In this context, the overall aim of the project has been to bring together a team of European education stakeholders to contribute to fostering inclusion in European schools by improving teachers' skills to integrate more inclusive teaching programmes in their schools and wider communities. Specific objectives - To explore the synergies between a competence-based learning model through the Service-Learning (S-L) methodology that integrates Universal Design for Learning (UDL). - Design, develop and share teaching programmes based on ApS methodologies to enrich the capacity of teachers and schools to integrate inclusive practices. - Develop a good practice guide for inclusion by collecting the results of good teaching practices and programmes implemented by schools. - Collect ICT tools for inclusion in order to create a Toolkit for teachers and schools to promote inclusion. - Create a user-friendly application that facilitates teachers to design inclusive teaching proposals (S-L projects) including the principles, guidelines and checkpoints of the UDL.
Inclusion is a global challenge for education. Supranational bodies and institutions are calling for inclusive education as a global challenge. The 2030 Agenda makes explicit in SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, Article 24 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities recognises the right of persons with disabilities to inclusive and quality education, and the Equality Union Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030, where the European Commission urges Member States to ‘support the development of inclusive schools that can become a reference in inclusive and innovative teaching and learning across the EU’. It is in this context that our project makes sense. The literature review has shown that teachers are key to moving towards inclusive education, being the protagonists of our project. Teacher trainings to promote their competences in designing inclusive curricula boost the capacity of schools to achieve these goals.