Project Summary
Often,
parents of children with special needs choose not to venture anywhere.
They frequently avoid travels since they are unaware of how to get the
accommodations they need during the journey. On the other hand,
companies that offer travel services, especially micro-companies, don’t
know the needs of families with children with special needs.
The
principal objective of the EliSE project is supporting parents of
children with behavioral disturbs realizing an educational
parent-training module for “fair traveling” in European countries and an
educational toolkit.
Accordingly, the primary target group of this
project is represented by social educators that will be trained on how
to train parents of children with behavioral disturbs (parent-training).
For
this purpose, our project aims at improving the competence of educators
in the field of special education as well as to teach them on the use
of parent-training techniques.
The other target groups involved in
the EliSE project are the families of children with special needs,
parents' associations, social services, NGOs involved in special need
education, and companies that deliver travel services.
Target groups’
representatives are involved in the project’s activities through
training activities, meetings, seminars, and online discussions. One
short-term learning event will be organized involving selected persons
from the target groups (social educators and parents) and experts. The
Consortium is formed of six partners from six different countries,
Latvia, Italy, Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey.
The EliSE
project will provide partners with the opportunity to share
investigations conducted separately in the field of special need
education as well as to confront ideas, practices, and methods in the
sector of social integration. Thanks to this project, they will increase
their capacity to operate at a transnational level.
This project foresees four IOs:
IO1: Model representing the various aspects which characterize travels
of families with children affected by behavioral disturbs
IO2: Online collaborative learning infrastructure
IO3: Blended learning module for educators: “Supporting families with children affected by behavioral disturbs”
IO4: Toolkit for Fair Traveling and Policy recommendations
The project's impact includes:
- more active participation in society (social educators, parents, children, and stakeholders);
- improved competences, linked to professional profiles (social educators);
- better understanding of practices in education and training (educational institutions);
- more strategic and integrated use of ICTs and open educational resources (OER) in education and training (for educators, parents, and educational institutions);
- reinforced interaction between practice, research, and policy (educators, Parents’ Associations, Policymakers, Travel services companies).
- Finally, our project can contribute to support migration of families with children with special needs offering them information on childcare inclusive settlements and guidance.
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Leader Organization
Rezekne Academy of Technologies (Latvia)
RTA
was established on July 1, 1993. RTA is a state funded higher education
and science institution of the Republic of Latvia which implements the
study programs as well as is engaged in scientific, research and
artistic creative work.
The aim of RTA is to provide academic and
professional higher education in compliance with the science development
level and cultural traditions of Latvia being competitive in the
European education space; to develop culture, science and education in
Latgale region and thus in the whole Latvia.
Tasks: to develop
scientific research capacity; to ensure qualitative implementation of
activities in interdisciplinary fields to implement the bachelor, master
and doctoral study programs in cooperation with Latvian and foreign
universities, to experimentally research how the new pedagogical
technologies can positively contribute in the labor world growth; to
ensure sustainable development of the scientific program and establish a
link between science, practice and society.
In 2010, the faculty of engineer started with a course on mechatronics and, recently, a robotics laboratory has been created. https://www.rta.lv/en/
Partner Organizations
Janusz Korczak Pedagogical University (Poland)
From its foundation, JKPU has grown dynamically becoming one of the largest non-public universities in Poland. It has a national structure with branches in various Polish cities: Warsaw, Lublin, Katowice, Olsztyn, Szczecin, and Czluchow.
JKPU established a very strong internationally oriented policy and co-operates with many international Higher Education Institutions and participates in the European educational programs. JKPU is an active member of various scientific networks and is strongly engaged in social innovation and social services.
JKPU developed and is developing many advanced educational programs funded by the Polish government and the European Union.
https://uczelniakorczaka.pl/en/
Saricam Halk Egitimi Merkezi (Turkey)
Sarıçam
Halk Eğitim Merkezi is a public institution affiliated to the Ministry
of National Education General Directorate of Life Long Learning. Our
institution, which provides training services throughout the year,
including weekends and evenings, carries out tasks in line with the
principles and objectives of non-formal education.
The aim of
non-formal education is to provide the citizens with basic knowledge and
skills, to develop the knowledge and skills they have achieved at the
last stage of their education and to provide them with new opportunities
to earn their living. Non-formal education is also called adult
education, community education, lifelong education. In the world, adult
education institutions serving in the name of adult education center,
public school, community school, multifunctional community center, labor
university present activities in the name of public education center in
our country.It coordinates non-formal educational activities organized
by other public and private institutions and voluntary organizations for
public.
Interdisciplinary Network of Special and Intercultural Education INCLUDE (Greece)
The members of “INCLUDE” are scientists from different fields (education, special education, psychology, sociology, science, artificial intelligent, media, robotics, arts etc) cooperating towards foundation’s goals. The organization is located in a building granted by the Municipality of Thessaloniki and collaborates with local and international social, educational or academic organizations and research institutions. The building has 4 rooms equipped with the most modern ducational instruments for children according to UDL and future class, and also has a garden and playground. Based on the extensive scientific work from its academic members, Include was chosen by Scientix as one of the 30 organizations in Europe specialized in special education and to promote education for all in science (STEM education).
Ecoistituto del Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy)
Ecoistituto is a non-profit research institute created in 1989.
Ecoistituto’s
activity focuses on sustainable development following a
multidisciplinary approach finalized to promote effective and
sustainable results and to enhance the livability of citizens.
Ecoistituto collaborates with higher education institutions, schools,
and governmental institutions organizing conferences, courses, seminars,
and workshops on sustainable development, social business,
environmental education, and healthy behavior.
For the last 19 years,
an annual international conference has been organized in collaboration
with IPSAPA (Interregional Society for Participation in Agribusiness
Landscape and Environmental Management) and the University of Udine
about the themes of the “landscape mosaic”. Since 2005, Ecoistituto
created the series of publications “Living in places”, devoted to the
local cultures and 15 issues have been published.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUNICIPAL CLERKS IN BULGARIA (Bulgaria)
NAMCB
is a registered non-profit, non-governmental organization uniting civil
servants working in municipal and regional administrations in Bulgaria.
The organization has more than 360 regular and associated members and
more than 1,600 active supporters and volunteers all over the county.
The organization works with key Bulgarian and international experts in
areas such as public administration, education, law, communication,
entrepreneurship, anti-corruption, etc.
The organization relies on
excellent working relations with the local authorities in Bulgaria
maintained through its members and schools in Sofia. NAMCB has the
capacity to organize events in almost all 28 districts of the country,
as it has active local members who can contribute to the implementation
of various initiatives in the respective region. NAMCB works with
specialists in the field of youth politics, youth unemployment and the
social involvement so we can effectively coordinate the implementation
of the different phases of the project in Bulgaria.
http://www.namcb-org.bg/