Awareness raising for the inclusion of the citizen with Trisomy 21 has been increasing slowly thanks to a series of measures and actions taken at national and European level. The European Parliament adopted a declaration on children with Down syndrome in 2012, encouraging the Commission, the Council and the Member States to contribute to their social inclusion through awareness-raising campaigns. The EU also pr...
#Uptake_ICT2life-cycle: digital literacy and inclusion to learners with disadvantaged background# was an Erasmus + project that aimed at enhancing digital literacy among adults with disadvantaged backgrounds. This project addressed the needs identified by previous studies from Eurostat, which in 2013 identified that one in every three Portuguese has never used the Internet. Being Portugal the fifth country with...
Supervisors’ leader role efficacy is essential to support PhD students in the transference of both research and transferable skills developed during their doctoral programs, into their future jobs. At the same time, these leader role efficacy competences will be translated into a more motivated and productive research team. Coaching will facilitate the leader role efficacy development of group leaders and super...
This work is being carried out in the context of the project ‘Starting Up – Accelerators of Entrepreneurship 4 Inclusion’ and it aims, among other things, at the development of an Entrepreneurship Training Course for Mentors and Pupils, following a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) approach. The target group of this MOOC is pupils with Intellectual and Developmental Difficulties (IDD pupils), as well as their m...
“We all have something to learn and something to share” is the motto of this project, through which we aim to assess the impact of a multilingual platform which combines and makes the most of the potentials of digital environments and favours inclusion, in the co-construction of knowledge in learning/practice, in employability, entrepreneurism and innovation. In this article we will introduce an ongoing project...