Welcome to COSI.ed project website
Co-created Education through Social Inclusion
About the project
Inclusion with social education
COSI.ed will uspcale the proven good practice from the Erasmus+ project; Marginalisation and Co-created Education (MaCE) in five different countries and educational contexts representing Southern (Portugal and Spain), Eastern (Poland) and Northern Europe (Norway and Denmark).
The model builds on the understanding that educational staff and the students co-create as part of a community of practice. Here the experts (educators) and the beginner (students) work side by side, learning together and developing knowledge and competence. By using the embedded methodology, the Indirect Approach (IA) and Equality Literacy (EQL), the co-creating entails communication giving voice to vulnerable students to understand their story (IA), and through this- identifying aspect of the young disadvantaged students’ situation that hinder their further learning (EQL). The young people learn about themselves, how to excel, the educational staff develop skills and understanding to socially include the young people. The initial hypothesis is that co-created education and training in which disadvantaged learners take part, educational staff, stakeholders and policymakers will contribute to educational and social inclusion of those groups who are usually marginalized.
The expectation is that the upscaling of the COSI.ed model to policy level will empower groups of disadvantaged young people all over Europe, radically increasing their educational success and completion rate and give European educational staff the knowledge and skills to social include vulnerable young people of all ages.
Checkout outputs from the project team
Deliverables & Toolkits
Toolkit COSI.ed Set of instruments for data collection and the impact measurement This toolkit is an output (O4.2) created as part of work package 4 'Developing the European COSI.ed MODEL'. Its aim is to present the set of instruments prepared and used for data collection and the impact measurement of the COSI.ed model during two implementation cycles in 6 different institutions in 5 project countries. A set of tools was developed to measure the impact of the regional models on the target groups in relation to the objectives established. The tools describe standardised data collection procedures and indicators, both qualitative (referred to as “soft” indicators) and quantitative (referred to as “hard” indicators).
DownloadThis document contains the information and planning of the project. Specifically, the application to the call EACEA/34/2019 Social inclusion and common values: the contribution in the field of education and training is attached in order to apply for project funding.
DownloadThis document will guide the COSI.ed partners in disseminating project objectives and activities, ensuring visibility on a wide scale, raising awareness about the project topics and promoting the exploitation of the project’s results. It intends to identify and involve project target groups and key stakeholders interested in the project results at local, regional, national and European level.
DownloadThe COSI.ed project is already published in CEDEFOP as a good practice. The information of our project is now part of the VET toolkit for tackling early leaving. Source of support to policy makers and education and training providers. You can find more information here: https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/tools/vet-toolkit-tackling-early-leaving/resources/co-created-education-through-social-inclusion-cosied
DownloadThis output describes the use of the Indirect Approach in the entities and institutions of the 5 countries in which the methodology has been implemented. It shows the target population and objectives, the implementation process, the results obtained and the proposals for improvement.
DownloadWhat we want to achieve
Project objectives
1. Upscale model
To upscale COSI.ed model to regional institutions in 5 new countries (Norway, Denmark, Portugal, Poland and Spain) by the end of the project period
2. Reduce Early Leaving
To significantly reduce Early Leaving from Education and Training at different levels of the education system in the test arenas.
