1. LEONARDO DA VINCI Partnerships Project “Creation of the Ideal Model of Vocational Counselling for Children and Youth with Special Educational Needs” 2010.08.01 – 2012.07.31

2. Partners Finland Germany Lithuania Sweden France Italy Poland

3. The aim of the partnership The aim of the partnership – through the project activities, evaluating positive experience of each institution and its country, to conceptualize essential categories that guarantee the success of vocational counselling (VC) for children and youth having special educational needs (SEN), reveal their contents, expression and create the ideal model of VC for the aforementioned group and the strategy of specialists’ qualification corresponding to the priorities of common policy of vocational training in the EU.

4. Project objectives 1. To perform special investigation on the situation of vocational counseling for pupils having SEN in each partner country, providing consultations for pupils and helping them to decide about their vocational career.

5. Project objectives 2. To analyze the situations of vocational counseling of each organization and their countries, to evaluate the achievements in the general context of the EU policy of vocational counseling.

6. Project objectives 3. To perform the comparative analysis of practically realized models of vocational counseling for pupils having SEN in each country.

7. Project objectives 4. To create the model of vocational counselling for the aforementioned group of persons, prepare in-service programs for specialists and recommendations for the institutions and the systems of education of their countries.

8. Project objectives 5. To perform the dissemination of project achievements in partner countries creating active project website, scientific study, the film promoting the ideas of the project, performing in- service training programs and final conferences.

9. Project objectives 6. To prepare for further collaboration orienting towards the project of the Transfer of Innovations in future.

10. Activities for all partners  Organization of the mobility meetings.  Managing the performance of the research of the situations of vocational counselling (VC) of own country.  Preparation of the report on the situations of VC of own country.  Performing of the comparative analysis with the VC systems of other countries.  Vocational counselling of persons having SEN (at least 10 pupils).  Participation in video conferences to discuss the process of the project, the quality of activities, report on the situations of vocational counselling in every partner and preparation for the next mobility meeting.  Organization of final conferences in each partner country.  Preparation of the reports for National Leonardo agencies.

11. Distribution of other activities and tasks ActivityPlanned countryAgreed country Creation of the research methodsLithuania Creation of the website of the projectLatvia Preparation of the ideal model of VCFrance and United Kingdom Preliminary preparation of the recommendations for education system Latvia Preparation of the scientific studyLithuania Publishing of the scientific studyLithuania Creation of the film promoting the ideas of the project Sweden Creation of in-service programs for specialists’ working in the area of VC Finland Constant maintenance of the websiteItaly Creation of the instruments to evaluate the quality of the project Germany and Poland

12. Mobility meetings Destination countryDate of planned meeting Agreed date of meeting Lithuania2010 11 102010 10 25-30 Germany2011 01 18 Italy2011 04 05 Sweden2011 09 13 France2011 10 28 Poland2011 12 06 Finland2012 01 28 Italy2012 05 08 Sweden2012 06 26

13. Partcipants Participating organisation Total number of pupils/lerners/ trainees Number of teachers/trainers/ staff Total of participants Šiauliai university503585 Keskuspuiston ammattiopisto201030 Riksgymnasiet-The National Upper Secondary School specially adopted for the needs of physically disabled students 101222 Krajowe Towarzystwo Autyzmu Oddzial Krakow41519 Stiftung St.Zeno Berufsbildungswerk Kirchseeon40848 Istituto Internazionale per lo Studio dei Problemi della Gioventu Contemporanea 314 National Higher Institute for Training and Research for the Education of Young Disabled Persons and Adapted Teaching (INS HEA) 325

14. Requested EU funding Participating organisation Partnership type No, of planned outgoing mobilities (pupils/learners /trainees) No. of planned outgoing mobilities (staff - including accompanying persons) Total no, of planned outgoing mobilities Šiauliai university LEO-24M024 Keskuspuiston ammattiopisto LEO-12M4812 Riksgymnasiet-The National Upper Secondary School specially adopted for the needs of physically disabled students. LEO-12M012 Krajowe Towarzystwo Autyzmu Oddzial Krakow LEO-24M42024 Stiftung St.Zeno Berufsbildungswerk Kirchseeon LEO-24M42024 Istituto Internazionale per lo Studio dei Problemi della Gioventu Contemporanea LEO-12M3912 National Higher Institute for Training and Research for the Education of Young Disabled Persons and Adapted Teaching (INS HEA) LEO-12M012

15. Discussion