Initial and continuing training for educators and education managers in the field of diversity

In continuing training, the target groups are teachers, education managers and representatives of authorities (municipality, city, social welfare office, migration service, etc.). The beneficiaries of these measures are children and young people with special needs, their parents, higher education institutions, heterogeneous organisations/companies, social welfare offices and migration services, and municipal authorities. Specific project objectives are cross-national networking (Germany, Finland, Italy, Austria, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus) and the international orientation of initial and continuing training offers, the modernisation of the curricula for the bachelor’s level with a pedagogical profile, the development of a curriculum for the master’s level, the development of modules for continuing training, international tandem supervision of doctoral theses on the topic of diversity, network building in local educational landscapes on inclusion, and the creation of an inclusive environment at higher education institutions. What is special about the project’s objective is the focus, within a holistic system of initial and continuing training, on diversity in its full breadth (in particular ability/impairment, giftedness, language, ethnic-cultural diversity, social milieu). Taking into account all facets of diversity in the sense of an intersectional perspective creates a need for educators who can deal competently and holistically with these differences.