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Projekti

New Information and Communication Technologies as Tool for Intercultural Education in Europe

04 Decembris 2002
It means to provide teachers with the adequate methodology and pedagogical tools to fully exploit the opportunities offered by the new technologies for intercultural education.
More precisely the project has the follwing objectives:
- to adapt, develop and experiment a new teaching methodolgy for intercultural education based on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT)
- to create, evaluate and dissemnate pedagogical tools and materials for initial and inservice teacher training on the use of ICT in intercultural education
- to develop and test training modules based on the methodology that has been elaborated

The project activities stretch over three years and include five transnational working meetings and an evaluation and disssemination seminar.

The outputs of the project will be addressed mainly to teachers and student teachers, but teacher trainers and pupils will also benefit.
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Comenius Freshwater Network - a Thematic Network Application

04 Decembris 2002
It will promote networking of school partnerhips and of other European projects working on environmental education in general and on freshwater in particular.
The objective of the thematic network application ''The Comenius Freshwater Network'' will promote networking of school partnerhips and of other European projects working on environmental education in general and on freshwater in particular. The network will be inclusive of all interpretations of freshwater use and sustainability. The specific objectives are to facilitate the exchange of information, of experience, of good practice and expertise between Comenius projects through the creation of the CFN (Comenius Freshwater Network) website.

It will extend these oportunities to additional schools that are working within the same thematic area in other national or transnational projects.

CFN will use all contacts to enhance the quality of the work done by projects and individual schools in the network. This will be achieved by a peer review of products in that field (at least 50 in year 1), by the identification of innovation and by the dissemination of good practice. These objectives will be facilitated by the CFN website which will have different interactive functions (a discussion forum and a chatbox).

The target groups are pupils, teachers and management of schools plus those institutions that are motivated to take part by project exemplars and activities disseminated by the project; CFN will also target advisors, inspectors and other educators. It will also involve supply and management organisations plus other business users. Finally CFN will implement strategies to disseminate outcomes to the National Agencies and to the Commission.

In year 2 CFN hopes to organise in-set activities and product commissoning and production; it also hopes to set up joint actions with other programmes such as Leonardo.

Activities will include website design and construction, an interactive school database, product review, testing and evaluation and a conference to raise awareness and disseminate strategies. It is hoped to increase the number of schools in European projects.
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Promoting European Solidarity Trough Cultural and Media Interchange

04 Decembris 2002
The aim of this project is to enhance social cohesion throughout Europe by mutual
appreciation of each other's unique cultural identity.
This three year project will identify, research, design, evaluate and disseminate resources and methodologies that employ the communicative and expressive aspects of culture to foster an appreciation of other cultures and to promote good European Citizenship.

An Action 2.2 INSET Course will be held in 2002. The project will establish a dedicated website providing culturally based resources for teachers and a database of links enabling schools to work transnationally with colleagues using the cultural based models demonstrated in the INSET courses.

The project's target group includes primary teachers, head teachers, advisors, inspectors, management, parents and the wider community.''
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Integrated Programmes for Lower Primary TeacherTraining

04 Decembris 2002
This project intends to develop modules for the initial training of the lower primary school education.
The project is divided into 5 sections that reflect several professional fields:
- Social Sciences (focus on family in an integrated way, health education, multicultural education and communication training for the support of socially disadvantaged pupils;
- Mathematics and dealing with gifted children;
- Foreign languages;
- Folk dance and music;
- Mother tongue.

The main activities include the creation of the modules, their piloting in the partner establishments and integration of new teaching materials and methods into the initial teacher training programmes of the participating institution.

The expected outcome is a five lower primary school teacher training module with related teaching aids, national and international publications (books, articles).

The target group includes prospective primary teachers at the partner institutions.
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Raising Achievement in Multicultural Schools

04 Decembris 2002
The RAIMS project describes and analyses the work of 15 primary and 5 secondary schools in 10 member states.
These schools already cater for diverse populations and enable their ethnic minority and other pupils to achieve at high levels.

The project develops in year 1 detailed case studies, including objective evidence of the schools and guidelines for other schools and educational authorities.

In years 2 and 3 these are developed into in-service programmes at different levels and for differing group for people who are involved in pupils' learning.

The main activities are the supported development of case studies in each of the schools, the identification and publication in the form of guidelines of the key features of these schools, comparison of their processes with those identified as important by other work on school impovement as part of a transnational seminar which will develop the guidelines, and dissemination through the Internet and publication of the outcomes, but also involving the dissemination processes put in place by the RACE Thematic Network.

