Today, within the framework of the project CISI, meeting with partner organizations, members of the faculty board of Educational Sciences, Telavi partner public schools and other interested parties was organized at Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University. Presentation covered the activities and future work provided under the project.

As it was mentioned during the meeting selection of partner schools in the target regions and consolidation   of  cooperation with them is quite essential for both the courses developed within the university program and special education teacher certification program as well. Intensive work of the project foreign partners is planned to be fulfilled with the selected schoolteachers.

At this stage, new courses are already prepared for the local project partner universities, as follows: Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University and Akaki Tsereteli State University. The new courses are mainly provided for Teacher Training Program with 300 ECTS credits. Working process for the Special Education Teacher Certification Program is already begun.

Erasmus+ programme supported project “Curriculum Innovation for Social Inclusion (CISI)” is being implemented at Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University that is coordinated by Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. The abovementioned project aims at promoting social inclusion of PwDs (Persons with Disabilities) at schools through the inclusive education quality enhancement. The goal of the project is also to improve professional qualification of pre and in-service teachers in regard with the  inclusive education. For that purpose, new courses for university programs and Special Education Teacher Training Certification Program are being developed within the framework of the abovementioned project.