"<< Objectives >>The objectives of the "" Silence Migrant Stories"" project are:1. improve the awareness about a widespread and challenging phenomenon for the European schools, but little investigated: the presence of students with disabilities (especially deaf students) from migrant families, refugees and asylum seekers2. collect and disseminate good practices, teaching materials, and digital resources making them available to teachers who will be faced with this challenge for the first time<< Implementation >>The main activities will be:- Kick-off meeting in Turin- Learning mobility and co-planning of the project implementation in Izmir- Design and implementation of a platform with open-source digital contents, accessible in the framework of the universal design- National dissemination workshops in Turkey, Serbia and Spain; international in Torino<< Results >>1. Collection of at least 12 video biographies (subtitled and audio-described) of students with disabilities and migratory backgrounds and their families2. Collection of online resources mainly for teachers, but also for other professionals and cultural mediators: international and national legal resources, teaching materials, examples of good practices, didactic sheets and downloadable materials suitable for the specific users of the project or specially created for the same"

<< Objectives >>1.To develop the knowledge of deaf students in the 5th and 6th grade in elementary school in Spain and Belgium on scientific topics.2.To facilitate the intercultural and multilingual exchange between the deaf school students and to allow them to undertake scientific experiments in relation to the produced videos.3.To professionalize the teams’ members of LSFB asbl and Fundacion CNSE and to reinforce their partnership in the future.<< Implementation >>1.Production and dissemination of 20 video’s (10 in French-Belgian Sign Language and 10 in Spanish Sign Language) on 10 scientific topics linked to the school programme of the deaf school students in 5th and 6th grade in elementary school. 2.Organisation of an exchange between deaf school students in 5th and 6th grade in the elementary schools of Gaudem (Madrid, Spain) and of Sainte-Marie (Namur, Belgium) related to sciences and under the supervision of the Collectif Recherche Et Expression.<< Results >>-The deaf school students show a better understanding and develop knowledge on the scientific topics approached in the videos as well as during the transnational exchange. -The deaf school students developed an openness towards others, beyond the linguistic and cultural barriers, and an European identity. -The LSFB and Fundacion CNSE’s teams’ members developed their knowledge and know-how in producing pedagogical audiovisual tools.

This project aims to provide the hearing-impaired with academic and social skills. We also aim to help students with mental disabilities. Our project develops innovative opportunities for special education schools in terms of game-based learning and teaching activities for hearing-impaired students.For the project; special education schools (4 schools and institutions from three different countries), universities (two universities), volunteers and their families, students and social support groups were brought together from different countries. Our project includes intensive learning/teaching activities. In this context, it is a project including the education of special education teachers, the hearing-impaired and their families.With the findings obtained from this study, it is planned that the educational institutions working with hearing impaired individuals and the students, academicians, teachers and rehabilitating institutions from universities will benefit directly or indirectly. Our project includes three short-term joint staff training, project meetings and seminars.Within the scope of a specific program, training was given to hearing-impaired and special education teachers and special education workers.These trainings were first given theoretically and then given as applied. Participating academicians and specialist trainers provided training to the participants in their own brunches. Our academicians and teachers in the project, published the results obtained from the activities three scientific articles. In addition, the surveys and literature reviews project used in the project are available on our website. Project evaluation forms and satisfaction surveys, which we submitted for evaluation of the teachers and parents of our project book, have been made and part of them have been published on our project website. (http://online.fliphtml5.com/sgjzs/rkjs/index.html)A game-based learning and teaching book was prepared for the project idea outputs. There are 113 games in this book. This book is described in English, Turkish, Italian and Spanish with sign language.Game book; Web-based and downloadable, accessible to hearing impaired, interactive and multi-lingual work.In the project, interviews, questionnaires, document analysis and scientific researches were used. Academicians from our project partners examined action-based learning and teaching activities for hearing-impaired students and conducted action research qualitatively and quantitatively. Thus, strong evidence of game-based teaching and learning has been obtained from the results we obtained in the project. These studies can be accessed in detail on our project website (http://konevideafschool.net/oyun_tabanli.html).As a result of the project, innovative ways to improve the learning experience of hearing impaired students and their families, special education teachers have been developed.In addition, game-based activities, emotional and positive psychological outcomes during teacher-student interactions and a more fun educational environment for students and teachers were provided. As another achievement of this project, it is provided that special education schools increase their capacity and success and that it rehabilitates educational environments and makes them more efficient. International cooperation networks have been established with other professionals in the field of the hearing-impaired in order to improve the service capacities of educational institutions with the above-mentioned game book. Some of the games included in the game book we have prepared were videotaped while our students were playing. These videos are published on our website by adding Turkish sign language and international sign language. They can also be accessed by scanning the QR code in the book. As new videos are taken, we will continue to publish on our website. All games can be viewed and downloaded for free as long as they are used for educational purposes. Our website will be kept active for 5 years and new works will continue to be added.

