Integration of children with special educational needs through the Comenius regio project Social and school integration of pupils with SEN in Romania and Greece

Children with special educational needs are one of the most vulnerable sections of the community. In order to achieve the social inclusion of this category, we should focus on the education and rehabilitation of these children. In a perfect world it would be better and we really wished there were no sick children, no disabled children, no separation of children in mainstream schools and in schools for inclusive education. Inclusion, considered as an issue, has much deeper roots, however. We are not sure whether there have been other European projects addressing this issue, but the project which we have proposed aimed to make a comparison between the education systems of Romania and Greece, the effective integration strategies and methods used, the functioning of the integration process, the role of the responsible factors and the progress of this process, the way the education of children with SEN is supported (curriculum and teaching-learning strategies, specific evaluation), the way the inclusive education is promoted in the local community and last but not least, the problems encountered and the ways to solve them.