Welcoming the iHETP learning platform!

A new meeting of the iHETP project took place on March 18, 2024. The partners are at the stage where they needed to visualize and test the Moodle learning platform created within the project, a platform that will soon include all the educational materials created within the project.

Through this platform, the project offers all those interested useful resources for the understanding and implementation of specific concepts of inclusive education in the academic environment, within European universities.

Thus, on the Moodle platform there is a complete course for integrating the principles of inclusive education in the university environment. This course includes 7 modules with distinct themes, addressed to different forms of disability. Within each module, key concepts, ways to implement general principles, examples of resources and best practices, relevant case studies are explored.
The modules are available in all the languages ​​of the project (so they can also be used in Romanian) and upon their completion, learners can obtain certificates of participation.

You can access the platform and make your own account right away!

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Second Transnational Project Meeting of iHETP project

On 23th&24th January 2024, the second Transnational Project Meeting of iHETP project was held in Mugla, Turkey, being hosted by our Turkish partners, University of Mugla. The meeting was a mix between onsite participants and online participants, gathering together for a joint effort of productive discussions and strategic planning for the future stages of iHETP project.

The project is entering second year of implementation and the meeting provided a context for revising and discuss progress, address challenges, and chart the course for the future.

EIA took the lead in guiding the partners through the meeting agenda and practicalities, ensuring a smooth flow of discussions.

Topics included:

• the overview of the progresses made in WP1, with EIA providing valuable insights into the project’s milestones and achievements.
• details of WP3, with a special focus on the Training Curriculum Overview, including session discussions on WP3 Translation Reviews, Layout Corrections, and Alt-Texts, addressing the finer details before uploading the final materials into the learning platform.
• focus on preparing WP4, especially the Pilot User Engaging Planning and Dissemination Plan. This work package highlights more the importance of effective communication and engagement strategies in reaching the project’s target audience. Also, planning of the pilot phase was anticipated and discussed, in terms of registered users, qualitative indicators to be achieved and overall user satisfaction measured.
• Administrative issued related with the implementation and reporting, in order to ensure proper information for intermediate reports.

A great news came from our coordinator, Mr. David Sotto-Mayor about our previous mutual project, TSEMY, which was selected as a best practice example and is currently enrolled for a best practice price. This is a great confirmation that TSEMY project is adding significant educational value to our learning communities but also at European level, enriching the knowledge and empowering the cooperation within European effective networks.

We hope that iHETP project will have – at least – the same success, giving to the upper education communities across Europe a new resource to learn and improve inclusivity.

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Un nou buletin informativ pentru proiectul iHETP

First online meeting of this fall season for iHETP project

Usually, the harvests and the results of the summer’s work are counted in the fall.

This is exactly what the international team of the iHETP project did today, in the first online meeting of this autumn. The partners reviewed the development stage of the project’s results and updated the main ways to disseminate and value the project’s theme.

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iHETP project: online summer meeting

On July 3, 2023, the partners of the iHETP Erasmus project (Inclusive Higher Education Training Program) met to discuss the implementation stage of the project during the summer and early autumn.

We are ready to start developing the training program for the development of inclusive skills for university staff. The main topics of the program were established taking into account the results of the research stage that we concluded (based on the focus group and national surveys) and will include addressability from the point of view of the needs of students with disabilities.

We will try to cover all types of disability, including a theoretical part and an applied part, based on relevant case studies, which can offer interesting and even innovative solutions for solving the problems under discussion.

At the end, the project will provide some tools – we hope – very useful to the staff working in universities, for the development of inclusive skills and the capacity to prepare, adapt and support students with special educational requirements. The project is also a good opportunity to raise awareness about this problem – with many gaps and needs, at the level of all European countries – and to encourage people with special needs to aspire, to develop, to learn.

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Buletin informativ nr. 3 pentru proiectul iHETP

Buletinul informativ nr. 3 pentru proiectul iHETP vă oferă câteva detalii despre prima întâlnire transnațională de proiect de la Roma

First transnational project meeting for Inclusive iHETP (Higher Education Training Program) project!

