13, Diogenous Laertiou Str. 10446
Athens
Greece
- Youth and education
EADAP's vision is to substantially and effectively contribute to the development and creative occupation of children from preschool age to their first years at school, thus promoting their rights and contributing to the recognition and respect of their diversity, while also developing educational innovations and conducting academic research on those matters.
EADAP aims to:
• design and implement training programmes,
• promote continuous in-service training,
• develop collaboration among parents, educators and educational bodies, and involve all of them in reforming the educational institutions,
• advance and link action research, training and innovations in preschool and school institutions,
• research and train in the field of intercultural education and
• create educational networks.
EADAP's academic members have developed an in-service training methodology, which they called Synergy. EADAP has been expanding and disseminating the Synergy methodology through:
• implementing programmes at municipal day care centres,
• involving executives from relevant bodies in the programmes,
• engaging certified educators-mediators to staff the programmes,
• publishing material,
• presenting papers,
• conducting research in Greece and
• participating in research programmes abroad.
Furthermore, EADAP has been running educational programmes and seminars focusing on:
• specific targets, as has been done, for example, with the Aesop intercultural education programme,
• specific themes such as, for example, health education, environmental education, evaluation, etc.,
• the educational needs not only in Athens but also on the rest of Greece, by providing distance learning courses and
• the needs of education executives (school counsellors, education officers, headmistresses and day care centres' managers).
European projects EADAP has been involved in, include Leonardo Da Vinci, Gruntvig, Comenius, etc.