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
Activities
- 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
Results
- 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
Partners
- INOVA+ (Portugal, coordinator)
- 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)
- CESIE (Italy)
- Istituto di Istruzione Secondaria Superiore “Alessandro Volta” (Italy)
- Oxfam Italia Onlus (Italy)
- Licei “Giovanni da San Giovanni” (Italy)
