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Designing and supporting inclusive practices in Higher Education

From 1st December 2020, the researchers from the University of Latvia, Faculty of Education, Psychology and Art, Pedagogical Research Institute have started to implement Erasmus+ project No 2020-1-FI01-KA203-066572 “Designing and supporting inclusive practices in Higher Education”.

The objectives of this project are:

  1. To support higher education providers to design, implement, and monitor effective inclusive policies and practices.
  2. To build the competences of learning designers and academics to design inclusive learning programs.
  3. To improve the accessibility of high quality inclusive higher education opportunities for all.

Project deliverables are divided in three intellectual outputs (IO). First IO is a toolkit which is already available at project website inclusivehe.eu. There can be found:

  • The Inclusive Higher Education Framework and Indicators for an overview of research-based good policies and practices in higher education.
  • The Inclusive Higher Education Checklist for assessing the current state of inclusive policies and practices at your higher education institution.
  • The Higher Education Canvas for reflection on inclusive policies and practices at your higher education institution.
  • The Inclusive Higher Education SWOT-analysis for identifying strengths and weaknesses of inclusive policies and practices at your higher education institution.
  • Strategy Worksheet for building a strategy of inclusive policies and practices at your higher education institution.
  • The Inclusive Higher Education Database of good policies and practices for insight into inclusive actions taken in higher education institutions across Europe.

Soon project website will be updated with IO2 results. All partners have contributed to develop 6 modules, each focused on one aspect of higher education. A 4-hour course was developed based on these modules and will be taught to learning designers and higher education academics by partners at ÅBO Akademi, Universitatea Din Pitesti and University of Latvia before the summer vacation.

Project leading partner is ÅBO Akademi (Finland) and participates partners from Belgium (European Universities Continuing Education Network), Cyprus (Centre for Advancement of Research and Development in Educational Technology Ltd. Cardet un Innovade Li Ltd), Romania (Universitatea Din Pitesti) and Latvia (University of Latvia).

In Univeristy of Latvia the project is coordinated by prof. Linda Daniela with involvement of project expert Dina Zveja.

The total amount for the project is 252.660.00 EUR

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