SPARK: Igniting teacher and parent confidence and competency levels in delivering quality Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE)
Project Partners/Funders
Partners
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The consortium, led by Seline Keating, is made up of eight partners across five countries
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Ireland - DCU (Dublin)
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- MIC (Limerick)
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Italy - FMD (Rome)
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Greece - AXEPT (Rethymno, Crete)
Labstem (Lamia)
Open Up (Larisa)
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Portugal - NOVA University (Lisbon)
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Cyprus - CFA (Nicosia)
Funder
- Erasmus+ KA220-SCH - Cooperation partnerships in school education
Fund Award Amount
€400,000
Project Overview
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 levels are current barriers to quality CSE. The SPARK project aims to develop and implement CSE courses across 5 countries (Ireland, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Cyprus), using the European approach to micro-credentials, to equip whole-school communities.
The project’s target groups are school leaders, teachers, preservice teachers, parents, and trainers to sustain impact.
Project Goals
SPARK’s goal is to empower whole-school communities to adopt quality CSE practices. It will provide school leaders, teachers, and preservice teachers with the skill-set needed to create an inclusive CSE culture and deliver meaningful CSE lessons, with parental cooperation. Trainers will sustain the results, while the SPARK conference will disseminate and extend synergies across the EU.
Principal Investigator
Seline Keating