LEONARDO DA VINCI Partnerships

Project“Creation of the Ideal Model of Vocational Counselling for Children and Youth with

Special Educational Needs”2010.08.01 – 2012.07.31

PartnersPartnersFinland

Germany

Lithuania

Sweden

France

Italy

Poland

The aim of the partnership

The aim of the partnership – through the project activities, evaluating positive experience of each institution and its country, to conceptualize essential categories that guarantee the success of vocational counselling (VC) for children and youth having special educational needs (SEN), reveal their contents, expression and create the ideal model of VC for the aforementioned group and the strategy of specialists’ qualification corresponding to the priorities of common policy of vocational training in the EU.

Project objectives

1. To perform special investigation on the situation of vocational counseling for pupils having SEN in each partner country, providing consultations for pupils and helping them to decide about their vocational career.

Project objectives

2. To analyze the situations of vocational counseling of each organization and their countries, to evaluate the achievements in the general context of the EU policy of vocational counseling.

Project objectives

3. To perform the comparative analysis of practically realized models of vocational counseling for pupils having SEN in each country.

Project objectives

4. To create the model of vocational counselling for the aforementioned group of persons, prepare in-service programs for specialists and recommendations for the institutions and the systems of education of their countries.

Project objectives

5. To perform the dissemination of project achievements in partner countries creating active project website, scientific study, the film promoting the ideas of the project, performing in-service training programs and final conferences.

Project objectives

6. To prepare for further collaboration orienting towards the project of the Transfer of Innovations in future.

Activities for all partners Organization of the mobility meetings. Managing the performance of the research of the situations of

vocational counselling (VC) of own country. Preparation of the report on the situations of VC of own country. Performing of the comparative analysis with the VC systems of

other countries. Vocational counselling of persons having SEN (at least 10 pupils). Participation in video conferences to discuss the process of the

project, the quality of activities, report on the situations of vocational counselling in every partner and preparation for the next mobility meeting.

Organization of final conferences in each partner country. Preparation of the reports for National Leonardo agencies.

Distribution of other activities and tasks

Activity Planned country Agreed country

Creation of the research methods Lithuania

Creation of the website of the project

Latvia

Preparation of the ideal model of VC

France and United Kingdom

Preliminary preparation of the recommendations for education system

Latvia

Preparation of the scientific study Lithuania

Publishing of the scientific study Lithuania

Creation of the film promoting the ideas of the project

Sweden

Creation of in-service programs for specialists’ working in the area of VC

Finland

Constant maintenance of the website

Italy

Creation of the instruments to evaluate the quality of the project

Germany and Poland

Mobility meetings

Destination country Date of planned meeting

Agreed date of meeting

Lithuania 2010 11 10 2010 10 25-30

Germany 2011 01 18

Italy 2011 04 05

Sweden 2011 09 13

France 2011 10 28

Poland 2011 12 06

Finland 2012 01 28

Italy 2012 05 08

Sweden 2012 06 26

Partcipants

Participating organisationParticipating organisation

Total Total number of number of

pupils/lernerpupils/lerners/s/

trainees trainees

Number of Number of teachers/traiteachers/trai

ners/staff ners/staff

Total of Total of participanparticipan

ts ts

Šiauliai university 50 35 85

Keskuspuiston ammattiopisto 20 10 30

Riksgymnasiet-The National Upper Secondary School specially adopted for the needs of physically disabled students

10 12 22

Krajowe Towarzystwo Autyzmu Oddzial Krakow

4 15 19

Stiftung St.Zeno Berufsbildungswerk Kirchseeon

40 8 48

Istituto Internazionale per lo Studio dei Problemi della Gioventu Contemporanea

3 1 4

National Higher Institute for Training and Research for the Education of YoungDisabled Persons and Adapted Teaching (INS HEA)

3 2 5

Requested EU funding

Participating organisationParticipating organisation

Partnership type

No, of planned outgoing mobilities(pupils/

learners/trainees)

No. of planned outgoing mobilities

(staff - including accompanying

persons)

Total no, of

planned outgoing mobilitie

s

Šiauliai university LEO-24M 0 24 24

Keskuspuiston ammattiopisto LEO-12M 4 8 12

Riksgymnasiet-The National Upper Secondary School specially adopted for the needs of physically disabled students.

LEO-12M 0 12 12

Krajowe Towarzystwo Autyzmu Oddzial Krakow

LEO-24M 4 20 24

Stiftung St.Zeno Berufsbildungswerk Kirchseeon

LEO-24M 4 20 24

Istituto Internazionale per lo Studio dei Problemi della Gioventu Contemporanea

LEO-12M 3 9 12

National Higher Institute for Training and Research for the Education of Young Disabled Persons and Adapted Teaching (INS HEA)

LEO-12M 0 12 12

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