For several years, the vocational and technological high school ISSEC PIGIER in Toulouse, has been involved in various projects to fight against exclusion and discrimination. Always in the same spirit of openness to others, we now wish to work more on the inclusion of people with disabilities or disorders, visible or invisible, either physical, cognitive or relational.
The European colleagues we have met in previous projects are faced with the same problem as us, namely the need to improve the inclusion of people who are different so as to fight against discrimination of all kinds and to develop citizenship by changing the way we look at others.
At present, it is no longer enough to acquire professional skills in order to learn a trade. Developing relational skills, but also citizenship and acceptance of others in their differences, is essential, it is one of our objectives for all pupils and students. They must also develop their communication and language skills as well as their curiosity about innovation and what is being done in other countries. This project also aims at helping students who are failing at school or have learning difficulties to regain confidence in their potential, understand their difficulties and overcome them. To accompany them on this path, we aim to improve the didactic skills of the entire teaching team in order to provide teaching that is better adapted to the different types of disabilities.
We will carry out this project with five partners: the Paolo Savi Technical High School in Viterbo, Italy, specialising in communication, the Gheorghe Lazar General High School in Bucharest, Romania, a high school of excellence oriented towards artistic education, the Srecko Kosovel General and Technological High School in Sezana, Slovenia, and two Spanish high schools in Sant Joan d’Alacant: the Lloixa Technological High School and the El Somni, a Specialised Institute for young people with moderate cognitive abilities.