The META final conference “Reducing Disparities in the European Education System. Challenges of generative education as strategic vision for European Humanism” took place at the European Economic and Social Committee of the EU in Rue Balliard, Brussels.
New META workshops in Berlin
Thanks to an active intervention of Italian partners, many artists, teachers and social workers in Berlin now know much more about MINORITY EDUCATION TROUGH ARTS and development of intercultural competences for talent's exploitation.
More than 350 researchers and education activists from Europe, America and Asia-Pacific took part in the 3 days 42nd Annual ATEE Conference ‘Changing Perspectives and Approaches in Contemporary Teaching’ held at Hotel Dubrovnik Palace from 23 to 25 October 2017.
On the 27th of November META project was presented in the International meeting “From body awareness to creativity: a journey to inclusion” in Rome, to a public of more than 70 teachers coming from all over Italy and 15 European countries.
Read more: META presented at the OTIS/SCIE International Conference in Roma
ERIO is organising within the project Early Marriage Prevention Network the "Conference Professionals, Parents and Children Combating Early Marriages in Roma Communities".
Prior to the advocacy training, Dr. Ivan Ivanoe held a lecture on EU anti-discrimination law based on the "Racial Equality Directive" with PhD students of the Department of Education and Psychology of the University of Firenze.
29 to 31 October in Catania was held the Festival of Youth Orchestras in Italy. 400 boys and girls have driven with their music and their energy the historical center of the city.
On 29 September 2016, ERIO attended a national Roma platform meeting organised by the Belgian National Roma Contact Point in Brussels. The topic of the meeting was Roma’s access to education.
Read more: The META project discussed at the Belgian National Roma Platform meeting
On September 22, the META project is presented as a good practice within a specific workshop of the Conference "Citizenship: a new ethic for the 21st Century - The contribution of eTwinning", to be held in Florence on 21 to 23 September 2016, organized by E-Twinning Italy / INDIRE, in collaboration with E-Twinning European Central Support / EUN.
On 30th of June UNIFI Department of Education and Psychology organized an international conference on Adult Education in collaboration with the University of Seoul.
Read more: International Conference on Adult Education: META as an interesting case study
On 20 June 2016, ERIO organised an advocacy roundtable in Ghent, Belgium. The roundtable was organised as part of the META project which aims to advance the eradication of barriers that cause inequity in European education systems, in particular those of children from an ethnic minorities or with a migrant background.
Read more: The first META Advocacy Round Table in Ghent, Belgium
Marianne Poncelet Executive Vice President of the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation has been selected as key player and representative of creative practices and invited by the Unit Education and Youth Policy Analysis to participate at a working group organized in Brussels.
Read more: Working group at the Executive Agency for Education, Audiovisual and Culture
Marianne Poncelet Executive Vice President of the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation has been selected and has participated to the brainstorming session organized in Barcelona in occasion of the structured dialogue between the European Commission and the cultural sector promoted by “The Voices of Culture”.
On 10 June, Cinzia Laurelli- European Project coordinator -at the IYMF has participated to the conference “Strengthening Roma’s political participation organized by ERIO in partnership with the European Economic and Social Committee organized in Brussels.
Following the advocacy round table on 10 the of June, in the afternoon UNIFI staff took advantage of the presence of MUS-E supporters, educators and artists to re-open the dialogue on methodology of evaluation started some months ago at the beginning of the project.
Organized by Erasmus KA3 META partnership, the first META Advocacy Round Table took place last 10th of June 2016, from 10 to 14 hours, at the Department of Education and Psychology of the University of Firenze, with the participation of over 30 people coming from the most diverse backgrounds.
Read more: The first META Advocacy Round Table in Florence: advocating for change in education
An intensive debate on obstacles which deny children and youngsters with different migrant backgrounds access to cultural education and to equal educational opportunities.
The Round Table took place at the Pfefferberg in Berlin. The meeting was organized by Pfefferwerk Foundation as the first part of the META Advocacy Activities in Berlin/Germany and moderated by Guillermo Ruiz from Sozialfabrik e.V. (Berlin).
On 27th of May UNIFI staff had the change to present the META KA3 project to Erasmus National Agency in Firenze, in particular to Ms Donatella Nucci, responsibile of the E-twinning programme for Italy.
Read more: Presentation of META to Erasmus Plus National Agengy in Italy INDIRE
Marianne Poncelet Executive Vice-President of the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation has been invited to participate as speaker to the public hearing organized by the CULT Committee of the European Parliament.