Kick-off meeting of the CLEAR/Horizon Europa project
On 6 and 7 October 2022, the kick-off meeting of the CLEAR – Constructing Learning Outcomes in Europe: A Multi-Level Analysis of (Under)Achievement in the Life Course research project occurred in Münster, Germany.
This project is funded to the tune of more than 3 million euros by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe Research Framework Programme (project no. 101061155) for the period 2022-2025, with general coordination by Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, from WWU Münster, and integrating teams from 8 European countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. The University of Porto and CIIE are represented in the project by a team coordinated by Tiago Neves. Isabel Menezes, Fernanda Rodrigues, José Pedro Amorim, Carla Malafaia and Gil Nata are also part of the team, and a research assistant is in the final selection and recruitment process.
During the first meeting, attended by Tiago Neves, the Consortium members were briefed on the infrastructure and management of the project, the ethical issues at stake, and the planned publication and dissemination activities. They also had the opportunity to discuss at length the research issues relating to learning outcomes and to create a common vision and shared understanding of the topics, concepts and overall objectives of the project.
About the project
Who and what influences the quality of learning? How are learning outcomes achieved? CLEAR is a three-year international research project that will seek to understand the combination of multiple factors that shape learning outcomes and thus influence their quality. Based on a better understanding of these processes of building learning outcomes, the project will explore the impact of policies to increase outcomes and address underachievement, and will design participatory activities at the local level to stimulate innovative educational policy solutions.
The international and interdisciplinary consortium, made up of 13 partner institutions and around 50 researchers, will carry out comparative analyses at various levels and will use quantitative and institutional analyses, expert interviews at national and regional levels, qualitative analyses and innovative participatory strategies at the local level. Particular attention will be paid to disadvantaged groups and/or those in vulnerable situations.
Dynamic and relational concepts - Life Course, Intersectionality, Spatial Justice - will help explore the different intersecting dimensions of the problem - individual, institutional, structural, relational and spatial. In line with the concept of Open Science, the project will adopt an innovative cross-cutting participatory approach that allows young people and other stakeholders to proactively co-create educational policies and contribute their opinions, ideas and experience-based knowledge, thus increasing the project's impact.
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