The first transnational meeting of the iHETP project took place in Rome, between May 10-11, 2023, in a hybrid format. The meeting was a good opportunity to review the most important aspects related to the first result of the project, which includes a complex research, based on focus groups and questionnaires, regarding the issue of university teachers working with young people with disabilities. In this research, many relevant aspects were discovered, especially related to the needs that teachers feel, regarding the resources and training needed to work effectively and in an integrative way with young people with special needs.

Paradoxically, although the concern for the integration of people with special needs – especially young people – is not new at the European level, all the partners involved in the research discovered deficiencies and needs that manifest themselves especially in the university environment. Even universities with tradition and good practices in offering special study conditions have discovered the fact that there are still many problems that students feel, from those related to learning to those related to everyday life on campus.

Therefore, the following stages of the project, which include the development of a curriculum adapted to the training needs of university education professionals and an online and autonomous training program, become of crucial importance in offering concrete solutions and resources for the discovered problems.

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Monthly meeting i-HETP project

The project partners had a short but efficient meeting today, focused on reporting the status of the implementation of the local focus groups, in each partner organization. Many of the partners reported an increased interest of the local community for the project theme and a special interest of the institutions that deal with inclusion to be part of the local network and to be permanently updated with relevant information about the project and its results.

It is important to note that at the European level there is an increased interest for professionals in the field of education and related services for the issues related to students with special needs, their inclusion and the necessary skills for both professionals and all people in general, regarding the interaction, the work and integration of the special people around us.

iHETP project: New online meeting deepening the focus-groups

The partners of the iHetp project have gathered today for a new online meeting in which to share details related to the focus group activities to be implemented by each partner, at the local level, in the following period.

These focus groups have the role of identifying the opinions of key people – experts or people directly involved in working with people with disabilities, from the academic environment.

Trying to identify and describe the competences that an inclusive teacher must possess in order to perform their duties is a complex but necessary process to identify the constituent elements of the initial and ongoing training of future and in-service teachers. This is because, we strongly reiterate, for the development of quality inclusive education a fundamental role is played by the teacher.

In line with what has researched so far, we have therefore chosen to analyse the necessary competences and skills that a teacher must possess and develop in order to arrive at the construction of the Inclusive Teacher Profile.

Some of the thematic proposals for our further investigation in the focus groups are:

Obstacles for disabled students in the higher  education and training context

Competences to acquire by the trainers/teachers

Services and support offered by universities

Awarness campaign to create an inclusive community that allows everyone to feel welcome

Inclusive teacher is that professional who is able to develop personal problem-solving strategies.

Teachers are responsible for their lifelong learning.

Future teachers, through special training activities, can observe, collect and analyse inclusive practices in order to reflect on their own professional actions and the skills necessary to deliver a truly inclusive approach to education.

Plural approach to inclusivity

Creation of a list of inclusive practices

First Newsletter of Inclusive Higher Education Training Program (iHETP) issued!

First kick-off meeting for Inclusive Higher Education Training Program

A new project is at the beginning: Inclusive Higher Education Training Program, coordinated by EIA Portugal.
It is a project that touches on a very hot and current topic, especially for teachers and trainers who urgently need to update their skills for inclusion. Students with special educational needs need to be integrated and for this to actually happen, teachers and trainers need to be well prepared and ready to work with these students.

The main objective of the project is to develop and deliver a training program on inclusive pedagogic methodologies that will prepare higher education professors to instruct students with disabilities while improving their pedagogic qualifications in general but will do it on an inclusive context also preparing the professors to deliver inclusive classes and produce adapted, accessible pedagogic materials.

The target groups of the project are higher education professors, but also, indirectly, higher education students and applicants who will benefit from being taught by professors who have pedagogic training and feel ready and confident to instruct students with disabilities. Also the higher education institutions need professors to become ready to instruct students with disabilities.

Stay tuned for more information and updates about this new project!