"Worldwide, one in every 1,000 students is deaf, in Europe-28 that represents close to 500,000 deaf people who are trying to gain access to knowledge & employment. However, this community suffers from a lack of inclusion: 80% of the deaf are illiterate & have a lot of difficulties to find a job (the employment rate is 71% for people with slight deafness, 59% with middle deafness, & only 34 % for people with deep deafness). This shows the importance of instilling a wide breadth of knowledge early on, to ensure that STUDENTS-YOUTH WITH DEAFNESS or HEARING IMPAIRMENT have as much opportunity to receive knowledge & information & to become responsible citizens.However, the dissemination of existing information adapted to the deaf audience is seriously deficient for deaf adults & dramatically non-existent for deaf students-youth. This prevents deaf people from accessing information & this is even more critical at school, where teachers are unable to use pedagogical content adapted to their deaf students.Existing material uses content too rich in text (with sentences often long & complicated to be easily understood by deaf children) & videos are containing voice-overs & subtitles. This has the effect of demotivating many deaf children in school learning. This has the effect of demotivating many deaf pupils in school learning.deAf DigitAl PlaTform (ADAPT) project aims to develop the first e-magazine adapted to deaf adolescents. We focus on pupils between 13 to 21 years old. Indeed, it is the age range when students learn how to become independent & how to advocate & the needs become crucial.With pedagogical elements that are easily understood by deaf students, we want to support teachers to nurture students' interest in school learning, to open deaf adolescents to the world, to arouse their curiosity, to develop their knowledge & to give them the means to communicate with their environment, including their family. What then allow them to improve their learning performance & to enhance their access to abstract concepts & reading potentialities.The e-magazine will be proposed in two different & complementary media:•a web site to gather all the available contents (combined with a search engine)•an enriched digital magazine with a structured & editorialized content, sent through subscription & readable offline.Information will be proposed through written texts (in English & in the national languages of the different partners) & videos using sign language (with a specific usage of the International Sign IS).We intend to use interactive potentialities of web site & e-book to propose unprecedented content for deaf adolescents (culture, educational games & activities to make by themselves), along with educational sheets than can be used by teachers & family members: •6 Thematic topics (e.g. History, Biology, Human Rights, introduction to STEAM…)•12 Educational games using 3 different game engines (e.g. Memory, MCQ video…)•36 Manual activities videos (e.g. cooking, scientific experience, creative activities, magic trick, discovering sports rules…)The ADAPT project brings together 6 complementary specialized partners; members of HIPEN (the European Network for Professionals working with People with Hearing Problems) :• ""11th May"" is one of the oldest state special education institution in Serbia and Yugoslavia, and the fourth special educational school for children with hearing and speech impairments.• Since more than 200 years, Istituto dei Sordi di Torino - IST is specializing in providing a wide range of services and activities to people who are deaf, hard of hearing or deafblind.• Liceul Tehnologic Special pentru Deficienti de Auz (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), an institute that works with about 200 deaf students, from kindergarten to high school.• Specjalny Osrodek Szkolono-Wychowawczy dla Nieslyszacych (Kraków, Poland) an institution that educates young people who are deaf & hearing impaired.• Educational Center for Deaf & Hard of Hearing of Lithuania (Vilnius, Lithuania), a public educational institution providing education from pre-school to upper secondary stages for the hearing impaired students.- GAUDEM, a school which embraces special & mainstream education for deaf & hearing students for over 40 years.Deaf students between 13 to 21 are estimated at 37,000 in EU-28, 16,000 in the 6 countries of the partners (Serbia, Lithuania, Italy, Romania, Spain &Poland). During the program, we aim at gathering:•2,000 ebook subscribers•5,000 Facebook fans•300 public bodies, associations, schools, educational institutions, public libraries•15 contributors who will create new contentsADAPT is designed to function independently at the end of the project. By developing an easy-to-use platform & by providing detailed explanatory sheets explaining step by step how to create & upload autonomously new contents, we expect contributors & users to appropriate the platform& make it live."

