Completed projects
HAND IN HAND
Promoting social-emotional skills and diversity awareness among teachers in Europe
Project description: In their professional life, teachers need to respond competently to new challenges on a daily basis. The HAND:ET project, funded under the "Support for Policy Reform" action, is developing an innovative, universal program from March 2021 to February 2024 that aims to promote social-emotional competencies and diversity awareness among teachers. The program will be tested using a quasi-experimental design with control groups among primary and secondary teachers in Slovenia, Croatia, Sweden, Austria and Portugal. The results will be summarized in guidelines and will be used as EU- and country-specific recommendations to address current structural challenges of the teaching profession.
Activities in the project can be found in the detailed description of the Hand in Hand project.
RegiNaDiff
Regional, sustainable and differentiated teaching: Starting the green transformation in school
Project description: RegiNaDiff aims to impart knowledge about a sustainable way of life in 4th and 5th grade. A modular system (editor) is being developed with which teachers can enrich and digitize their own differentiated texts on regional sustainability-related topics with vocabulary work, tasks and reading strategies. The materials that are created and evaluated in the project are accessible and expandable for all teachers (through the editor), so they can use it in inclusive lessons. The students work with the created materials in project weeks and carry out topic-related hands-on projects. The aim is to give pupils a better understanding of sustainability-related topics, such as animal, nature and environmental protection, renewable energies, regional food supply, waste avoidance and responsible use of resources.
RegioDiff
Project description: The goal of this project was to prepare and transfer knowledge about the region of Styria. In 2019/2020 specialized texts about the regional characteristics of Styria were prepared by the project team and pupils from secondary schools. The prepared texts were differentiated and adapted based on the reading skills of the pupils and enriched with vocabulary exercises and reading strategies. These texts are used in primary schools in Styria in the school year 2020/2021 either as printed materials or embedded in the digital learning environment.
IMAS II
Improving Assistance in Inclusive Educational Settings II (IMAS II)
Project description: As part of the Erasmus+ project IMAS II (October 2018 - March 2021) funded by the European Union, five web-based knowledge boxes on relevant topics from the everyday work of school assistants will be developed and evaluated in cooperation with nine partner organizations from six European countries and the active involvement of experienced school assistants and students with and without disabilities. This offers a training opportunity for school assistants and other educational staff, which aims to contribute to the expansion of knowledge and the promotion of inclusive competences in order to adequately prepare school assistants for their professional requirements in supporting students with disabilities.
Short description: As part of this Erasmus+ project, which involved universities and primary schools from five partner countries (England, Denmark, Portugal, Spain and Austria), materials were developed and ways explored to enable all children in a class to participate in lessons. The "Inclusive Inquiry" model, a model of teacher training, was used for lesson development, which enables pupils to actively participate in teaching processes.
- Researchers: Prof. Dr. Barbara Gasteiger-Klicpera, University of Graz; Ass.-Prof. Lisa Paleczek, PhD, University of Graz; Prof. Edvina Bešić, PhD, PH Styria
- Duration: 2017 -2019
- Funded by the European Union: Erasmus+ project
- Weblink: FOPRO: reachingthehardtoreach.eu