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project info
Start date: 1 October 2023
End date: 31 December 2027
funding
Fund: European Social Fund Plus (ESF+)
Total budget: 53 272 923,47 €
EU contribution: 43 960 816,45 € (82,52%)
programme
Programming period: 2021-2027
European Commission Topic
European Commission Topic

Building a coordinated system of specialist assistance based on Specialist Centres for Supporting Inclusive Education

The main objective of the project is to build a coordinated system of specialist assistance implemented by kindergartens, schools, special institutions for kindergartens and public schools in the field of working with groups of children, students with diverse educational and developmental needs. It will be implemented through: the development of a coordinating centre in the ORE (hereinafter referred to as the CK) and the provision of specialist support to kindergartens and schools through the establishment of Specialised Centres supporting Inclusive Education (hereinafter referred to as the SCW). The main result is the provision of specialist support through a network of 285 SCWs complementing the local resources of other educational institutions working for the child and the family. The development of the competences of directors, teachers and specialists and specialist support will be ensured, including the establishment of the rental of specialised equipment and the provision of advice on its use. The project takes action to develop inclusive education (hereinafter referred to as EW) and responds to the diagnosed needs of support for teachers of kindergartens and schools, which will ensure high quality of education for all students, taking into account the diversity of their educational and developmental needs, including those conditioned by disability. The project implements the Strategy for Responsible Development and the Strategy for Persons with Disabilities 2020-2030. By creating a support system for kindergarten and school teachers at the local level, access to professional facilities in the form of SCW will be ensured using the resources and potential of special institutions. This will contribute to ensuring appropriate development conditions in the school environment for an increasing group of children with disabilities, judgments on the need for education of specialists and immigrant pupils who enter the educational system. Support will take into account not only needs arising from disability, but also from any other differentiation, levelling the playing field and giving prospects for self-fulfilment, development of personal potential and opportunities, and a sense of dignity and self-worth. It will help teachers in additional activities related to the adequate and tailored to the needs of children and students organization of the didactic and educational process, integration of teams and cooperation with parents and individualization of work with each student in educational classes according to their developmental and educational needs and psychophysical capabilities. Use of specialist resources available in specialist institutions in the absence of such resources in general schools, e.g. psychologists, sociotherapists, neurologists, autism specialists, etc. (cf. report "Inclusive education in Poland") was proposed in the SCW model. In 2019-2023, as part of OP KED, ORE implemented projects in the field of EW directly related to the development of the SCW model, i.e.: ‘Development of the SCW model’ and ‘Pilot implementation of the SCW model’. The experience allowed to verify the assumptions made in the SCW model and to create in the ORE the human and organizational resources necessary for the implementation of a new project aimed at creating further Centers, taking into account the need for an integral approach to the education, upbringing and support of children and students, in the context of the diversity of their development and educational needs. It is not planned to create SCW as new institutions, but only to increase the scope of competences and tasks of kindergartens, schools and special institutions. Continuation of the description in Annex 1

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