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Concept The starting point for the conference is to explore education in a holistic way and bring the family perspective to debates on education, including the core values of COFACE Families Europe: social inclusion, equal opportunities, solidarity, empowerment, human rights and non-discrimination. COFACE Families Europe considers these essential for building inclusive, diverse and sustainable communities in Europe.

Context  The Right to Education has been recognized as a human right in a number of international conventions, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 26), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Articles 13 and 14), and the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Article 28) which recognises a right to free, compulsory primary education for all, and includes an obligation to develop secondary education and higher education accessible to all. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) defines and guarantees the right to inclusive education.

 The UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030. SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning. Education is the key that will allow many other SDGs to be achieved. Inclusive and quality education must therefore be placed as a priority in both policy and practice.

 Child rights and well-being is a priority for COFACE Families Europe, and this includes in the field of education. Member organisations of COFACE Families Europe provide different types of services to families to help them support the well-being of their children, including support in addressing challenges linked to the education of their children.

 Education is a hot topic at EU level, with principle 1 of the recently proclaimed European Pillar of Social Rights focusing on Education, training and life-long learning: “Everyone has the right to quality and inclusive education, training and life-long learning in order to maintain and acquire skills that enable them to participate fully in society and manage successfully transitions in the labour market.”

Conference objectives The combination of international human rights obligations, the momentum around the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the newly proclaimed European Pillar of Social Rights, and the importance of education for COFACE Families Europe, means the time is right for us to contribute to promoting education where children without discrimination can take part in quality and inclusive education, so they can have a good start in life and access better opportunities across their lifecycle.

This conference will look at education holistically, and namely:  Mainstream the core values of COFACE in discussions on education;  Examine the role of families as first educators and their support needs;  Explore the role of families in building sustainable and future-proof education systems;  Ensure that inclusive and quality education is placed as priority in both policy and practice;  Contribute to shaping the future education landscape in Europe.

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19.00-22.00 Welcome reception supported by the Governor of Styria, Hermann 10.45-12.30 Workshop 1 Schützenhöfer - under the Austrian Presidency, with the participation of Parallel Inclusive education from right to reality: is legislation enough to Barbara Eibinger-Miedl, Provincial Minister for Europe and Economics, workshops empower families? Province of Styria, Austria. Session 1 With the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as the key reference, this workshop will look at three countries as a starting point for discussions: Luxembourg, Italy and Portugal. These countries have laws on inclusive education. The 5th October 2018 speakers (from civil society organisations) will share their experience of the pros and cons of legislation, and examine what other elements are essential to achieve real implementation (e.g. funding, trainings in schools, services to families, shift in societal 08.30-9.00 Registrations and coffee attitudes).

09.00-9.30 Welcome Moderator: , Policy and Advocacy Officer, COFACE Irene Bertana

Moderator: Elisabeth Potzinger, President of Styrian Catholic Family Speakers: Association, COFACE-Administrator - Michèle Racke, Deputy Director of APEMH, Luxembourg.

- Gaetano Santonocito, Managing Director of A.I.A.S. Città di Monza Onlus, Speakers: Italy. - Siegfried Nagl, Mayor of the City of Graz, Austria -Isabel Amaro (Psychologist) and Maria José Lorena (Occupational - , Federal Minister for Families, Women and Youth, Juliane Bogner-Strauss Therapist), Fundaçao Liga, Portugal. Austria - Alfred Trendl, President of the Austrian Catholic Family Association, KFÖ ______- Annemie Drieskens, COFACE Families Europe President - Video message from Marianne Thyssen , European Commissioner for Workshop 2 Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility The transformative power of digitalization in schools: where to draw the line?

09.30-10.30 Keynote speakers: what should the paradigm shift look like? The experience of the European eTwinning programme will set the scene of the workshop, giving an overview of overall trends in the teaching world. The role of Speakers: technology to drive innovation in teaching and learning will be examined, from both the perspective of teachers and parents, as well as the potential of partnerships between The contribution of parents to a sustainable and futureproof education teachers and families to address emerging challenges together so the full benefits of By Martina Leibovici-Mühlberger. Psychotherapist, Doctor of Medicine technology can be harnessed. (General Practicioner, Gynaecoligist), Head of Education Advice Institute „Fitforkids“ Moderator: Martin Schmalzried, Policy and Advocacy Manager, COFACE

Placing the child at the centre of our education systems Speakers: By Irmeli Halinen, Director for Educational Innovations, Metodix Oy. Former - Claire Morvan, Communication Manager, eTwinning, Europe. Head of National Curriculum Development, Finland. - Julien Léonard, Expert, Union Nationale des Associations Familiales, UNAF, France.

10.30-10.45 Coffee break 12.30-13.30 Lunch buffet & networking, supported by the Mayor of Graz, Siegfried Nagl.

13.30-15.30 Workshop 3 Parallel Childcare in the 21st century: at a crossroads between education, family workshops and social policy? session 2 Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), in other words care provision and education of very young children (below primary school age) outside of their family and home setting, is still lacking in many countries. This is especially the case for children below the age of 3. This workshop will bring local, national and EU realities together to explore synergies and pave the way for building holistic childcare services accessible to all children.

Moderator: Paola Panzeri, Policy and Advocacy Manager, COFACE

Speakers: - Kurt Hohensinner, City Councellor for Families, Youth, Education, childcare and social affairs, Member of the City Government, Graz, Austria. - Sven Iversen, Director of the Association of German Family Organisations (AGF), Germany.

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Workshop 4 Parental support services to address discrimination against their children: how can education contribute to building inclusive societies?

This discussion will put the focus on parents and education. By exploring education as a family project, we will examine some of the challenges which parents face when their children are discriminated (e.g. bullying) and the consequences. That same holistic approach will be used to consider the potential of multi-level partnerships to support children, parents and teachers to jointly tackle diversity in schools.

Moderator: Liz Gosme, Director, COFACE

Speakers: - Livia Járóka, Member of European Parliament, Hungary. (video speech) - Astrid Ebenberger, KFÖ-Vice-President - Antonia Torrens, Director of KMOP (Family and Childcare Centre), Greece.

15.30-16.00 Closing plenary exchange: Where do we go from here? A final discussion with members of COFACE Families Europe Concluding remarks by Elisabeth Meixner, Head of Educational Directory of Styria, Austria.

COFACE Families Europe - Tel: +32 2 511 41 79 - [email protected] - www.coface-eu.org

COFACE Families Europe is supported by the EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation "EaSI" (2014-2020). The information contained in this programme does not necessarily reflect the official position of the European Commission.

13.30-15.30 Workshop 3 Notizen x Parallel Childcare in the 21st century: at a crossroads between education, family workshops and social policy? session 2 Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), in other words care provision and education of very young children (below primary school age) outside of their family and home setting, is still lacking in many countries. This is especially the case for children below the age of 3. This workshop will bring local, national and EU realities together to explore synergies and pave the way for building holistic childcare services accessible to all children.