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20th INEPS Congress in the Black Sea

The celebration of the 20^th Congress of the International Network of Productive Learning Schools and Projects will take place in Bourgas (Bulgaria) from 21^st  to 26^th of April. The Congress’ subject is: “Individual vocational orientation in Productive Learning”.

By means of a full up programme of seminars and workshops the participants will have the opportunity to analyse how Productive Learning can help to everybody in the social inclusion process being an alternative against those traditional educational models which can not satisfy the demands of the 21^st century society.

The Congress will explore and discuss in what measure and with which results Productive Learning is realising an inclusive education:

• Looking for young people and how to orientate them towards Productive Learning
• Methods of attracting parents and students
• Attracting students with special educational needs
• Individual orientation and motivation
• Specific methods and forms of working with students aged up to 16 by Productive Learning
• Integration of students from different ethnical groups and backgrounds

By workshops and informal communication Congress participants will exchange their experiences, present results, discuss problems, and thereby increase their competencies in working with Productive Learning methods.

Aims  of the congress are:

• to initiate and prepare activities among the members (and non-members), especially between different European countries, e.g. international Youth congress, youth exchanges etc.,
• to prepare and make decisions concerning the future of INEPS,
• to integrate new members into the network,
• to work together on relvant topics in PL.
• to deepen the participants understanding and knowledge of PL and active learning methods in general,
• to offer the participants a possibility to present their own work relevant to the topic of the congress,
• to strengthen the interaction among the network.