The First European Education for Climate Day!
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The First European Education for Climate Day!

Today, on 25 November 2021, the European Commission has launched the first Education for Climate Day, celebrating all education practitioners around Europe that work on education for environmental sustainability and its adjacent topics. The Day was marked by an online event organized by the European Commission to facilitate the sharing of good practices across education…

TRANSVAL-EU: Validate Transversal Skills!
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TRANSVAL-EU: Validate Transversal Skills!

This project is closed and ran between 2021 and 2023. WHAT IS THE PROJECT ABOUT? EU-funded project, TRANSVAL-EU, is a European policy experimentation concerning innovative approaches for the validation of transversal skills obtained in non-formal and informal learning (VNFIL) contexts, including guidance services. It aims to increase the knowledge and awareness of validation assessors, counsellors…

SMILE Project website is now launched!
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SMILE Project website is now launched!

SMILE is a project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme under KA3 – Social inclusion and common values, aiming to promote inclusive education by developing, testing and implementing innovative tools that improve the way higher education institutions deal with diversity and social inclusion. The project focuses on three main areas of inequality and disadvantage in higher…

SMILE – Social Meaning Impact through Lifelong Learning universities in Europe
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SMILE – Social Meaning Impact through Lifelong Learning universities in Europe

This project is closed and ran between 2020 and 2023. WHAT IS THE PROJECT ABOUT? The project SMILE – Social Meaning Impact through Lifelong Learning universities in Europe – aims to achieve inclusive higher education by providing higher education institutions with the tools to deal with diversity and social inclusion. WHY? The first principle of…

ECO-IN | Algorithm for New Ecological Approaches to Inclusion
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ECO-IN | Algorithm for New Ecological Approaches to Inclusion

This project is closed and ran between 2019 and 2023. WHAT IS THE PROJECT ABOUT? The Algorithm for New Ecological Approaches to Inclusion (ECO-IN) is Erasmus+ co-funded project and aims to develop new and innovative training model to generate inclusive schools and communities. WHY? Inclusive practices and systems are not a reality for all across…

European Education Area and the Digital Education Action Plan – First hesitant steps towards inclusive education
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European Education Area and the Digital Education Action Plan – First hesitant steps towards inclusive education

On 30 September 2020, the European Commission updated its vision of the European Education Area (EEA) setting out the roadmap on achieving this by 2025 and presented the Updated Digital Education Action Plan (DEAP).  The Digital Education Action Plan update The DEAP acknowledges the comments of SOLIDAR Foundation in the public consultation related to the…

Digital Education Action Plan: SOLIDAR´s contribution to make it a reality for all
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Digital Education Action Plan: SOLIDAR´s contribution to make it a reality for all

On 25 August, SOLIDAR Foundation provided its views on the European Commission public consultation on the Digital Education Action Plan (DEAP). This consultation feeds into the upcoming update of the DEAP in September 2020, to ensure that it promotes high quality and inclusive education and training in the digital age. This becomes increasingly relevant as the COVID-19-related lockdown has illuminated deficiencies in…

Ups and Downs in the Updated Skills Agenda
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Ups and Downs in the Updated Skills Agenda

The European Commission presented on 1 July the awaited Updated Skills Agenda, which aims at identifying the skills that Europeans’ should be equipped with, to meet the requirements of changing societal and working environments over the next five years. At times when nothing less than defining a new normality is needed, the Skills Agenda is a piece of policy-making that can facilitate equal access to the attainment…

The future of EU’s Artificial Strategy: CSOs voice on digitalisation
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The future of EU’s Artificial Strategy: CSOs voice on digitalisation

On 12 June 2020, SOLIDAR Foundation has provided its views on the European Commission public consultation on the White Paper on Artificial Intelligence (AI) – A European Approach. The White Paper represents the initial strategy of the new European Commission on the future of AI in Europe. It presents a vision solely informed by an…