Our news
Welcome to our News section
Here we share the latest articles and summaries covering our project’s key events and milestones as they unfold from partner meetings, training sessions, pilot programs, awareness campaigns, and other activity reports.
Teaching Foreign Languages to Children with Specific Learning Disorders: Challenges and Effective Teaching Strategies
The teaching of foreign languages to children with Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) presents a series of peculiar challenges that require a targeted and innovative teaching approach. The recent focus...
Unlocking Potential: How Embracing Neurodiversity Empowers Learners
The human brain is as diverse as humanity itself. This core principle underlies the neurodiversity paradigm, a growing movement that challenges the mainstream views of neurological differences. Traditionally, conditions...
Collaborative Learning and Digital Tools in Inclusive Education
There is a growing recognition of the importance of collaboration between different professionals in ensuring pupils’ success, particularly in the field of inclusive education. This collaboration is particularly relevant...
Navigating the Challenges: Foreign Language Teachers, Children with Learning Difficulties, and the role of Digital-Based Learning Tools
Teaching a foreign language to children with learning difficulties presents formidable challenges, but the integration of digital-based learning tools offers a ray of hope in overcoming these obstacles. Foreign...
FOCUS: Empowering Language Teachers for Inclusive Education
As we begin our journey towards our project’s set of goals, we are currently dedicated to introducing innovative methods, practices and tools in teaching foreign languages to children (6-12...
Turning the FOCUS to inclusion
In December 2017, the EU adopted the European Pillar of Social Rights, a document highlighting the importance of social, educational and cultural dimensions of EU policies for building a...
Our Project Kicked Off in Ptuj, Slovenia
Our FOCUS project had its kick-off meeting in November 2023, in Ptuj, Slovenia. It was a two-day meeting, organized by the Public University of Ptuj, and took place on...
