The project is funded by European Union Regional Development Fund Central Baltic Programme 2014-2020
Project period: 01.09.2015 – 31.08.2017
Total budget: 201 964 euros
ERDF: 164 945 euros
Overview
The PIM project aims at supporting bilingual education for children in Russian-speaking minority groups in Estonia, Finland and Latvia by developing parent involvement models for bilingual learning process.
The main responsibility in bilingual education in the partner countries has been on the teachers and schools. The project will enable the Russian-speaking school communities to improve their home-school cooperation. In practice the project will combine traditional models of parent involvement with bilingual education specific themes and methods. The project will also take into account the context of old and new immigrants.
As a result of the project, home-school cooperation and awareness about multicultural education are both expected to increase. The process, in turn, will have a direct impact on broader Russian-speaking communities gathered around the schools in the same town, and the same region. Through the schools, the changes can be initiated from the grass root level, but the overall influence will have an impact on the whole society.
Partner contacts
Kristjan Klauks Project Manager University of Tartu Narva College Raekoja plats 2, Narva 20307, ESTONIA kristjan.klauks@ut.ee +372 740 1905 www.narva.ut.ee |
Ekaterina Protassova Partner Coordinator University of Helsinki Department of Modern Languages Russian Language Unit Yliopistonkatu 4, Helsinki 00014, FINLAND ekaterina.protassova@helsinki.fi +358 504 482 323 www.helsinki.fi/yliopisto |
Ligita Grigule Partner Coordinator University of Latvia Faculty of Education, Psychology and Art Raina Blvd 19, Riga 1586, LATVIA grigule@latnet.lv +371 292 945 80 www.lu.lv |
Completed activites
Project Meetings
- 21.12.2015 – Steering Committee meeting in Tallinn, Estonia
- 07.03.2016 – Steering Committee meeting in Helsinki, Finland
- 25.08.2016 – Local Experts General meeting in Narva, Estonia
- 26.08.2016 – Steering Committee meeting in Narva , Estonia
Project Activites
- 11.2015 – 05.2016 – Comprehensive literature review and a written overview of existing good practices of PIMs and parent involvement programmes
- 02.2016 – 08.2016 – Conducting online survey and a report analysis
- 09.2016-12.2016 – preparation of training curricula