The Project started in 2021 with a partnership between the University of Pisa (leading partner) (Riccardo Guidi); University of Bucharest (Florin Lazar); CIES-ISCTE (Jorge Ferreira); Complutense University of Madrid (Iria de la Fuente Roldan); Hochschule Bremen (Christian Spatscheck); HoGhent (Femke Dewulf, Nicole Vanhoucke); Maltepe University (Nese Sahin Tasgin, Kubranur Gormus, Gokcesu Aksit Dudakli) 8. Masaryk Univerity (Roman Balaz, Monika Punova); Matej Bel University (Alzbeta Brozmanova Gregorova); University of Milan-Bicocca (Paolo Rossi); Ostfold University College (Bengt Morten Wenstob); Sussex University (Henglien Lisa Chen); and Taras Shevchenko University (Olena Chuiko, Valentyna Shkuro).
The project addressed Social Work practice education (IASSW, IFSW 2020: 13) in Europe in 2020/2021. It gave the partners and other European Schools of Social Work a chance to know, exchange and cross-fertilize the strategies, methods and activities of the curricular programs that train students to professional practice in connection to social work organizations and practitioners (e.g. internships). The project namely focused on the continuities, multiple adaptations, experimentations and enduring innovations in and after the Covid19 pandemic.
The project considered the diversity of the Social Work Education systems and the heterogeneity of the practice education programs in Europe. The project encompassed their complexity and tackled the continuities and changes in the perspective to strengthen collaboration, innovation and efficacy in Social Work Education, namely in practice education.
The results can be fully accessed through the following report: REPORT