What is 'INDIE'?

Our 'Inclusion and Diversity in Education' project provides the opportunity to exchange ideas and develop best practice guidelines on building and developing diverse and inclusive schools by uniting policy makers in the field of education and inclusion, head teachers and young leaders from nine European countries.

As part of the project every participating country organises training seminars for around 50 pupils from selected schools. The pupils are potential future leaders averaging 15 years old and the training focuses on management skills, communication and team working skills.

In Portugal there are currently approximately 100 trained young leaders from the following five schools taking part in the project: D Francisco Manuel de Melo in Amadora, Dr António Carvalho de Figueiredo in Loures, José Estevão in Aveiro, EB da Apelação and EB do Cerco in Porto.

Partner institutions
Ministério da Educação – Direção-Geral de Inovação e Desenvolvimento Curricular (DGIDC)
Instituto Português da Juventude (IPJ)
Associação Portuguesa de Professores de Inglês (APPI)

Sponsors
Movijovem
Grupo Experimental de Intervenção Cultural

Events

Young Leader Training
Almada, 13-15 November 2008

INDIE moves into its second year and we are delighted to welcome the next generation of Young Leaders into the project. This batch of 57 young people will take part in 3 days of training in intercultural learning, teamwork and leadership. Training is being delivered by Olho Vivo at the IPJ Youth Hostel in Almada.

Inclusion and Diversity in Education Conference
Brussels, 27-29 February 2008

Five pupils from each participating country met in Brussels to draw up together a Charter on Inclusive Schools, outlining the challenges and questions they see in this field. Also present were policy makers and heads of schools from all countries involved to whom the Youth Charter was presented.

Young Leader Training
Lisbon, 22-26 January 2008

This first training week brought together 52 young leaders from the five participating schools and taught them to develop their ideas and express them to others as well as putting them into practice through the organisation of a project of their choice. Training was delivered by Aid Global at the IPJ Youth Hostel in Lisbon.

To find out more about the project visit
www.britishcouncil.org/indie

or contact
projects.enquiries@pt.britishcouncil.org
T 213 214 524