PIONEERED – Pioneering policies and practices tackling educational inequalities in Europe
PIONEERED was a Horizon 2020 project (2021-2024) designed to provide research- informed policy measures and to identify pioneering policies and practices in order to enhance access to, uptake and completion of education both in formal and informal educational settings and at different stages of education. The project is mostly -but not exclusively- related to STRIDE’S work on collecting and analysing policy reforms tackling inequalities during the last 25 years in Europe, in national and regional systems. PIONEERED brought together 13 partners from 9 countries: University of Luxembourg, LISER – Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (Luxembrourg), University of Bern (Switzerland), University of Mannheim, Trier, European Research and Project Office GmbH (Germany), Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), University of Helsinki (Finland), TÁRKI Social Research Institute (Hungary), The Economic and Social Research Institute (Ireland), PPMI– Public Policy and Management Institute (Lithuania), Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, University of Bergen (Norway).
The project implemented: a) mapping emerging and existing sources of educational inequalities over the course of educational careers from early childhood to tertiary education, b) mapping responses to inequalities as pioneering policies and practices from a comparative perspective, c) synthesising the findings and identifying the most promising tools, pioneering policies and practices within and across European countries.
The overarching aim was to address some of the pressing societal challenges taken up in the Horizon 2020 framework and inform a new generation of policies and practices that can efficiently tackle and mitigate forms of inequalities in education in Europe. PIONEERED’s recommendations were tailored to different stakeholders (i.e. engaging both researchers, political stakeholders and end users) and formulated at different levels (i.e. national, regional policy level as well as institutional, classroom, and individual level) to meet their different needs. Overall, the PIONEERED outcomes contribute to the educational success of all students, and, in particular, of students from vulnerable groups who are perceived as being at risk of leaving school early, and future unemployment, while taking into account trajectories, intersectionalities and formal as well as informal education.
For more insights and detailed findings, visit the PIONEERED project website: https://www.pioneered-project.eu/
