Activities and Methodology

Activities

Based upon research about how to promote students’ social participation, the FRIEND-SHIP project develops a 6-week intervention programme for teachers and students in primary and secondary schools to improve social participation. The intervention programme contains activities that help to develop the students’ ability to recognize and deal with feelings, to enhance their self-awareness, their understanding of inclusion and diversity, as well as their social-emotional skills and friendship relations. The FRIEND-SHIP project will collect comparable data on the effects of the intervention programme in AT, DE, EL and PT.

  • IO1 “Improving students’ social participation” – comparative programme analysis
  • IO2 “FRIEND-SHIP Identification tool” as OER tool
  • IO3 “FRIEND-SHIP Intervention Programme and Evaluation” in schools with a duration of 6 weeks per intervention with 40 teachers and 400-600 students in total
  • IO4 “FRIEND-SHIP Handbook for educators” as a brief and teacher-relevant instruction manual how to use the programme incl. instruction sheets

Methodology

  • Preparation phase (IO 1 and IO2): In the preparation phase, the consortium undertakes a comparative desk research on already conducted programmes of social participation in schools in a comparative European perspective and summarizes this in a report (IO1). The electronic identification tool (IO2) will be programmed to fit the target user group of school teachers. In addition, the transnational E2 Teacher Training takes place.
  • Implementation phase in schools (IO3): The electronic Identification Tool (IO2) and the FRIEND-SHIP intervention programme (IO3) will be implemented for the first time in 6-week periods in all associated partner schools and are evaluated in parallel.
  • Handbook phase (IO4): Finally, the consortium summarizes the results in a brief and teacher-relevant way in order to show schoolteachers across Europe, how to use the programme and promote social ties in class.