WG1 Education

The Network strategy states: "Each child should be supported according to his or her talents and receive an education which provides him / her fair chances in the future".

WG moderator:  City of Salzgitter, Germany

Senior Moderators: City of Tampere, Finland, City of Hamm, Germany

Participating cities: Athens (Greece), Hamm (Germany), Leverkusen (Germany), Manchester (Great Britain), Nuremberg (Germany), Panevezys (Lithuania), Offenbach (Germany), Pecs (Hungary), Riga (Latvia), Rijeka (Croatia), Salzgitter (Germany), Stuttgart (Germany), Tampere (Finland), Tartu (Estonia), Vilnius (Lithuania), Wiesbaden (Germany), Zurich (Switzerland), St. Helens (Great Britain)

Interested cities are further: Amadora (Portugal), Hildesheim (Germany), Naestved (Denmark), Berne (Switzerland), Dresden (Germany), Zabrze (Poland), Utrecht (The Netherlands)

Topics which have been identified by the WG:

• Involvement of minorities to garantuee equal oppportunities
• Improve transitions from kindergarten to school and among different types of schools
• Individual learning
• Evaluation (individual furtherance, strategic indicators)
• Entrepreneurial thinking
• Participation
• Transition from kindergarten to basic education
• Transition from basic to vocational education
• School violence

Meetings:

Next meeting: 8. - 10. September 2010 in Salzgitter, Germany

Online registration for the meeting in Salzgitter here

30 June 2009 in Stuttgart

Protocol of the meeting in Stuttgart 30 June 2009

22-24 April 2009 in Tampere

Program

Protocol of the meeting in Tampere 22-24 April 2009 

Presentations

 
Tampere: Flexible transition from kindergarten to basic education

Tampere: Flexible transition from basic to vocational education

Tampere: Flexible education in Tesoma School

Tampere: Security in the school environment - aspects of school violence

Tampere: The Finish success in PISA

 7 May 2008 in Stuttgart

Meeting protocol 7 May 2008 in Stuttgart

Summary of presentation by the WG moderator

24-26 February 2008 in Hamm

Meeting protocol 24-26 February 2008 in Hamm

Presentations

Nuremberg: Parents as teachers

Riga: Educational programmes in minority school in Riga

Tartu: Teaching Spanish-speaking children in secondary schools

Rijeka: The Italian-speaking minority in education

Manchester: UK resilience

Hamm: Plan education

Tampere: Transition from kindergarten to school and between different types of schools

You may find the good-practice examples which were submitted prior to the WG meeting in the project table