The project will also identify key indicators against which schools catering for diverse pupil populations should measure their progress and the levels which can or should be achieved against these indicators.
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Prévention Précoce des Difficultés d'Adaptation et d'Apprentissage

04 Decembris 2002
It amis at developping pedagogical tools for teachers of pre-schools.
Ce projet se propose d'établir un réseau européen de cours de formation initiale et continue pour le personnel éducatif des enfants du niveau pré-primaire. Le but du réseau est de mettre en œ uvre une politique de prévention précoce de l'échec scolaire s'adressant à tous les élèves du niveau pré-primaire mais en mettant l'accent sur les enfants ayant des besoins spéciaux.

Le projet se base sur l'expertise de la recherche antérieure (Munich, décembre 1995, séminaire et l'agence européenne pour l'enseignement spécial) que les partenaires se proposent d'étendre et de diffuser.

Les objectifs consistent donc à développer des outils pédagogiques novateurs pour la formation initiale et continue des enseignants du niveau pré-primaire et à redéfinir les perspectives théoriques qui régissent généralement le domaine concerné.

Pour la première année, divers séminaires entre les partenaires sont envisagés afin de collecter diverses expériences et politiques dans différents pays européens. La publication des expériences les plus innovantes dans le domaine de l'intervention précoce est prévue.

Des mini-séminaires par vidéoconférence prépareront le séminaire international qui aura lieu en octobre 2000 en France ; une page web sera également créée et un lien avec l'action 1 de Comenius est aussi prévu.

La deuxième année commencera avec un séminaire international à Paris et les conclusions de ce séminaire seront publiées sur CD-Rom. Des modules seront préparés et testés pour la mise en œuvre du cours la troisième année.
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Mise sur pied d'une formation continue internationale pour les enseignants de français langue étrangère

04 Decembris 2002
The aim of this project is to develop an international continuous training programme for
Hungarian and Romanian teachers of French.
The project will bring together teachers already involved in the training of teachers of French as a foreign language and draw on their experience to create training modules that take into the account the needs of French teachers whose pupils are not speakers of the most widely-spoken Indo- European languages.

The outputs of the project will be four teacher training modules suitable for use with speakers of both Indo-European and non Indo-European languages, and a methodological guide in the form of a handbook.
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Promoting School Safety

04 Decembris 2002
It means to train and sensitize teachers and other school staff in matters related to school safety.
The main objective of the project Promoting School Safety is twofold: to help teachers and other school education staff become better equipped to prevent violence in schools and to create a well tested procedure for dealing with critical incidents in order to promote quality for education.

The partnership is assembled to ensure a European dimension from different perspectives and realities, but with a common need to promote better learning and working environments by combating violent language and behaviour, open violence and sexual and racial harassment of any kind.

The specific aims of the project are: to train and sensitize teachers and other school staff in matters related to school safety; to work out plans and concrete methods to prevent and deal with violence in schools; to produce a European School Safety Kit (including questionnaires, workshop manuals and guides); and a European School Safety Policy.

The target groups include teachers and other school staff (including members of the school council).
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Materiales para la educación

04 Decembris 2002
The project aims to produce materials for bilingual education (where teaching takes
place in two languages).
The materials will be aimed at teachers and students in primary, secondary and adult education, whose second learning language is DE, EN, ES or FR.

The partnership will share and analyse experiences and best practice in bilingual education to inform the materials production.

For the primary sector the materials will focus on maths, art and the environment. For the secondary sector they will address maths, and social and experimental sciences. Training/staff development modules in bilingual teaching will also be developed.
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Interpersonal Clues for Understanding in Schools with Interculturally Valid Education

04 Decembris 2002
It is a three year project aiming at promoting intercultural education in a broader sense or education in diversity or inclusive education.
INCLUSIVE - INterpersonal Clues for Understanding in Schools with Interculturally Valid Education, is a three year project aiming at promoting intercultural education in a broader sense or education in diversity or inclusive education.

The target groups are primary and secondary school teachers.

The objectives are:
1) to challenge exclusion (for high achievers especially)
2) to combat racism and demonstrate the principle of of advantage in diversity
3) to raise achievements and self-esteem of marginalised
4) to contribute to student-teachers' knowledge about ways to raise achievement

General introduction of inclusive strategies will be accompanied by publication of sample lessons, of self reflections and insights of teachers, and by case studies of selected children.

These outputs will be placed on a web site and collected in a special booklet accessible for Initial techer training at co-ordination institutions.

Countries involved in the project are CZ, ES, DK, GB.