Fundación Promaestro participates in LET’S CARE, a European project with 13 partners from 9 countries that aims to improve the care dimension of educational inclusion and school success by promoting Safe Learning, Safe Teaching, Safe Schools and Safe Education.
The European project LET’S CARE, approved by the European Commission, receives funding from the program
Horizon Europe
which aims to support research and innovation, promote scientific and technological excellence and contribute to the competitiveness and economic and social sustainability of the European Union. The project is coordinated by Comillas Pontifical University and will run for a period of four years, from 2022 to 2026.
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Secure attachment relationships play an important protective role against the intergenerational transmission of social exclusion, not only in early stages, but at all school levels. With LET’S CARE we can comprehensively understand and improve the care dimension of educational inclusion and school success.
The main objective of the project is to identify the determinants that affect student safety as the main cause of underachievement, disengagement and dropout, at four different ecological levels: individual, relational, community and political. LET’S CARE creates a theoretical and practical framework that promotes Safe Learning, Safe Teaching, Safe Schools and Safe Education at every level. This approach helps to break the chain of transgenerational transmission of educational and social exclusion, which will result in lower rates of school failure and early school dropout.
The main advance is to consider a relational response to exclusion and educational inequality. The new model provides insight into the importance of safety in addressing underachievement in reading, math and science, among others. Likewise, the proposal is based on a relational approach to inclusive school practices that translates into tools, recommendations and guidelines for action, from early childhood education and care to Secondary and Second Chance Schools.
What is attachment? How does attachment affect learning and well-being in school? How does educational exclusion impact attachment? How can we develop an ecology of attachment in the school? Attachment is a child’s right, a matter of justice and a key requirement for resilience.
We hope that the contributions of LET’S CARE will permeate the European educational scientific community: firstly, by increasing the number and quality of attachment-focused publications and, secondly, by contributing to the adoption of the holistic approach to Safe Education by leading research groups. Similarly, with respect to the partnership, it is expected to have an expanded and extensive network with more than 200 schools in 10 countries, impacting at least 30,000 students.
It is expected that 5 to 8 European countries will adopt Safe School recommendations in their national and regional education plans, and that LET’S CARE recommendations will be incorporated into the 2030 Agenda. Finally, in the field of economics and innovation, it is expected that the Safe Education indexes and databases will be used by education professionals and European policy makers. In this way, it is expected that there will be a better understanding of the economic impact of investing in Safe Education, that it will increase and thus improve student integration programs, and that teachers will be empowered and better able to develop safe and inclusive education systems in Europe.
Access the project’s HUB to find all the information on the results and resources generated over the years.
Fundación Promaestro, with the collaboration of all the partners of the European Let’s Care project.
Templates developed by Fundación Promaestro to work on Safe Teaching
Infographics developed by the Promaestro Foundation to explain project concepts
Teachers are key players and their incorporation and involvement in the European LET’S CARE project will depend, to a large extent, on its scope and success. First of all, it is necessary to understand how teachers experience the issue of care and attachment in the teaching-learning processes in order to obtain a realistic perspective on Safe Teaching.
To this end, Fundación Promaestro is structuring and coordinating different discussion groups made up of teachers. The purpose of these focus groups is to validate the indicators developed during the first stage of the research. In addition, Promaestro leads the training process on collaboration among teachers based on peer observation, systematization and transfer of educational practice. This process will result in a database of Safe Teaching Practices, with practices validated by the professional community, which will be a very useful source of educational knowledge to continue promoting Safe Learning in the classroom.
Finally, Promaestro is also responsible for providing a database of European Safe Education programs aimed at improving the safety and care of pupils in order to reduce early school leaving and school failure.
The project consortium includes universities, NGOs and third sector entities, public administrations and private companies from 9 European countries. Each brings a unique and valuable perspective. Accordingly, and depending on the type of tasks to be carried out during the 48 months of work, there are three participation profiles:
