Learning Schools: About the Project

The Project

Learning Schools project is addressing a common problem within the educational systems of most European countries – the loss of knowledge and expertise with teacher retirement, attrition and migration. The main goal is to increase the capacity of schools for managing the process of continuous professional development of teachers and linking its different phases, to establish a culture of innovation and to assist them in embedding systems for exchanging knowledge and learning within the organisation and with the external environment.

The project is implemented by an international consortium in Bulgaria, Italy, Spain and Turkey.

Target groups

Direct target groups of the project are school principals, school leaders and teachers from Bulgaria, Spain, Italy and Turkey.

Outputs and Results

The project proposes an integrative approach for creating a working model of the learning school taking into account the diverse cultural, economic and educational context of all target countries and integrated into a processed based knowledge-management platform. Main outputs are:

- Country specific analyses and cumulative report based on grounded
- Learning school model and gap analyse instruments
- Bank of good practices and forum to exchange knowledge and experience
- Knowledge management wizard - integrated instrument for organizational learning in educational context experience theory method

Learning schools project is co-financed by Erasmus+ Program of the European Union, Agreement No 2020-1-BG01-KA201-079235

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Partners consortium

Center for Educational Initiatives (CEI) is a non-governmental, non-profit association aimed at enhancing innovative educational initiatives and facilitating educational reforms in the Bulgarian educational system. The main objectives of the organization are to encourage co-operation in the field of education on local, regional and European level, to implement new teaching methods, mainly based on ICT, and to enhance co-operation between public institutions, educational and scientific organizations and NGOs at all levels via professional networks and platforms.

The expertise of CEI embraces the following spheres:

1. Training of teachers;

2. E-learning education;

3. Promotion of innovative practices;

4. Informational campaigns;

5. Organization of conferences, seminars and workshops;

6. Organization of public discussions and debates;

7. Research and fieldwork.

In 2010, Center for Educational Initiatives established a Training center, whose main objective is to train teachers, school principals, university professors and education experts in e-learning skills and digital competencies. The Training center provides variety of methodological courses for ICT-based teaching, ICT-based assessment practices, etc. based on open educational resources as MOODLE. Over 4000 secondary school teachers from more than 150 schools in all the country were trained until now. More than 40 university professors have graduated special programs developed for the Faculty of Slavic Studies and Faculty of History of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski".

CEI has developed a Digital Skills Development Program for teachers with more than 10 qualification courses, including the creation of online learning content with virtual reality tools. The courses are part from the Information Register of approved programs for the training of pedagogical specialists - https://iropk.mon.bg/

The Foundation has a vast experience in managing interdisciplinary project teams composed of researchers from universities and other educational organisations. It has an important role at regional, national and European level in the development and promotion of lifelong learning as a tool for improving and strengthening social and work opportunities following the main recommendations of the EU Commission “It is never too late to learn” and “It is always a good time to learn“. The aim of our activities is to help establish an efficient educational system which can help to overcome the barriers to education/training, speed up the recognition of learning outcomes achieved in formal, informal and non-formal approaches in order to encourage active participation in the learning process also by those people who, owing to marginalization, may be excluded from it.

Founded in 2005, San Jorge University (Zaragoza, Spain) is a non-profit foundation that currently has about 3.000 students. Despite its youth, it has not stopped growing by increasing its academic offer, ranging from the Social Sciences (Journalism, Advertising and Public Relations, Translation and Intercultural Communication) to the Health Sciences (Nursing, Pharmacy, Psychology) or Technology (Architecture and Computer Engineering), among other undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.

Its objectives include the training of well-prepared professionals for the 21st century labour market, accustomed to problem solving and teamwork, with good management of technological tools; all this without neglecting education in terms of human values. The team is young and dedicated to innovative teaching and personalized attention to students. In the field of interculturality, USJ welcomes a large number of foreign students each year, representing overall a very significant percentage of its students.

The research group on "Migrations, Interculturality and Human Development" is the one involved in the project. The group is absorbed in the study of issues such as integration, multiculturalism and interculturality and is obtaining remarkable results in terms of publications, financing, and participation in national and European projects.

There are many efforts to innovate within school structure and teaching methods. However, little is recorded, and few cases can be mentioned to be sustainable. The LEARNING SCHOOL project is of special interest, as it will provide tools to the education professionals to address the problems resulting from the loss of knowledge and expertise with teacher retirement, attrition, and migration. The availability of an organized and efficient system for knowledge capturing, synthesizing and sharing within the organization or others would contribute to enhance education professionals’ performance who must manage and respond to situations for which they have not received necessary training.

The Governorship of Istanbul is in charge of regulating and supervising the general administration and progress of Istanbul. It implements the instructions and orders from the ministries by ensuring the announcement and implementation of laws, statutes, regulations and government decisions. It is the representative of the central administration in the province and is the highest administrative institution within the provincial borders. It provides services in various fields with its approximately 300 employees.

Istanbul Governorship European Union and Foreign Relations Office carries out national and international projects on behalf of our Governorship. Priority is given to supporting disadvantaged groups such as individuals with disabilities, immigrants, NEETs and adults. In this context, it works with many public institutions, universities, youth and adult education centers, vocational training centers and non-governmental organizations. Moreover, the office governs The Board of European Union Compliance, Counselling and Guidance

• To ensure an active participation of the governorships to EU accession process

• To follow fully implementations of administrative and legal reforms carried out within this framework

• To enable a better understanding of the EU accession process among public

• To activate governorships with an effective leadership in the provinces concerning the use of EU financial resources efficiently

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Target groups

Outputs and Results

What You Can Find Here

School assessment model

Knowledge management wizard

Best practices library

Place for exchange ideas

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