IncludeArt

The main weaknesses of the education system during the COVD-19 pandemic were the transformation from face-to-face to online learning, the lack of teachers’ knowledge to deal with new technologies, the problem of overcrowded classrooms, and the possible dropout of students due to the digital divide.

The need to address this digital divide is all the more urgent as the European Union has identified digital competence as one of the 8 key factors that need to be addressed nowadays. In addition, the sudden shift to distance learning has increased existing issues related to discrimination, students’ well-being and lack of services for low-income and vulnerable students.

The IncludeArt project takes all these issues into account and aims to provide an innovative digital tool such as web radioand an inclusive methodology. All this in order to equip teachers with new skills to manage new technologies in their process of educating students who are at risk of exclusion or dropping out of educational institutions or low well-being.

IncludeArt responds to the needs of teachers that have emerged from the occured challenges during the pandemic.

Projects Outputs

The IncludeArt project will result in three main outputs, the main aim of which is to strengthen the professional development of teachers to acquire inclusive and creative competences in order to effectively support students.

  1. A collection of inspirative stories of artists who have struggled with their inclusion and who are role models for students who are at the risk of social exclusion.
  2. Training modules on using innovative arts-based approaches and artists’ stories on inclusion and providing effective teaching tools to improve students’ creative skills.
  3. Educational web radio for schools with radio broadcasts.

Creating a web-based radio and new methods for engaging students through art will offer both teachers and students new digital skills and channels through which they can use art as a teaching and learning method.

Project Patrners

The IncludeArt project involves 6 partners from 5 European countries – Czech Republic, Italy, Cyprus, Poland and Spain. The materials developed within the project will be translated from English into all the languages of these countries, allowing implementation in all member states plus English-speaking countries.

Meetings and Workshops

First kick-off meeting in Las Palmas, Canary Islands

What is Happening in IncludeArt?

If you are interested, we are happy to come to you and present the project to you, organize a workshop for your employees, provide consultation on a diploma thesis, etc. Help us raise awareness of topics that really matter!

If you want to learn more about this or other European projects, contact us at info@skolapelican.com or +420 725 441 935.