ECO IN

FORMA.Azione

Algorithm for new Ecological approaches to Inclusion

12/2019 — 08/2023

Not-active

ECO-IN project is an evidence – based, cross – European study that aligns with the open school approach, showing high potential for making these figures agents of change in inclusive societies through education and training, while at the same time providing expertise and knowledge to make schools effective Learning Organizations, not only for students but also for their families and their communities at large.

SDGs

4 Quality Education

Objectives

The purpose of ECO-IN project is the improvement of inclusive education policies and practices from primary to lower secondary school, through the active involvement of all the main educational stakeholders- such as, teachers, school heads, educational staff (in and out of the school), parents and public authorities - by providing them with specific training and supporting actions to concretely act as a teamwork combating segregation and radicalization thus enabling more qualitative and quantitative measures to implement, monitor and assess inclusiveness at school.

Enhancing the capacities and competences of a wider educational community, to promote and support inclusive education and to reinforce its impact assessment on both key actors and disadvantaged pupils, is the main strategy that ECO-IN project adopts to ensure that the key players belonging to different social and educational systems (school, family,community, political bodies) are enabled for appropriate implementation,monitoring and assessment of the impact of their action in reducing social exclusion and marginalization of disadvantaged students and boosting social participation (education, personal and social benefit) while reinforcing, on different levels, competences for promoting social inclusion through education and training (social and systemic levels benefit).

Activity

The main activities that will be developed during the project are:

pilot studies including needs analysis of target groups, the state of the art of the European school inclusion and training programs / capacity-building actions
the creation of an innovative and cross-sectoral digitalized system to assess and monitor the level of inclusion in primary and lower secondary schools to be piloted in 100 schools
transnational and national training programs to engage formal and non-formal educational and policy agents to acquire inclusive skills
creation of European Prosocial Trust Centres in schools from Italy, Spain, Lithuania and Romania

The activities will allow the creation of specific outputs: