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SOCI@LL PROJECT: WHOLE-SCHOOL APPROACH IN CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION – LOCAL PARTNERSHIPS CONNECTING YOUNGSTERS, SCHOOL COMMUNITY AND WIDER SOCIETY The SOCI@LL project was represented during the last 2 days (5th and 6th July) at the 13th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN 2021),…

The success of the Social Inclusion of Youngsters in the Educational Context International Conference! The international conference of the Soci@ll project took place online on the 10th of May 2021, aiming to present the main resources developed by the partnership and share the 3-years of experience…

Celebrating the 3 years of the Soci@ll project at an International Final Conference! The Soci@ll project completed 3-years of implementation and it is almost finalizing! To celebrate this achievement, the consortium is preparing an online conference – Whole School Social Labs – Social Inclusion of…

Against all odds, 2020 was one of the most fruitful and grateful years of the project, full of activities involving the school and local communities! Following the methodology defined by the Soci@ll consortium, schools and municipalities had the opportunity of promoting the: Citizenship and inclusion…

The project Soci@ll keeps on going in the Liceo delle Scienze Umane!   From 15 to 18 December, 4 classes of the Liceo delle Scienze Umane took part in a  “ virtual twinning” with 4 classes of ITIS Alessandro Volta (one of the Italian partner…

  From exhibitions to videos and dances! How Agrupamento de Escolas Abel Salazar – Portugal celebrated the SOCI@LL Week!     In the past months, the Portuguese school celebrated the Soci@ll Week by promoting different activities engaging the students involved in the pilot test of…

    An amazing and colourful SOCI@LL Week has welcomed new and old students and all the staff of the Licei Giovanni da San Giovanni after the long lockdown due to Covid-19!       Although a certain number of rules have been introduced to…

    Palermo is ready for promoting social inclusion at school! CESIE and ITI A. Volta are ready to launch the piloting phase of the SOCI@LL project based on the “Toolkits per inclusive classrooms and schools” developed by the SOCI@LL consortium.       In…

The third edition of the “Snapshot from…” series is now on! This time, the last Toolkit and some of its results, developed in the SOCI@LL project, are presented – Toolkit for Local Authorities. This tool will support local authorities in the creation and maintenance of…

The implementation of the Toolkit for School Directors, designed and developed for school leaders to create and sustain culturally balanced and inclusive systems inside and around schools, has already being implemented in some of the project partnerships’ countries.   This is the second edition of…

The implementation of the Toolkit for Teachers, designed and developed within the SOCI@LL project as a set of resources for teachers to use with their students, has already started in some of the project partners’ countries. The consortium is following these implementations and some of…

23rd of April 2020, it was expected Soci@ll partners meet in Poland for the 4th face-to-face project meeting and exchange their experiences related to the activities being implemented in schools and local communities! However, a different meeting took place, at distance, and partners focused their…

  The first meeting for the creation of a Social Lab in Palermo was held at CESIE. The Social Lab will bring together local authorities, schools and the third sector to identify problems related to social inclusion in schools and to find, through an innovative…

The SOCI@LL project, coordinated by INOVA+, joined the KA3 Thematic Cluster of the Erasmus+ organized by the EACEA and aimed at bringing together the coordinators from Policy Experimentations, Forward-Looking Cooperation Projects, Social Inclusion, and Civil Society Cooperation. ouRoute, another initiative led by INOVA+, was represented…

    On October 10, 2019, took place the seminar “New Approaches to Education for Citizenship and Social Inclusion”, inserted in the celebrations of #ErasmusDay, at the Florbela Espanca Municipal Library, in Matosinhos. Organized by INOVA+ and MENTORTEC, the event aimed to celebrate the #ErasmusDays…

This time, the SOCI@LL consortium led by INOVA +, traveled to Florence on 23 and 24 September for the third project meeting organized by OXFAM Italy partner! The events following the meeting consisted of the development of two training courses for the main end-users of…

Problems such as inclusion and diversity are becoming a major commitment for many schools and local authorities, forcing them to pay attention to portraying diversity as a value, and raising awareness on issues related to disability, multiculturalism, gender equality, and bullying. Even the territorial governance…

SOCI@LL project and results were presented and analysed last week (on the 7th), on a seminar held at Casa da Juventude in Matosinhos (Portugal). Promoted by the Municipality of Matosinhos in cooperation with the School Cluster Abel Salazar and INOVA+, this event was addressed to…

The state-of-the-art, best practices, and roadmap for SOCI@LL are finally ready to the shared with you! For each category, a global report was developed, only in English, as well as a booklet, in all partner languages. The state-of-the-art is the only exception, in which, besides…

Raising awareness for the SOCI@LL activities and initiatives set in place all over Europe is essential. Communication and creation of innovative approaches for social inclusion, promotion of participatory and empowering tools for creative and sustainable solutions co-designed by, with and for key-stakeholders within a whole…

The SOCI@LL project has a video for you! Aiming to show you in a creative and direct way the strategy of the project and the result of the state of play in the field of social inclusion, as well as the best practices and current roadmap that is being followed, this video was developed and is now available. To facilitate the understanding, the video has subtitles available, in English, Portuguese, Greek, and Polish. Share your opinion! We are looking forward to knowing what you think about the project and the video.

The third and fourth step of the SOCI@LL expedition are starting! Let’s develop and provide innovative educative assets as well as innovative guiding tools. Here, two main target groups will be reached: – for one side, the school leaders and teachers, through the pilot and…

After the desk research conducted in the four consortium countries and the field research on initiatives that are being implemented or already were, partners chose three best practices in each country, plus three best practices in European Level, one concerning the following three areas: –…

The Portuguese National Agency invited the SOCI@LL project to be present and participate in the “III Seminar Erasmus+ Education and Special Needs: equity and inclusion” on the 30th November, in Lisbon, Portugal. During this day, INOVA+, the project coordinator and partner that participated in the…

The Centre for the Advancement of Research and Development in Educational Technology (CARDET) in collaboration with the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture and the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, organised the 11th International Conference of “Innovative Learning Environments 2018”, focusing on the theme of “Social Inclusion…

The second meeting of the project took place in Nicosia, Cyprus, on 8th and 9th of October.

One of the main elements of the SOCI@LL project is its collaborative and co-creation methodology which foresees the active participation of the target groups and the main beneficiaries of the results from the outset.

The engagement of different actors during the fieldwork activities allowed the identification of several good practices promoted by different types of entities and in various theme

The SOCI@LL brochure is now available

The first stage of the project is already underway and partners work hard to create a solid foundation of shared knowledge about the state of the art and needs of the target groups.

Built-on a holistic approach, the SOCI@LL project proposes to the stakeholders a challenging co-creation and cooperation adventure aimed at improving the way schools and communities work together to create innovative approaches to social inclusion. To achieve this goal, the initiative will generate a creative and…

On 7th and 8th of March, the SOCI@LL consortium met face-to-face for the first time. The kick-off meeting was held in Matosinhos, Portugal, and was organized by the project coordinator: INOVA+.

A very interesting opportunity to meet the leaders of more than 20 initiatives supported by the European Commission and of which SOCI@LL is a member.

SOCI@LL is an innovative project aimed at supporting policy reforms in the area of ​​social inclusion through education. This initiative, supported by the Erasmus + Program of the European Commission, was selected by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency and started in 2018.