One Health: inclusive learning tools for pupils

The partners wished to achieve such objectives: 1.build a transnational cooperation among three participating organizations based on similar values and learn from each other to improve their worki...

The partners wished to achieve such objectives: 1.build a transnational cooperation among three participating organizations based on similar values and learn from each other to improve their working methods regarding inclusiveness, health literacy and educational work. 2.develop two innovative learning tools that strengthen the key personal, social and learning competences of children, give voice to children and include them in the co-production of the learning tools, as well as address questions of health literacy, care and inclusion by applying the key ideas of the “one health” approach when producing these tools. 3.initiate discussion on children's health literacy with high-level representatives from the ministries of education, health, and culture as well as state education and health agencies to establish cross-sectoral policy frameworks. 4.share the methods and good practices gained during the production of the learning tools with other institutions and public health agencies. Finally, with both learning tools the partners wished to provide support to teachers and families as well as make inclusive learning tools more accessible outside the vicinity of museums through outreach – with a travelling and a digital learning tool.

The project consisted of five main activities, each including a multitude of sub-activities: 1. Project Management, 2. Workshop in Dresden, 3. Workshop in Riga, 4. Production of Learning Tools, 5. Dissemination and Publicity Activities. The project management included daily management and monitoring of project's goals and implementation, overseeing finances, timeline, management of risks, and legal questions, reporting, securing communication among partners and overseeing the communication with schools in Latvia during the distribution of the outreach tool. The workshop activities in Dresden and Riga included facilitated in-person collaboration, networking and structured knowledge exchange sessions, exploration of inclusive education practices at DHMD, and development of the initial concepts of learning tools. Production of learning tools included co-production workshops with children, testing and the technical production of the tools. Dissemination activities included communication about the project and its results with the public and media, distribution of the learning tools to schools (Latvia) and museum's online platform (Germany), creating a guidebook and setting up public events for policy makers and culture institutions.

Projects results include: 1.a strong transnational cooperation among partners that has the capacity to result in future collaboration; 2.an expansion of knowledge, methods and experience among the teams of partner organizations regarding inclusive strategies in museum education and building learning tools that help reach audiences that cannot visit the museum due to physical or financial reasons; 3.the creation of two learning tools and accompanying materials that build on children’s competencies and knowledge, offer a self-directed learning approach that is especially essential in the new education standard of Latvia, as well as aid teachers when teaching children about health, body, science as well as inclusion towards people with disabilities; 4.the tools fulfilled the outreach purpose of the project – in Latvia reaching 26 schools with 2711 pupils, and in Germany being accessible digitally in four languages and German Sign Language; 5.learnings from the project have been summarized in an online guidebook for other institutions, published in four languages; 6.a public discussion with policy makers in Latvia has been started about the health literacy of children and integrating health literacy as a key aspect in STEM education.