After winning an Innovative Practice Award in 2016, CSIE has regularly been invited to contribute to the Zero Project Conference in Vienna, including speaking on Inclusive Education in 2020 and the Policymaker Forum in 2024. The Zero Project is a global initiative working for disability equality and a world with zero barriers.

CSIE was invited to be the UK partner in the IMAS and IMAS II projects (2016-17 and 2018-21 respectively), seeking to improve assistance in inclusive educational settings, and worked alongside partners from Austria, Bulgaria, Portugal and Slovakia.

Both projects were funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union and produced valuable resources, including online training materials for learning supporters. More information is available at the project website.

CSIE was invited to contribute to the ELICIT-PLUS project (European Literacy and Citizenship Education, www.elicitplus.eu), funded with support from the European Commission. CSIE was invited as a strategic partner, to advise on matters of equality, diversity and inclusion, and worked alongside 25 partners from 12 countries from 2014 until 2017.

At the end of the project, we produced succinct guidelines for course organisers on delivering inclusive training, which distilled all the recommendations we had offered during the course of this project.

The Index for Inclusion: developing learning and participation in schools (Booth and Ainscow 2000, 2002, 2011), was originally created by CSIE for schools in England, but soon it became a worldwide resource. Educators, researchers and policy-makers across the globe have asked CSIE for permission to translate and use it in their own country. The Index has been translated into more than 40 languages, and is in use in more countries throughout the world.

New permission requests are still reaching CSIE (in 2025 from Bangladesh, California, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Philippines, and Uruguay). Other CSIE resources, such as Equality: Making It Happen and Social and Educational Justice have also been translated for use in Brazil, Peru, and Japan.

We have been invited to deliver training for educators, students and parents in many European countries including Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Turkey. We have also organised and hosted study visits to the UK from delegations of educators and policy-makers from Bangladesh, India (in collaboration with Willowtree Learning and World of Inclusion) and Kosovo (in collaboration with Save the Children).

We are also honoured to have been invited to present at conferences and other events not only throughout the UK and Europe, but also further afield for example in Abu Dhabi, Australia, India, Indonesia, New Zealand and the US.

Between 2004 and 2006, the (then) co-director of CSIE and CEO of the Alliance for Inclusive Education, contributed to the negotiations of the Ad Hoc Committee responsible for the drafting of Article 24 (Education) of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Extensive discussions took place in New York and online leading up to the adoption of the Convention in December 2006. Their experience is documented in “Inclusion or Choice? Securing the Right to Inclusive Education for All”, a chapter written by former CSIE co-director Belinda Shaw, for the book “Human Rights and Disability Advocacy”, edited by Maya Sabatello and Marianne Schulze and published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 2013.