MEPs, representatives from the European Commission – Directorate General for Research, representatives of Member State governments, social actors, researchers and scholars participated, on the 18th of November 2009, in a Conference at the European Parliament headquarters in Brussels.
The objective of this event was is to present and discuss the development of policies that enable successful actions for the benefit of schools and educational actors in Europe. These policies were explored within the INCLUD-ED research project and represent new knowledge for policy evidence.
It was generally accepted that family and community participation in the educational process is having a great impact on student achievement and on coexistence between children and their relatives from diverse cultures. The research undertaken in the INCLUD-ED project found scientific evidence that not alltypes of family and community participation lead to school success. The most successful type is family education, which includes both education for relatives at the school and family participation in children’s learning at home and inside the schools.
The event was opened by Mr. Peteris Zilgalvis, the Head of Unit in DG. Research, European Commission, and by the main researcher of the INCLUD-ED project, Dr. Ramón Flecha. The Europarlamentarians Simon Bussutil and Oriol Junqueras participated in the round tables, and they stated their firm predisposition to promote policies in the European parliament based on the results of the INCLUD-ED project. The General Secretary for the European Women’s Lobby, Myria Vassiliadou, and Angelos Agalianos, from the Directorate General for Education and Culture in the European Commission also publicly stated their support for the INCLUD-ED project due to the social and political impact which its results are already obtaining, based on the analysis of successful educational actions.
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