The main topic of our project

The main topic of this project is to address the need of improving inclusive education and services in Ukraine and North Macedonia as well as the V4 countries. The project will focus on bringing the best practices of selected V4 countries and developing training for higher education staff in Ukraine and North Macedonia. The main aim is to increase their knowledge and skills in modern behavioral science-based techniques and to improve the quality of inclusion process management and support of people with neurodevelopmental disorders and challenging behavior. The current situation in Ukraine is heavily influenced by the Russian-Ukrainian war. Even before, experts noted that the traditional teacher and social work education pre-service programs didn’t provide for modern technologies and strategies focused on working with children with special needs in inclusive settings, especially children with severe challenging behaviors (Afuzova H., 2021). A similar situation could be found in North Macedonia, where only a limited number of curricular training materials in Albanian language for professionals who work towards inclusion of the Albanian minority existed. As for the V4 countries, more than 1,500 teachers have left Ukraine as well as thousands of families with children with special needs, according to the monitoring data of the Department of Education and Science of the Office of Shared Accountability. The vast majority of them found refuge in the V4 countries, and some also in North Macedonia.