3. Increase education stay
To increase the percentage of students to complete/stay in education when compared to groups in the same education pathways WITHOUT the COSI.ed methodology (based on the national, regional or local statistics)
4. Improve collaboration
To develop collaborative methods of co-researching and co-creating with youth, educational staff, researchers, stakeholders and policymakers
5. Development more inclusive education
Contribute to the development of a more inclusive and egalitarian educational model adapted to the needs and society of today
6. Redesign model for wide applicability
Redesign the current model to be applicable in the different social and geographical contexts of Europe, in different disciplinary areas and in different types of institutions by providing effective tools, guidelines and scientific evidence
7. Model inclusion in education policies
Work with and towards policymakers at different levels to implement the methodology at the systemic level in order to include the model in future inclusive education policies
What we pursue
Our goals
Prevention of Early Leaving from Education and Training
Co-created education through Social Inclusion
Improving youth educational and employment pathways
Developing a more inclusive and egalitarian educational model
Checkout our progress
Last research results
COSI.ed Project Team. (2023). Co-created Education through Social Inclusion (COSI.ed)- Challenges and strengths of upscaling inclusive practices in European contexts to develop European policy. Abstracts ECER 2023 Conference, Glasgow. https://bit.ly/3VlxwE3
Quintana-Murci, E., Salvà-Mut, F., Pinya Medina, C., Vecina Merchante, C., Thomàs-Vanrell, C., Rosselló- Rosselló, C. & Vilasís-Pamos, J.. (2023). Co-creation and indirect approach as a methodology to improve student engagement in initial and continuing VET. In, V. Tūtlys, L. Vaitkutė & C. Nägele (Eds.), Vocational Education and Training Transformations for Digital, Sustainable and Socially Fair Future. Proceedings of the 5th Crossing Boundaries Conference in Vocational Education and Training, Kaunas, 25 – 26 May (pp. 373–381). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7822156
Quintana-Murci, E., Thomàs-Vanrell, C., & Vecina-Merchante, C. (2022). La cocreación como metodología de intervención socioeducativa en centros de formación ocupacional. In, D. Cobos-Sanchiz, E. López-Meneses, A. Jaén-Martínez, A.H. Martín-Padilla & L. Molina-García (Eds.), Educación Y Sociedad: Pensamiento e Innovación para la Transformación Social (pp.1611-1621). Dykinson. https://bit.ly/3Vo2dZC
Event updates
Last events
Save the date!!!!
We have the pleasure of announcing you our Conference Co-creating with Youth for Social Inclusion which will be held on the 15th of May 2024 (9:00-13:30) in Brussels at the YERUN office. Participation will be free but with online registration at https://nettskjema.no/a/391916
This is the final conference of the Erasmus+ KA3 project COSI.ed - “Co-created Education through Social Inclusion” where 11 partners from 5 countries (Spain, Norway, Portugal, Poland, and Denmark) have tried out and developed a model of education for promoting the social inclusion of children and youth in danger of being socially excluded.
At the conference, you will be presented with the model and a policy brief, as well as getting the chance to learn more about the model and its use as well as meet both researchers and practitioners and hear about their experiences. There will be ample opportunity to discuss with the participants in the project as well as networking with the people present.
Program:
09:00-09.30 Opening session and project overview
09.30- 10.45 Cosi.ed model and recommendations
10:45 – 11:15 Break, some food, coffee and tea
11:15 – 13:00 Round table with COSI.ed participants and invited stakeholders
13:00 – 13:30 Debate and concluding remarks
Invited stakeholders:
Martin Bogdan is Policy and Project Coordinator, he is the co-chair of Academic Cooperation Association’s Thematic Peer Group “Widening Inclusion in Higher Education”, which is discussing the management of national and European funding to increase participation of underrepresented groups in international higher education.
Paola Di Marzo is the Project Officer at Erasmus Student Network (ESN). In her current role at ESN, she is charge of projects in the field of environment, international mobility and inclusion (Cooperation Partnerships – KA2).
Tine S. Prøitz is Vice dean for research at the Faculty for Humanities, Sports and educational science and leads the research project “Comparisons of Leadership Autonomy in School districts and Schools” which studies school leaders' autonomy with inclusion policies.
Online registration: https://nettskjema.no/a/391916.
More information: policy4inclusionconference@usn.no
During the week of 20-23 November 2023, the fourth international meeting of the COSI.ed consortium took place in Palma de Mallorca. Throughout this week, intensive work has been done on the dissemination of the project results as well as on the development of the socio-educational intervention model resulting from the application of the Equal Literacy Framework, the Indirect Approach and co-creation in five countries and different educational contexts.
In addition, over the course of these days, the two entities in which the COSI.ed methodology is applied in Palma have been visited: Sociedad Cooperativa Jovent and Naüm Proyecto Socieducativo, two social entities that work with young people with a low level of education, offering training and professional alternatives.
From 19 to 23 September 2022, the second face-to-face meeting of all project partners will take place in the city of Porto (Portugal). This meeting will evaluate the first results of the implementation of the project in each regional area and establish the lines of action to be carried out in the second phase of the project. The main results obtained and the future lines of action will soon be available on the website.
In this first meeting we were able to organise and clarify the phases of project implementation in each of the participating countries. We were also able to visit the entities where the project is being implemented in Denmark.
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Project reference: 621365-EPP-1-2020-1-NO-EPPKA3-IPI-SOC-IN