SPARK

Goals

Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) plays a vital role in promoting the health and well-being of children and young people. Teacher and parent confidence and capacity are current barriers to quality CSE. The overall project aim is to develop and implement CSE courses across 5 countries, using the European approach to micro-credentials, to equip school communities. Target groups are school leaders (500), teachers(650), pre-service teachers(500), parents(500), and trainers(100) to sustain impact

Partners

Leading organization: Dublin City University (DCU, Ireland)

Partner organizations:

  • UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA (UNL, Portugal)
  • ASFALI XENIASTA PEDIA TORA (AXEPT, Greece)
  • EPISTIMONIKI ENOSI – EKPEDEFTIKIS, TECHNOLOGIKIS, POLITISTIKIS – KENOTOMIAS & SYNERGASIAS (LaBSTEM, Greece)
  • OPEN UP (Greek Scientific Association of Innovation, Greece)
  • KYPRIAKOS SYNDESMOS OIKOGENEIAKOU PROGRAMMATISMOU. Cyprus Family Planning Association (CFPA, Cyprus)
  • Fondazione Mondo Digitale (FMD, Italy)

Team

  • Seline Keating – DCU
  • Marie Flynn – DCU
  • Audrey Bryan – DCU
  • James O’Higgins Norman – DCU
  • Sílvia de Almeida – UNL, Portugal
  • Bárbara Bäckström – UNL, Portugal
  • Margarita Gerouki – AXEPT, Greece
  • Ioannis Dimos – LaBSTEM, Greece
  • Thalia Barlagianni – LaBSTEM, Greece
  • Stavroula Mpoti- LaBSTEM, Greece
  • Stelios Orfanakis – OPEN UP, Greece
  • Maria Epaminonda – CFPA , Cyprus
  • Marta Tonelli – FMD, Italy
  • Cecilia Stajano – FMD, Italy
  • Nicoletta Vulpetti – FMD, Italy
  • Annaleda Mazzucato – FMD, Italy
ERASMUS + 2024-1-IE01-KA220-SCH-000245697