The alliED Network for Inclusion in Education is a public LinkedIn group for education practitioners and other experts developing capacity in the areas of inclusion, diversity, equity, and access in higher education.
Expectations
Joining the alliED Network on LinkedIn is for anyone who wants to share their experiences with implementing IDEA practices at the institutional, faculty, or policy level. This group is coordinated by the IDEA-net project, which has been running since September 2022:
- An online database of over 50 IDEA offices, services, programmes and leadership positions from around the world.
- Nine-step guidelines for setting up a central IDEA office.
- Proven methods for designing institutional IDEA training and support.
Conversation starters for applying these findings will be published in the LinkedIn group, via our newsletter and our webinars. In the longer term, the IDEA-net team plans to develop universally applicable models for capacity building in IDEA training and support. Therefore, facilitating meaningful dialogue and engagement towards this goal is a key priority for our team.
Learn more about why we created this network
Firstly, we believe that international collaboration is a valuable asset to support the sustainable development of IDEA practices. As our project is in its final year, we want to provide more effective IDEA training and support.
Currently, the project is conducting IDEA workshops at partner universities in Belgrade, Ljubljana and Zadar. The methodology for these workshops is developed by ECHO (Expertise Centre for Diversity Policy) – an organisation with 30 years of experience capacity building IDEA in the Dutch education system.
University College Dublin, another project partner, contributes participatory universal design approaches, in particular through the Guidelines for an IDEA office. Erasmus University Rotterdam, as coordinator of the IDEA-net project, contributes its many years of experience in managing IDEA from vision to realisation.
The Knowledge Innovation Centre is proud to lead this Community of Practice and the dissemination of the project. It is committed to ongoing dialogue, resource sharing and professional development in education.