On 21 March 2025, a public council and round table on the topic “Partnerships for Success” was held at the Faculty of Pedagogy at Plovdiv University “Paisii Hilendarski”. The event brought together university professors, experts, directors, representatives of institutions and NGOs to discuss visions, practices and opportunities for sustainable education.

The project and its expected results were presented by Assoc. Prof. Albena Alexandrova-Ovcharova and Prof. Dsc Dora Levterova-Gadjalova from Department of educational management and pedagogy at the Plovdiv university “Paisii Hilendarski” – partner in A-CHAT project.

The event was in line with the strategy for the launching of the Community of practice in Bulgaria. The participants were invited to apply for the project releases.

The Bulgarian Inclusion Support Team presented the project concept to academicians, teachers, psychologists and professionals working with students with disabilities. The main goal was to discuss the draft content map of the Result 1: Guidelines handbook to university teachers/staff on supportive and preventive measures of aggression and bullying via inclusive approach and Result 2. Ontology framework and development of the online interactive tool based on CHATbot functionalities.

This event was a part of the strategy for the implementation of Result 4. Establishment and maintenance of European Comunity of practice on resilience and prevention of bullying and aggression.

The participants expressed their desire to join the Community and to use the above results as soon as their final versions are ready.

The project was presented by Mr. Andrean Lazarov – CEO of Bulgarian Inclusion Support Team during International conference organised by National agency of Republic of North Macedonia. The conference was held in the period 5-7.03.2025 in Ohrid. The aim of the event was to bring together teachers and psychologists from across the educational spectrum — from primary education to universities — who are actively working on issues of prevention of agression and bullying, inclusion and support of vulnerable groups in the educational process.

Potential exploitation was discussed with universities and schools from Skopie, Bitola, Shtip, Prilep and Tetovo.

The kick off meeting of the A-CHAT project: “Interactive digital tool to university students including those with disabilities towards supportive and preventive measures of aggression and bullying” was successfully held on 22-23 January 2025 in Madrid, Spain. It was chaired by Prof. Cristina Sanchez Romero from UNED.

The partners from Bulgaria, Spain, Portugal and Greece successfully worked on the ontology development of the Chat bot tool as well as finalised the structure of the Guidelines handbook to university teachers/staff on supportive and preventive measures of aggression and bullying via inclusive approach. Follow us for more news shortly.

Special guest of the event was Dr. Yanka Takeva – Chairperson of Bulgarian Teachers’ Union – the biggest sindicate of 96 000 teachers in Bulgaria.

The project concept was presented online to Brasil and Potugal (Professional and Technological Education – Academic Master’s Degree) representatives. They have expressed their interest towards the project and to use the results as soon as they are ready to be piloted.

On 6 December 2024, the Annual Conference of the National Agencies of Erasmus+ programme was held in Budapest, Hungary, under the title “Expanding Horizons through International Networks”.

The event was organized by the Hungarian National Agency for the Erasmus+ Programme – Tempus Public Foundation, with the support of the Directorate General for Education, Youth, Culture and Sport of the European Commission.

The event was attended by representatives of 13 European National Agencies – Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Estonia, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Poland, Slovakia and Turkey. The Bulgarian Inclusion Support Team mentioned the successful project start during the speech of the CEO – Mr. Andrean Lazarov. The participants were invited to join the European community of practices towards prevention of aggression and bullying at educational institutions.

We are glad to announce that the project was successfully started on 1st December 2024.

It will continue in the next 30 months with the development and approbation of the Guidelines handbook to university teachers/staff on supportive and preventive measures of aggression and bullying via inclusive approach and online interactive tool based on CHATbot functionalities.

The project is under the measure KA220 – Partnerships between organisations and institutions in the Higher education field.

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