“Boosting social inclusion through targeted action” is an international project that supports partnership initiative aimed at promoting innovation in social and financial education of children, their parents and teachers/professionals and exchange of experiences between participating partners. The project will improve the competencies of teachers working with target groups, while parents will be strongly involved in direct work with children. The project is focused on developing the competences of primary and secondary school children by implementing an innovative program of integrated social and financial education Aflatoun in three participating countries: Netherlands, Slovakia, and Serbia.
Social and financial education curriculum of this program – which should be a crucial part of education in the aftermath of COVID-19 – is built on principle that a person´s personal, social and economic lives are interconnected. Aflatoun motivates children to be active, self-motivated learners, eager to understand the world they live in so they become agents of change and reach their full potential.
Aflatoun starts activities with training of a group of trainers. Their task will then be to train other teachers/professionals. All these trained teachers/teaching professionals/youth workers will then carry out workshops in their schools/facilities with children, young people and parents involved.
Training of teachers
National training of teachers, teaching professionals and paraprofessionals was held in Belgrade from 5th to 8th December, 2022. Training hosted teachers, professional service workers, pedagogical assistants in elementary schools in Serbia, as well as NGO representatives. During the training, five core elements/pedagogical themes of Aflatoun program were presented: focusing on the method, content and communication with children and parents, especially from the socially disadvantaged communities (minority groups and Roma communities).
Training of trainers
National training of trainers “Boosting social inclusion through targeted action” was held in Belgrade from 5th to 15th October, 2022. Importance of this training is in preparation for implementing elements of Aflatoun method, with proper activities in social and financial education in formal and nonformal education of children.
Project results
The project involved 15 educational institutions from 3 countries - Slovakia, the Netherlands and Serbia. Thanks to the 45 workshops that were carried out, we managed to reach 120 children and 30 parents. We trained 15 trainers, 60 teachers and other professionals. We organised a round table in each of the participating countries and presented the project and its results at a joint conference.
Trainings
Workshops
Roundtables
Conference
We created a training manual on social and financial education (how to conduct trainings of trainers) and training manuals on social and financial education for teachers, pedagogical staff and professional staff in 4 language versions - English, Dutch, Slovak and Serbian.
Here you can find Manuals for Trainers.
Here you can find Manuals for Teachers.
We also prepared a material "Recommendations for policy makers", which is applicable at international and national level.
