About the Project Print
EMBED - Embedding Dyslexia-Responsive Practices in Lifelong Learning is an international project to support the dyslexic individual all over Europe. The project is supported by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the Education, Audiovisual, Culture Executive Agency of the European Union.
EMBED looks to combine the experience, products and findings of a series of projects that have had a greater or lesser impact upon the dyslexic individual, - in particular that related to projects funded by the EU - and ensure that these good practices are embedded into all aspects relating to the dyslexic individual, from government policy, to school practice.

The Embed project is promoted and coordinated by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Training Centers of 6 different European countries (i.e. besides Hungary, Bulgaria, Italy, Poland, Spain, UK). The project  is funded by the European Commission in the framework of the  Lifelong Learning Programme. 

The project partners proactively encourage the diverse user groups to reflect on their current provision and support, and to make effective changes through a series of self-analysis tools developed by synthesising the experiences of the past projects.

Project Objective

The aim of the project is to promote the integration of dyslexic individuals into lifelong learning and employment. This is done through the promotion of the access to available practices , strategies, tools and technologies developed or identified in the framework of previous European projects in the field of dyslexia.

The previous projects of particular interest are Adystrain (supporting employers and lecturers), Calldysc (mobile language learning), Dystrain (e-learning course for teachers), "Dyspatec" (parental support), Edysgate (cognitive games for young adults), Forward (teaching adults), Include (adult self-support), "iSHeds" (higher eduction support in the Balkans), "Success" (school-based support) and "Provision and Use of ICT by Dyslexia Students at University in Europe" (survey of ICT use).

Target Groups

•    School teachers
•    Parents of dyslexic children
•    Adult education institutions
•    Association of dyslexic people
•    Public bodies

Key activities of the project:

  1. Identification and profiling, support for adults and children, with particular reference to Project Include, Adstrain and ESF
  2. The role of technology in supporting the individual with dyslexia, with particular reference to Provision and Use, Calldysc, and Edysgate
  3. Continuity of experience in Lifelong Learning with particular reference to Dystrain and Adystrain
  4. Embedding into the mainstream of education through policies and implementation strategies, with reference to all the projects.

 

Partnership

The partnership for this project reflects a combination of the main players from the previous initiatives as well as a diversity of organisations from a series of networks that cross Europe.