University of Graz hosted ERASMUS + INCLUSION project consortium members for a two- day coordination meeting and workshop on March 12-13, 2019. The main aim of the meeting was to summarize the current progress of the project highlighting the gaps and activities to be implemented before the final conference.

The first day of the meeting started with a workshop on inclusive teaching and learning methodology. Consortium partners finalized Guideline on Inclusive Teaching and Learning Methodology and briefly represented the main points highlighted in the document. Armenian and Bosnian partners made presentations on the national guidelines for inclusive higher education and received feedback from the European colleagues for the further improvements. American University of Armenia, being responsible for WP4, represented draft of the toolkit for inclusive teaching and learning methodology for high school teachers.

Second day started with monitoring sessions with the partner universities. The main aim of the monitoring was to understand the progress achieved in addressing the challenges mentioned during the previous monitoring report and further activities the institutions plan to reach the goals of the project. The monitoring team discussed also the activities to be implemented by the institutions for ensuring sustainability of the project.

State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia, as a coordinating institution, conducted coordination meeting discussing project’s overall management, sustainability, quality control and monitoring, as well as  financial and technical issues. Coordination meeting ended with the discussion of the final conference to be held in September, 2019.

Armenian members of ERASMUS + funded INCLUSION project had a meeting on February 26 to discuss the main activities to be implemented before the coordination meeting and workshop to be held on March in Graz.

Consortium members looked through the initial variant of the agenda, made some comments and minor changes for the finalization of the agenda. The management team briefly represented the main aim for the 2-day event, which is to summarize the project’s progress, highlight the upcoming activities and set deadlines, and most importantly finalize Guideline for Teaching and Learning Methodology and National Guidelines/Recommendations for Inclusive Higher Education. Graz meeting will also focus on the discussion of toolkit, which aims at setting up inclusive teaching methodology for high school teachers.

During the event in Graz, the management team will carry out a coordination meeting discussing project’s financial and technical issues. After, second monitoring meeting will be held with the universities.

Discussion has been organised within INCLUSION project on developing toolkit for teaching and learning methodology. AUA hosted the colleagues from State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia, UNICEF, Teach for Armenia and Russian Slavonic University on January 29.

As a responsible for the development of toolkit, AUA representatives shortly introduced the project and the aim of the toolkit. The document should serve as a tool for high school teachers who work with students having special educational needs.

UNICEF and Teach for Armenia have experience in conducting trainings for school teachers. They shared their experience and highlighted the points that the toolkit should focus on to ensure the effectiveness of the document.

At the end of the discussion it was decided to have a meeting with the representatives from Ministry of Education and Science of RA to understand their opinion and perspective on the toolkit for teaching and learning methodology.

INCLUSION project consortium members from Bosnia and Herzegovina organised trainings at University of Travnik and Tuzla during December. The main aim of the trainings were to introduce the best practice for inclusive learning and teaching methodology to the Bosnian partners. The trainings were organised both for faculty and administrative members of the institutions.

The trainings started with a brief introduction of INCLUSION highlighting the goals, objectives and main outputs of the project. For the faculty the trainers represented the methods for designing inclusive curriculum and made presentations for inclusive classroom.

The trainings for administration were mainly focused on inclusive admission and outreach programs. Besides, productive discussions were organised on supporting services that the institutions provide to their students.