On the one hand, we wanted to show that inclusion is possible and, on the other, to create valuable documentation that is useful for other organizations. The number of children with developmental delays, learning difficulties and behavioral problems has increased, especially since the pandemic, but the political response to this has tended to decrease, causing teachers and parents to despair. Teacher shortages, classes that are too large and hardly any further training opportunities in the area of inclusion. It's a downward spiral that we want to counteract. Through our project, we want to pass on our expertise and act as a model school by training our teachers and preparing them in the best possible way to deal with atypical children. We want to give these children and young people a protected space to develop and flourish.
Lila.school, has applied for this project to create an educational institution that will be an inclusive school for children and young people between the ages of 10 and 18 in Vienna. It is important to us to create a place where children with typical and atypical development are taught equally. We take the aspect of inclusion very seriously. Life Labs Education founds and runs this school and needs a competent partnership, which we have found in Hungary, as we have hardly any role models to fall back on in Austria. Together with NestingPlay, a company that provides high-quality education, especially for atypical children in inclusive classrooms, we are striving to become a model school. We work side by side from the beginning and benefit from the wealth of experience of methodological resources, materials and guidelines. In this way, we address the needs of parents who want children with hidden learning difficulties to be cared for in a loving, healthy learning environment. We make the knowledge we have acquired available to all interested educational institutions that are embarking on the path of inclusive education.