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The main objective of the project Promoting School Safety is twofold: to help teachers and other school education staff become better equipped to prevent violence in schools and to create a well tested procedure for dealing with critical incidents in order to promote quality for education.

The partnership is assembled to ensure a European dimension from different perspectives and realities, but with a common need to promote better learning and working environments by combating violent language and behaviour, open violence and sexual and racial harassment of any kind.

The specific aims of the project are: to train and sensitize teachers and other school staff in matters related to school safety; to work out plans and concrete methods to prevent and deal with violence in schools; to produce a European School Safety Kit (including questionnaires, workshop manuals and guides); and a European School Safety Policy.

The target groups include teachers and other school staff (including members of the school council).

INCLUSIVE - INterpersonal Clues for Understanding in Schools with Interculturally Valid Education, is a three year project aiming at promoting intercultural education in a broader sense or education in diversity or inclusive education.

The target groups are primary and secondary school teachers.

The objectives are:
1) to challenge exclusion (for high achievers especially)
2) to combat racism and demonstrate the principle of of advantage in diversity
3) to raise achievements and self-esteem of marginalised
4) to contribute to student-teachers' knowledge about ways to raise achievement

General introduction of inclusive strategies will be accompanied by publication of sample lessons, of self reflections and insights of teachers, and by case studies of selected children.

These outputs will be placed on a web site and collected in a special booklet accessible for Initial techer training at co-ordination institutions.

Countries involved in the project are CZ, ES, DK, GB.

The specific target group is the immigrant pupils between 14 and 16 years old who face problems of integration due to linguistic, cultural and religious differences.

The project is designed for three years and intends to carry out the following activities:

- Elaboration and realisation of a survey to single out the needs of immigrant pupils in secondary school.
- Creation of curricular materials on intercultural education.
- Implementation, evaluation and recreation of curricular materials.
- Translation and dissemination of the materials in the partner countries.
- In service-training courses on multiculturalism for teachers of the partner countries.

The general objective of the project OUTDOOR EDUCATION : authentic learning in the context of lanscapes is to use this knowlegde in developing a continuing course in outdoor education within the teacher training for European teachers.

The specific objectives of the project are: to view the scope of the outdoor and landscape environment as a learning environment, to train teachers to work thematically and inter-disciplinary in this context, to work in situations which can enhance self-confidence through outdoors which becomes the classroom and which replaces the textbooks, to see the outdoor classroom as a complement to the indoor environment, to know how children (and in particular childen with special needs and disabilities) relate to the environment and think about the environment.

This project will be a continuation of the main ideas resulting from an EU conference in Rimforsa (Sweden).

The project will result in in-service training tools and documents training papers and materials, seminars, exhibitions and magazines on website on the Internet: an interactive platform will be created during and after the running of the European inservice training to create a follow-up system.

The project hopes to raise the interest for the pedagogy of outdoor education by highlighting and sharing the historical/pedagogical roots of outdoor education as well as the research and empirical evidence of the health perspectives for motorical skills, concentration and personal growth.