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Description
The main objective of the 16-month project, implemented in bilateral partnership, is to develop an educational offer dedicated to foster care institutions, which are entities established to provide care, but also to support comprehensive development of their wards, in order to organise the process of their education as effectively as possible. As it results from the SWOT analysis prepared for the purposes of the project, institutional foster care institutions are not properly supported in initiating educational activities - in the area where the project is to be implemented there is no offer addressed directly to foster care.
The project will support
-9 foster carers in Rumia, 10 employees of the applicant - subject teachers working for 6 foster carers and 2 employees of the partner (participation in: 5-day training conducted by the partner from Norway, as well as dissemination workshops),
-25 PE teachers in Sopot, Gdynia and Gdańsk (participation in 4 dissemination workshops)
-11 pupils of the POW "Nasz Dom" in Rumia, who will be direct beneficiaries of the scaling of educational solutions,
50 pupils of the SHP in the Tri-city area, who will send their tutors for training.
The Partnership Team will develop scenarios for innovative classes dedicated to the pupils in foster care (e.g. entrepreneurship, mathematical competence, language skills, NVC), scale the solution at the Nasz Dom partner centre, and then, as part of dissemination, train the employees of other foster care entities.
In order to increase the impact of the project, a set of good educational practices will be developed in the form of manuals (the result of intellectual work), which will be disseminated in SHOs across the country (educational guidelines for foster carers), and a final conference is planned (65 foster carers).
The long-term benefit of the project is, above all, a change of the current state of affairs - premature leaving from education in care.
Summary of project results
The project was a 16-month cooperation partnership of 5 entities (4 from Poland and 1 from the Donor State - Norway), which was established in order to support the educational process for children and young people disadvantaged by being placed in the foster care system. The project was needed in the social sense, as it assumed providing support to young people with difficult access to education - due to their stay in foster care, economic, social and health barriers, as well as lack of family patterns in acquiring education.
For the purposes of the project, a thorough analysis of the need for socio-educational services was carried out, which showed that educational-care institutions (entities to which support was directed - both from the level of educators and pupils) need tools thanks to which the educational staff will be able to implement motivational-educational measures for their charges. It is therefore necessary to develop a comprehensive solution in the area of motivational-counselling (vocational guidance) and education in the area of shaping key competences (language, mathematics, economics). The combination of these two components will improve the situation of the pupils and, in the long term, their social reintegration.
In response to the above-mentioned problem, the partners developed 2 educational offers during the 16-month project:
- "Direction of independence" (an offer of vocational guidance to support the process of empowerment of alumni of care and educational institutions),
- "Child at the centre" (an offer to organise educational activities in the field of shaping linguistic and mathematical competences; shaping an entrepreneurial attitude and learning pro-ecological attitudes).
Both offers were scaled up in a group of 11 pupils of the "Nasz Dom" foster care centre in Rumia (workshops were conducted), and then catalogued in 2 publications, which are the intellectual results of the project.
In addition, the project included workshops for 25 foster care educators - 3 meetings during which the participants were introduced to the developed offers and publications, as well as a conference addressed to 65 employees of the social system to disseminate the results on a large scale.
The project also facilitated a 5-day intensive training course for 28 workers working with young people in foster care.
Summary of bilateral results
The involvement of a partner from the Donor Country - a Norwegian training company with many years of experience - Newschool As contributed to the following benefits:- the achievement of joint results in the form of the development of a publication entitled "Handbook of good practices in the field of subject education of alumni of institutional forms of foster care - CHILD IN THE CENTRE.", which was created thanks to the exchange of experience between the entities (the partner influenced the substantive content of the publication in the part concerning STEM education and shaping entrepreneurial attitudes),- organisation of high-quality educational activities in the form of an intensive training course led by the partner''s trainer, which contributed to increasing the knowledge and competencies of 28 employees working with children and young people in foster care (the partner provided content materials),- organisation of a conference attended by representatives of the transnational partner.Involvement of the Norwegian entity also influenced the visibility of the project (perception of the initiative as transnational, media interest and increased motivation of final beneficiaries).The partner was actively involved in all project activities - all project meetings (using digital tools - Zoom application), conference, training, development of publications, as well as consultation of problematic situations.The partners remain in good contact and plan to continue cooperation in the future - a training course for staff involved in the education of young people with migration/refugee experience (in Oslo) is planned.