SOLIS
- Project timeframe
- 1 September 2020 - 17 August 2023
- Research area
- Storytelling
- Amount awarded
- €345,442
- Funder ID
- EU Commisson: Erasmus+ Programme
Project leader: Dr Antonia Liguori
SOLIS – Developing wellbeing and social inclusion: achieving success through understanding of cultural diversity is a Strategic Partnership for the development of innovation in School Education. It involves 8 European partners with a shared ambition to create innovative digital tools to both engage and open students to understanding the diversity and common ground around them.
SOLIS is about creating a sense of belonging and a right to be included, whatever the student background, by exploring the nexus of wellbeing, inclusion and diversity to eliminate bullying and reduce early school leavers that continue to be excluded within future employment opportunities – identified in European Commission 2020 strategies for reducing share of early school leavers under 10%, leading to increased employment.
The SOLIS project is a whole school approach, to develop a wide-scope e-learning platform with modules addressing core challenges within cultural diversity and discrimination, no matter the reason, helping students increase empathy for their differences and understanding of common ground, through interactive and collaborative activities such as digital storytelling.
The second digital output of the project is a mobile-friendly web platform, acting as an online portal to train the teachers to best facilitate the SOLIS modules and activities, with the help of a rich resource of case studies and videos of pilot sessions. The aim of this portal is to create excellence in facilitating, sustaining and growing the project beyond pilot areas.