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SWPBS – Building School-Wide Inclusive, Positive and Equitable Learning Environments Through A Systems-Change Approach

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The “Building School-Wide Inclusive, Positive and Equitable Learning Environments Through A Systems-Change Approach” (SWPBS) is an ERASMUS+ Key Action 3 Policy Experimentation program, which aims to establish an inclusive non-discriminatory social culture and necessary socio-emotional and behavioral supports for all children in a school across four EU countries (Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Romania).

The SWPBS is based on Positive Behavior Support (PBS), a scientific approach that provides the organizational framework to school staff to act preventively with the support of external coaches. The SWPBS project aims to promote the problem-solving model, where school administration and staff try to identify their school needs, design and execute an action plan and assess its implementation. The SWPBS problem-solving framework provides teachers with evidence-based instructional practices and classroom management skills to create inclusive, positive classroom environments for all students.

SWPBS project follows a systems-change approach, which means that the biggest impact on improving student behavioral and academic outcomes, school climate and teacher work satisfaction will come as a result after working with the entire school. In addition, the school becomes the “host environment” for preventing serious problems by training and coaching school to staff adopt and use evidence-based practices inside and outside of classrooms (e.g., Waasdorp et al., 2012).

Family Circle – Family Learning To Drive Demand for A Circular Economy

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The Circular Economy is seen as an integral and interdependent part of a transition to a lower-carbon society. While early legislation framed the initial development of the Circular Economy in terms of waste and re-cycling it is now essential for the policy led success of the “Use – Reuse” model at the heart of the circular economy to become “owned” and “developed” by us, the consumers. Consumers are, and will continue to be, major influencers in the development of the Circular Economy in Europe. With the explosion of social media and the huge numbers of ‘digital natives’ who are almost permanently engaged in online activity, the power of consumers to effect change is greater than ever before. What is now needed are consumer awareness and education programs that address issues of national and international importance, like adopting and developing the Circular Economy Model.

CARDET, in collaboration with Gästrike Återvinnare from Sweden and partners from 6 EU countries participate in the project Family Circle, under the ERASMUS+ KA2 programme of the European Commission.

The project’s overall objective is to raise awareness and provide education for families across Europe about the Circular Economy.

Piggy Bank – A Family Learning Model to Promote Financial Literacy

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Before the Economic Crisis of 2008 families across the EU managing personal finances in a very relaxed way. With the arrival of the Global Economic Crisis of 2008 and the European Crises of 2010 the era of easy credit and high incomes came to an end and households had to readjust their expectations downwards, producing stress and conflict within the family.

The aim of the project is to support family financial education for all members of the household, from young kids to parents and grandparents in order to foster a more realistic understanding of the family economics.

CARDET, in collaboration with Reintegra from Czech Republic and partners from 4 EU countries participate in the project Piggy Bank, under the ERASMUS+ KA2 programme of the European Commission.

Future Teachers Education: Computational Thinking and STEAM

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The project develops innovative educational approaches of Computational Thinking (CT) and related to transdisciplinary and holistic STEM perspectives for future teacher education. We develop a pragmatic methodology to CT as to asset of tools, techniques and approaches which enable a seamless transition from the young child’s unplugged type of activities to the comprehensive modelling and computer simulation activities of K-12 and early university students.

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Equipping Young Leaders to take an active role in Media Literacy

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A training was held by CARDET on the 22nd of February as part of the Youth MythBusters project, focusing on topics of media literacy, fake news, hate speech, propaganda and manipulaton. The workshop involved the participation of five youth leaders from Cyprus who were trained in these topics to support and tutor their peers at risk of social exclusion (mainly those not in education, employment and/ or training- NEETs) in the field.

During this training, the facilitators focused on creating a solid foundation regarding the promotion of civic and political engagement and how to fight fake news, manipulation and propaganda. At the same time, with the use of team building activities, the participants shared their personal views on the matter and connected with one another.

In this way, the first contact was initiated and the young leaders can now proceed with their training online while at the same time collectively create an action plan together to efficiently connect with their peers and spread awareness on the importance of media literacy and active civic and political engagement.

The five young leaders were very motivated and supportive during the training and according to their feedback, they are looking forward to attend the online training. At a later stage, they will also have the chance to create some youth mythbusting actions with their peers to practically address incidents of fake news, hate speech, manipulation and propaganda.

DIMA 2.0 – Developing Strategies for Adult Education Providers and Adult Educators

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The DIMA 2.0 project aims to support adult education providers and adult educators to improve the quality of adult education across Europe, raise the participation rates and better monitor effectiveness of adult learning policies and strategies. Building on the existing knowledge developed by partners during the DIMA project, the project will create and provide a new set of tools and resources in order to help the professional development of adult educators to deliver high quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of low-skilled and low qualified individuals.

eMysteries – Detective Stories to Engage Students in Close Reading with the Use of Mobile Devices

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By the time young people in the EU leave compulsory education most of them have regularly made use of computers and the internet for a variety of activities. While the most common activities of young people using mobile phones are writing through text messaging (“texting”) and reading for information search and entertainment purposes, the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results showed that one in five pupils in the European Union have insufficient proficiency in reading.

The eMysteries project offers a rich media mobile-device-supported interactive environment which can be utilized for educational purposes among upper secondary education students (15-18 year-olds) in order to enhance their literacy skills by actively engaging them in close reading activities. By using the interactive environment, students will have the opportunity to create their own detective stories that can be adapted to various characters and plots. The project also offers a Teacher’s Toolbox and a MOOC dedicated to enhance teacher’s capacity and professionalism on how to use the eMysteries environment and resources in their daily practices.