Budapest MIPIE Conference

The second MIPIE project conference was held on 10th and 11th March, 2011 in Budapest, Hungary.

The Conference was co-hosted by the European Agency for Development in Special Needs Education in co-operation with the Hungarian Ministry of National Resources, State Secretariat for Education. 

The conference was officially announced as an event held under the Hungarian Presidency of the European Union. 

This second conference linked to a priority for Hungarian education strategy - that of unequal access to educational provision and transforming segregated provision into inclusive settings.

The aim of this conference was to identify how the detailed information European policy makers need in order to map developments in the implementation of legislation and policy for inclusion identified in the first project conference in Brussels can be collected.

During the conference in Belgium, policy makers from the participating countries reflected upon their current information collection and current and future requirements – the ‘what’ of identifying and mapping developments towards inclusive education – and identified key issues, priorities and questions associated with such data collection. In the Budapest conference, the same policy maker as well as data collection specialists discussed ‘how’ this information could be collected.

Summaries of all of these sessions as well as an overview of country priorities for data collection and key messages for future work are presented in the Budapest Conference report.

The conference was attended by over 60 Participants.

The various inputs given during the conference Programme are available to download as pdf files in the section below. Please contact the Agency Secretariat (secretariat@european-agency.org) if you want to receive these files in a different format.

Conference Presentations

Opening Session

Welcome and introductions to the focus conference from:

Mr. Zoltán Gloviczki, Deputy Minister of State for Compulsory Education, Ministry of National Resources, Hungary

Mr. Jens Fischer-Kottenstede, European Commission Analysis and Studies unit, DG-EAC: From strategy to data needs on inclusive education 

Mr. Per Gunnvall, Chair of the European Agency 

An Overview of the MIPIE project, from the Project Team

Plenary inputs

Data collection in inclusive education, challenges and opportunities:

Ms. Lene Mejer, Eurostat and Thierry Huart, Sogeti Consultants: Challenges and opportunities for collecting data on inclusive education / special needs education

Ms. Verity Donnelly, European Agency for Development in Special Needs Education: Current debates impacting on data collection for inclusive education

Plenary Feedback Session

Feedback from country group discussions: Group 1, Group 2, Group 3 and Group 4

Mr. Serge Ebersold, Project Consultant: Reflections on emerging issues