Project "Innovation and good practices in education" This is our third project proposal and we have fully complied with the recommendations of the Evaluation Committee.According to a preliminary study of AYPB in Bulgaria,Romania,Greece,UK,Austria and Spain there are no developed student's screening diagnostic programs and ICT instruments used school psychologists and advisers. There isn't any developed toolkit with set of methodologies,criteria and standards for their job.Objectives of the project:1.Promote equality, inclusion and to improve the quality in education,training for all,and to prevent early school leaving and encourage the participation of disadvantaged groups in society2.Improving the quality and relevance of the services in the field of education,training and youth,through the development of innovative approaches and disseminating good practice3.Improve the capacity of organizations working in the field of education, training and youth,particularly in the areas of strategic development,organizational management,quality of training,internationalization,equity and inclusion,quality and targeted activities for specific groups4.Promoting personal and professional development, entrepreneurship,education, developing active citizenship,higher employment and initiating business ventures,support for career development and guidance in accordance with the5.Increasing participation in learning and employment through the development of service quality career guidance and counseling6.Promote the professional development of staff and youth workers in ICT methodologies and support the development and use of open educational resources in various European languagesProject Duration-14months.Project partners:Bulgaria- professional NGO,Romania-school,Greece-school Main target group-School psychologists/pedagogical advisors, teachers. Supporting target group is composed of 500 students from Bulgaria,Romania,Greece.Planning activities: 1.Project management and implementation(A1) 2.Transnational project meetings(M)/3 meetings in every partner countries/ 3.Intellectual outputs(O)3.1.Research, analysis and transfer of best practices(O1)-Research and analysis of programs and tools aimed at combating social exclusion and early school leaving -Research and analysis of the experience in other Member States of existing criteria, standards, programs and tools for school psychologists and pedagogical councilors -Study of the EU approaches and methods that identify individual requirements and needs in order to promote their active participation in the learning process by establishing cooperation with organizations from other Member States 3.2. Development of manuals and guidelines(O2) Development of manuals and guidelines how to work after diagnostic for: -school psychologists with practical advice and guidance -school advisors with practical advice and guidance to work after receiving diagnostic results -teachers with practical advice and guidance to work after receiving diagnostic results 3.3 Innovative methodology for screening and diagnostic testing of students (O3)Development,testing and applying of innovative practices. Creating screening diagnosis methodology. Languages-Bulgarian,English,Romanian,Greek with option to add more languages.Creation of on line group and network for exchange of school good practices, data base, data source Interactive Resource. Registration of Specialists. Free use of a database of materials,handbooks,manuals. Feedback and an opportunity to discuss specific cases with other professionals. The methodology will be innovative for EU, design and key tools for professionals in school aria. This instrument will minimize the time and will maximize the effective of the school screening and early diagnostic of the basic risk of drop out of the students. In national use will give fast, actual statistic and detailed information of the students in risk to the school education decision makers -local, regional and national level. 4.Multiplier events(E1,2,3) Seminars for sharing and dissemination of projects results and products-10 seminars. The seminars will be in open door and there will attend total 200 local participants and 10 international participants- local,regional,national organizations,advisors,psychologysts and teachers.Key outcome indicators for the project proposal are:1.Number of registered professionals in the group - a minimum of 12 specialists 2.Quantity diagnosed students - screening diagnostic of minimum of 500 students, after test launch of the innovative methodology 3.Number of seminars for the entire period of the project proposal-10 seminars.
• Context/background of the project; The project was created because of the need legal framework, clear criteria and methodology and instruments for the work of school psychologists and pedagogical counselors. There was a lack of such functional structure created problems with communication between professionals in the field, problems with early school leaving and difficult diagnosis. Part of the work of school psychologists and school advisers is early diagnosis of social and behavioral disorders, because of those reasons the project was developed and conducted. • Objectives; The main objectives of the project were to prevent early school leaving, also to improve the quality and relevance of the services in the field of education with the help of innovative approaches. The project was oriented to promote equality, social inclusion and entrepreneurship education to improve employment and initiate business ventures. With all the activities the project was aimed to promote professional development of school psychologists and pedagogical counselors and to enhance their competences, which affected to the students. • Number and profile of participating organisations; The partner organizations were two, one from Greece, which name is Greek Bulgarian Association of Cultural “Paisiy Chilendarski” and one partner from Romania Association “Pakiv“. The Greek partner organization is a Sunday school located in Athens and its activity is education on Bulgarian language, history and geography for Bulgarian citizens, living in Greece. The Romanian partner organization is a non-profit organization, which is aimed in social inclusion and battling the discrimination based on ethnicity. • Description of undertaken main activities; The main activities were the project management and implementation, which meant planning, monitoring, controlling and dividing responsibilities, also the activity of transitional project meeting which was for discussing project goals, activities, and problems along the way. Other activity was every organization to create an intellectual output or reports and researches for its own country practices, politics in the field of school psychologists and councilors, also to develop a questionnaire and a survey. Manuals, guidelines and methodologies were created to improve the work of school psychologist and pedagogical councilors as part of this activity, as well as conducting Multiplier events which were training, seminars for sharing the project’s results and products. • Results and impact attained Attained results were the created manuals, researches and methodologies which could be used from anyone interested for free, because they are published on online platform. 10 seminars were conducted with different organizations, experts from local municipalities, teachers, psychologist and school advisers. It was also conducted a survey with students from Bulgaria, Romania and Greece which were held a package of diagnostics for indicating any errors in the methodology. Another attained result is the conducting of the transnational project meetings in Bulgaria, Romania and Greece. • If relevant, longer-term benefits. The long-term benefit of this project is the methodologies, manuals and guidelines published on online platform , which can be accessed for free from anyone interested, it contains practical advises for school psychologists and school advisers for diagnosing and working with students in risk.