ELFE-ESL Project Description

Aiming at a truly transnational dimension the project is managed by a multinational consortium of 7 teacher union representatives from Denmark, the Netherlands, Portugal, Greece, Slovakia, Azerbaijan & Russia, 1 representative from the ETUCE and 2 researchers, experts in the field of ICT in education and early school leaving in Europe. Together they ensure the successful implementation of the project activities and the achievement of the targeted results. The 2 non-EU partners will provide a particular valuable input to the practical approach on using ICT in education and to identify specific skills/competences teachers need to provide a favourable use of ICT in education that supports the specific needs of those students at risk-of exclusion from formal education.

The project methodology to guarantee the achievement of the goals and good quality of the results is the combination of research and practical expertise, union action and policy development.

Aiming specifically at including at grassroot level the teachers and students, 4 case studies in 4 partner countries (Denmark, the Netherlands, Portugal, Azerbaijan) are planned. A delegation of 1 researcher and 3 teacher union representatives (1 local & 2 project partners) will interview school heads, staff & students of 1 teacher education institution & 2 schools based on the questionnaire developed in the advisory group. The 4 English case study reports will be translated into Danish, Dutch, Portuguese & Russian and sent to the studied institutions to ensure a good exchange of practices amongst them.

To involve all relevant education stakeholders in developing the policy, which is essential for its successful implementation, a workshop will be organised after the case study phase, gathering students, teachers and head teachers, teacher unions and education employers to draft concrete & practical guidelines on how ICT & innovative teaching based on ICT can assist in motivating and re-attracting individuals at risk-of exclusion from formal education (early school leavers, ethnic minorities, immigrants). The guidelines will be validated in the final conference through the discussion among the relevant education actors in Europe. Addressing all stakeholders in education (teachers, schools, teacher education institutions, employers in education, policy-makers & public authorities at regional, national & European level), they will serve as a basis for the policy work in the European Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee for Education.

The exploitation plan ensures the dissemination of all project results, the study, workshop and conference reports and the project booklet with the guidelines in the languages of the project partners and official ETUCE languages via the partners and the wider network of ETUCE and the associated partners (EFEE/OBESSU) to their affiliates in Europe reaching students, teachers, school heads and education employers in Europe.