CSIE is proud to have been invited to contribute to a new European project on Improving Assistance in Inclusive Educational Settings (IMAS), which has secured funding from the Erasmus+ programme. The project was launched in Gleisdorf, Austria, last week and will run for one year.

The IMAS project is led by the Austrian organisation Chance B and, in addition to CSIE, is joined by: Agency Vision (Bulgaria), ARCIL (Portugal), EASPD (Belgium) and TENENET (Slovakia). Collectively, the partners will consider the range of support available to disabled pupils in schools, and explore how best to support the learning and development of disabled pupils in ways which are consistent with the requirements of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. For more information please see the press release.

Fifteen years on from CSIE’s national conferences in London and Manchester focusing on the role of learning supporters and inclusion, we are delighted to be part of this project and look forward to making a positive contribution to the way pupil support is organised in schools.