The project entitled "LeGoP - Learning good practices in European countries" is proposed by an international partnership that values the contributions by the public sector and private experiences in the field of youth education and of training of their educators and trainers. It is referred to issues of great concern for the territories of reference: Italy, Spain and Netherlands. The concept of the "LeGoP" project starts from the demand expressed by the High school Liceo Scientifico "Salvemini" of Bari to bring "process" and "product" innovations inside its school context, with the purpose of increasing the possibilities for the students to experiment an innovative and inclusive learning environment of excellence. The "LeGoP" project aims at fulfilling this need by creating proper and innovative tools and methodologies to adapt and update primarily the skills of educators and trainers, and thus to successfully support adolescent students in their learning process. This is based on the awareness that no social, economic and cultural barrier can slow down the individual path of integration within civil society. In order to fulfill this purpose, the group promoting the project has joined national and international experiences of excellence in two particular areas of intervention related to inclusive learning: the use of (adapted) ICT technologies and the acquisition of innovative methods to prevent discriminations, particularly of those based on special needs and sexual orientations. The added value of the project is represented by the public - private partnership that has been established thanks to the support by the partner ELPENDÙ (Consortium of Social Cooperatives).The latter is endowed with multidisciplinary experience ranging from training, testing of ICT solutions for the inclusion of people with special needs,practice of gender equality and equal opportunities for all) at local and transnational level. Then, the partnership combines the experiences of other schools (Azular Lizeoa in Spain) and non-profit organizations working in the sectors relevant for the project: GUREAK in Spain is highly experienced in inclusive technologies and GALE, in The Netherlands, in the activities aimed at fighting homophobia, particularly in schools). The final aim of the partnership is to encourage, resilience and raise the awareness on individual rights in the participants by designing, testing and improving good practices and innovative teaching methodologies which could favor the social inclusion of students regardless their special needs and the promotion of acceptance and respect of LGBT people. These objectives will be achieved through actions addressed to a group of direct beneficiaries that includes teachers of the schools involved, key staff of the private partners and students between 16 and 18 as well as to a wider network of stakeholders composed of families, decision-makers, relevant communities and private companies. All these subjects will be actively involved in transnational exchanges, specific learning sessions, thematic dissemination events and of general interest, production of work tools and teaching materials through the use of ICT (curriculum, e-course, e-books and toolkit). The subjects involved will be not only users of the project actions, but also actors participating in the activities implementation also through tools and methods supporting mutual exchanges, based on free platforms and social networking. Another strength of the project is the presence of a permanent group of people that will be dedicated to the activities and results follow-up that will check the achievement of project objectives and the highest possible capitalization of the investment in human and financial resources that the partners will undertake through this action inside their organizations and on the relevant territory. The follow up group will guarantee the promotion of the project results, mainly consisting in disseminating learning policies, methodologies and tools as well as the sustainability of its internal and external impacts. The latter can be summarized in a real organizational change in formal and informal learning environments and in the technical, methodological and relational management of teaching.
The LeGoP project originated with the aim of promoting the inclusion of students with Special Educational Needs by introducing an adaptive teaching and learning tools based on innovative technologies, as well as with the aim of identifying, preventing and counteracting negative behaviors against LGBT people. It is appropriate to mention two areas in special learning policy : the use of ICT technologies adapted for inclusion and the development of prevention of discrimination particularly against special educational needs and sexual orientation. Elpendù (Mola di Bari) is a consortium with experience in the field of social-work training and the inclusion of people with special needs. Axular LIZEOA in Donostia, Basque Country, is a school that originated from the commitment of a parents' cooperative society; Axular offers complete educational services from 2 to 18 years of age, and it is deeply rooted in the Basque culture while at the same time being open to Europe and to the world. Gureak - Donostia – in the Basque Country. It is a specialized institution for inclusive technologies, a special employment centre, a non-profit organization, it is organized in several specialized fields such as training in different areas for the disabled, design and provision of career paths for people with disabilities. GALE (Global Alliance for LGBT Education), in the Netherlands, is a foundation that promotes the full integration of disadvantaged people discriminated because of their sexual orientation, and it works with schools in activities against homophobia. • PROJECT COORDINATION (M - Transnational Meetings) • LEARNING ACTIVITIES aimed at students and the staff (C) • PROCESSING AND TESTING OF INTELLECTUAL OUTPUT (O) About the TOOLKIT- processed by Elpendù: (O4) it was the product of the contributions of all partners. The document is available on the project website (www.legop.tk) and the websites of Liceo Salvemini, www.liceosalvemini.it, Lizeoa Axular www.axular.net, on the GALE site http: //www.lgbt-education. info / index, the Elpendù site www.elpendu.it and Gureak. In addition to the events relating to "Multiplier Events" planned in the project, namely the "Simposyum" held in Amstedam on 19th November , 2015 (E1), the "Road Show" held in St. Sebastian on 18th March, 2016 (E2) and the final event (E3) carried out in Bari on 16th and 17th June 2016, the following activities were also carried out: Conferences and press releases, newsletters, press reports broadcast on regional TV, workshops on the situation of LGBT people in educational institutions (held on 16th June, 2016 at Liceo Salvemini) coordinated by the Director of GALE Peter Dankmeijer, road shows in city centres (16th June, 2016 in via Venezia from 18.00 to 22.00) (this was part of E3), blog discussions EFFECTS LICEO SALVEMINI Increase in the awareness regarding the issues of the project, in the first place consciousness about responses to homophobia, homophobic bullying and cyberbullying: Implementation of the Annual Plan for Inclusion and great attention to students with Special Educational Needs Great commitment for the teachers to update teaching workshop, inclusive teaching and the use of adaptive technology. Axular LIZEOA Sharing innovative teaching methods based on the implementation of flexible learning environments with the introduction of advanced technologies, Knowledge of different educational models adopted by different European partner countries. Prevention and suppression of negative behaviors (28/06/2011 Council of the EU recommendations). GALE GALE was able to develop an e-course for teachers; although they had been working for years on teacher competence to oppose homophobia, there had never been the possibility to create an online course. Surely this is a new opportunity to reach more teachers. The collaboration with Axular Gureak increased online working skills. GUREAK Development of a training product for teachers and trainers (Curriculum – O1) in the use of new technologies to promote the inclusion of people with disability. ELPENDU' Implementing a series of changes to the topic of contrasting homophobia compared to the subject of inclusive technologies. All innovations and products output in LEGOP project have already been introduced in the technical offers by the Consortium. The Intellectual output O1 and O3 will play an important role in the training and professional development of teachers.