School

School unit aims to improve quality and efficiency in school education.
Specific objectives are to:
- Strengthen the profiles of the teaching professions, including teachers, school leaders and teacher educators;
- Promote the acquisition of skills and competences through innovative teaching and assessment (i.e. fostering critical thinking, building on the diversity);
- Support schools to tackle early school leaving (ESL) and disadvantage and to offer quality education, enabling success for all students;
- Support efforts to increase access to affordable and high quality early childhood and care.
Main Activities
Enhancing teachers’ professional development and induction to continuing professional development; supporting them in dealing with diversity in the classroom; adopting collaborative and innovative practices & strengthening leadership in education.
Promoting the acquisition of skills and competences, through effective and innovative teaching and assessment; promoting entrepreneurship education; fostering critical thinking; adopting a holistic approach to language teaching and learning, building on the diversity found in today’s increasingly multilingual classrooms.
Strengthening collaboration among all actors within schools, as well as with families, and other external stakeholders; improving transition between different stages of education; supporting networking by schools which promote collaborative and holistic approaches to teaching and learning; improving evaluation and quality assurance.
Discover our Initiatives

ENABLE – ENABLing School Integration of migrant and refugee children through social and Emotional learning interventions to address psychosocial trauma

In&In Education – Inclusive education with an intersectional approach, for the school success of Girls and Boys of migrant origin

FEINAMC – Disseminating and scaling up good practices to Foster Educational Inclusion of Newly Arrived Migrant Children

CHOICE – Increasing young people’s motivation to choose STEM careers through an Innovative Cross-disciplinary STE(A)M approach to education

DREAMS – Fostering diversity in primary to secondary school transition to prevent early school leaving

IN2STEAM – Inspiring Next Generation of Girls through Inclusive STE(A)M Learning in Primary Education

OuRoute – “Citizen-cultural heritage”: Creating a new generation of cultural ambassadors through education and training

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

INTELed: INnovative Training via Embodied Learning & multi-sensory techniques for inclusive EDucation

E-COURSE- EnhanCing the ParticipatiOn and Learning Performance of Migrant and RefUgee Children in PRimary School Education

SUCCESS – Strategies to Utilise and Cultivate positive Characteristics & Employability Skills in Schools
