CSIE’s contribution to the IMAS II project (IMproving ASsistance in inclusive educational settings II), took us to Portugal last week. Project partners met in Coimbra on 6 and 7 May to discuss progress on the development of five online “knowledge boxes”. We then moved to picturesque Lousã, home of project partner ARCIL and were joined by learning supporters from Austria, Bulgaria, Portugal, Slovakia and the UK (all participating countries in this project). For the next three days we immersed ourselves in the content of the knowledge boxes on behaviour and on communication, visited a local school and shared our collective reflections on the whole event.

The IMAS II project is a two-year project funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union (2018-1-AT01-KA202-039302). The project was launched in October 2018 at the University of Graz, Austria, home of the lead partner. It seeks to support and strengthen the development of learning support assistants’ competencies for inclusive practice, in ways which are consistent with the requirements of Article 24 (Education) of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. CSIE is one of nine project partners from six European countries. For more information please see the project newsletter.

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