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QUEST attends the movie challenge screening at CDE school in Sofia

Following the 2 days of BUSTA meetings, the QUEST team, with it’s 4 European Solidarity Corps volunteers, had the opportunity to join the students at the Community of Democratic Education at their school. This was a special day, as the whole community gathered for a screening of the results of a student’s movie-making challenge. As […]

BUSTA Transnational Project Meeting in Sofia

All partners from Belgium, Bulgaria, and Lithuania have gathered in Sofia the 3rd and 4th of May for 3rd and 4th of May for the project’s midterm TPM. We have reviewed the progress of the video documentary (PR1),  the Impact Report (PR2) and set the structure of the Guidelines (PR3). Our next step will be the […]

Learning Teaching Training Activity 2 in Klaipeda Video is now published on the QUEST website!

Klaipedos Maria Montessori school – kindergarden and the Lithuanian Sea Museum host the second Learning Teaching Training activity for the BUSTA Erasmus+ project (Building Skills through Training Therapy Animals). With the BUSTA project students from partner countries – Lithuania, Bulgaria, and Belgium have the opportunity to have real life impact that goes beyond the boundaries […]

BUSTA project in progress!

Now that most partners have completed their student activities, and that 2 learning exchange trips have successfully taken place, BUSTA’s partners are working together and steadily making progress on the project results: The footage from all partners have now been sent to QUEST in order to start the documentary first stages of editing (PR1). The […]

QUEST and BUSTA students and partners screen each a 2 min preview video of their therapy animal training activities at the 2022 Klaipeda Festival about disability awareness.

The Festival “I’m indifferent and you?” organised by Lithuanian Sea Museum in Klaipėda University was held on the 2nd of December 2022. More than 2,000 children from approx. 100 schools and kindergartens from all over Lithuania took part in the event. The event coincides with International Day of Persons with Disabilities, so the host of the event […]

BUSTA’s second Learning Teaching and Training trip: Klaipeda, Lithuania

QUEST travelled with 6 students from Belgium to Klaipeda, and met up with 8 students from Community for Democratic Education from Bulgaria, in Klaipeda, Lithuania early December 2022. The total group consisted of the following participants: students, teachers and staff members of Montessori school in Lithuania and Democratic schools in Bulgaria and Belgium; dolphin and […]

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Cala Wioska School

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Creating a Safe, Inclusive and Supportive Classroom

Sehlim Charles

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Young Children’s Voices in Educational Decision-Making: Power and Participation in Disadvantaged Preschool Classrooms

Duygu Yalman Polatlar

Duygu Yalman Polatlar is an Assistant Professor at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University, Türkiye. Her research focuses on early childhood education, children’s literature, children’s rights, and children’s participation.

Alperen Avcı

Alperen Avcı is a lecturer at Muş Alparslan University, Türkiye, and a PhD candidate in Preschool Education at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University.

Rights-based Participation of Children with Special Educational Needs in Educational Decision-Making

Lenka Mazáková

Lenka Mazakova is a co-founder of the Slobodna skola. She specializes in inclusive educational practices for students with diverse needs and behavioural challenges in democratic school environments.

From Participation to Practice: How Evidence-Based Wellbeing and Equity-Focused Leadership Can Shift Power Towards Children’s Voices in Education

Geetika Goyal

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Jayne Carter

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Reimagining Educational Research Through Children’s Participation: Insights from Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approaches

Sarah Zerika

Sarah Zerika holds a PhD in Educational Sciences and is a Substitute Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Geneva’s Centre for Children’s Rights Studies. Her research focuses on children’s rights and participation in education, school climate, transdisciplinary approaches, and the ethics of research involving children.

Johanna Zelck

Johanna Zelck is a research and teaching assistant at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. Her doctoral research focuses on children’s interpretation and negotiations of the generational order and adultism.

Maude Louviot

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From Consultation to Co-Creation: Child Leadership in Practice in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Serbia

Nejira Pasic

Nejira Pašić is the Children’s Rights Project Lead for Southeast Europe at the Global Campus of Human Rights, where she leads children’s rights mainstreaming and programming, including the Child Leadership Team and Youth Advisory Group. She is also a Lecturer at the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, teaching research methods, public policy and human rights.