European societies are going through a major crisis of values. This crisis, which too often results in " isolationist withdrawal ", makes it essential to develop cooperative working practices. The primary ambition of the project " Inclusive cooperation training system" (DICO +) is to help student-teachers and more experienced teachers to develop, in their classes, the implementation of innovative cooperative practices, aimed at promoting greater social inclusion and reducing school drop-out rates. International surveys, as well as the results of our pre-project survey conducted with a panel of teachers in the consortium countries, clearly highlight the need for training and resources on cooperative practices. Joint work at the European level will enable us to compare current approaches and practices in different systems in Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe. Following this sharing of practices, the consortium members will develop tools, as universal as possible, to support the development of initial and in-service training focused on cooperative practices. Student-teachers and experienced teachers constitute the target audience of Dico +. The aim of the project is to support teachers in the acquisition of skills enabling them to implement cooperative practices in their classes. It is also to promote cooperative practices through in-service training and lifelong learning for teachers. Dico + is aiming at the widest possible dissemination of these practices, which support children's development of the 21st century skills promoted by the European Union. The three main activities of the DICO + project will be: - the development of training resources for cooperative practices for teachers (I03) - the production of reference situations experimented and observed in class in the consortium countries and cross-analyzed during European seminars that will summarize these analyses (I02) - the construction of an open platform to host the resources produced, in the different languages of the partner countries (IO1). These activities will be supported by a strong consortium that includes universities, educational institutes, inspectorates-rectorates, a private company, located in 7 countries. The consortium comes from two strong European networks (ELOS and ELICIT +). The ESPE de Bretagne (France) will be the coordinator of the project, with the following partners: Inspectoratul Scolar Judetean Botosani (Romania), Autonomous Region of Aosta Valley, Faculty of Education and Culture (Italy), Interprimair (Netherlands), Neumann Janos Egyetem (Hungary), Lietuvos Edukologijos Universitetas (Lithuania), ESPE de Normandie (France) and Universidad de Cordoba (Spain). The project, which lasts 36 months, is based, for the experimentations, on a field composed of 70 schools (primary and secondary) and involving 1800 teachers. The students involved in the cooperative activities analyzed are 8 to 13 years old. This age group is indeed particularly receptive to innovative pedagogical practices, and particularly to peer-to-peer work. The DICO+ dissemination activities will be of various kinds: brochures, meetings, conferences in the different partner countries and writing of scientific articles in international journals.The wide dissemination of DICO + results, programmed in the local, regional and national institutions of the partner countries, will ensure a high impact of the project. The most important vector for the dissemination of the resources developed in this project is the free and sustainable access to the web platform.
European societies are currently going through a major crisis of values. This crisis, whose main effect is " inward-looking ", makes it essential to develop cooperative practices from the earliest age in order to encourage openness and inclusion of the younger generations. The first ambition of the "Inclusive Cooperation Devices" (DICO+) project is to help teachers - in initial and in-service training - to develop innovative cooperative practices in their classrooms, aiming at a greater social inclusion, which can contribute to the reduction of school drop-out. International surveys, as well as the results of the survey carried out by the consortium prior to the project among the teachers in their network, have clearly highlighted the need for training and resources on cooperative practices. Working together on a European scale allowed for a comparison of current approaches and practices in different school systems in Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe. This exchange of practices has enabled the consortium members to develop tools and resources, as universal as possible, which support the development of training in cooperative practices in initial and in-service teacher training. The target audience for DICO+ was trainee teachers and experienced teachers. The aim was to support new teachers in acquiring the skills they need to implement cooperative practices in their classrooms and to promote cooperative practices through in-service and lifelong training for teachers. Dico+ thus aims at the widest possible dissemination of these practices, which support children's development of the 21st century skills promoted by the European Union. The three main activities of the DICO+ project were: - the development of resources for training of teachers on cooperative practices (IO3) - the production of reference situations, based on experiments/observations in classrooms at national level and also during two European seminars synthesising these observations (IO2) - the construction of a public platform hosting the resources produced, in the different languages of the partner countries (IO1). To access the platform: http://pod.dicoplus.eu/ These activities have been carried out by a strong consortium that includes universities, education institutes, inspectorates-rectorates, a private company, located in 7 countries. The consortium is a product of two robust European networks (ELOS and ELICIT+). INSPE de Bretagne (France) was the project coordinator, with the following partners: Inspectoratul Scolar Judetean Botosani (Romania), Aosta Valley Autonomous Region, Assessorato di Educazione e Cultura (Italy), CEDIN-Interprimair (The Netherlands), Neumann Janos Egyetem (Hungary), Lietuvos Edukologijos Universitetas (Lithuania), INSPE de Normandie (France), and Universidad de Cordoba (Spain). The project, which lasted 36 months, was based on an experimental fieldwork consisting of about twenty schools (primary and secondary), with approximately thirty teachers involved. The pupils concerned by the cooperative activities analysed were aged between 8 and 13. This age group is indeed particularly receptive to innovative pedagogical practices, and especially to peer-to-peer work. Dissemination activities were of various kinds: training modules, conferences and scientific articles in international journals, dissemination in national and international education networks. The wide communication of DICO+ results to local, regional and national authorities in the partner countries has ensured the wide dissemination of the project. The first vector of dissemination of the resources developed in this project is the free and perennial access of the platform DICOpod. The main long-term benefits of this project are threefold: the development of didactic skills of student-teachers and more experienced teachers; the integration of the Lesson Study methodology in initial and in-service teacher training; the development of pupils' interpersonal skills fostered by cooperative learning situations leading to better inclusion of pupils with special needs.