ICEP Europe recently hosted the fourth transnational meeting for the Erasmus+ funded TRAINS project at our offices in Maynooth, Co. Kildare on 19th and 20th October. TRAINS stands for Transitions for All Into School. It centres upon the development of a suite of educational materials and parent and practitioner guides designed to promote and support more successful school transitions for all learners.
The meeting provided a vital opportunity for partners to share ideas and feedback in relation to the draft iterations of the TRAINS Parents’ and Educators’ Guides. We decided upon final amendments which would be made prior to the soft launch of the outputs for piloting across the three participating countries. All six attendees actively contributed to the two-day meeting, bringing the knowledge, expertise and camaraderie that has been central to the successes of the TRAINS project to date. We also discussed the arrangements for the upcoming multiplier events across the partner countries, ahead of the Final European Launch Conference, which will be held at Leeds Beckett University in December 2022.
The project consortium looks forward to finalising the outputs and sharing them with practitioners and parents over the coming weeks. We hope, in turn, to positively influence the transitions practices within the UK, Ireland and Bulgaria, as well as across Europe more generally. We will be gaining feedback from practitioners and parents before making the final outputs available in mid to late December, on a bespoke online learning platform that can be accessed freely by all interested parties.
For further information about the upcoming launch events or to volunteer your participation in the piloting events, log onto the TRAINS project website, email the TRAINS research team at [email protected] and follow the TRAINS project on Twitter via @EU_Trains. In the meantime, you may like to read our blog on how the pandemic impacted this project and the unexpected findings that were uncovered.
