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This document presents five relevant messages presented by the Agency and debated in groups during the International Conference on ‘Inclusive Education in Europe: Putting Theory into Practice’ in November 2013. Participants were invited to contribute to and debate these five key messages:
This multilingual glossary is a collection of terms in 22 languages containing key words and expressions from Agency thematic and project work. The Agency prepared this fourth edition of the glossary in collaboration with the Agency Representative Board members, National Co-ordinators and thematic project experts.
A monolingual glossary (in English) containing definitions of key terms from Agency projects is also available.
The International Conference on ‘Inclusive Education in Europe: Putting Theory into Practice’ (Brussels, November 2013) involved decision-makers, researchers, practitioners, people with disabilities and their families. The messages and statements provided by the stakeholders at this conference are available in the First Results from the International Conference report.
This document provides a brief synthesis of 28 country reports regarding policies and practices in the area of vocational education and training (VET) in the field of special needs and inclusive education. It is based on information and data collected through a questionnaire that country experts completed for the Agency project on Vocational Education and Training: Policy and Practice in the field of Special Needs Education (2010–2012).
The Raising the Achievement of All Learners in Inclusive Education project aims to provide evidence of effective practice in raising achievement and building the capacity of schools and communities to include and support all learners. This work builds on the previous Raising Achievement for all Learners (RA4AL) Agency project.
The ICT4IAL project is a multi-disciplinary network of European and international partners that represent both learning and ICT communities aiming to raise awareness and increase the visibility of the issue of accessible information provision and its relevance for equitable lifelong learning opportunities and support accessible information provision within organisation.
This report on European Patterns of Successful Practice in Vocational Education and Training (VET) was developed as a result of a coherent and comprehensive analysis of 28 VET practices, examined in the course of the Vocational Education and Training: Policy and Practice in the field of Special Needs Education (VET) project.
This document critically reviews the literature on issues related to vocational education and training for learners with special educational needs. It covers two priority areas: the key factors that facilitate vocational educational and training for learners with special education needs, and the relationship with the labour market and key challenges.
This is a review of international research literature in the field of teacher education generally and teacher education for inclusion specifically. The review was developed with input from representatives of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Education and Culture, UNESCO International Bureau of Education and OECD-CERI. Most importantly, experts from 18 countries participating in the Agency project conducted a review of research information and this is also included in the review document.
The Agency's special needs education (SNE) data collection is a biennial exercise, with data provided by the Representatives of the Agency member countries. In all cases, this data is from official ministerial sources. All data refers to pupils officially identified as having special educational needs (SEN), as defined in the country in question. All the data presented in this document has been collected in line with each country’s own legal definition of SEN. These definitions are also provided in the texts.