In the spring of 2016, Hungarian schools could voluntarily join the initiative of the Ministry of Human Capacities, and organise thematic project weeks, choosing one of the following topics: 1. financial education, 2. digital education and 3. education for sustainability.
Deputy Director General Dr Zoltán Pompor participated at the UNESCO national committees’ meeting in Warsaw, on 12 th September 2015, together with Zita Gergely and MP Lajos Kethy. Besides reports from this meeting, our colleagues from the Swiss project, Réka Könczey, Éva Neumayer and Ágnes Halácsy presented about their study visit to Switzerland.
As education for sustainability is a priority of the Hungarian Institute for Educational Research and Development, we created an extra opportunity on 9th September 2015 for our colleagues and members of the Environmental and Sustainability Education Research Network of the European Educational Research Association to meet and talk to each other.
The project partners – universities, researchers and developers, teachers of secondary schools – work together by the leadership of the Pannon University. Their aim is to contribute to the development of the secondary school students’ learning skills, necessary to successful work in the 21st century.
The Hungarian Institute for Educational Research and Development organised an Erasmus+ KA2 project workshop conference on the 30th Aug 2018 called ’Student Voice – The bridge to learning’. The conference was held at The Hunfalvy János Bilingual Secondary Vocational School of Economics and Trade of BGSZC.
The third workshop organized for the Hungarian partner schools of the Erasmus+ Student Voice – Bridge to Learning project came to pass on the 28th of June.artner schools of the Erasmus+ Student Voice – Bridge to Learning project came to pass on the 28th of June.
The first workshop organized for the partner schools was held on 7th March 2017 at EKU- HIERD (Eszterházy Károly University Hungarian Institute for Educational Research and Development) covered the following topic: Student voice and the student-focused learning.
The second Student Voice project meeting was held in Dublin, Ireland on 18-19th January with the participation of the five partner institutions from Ireland, Scotland, Hungary, Slovenia, and The Netherlands. The purpose of the meeting was to prepare evaluation tools at national and transnational level and plan further steps of the project.
Representatives of the Hungarian Institute for Educational Research and Development (HIERD) Lucia Kákonyi, manager of the Student Voice – The Bridge to Learning project in Hungary, and Gábor Rózsa, IT expert, took part in the first project partnership meeting of the ERASMUS+ Student Voice project which took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Leaders of the HIERD (Hungarian Institute for Educational Research and Development) met Lauren Conn and Stacie Kronthal, representatives of Discovery Education at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.