The Pedagogical Institute (PI), of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth (MPSAN), participates as a Partner in the project: "Learning from the Extremes - LfE" (Grant Agreement no. LC01760255 / 101052266 LfE) in the framework of the European Programme "Pilot Projects and Preparatory Actions in the field of "Communications Networks, Content and Technology"- Preparatory Action - Increasing access to educational tools in areas and communities with low connectivity or access to technologies" (PPPA-2021-RemoteDigEdu).
The project has a duration of two years, from 01/02/2022 to 31/01/2024, and involves ten (10) European countries (Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Croatia, Croatia, Finland, Ireland, Bulgaria, Romania, Italy and Spain).
The Learning from the Extremes Project (https:/learningfromtheextremes.eu/) aims to address inequalities in access to digital education by strengthening inclusion and reducing the digital divide suffered by school communities in remote areas with low connectivity, limited or no access to devices and digital educational tools and content.
The specific objective of the project is to develop a strategy, which will include proposals on how to increase the digital accessibility of students and primary and secondary school units located in inaccessible and remote areas.
To this end, actions will be implemented by school units or networks of schools located in rural areas to implement and evaluate the most appropriate solutions to increase the accessibility of schools and pupils to digital educational tools and materials.
The Cyprus Pedagogical Institute participates as a partner in the project with the role of National Coordinator of the school units that would like to participate with an action plan in the pilot implementation of the project in Cyprus. The five most innovative actions will be funded depending on the Action Plan they propose (€10.000 - €16.000) and will be supported by educational proposals of an advisory nature and training, in order to support schools in developing innovative action plans that will contribute to digital transformation.
The selection of the participating schools will be made after the expression of interest by the schools themselves. The call for expressions of interest will be sent to schools around mid-May 2022. For this purpose, two online information meetings are planned to which schools located in or covering rural areas will be invited.
For further information, interested parties can contact the PI Officer Mrs. Theodora Kakouri at: kakouri.th@cyearn.pi.ac.cy or by phone: 22402313.
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The project is co-funded by the European Union.
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The project is co-funded by the European Union.
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