<< Background >>The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the UN highlights the importance of sign language and strongly encourages the learning of sign language and the promotion of the linguistic identity of the deaf community. However, “only up to two percent of deaf children around the globe access their education through formal sign language” (McClain-Nhlapo, 2017).Concurrently, hearing impairment relates to low academic performance at school as well as low sense of confidence and self-esteem. (NCSE, 2011). This is related, among others factos, to the limited use of sign language at schools and to the fact that deaf students are not taught about the history of sign language, the successes of the deaf people and the overall opportunities that exist to foster their development. As a result, when deaf children grow up, they lag behind both in academic performance and in terms of personal development and self-esteem. They are lacking confidence but also a sense of a strong identity and a sense of belonging in a community of people from whom they can be inspired to pursue their own dreams in life. Consequently, they are usually faced with less opportunities not only to integrate in the working and civic life but also to step up, become extrovert, innovate, and drive positive change in their communities. In this context, the main mission of the ‘Sign for Change’ project is to enhance the extroversion of Deaf children and boost their self-confidence with the ultimate aim of encouraging them to develop personal skills and key 21st century competences that will help them integrate as equal, active and productive members of the society. This goal will be achieved by harnessing the power of sign language and developing an innovative and inclusive training and education package for teachers and students with hearing problems. The methodology to be used is the Social Innovation Education (SIE) model, which has been developed as part of the H2020 NEMESIS project and has been tested and validated for its contribution to personal and collective development in several primary and secondary schools around Europe.<< Objectives >>Particularly, the project aims to achieve the following: - Develop an innovative educational model through SIE that will allow teachers to adopt a new approach in teaching and learning for deaf students - Provide role-models to deaf children by connecting them with the Deaf Community and particularly with deaf entrepreneurs, artists and scientists. - Highlight and promote sign language as a tool for inclusive, innovative education. - Train teachers and enable them to apply the innovative Results of the programme to develop deaf children’s changemaking competences. - Bring deaf students from different countries together to connect and foster their self-confidence as they will view themselves as members of the broader Deaf community.<< Implementation >>The above objectives will be achieved in a 30-month project and the results will be totally open and free accessible to the public. The ‘Sign for Change’ project brings together 6 partners from 5 different countries: Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania and Spain with complementary skills and with necessary background to achieve the goals ofthe project. The coordinator is FAU-ILI, an academic research center and partners are STIMMULI, a social enterprise which design innovative educational methodologies, Turin Institute of the Deaf, Center of Greek Sign Language and two educational institutions/ schools with deaf students (Colegio Gaudem from Spain and LKNUC from Lithuania).Under the coordination of FAU-ILI the partnership will develop five Results, a training event for teachers in Spain, five physical and one digital partners meeting, management documents for the good governance of the project, pilot training and dissemination activities in all counties. This project will have impact at local, regional, national and European level in the school context of deaf students, educational policies, deaf communities and Sign Language institutions.<< Results >>The project will have the following Results:- A genuine study on the educational context and the changemaking potential of deaf children in Europe. - An E-book “Deaf Changemakers - role models and inspiring stories”. - A Social Innovation Education Curriculum for deaf students. - An online course for teachers and professionals working with deaf students. - Campaigning toolkits for guiding deaf students on creating their own campaigning videos. Regarding other outcomes, the project aims to have a meaningful impact not only on deaf students, teachers and professionals working with the deaf, but also on institutions of sign language, deaf communities and families of deaf children. More specifically:-Deaf students: At least 50 deaf students will directly participate in the activities of the Sign for Change project-Teachers: The project will directly train 15 teachers and professionals who work with deaf students during the training event and at least 100 as part of the Online Course offering.-Sign language institutions and deaf communities: The role models E-book, the adapted SIE model, the online course and the campaigning toolkits can be useful for various environments with deaf students and learners in general. It is envisioned that in the long term the projects results will contribute significantly in the introduction of Social Innovation Education practices in the deaf student’s context, which as an extension will bring a positive impact upon students’ willingness and competences to actively participate in society while strengthening their skills and competences.