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| SOCRATES is a European Education Programme that involves around 30 European countries. Its main objective is specifically that of building up a Europe of knowledge, thus providing a better response to the major challenges of this new century: to promote lifelong learning, encourage access to education for everybody, and help people acquire recognised qualifications and skills. |
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Within Socrates, COMENIUS focuses on the first phase of education, from pre-school and primary to secondary school, and it is addressed to all members of the education community in the broad sense – pupils, teachers, other education staff, but also local authorities, parents' associations, non-government organisations ...COMENIUS supports school partnerships, the individual mobility of teachers and student teachers, projects for the training of school education staff, and school education networks. It therefore aims to enhance the quality of teaching, strengthen its European dimension and promote language learning and mobility. COMENIUS also emphasises certain important issues: learning in a multi-cultural framework, which is the cornerstone of European citizenship, support for disadvantaged groups, countering under-achievement at school and preventing exclusion. |
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The Comenius Multilateral Projects aim at developing, promoting and spreading best educational practice, including new teaching methods and materials, developing or exchanging experience in information systems for learners, teachers or other education staff, and developing, promoting and publishing new teacher training courses or course content.
Members of this Project have already participated in previous Comenius projects, and more specifically projects dealing with school bullying (Novas-res COM.2.1, and school violence course COM 2.2), from a multidisciplinary perspective. Members are teachers, psychologists, a sociologist, and experts on mediation. Our previous experience and contacts provided the conditions needed to propose a new psycho-educational strategy as a response to teachers' needs. Within this context we applied for a Comenius 2.1 which allows us to create a course for teachers to provide a set of tools for dealing with behavioural problems and students' motivation. This is the legal and educational framework from which the GOLDEN5 project emerged, and it was started in motion in Stavanger, Norway, during a preparatory visit on January 2004. The project started on October 2004. |
