Last June, Inclusion Europe member FEAPS asked families of people with intellectual disabilities to share their experiences regarding education and discuss relevant proposals to improve inclusive education in Madrid.
Inclusion Europe has partnered with its Portuguese national member Fenacerci to run an engaging event that will address Inclusive Education and the role of families in the promotion and implementation of an inclusive school.
“Inclusive Schools” (called “InScool”, in short)
is a project that wants to support inclusive education in Europe.
Inclusion Europe had an interview with one of the organisers
to learn more about the project.
In many countries in Central and Eastern Europe, children with disabilities and Roma children are still placed in the segregated classrooms and schools receiving inferior education. Mental Disability Advocacy Centre (MDAC) and European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) called for inclusive education for all children on the occasion of International Students’ Day on 18 November.
Thérèse Kempeneers-Foulon, Director of Inclusion Belgium and Vice-President of the Belgian Disability Forum, has met Nils Muiznieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights during his country visit to Belgium last month.
570 pupils, almost half of them with special educational needs, learn together at the "Protestant school complex ‘Martinschule’" in Greifswald (Germany). We spoke to Benjamin Skladny, headmaster of the Martinschule since its beginnings.