclusion and multicultural learning in education and training systems supported by a holistic and whole school approach that ensures the full involvement of the end-users/beneficiaries (students, teachers, local authorities, and local communities)
Creating of local social labs, virtual platforms interconnected through a European network as tools for developing, validating and scaling-up ground-breaking methods and resources for pedagogical innovative curricula;
Fostering sustainable changes towards inclusive communities inside and around schools through a systemic and although participatory methodology that promotes ownership and co-creation among a multitude of relevant actors involved

A SOCI@LL roadmap that is a strategic plan containing the state of play, best practices, strategy, action plan and recommendations based in the results of research
A Virtual Social Lab to foster and support cross-sectorial relations at local and European level as well as creating real inclusive and participatory learning opportunities, supported by the innovative resources developed
A toolkit for school leaders and for teachers for social inclusion platform to support the creation and sustainability of culturally sensitive and inclusive educative assets
A manual for local authorities to support them into the creation of cross-sectorial platforms for social inclusion, comprised a step-by-step social lab methodological approach

Analysis of the status quo for recollecting a solid, common-shared body of knowledge (including best practices) that will guide parties towards more inclusive systems inside and around schools
Co-creating a sound collaborative strategy through open local partnerships for, with and by the main actors involved inside and around schools that can lead the shift of paradigm towards more inclusive systems
Developing and implementing multicultural sensitive educative assets for teachers in order to promote inclusive learning curricula
Creation, optimised operation and maintenance of the Virtual Social Lab that will provide an intuitive, straight forward and full experience to the end-users for fully inclusive systems

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15/01/2018 – 14/01/2021

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DG EAC, Erasmus+, Key Activity 3: Support for policy reform – Social inclusion through education, training and youth

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