On 8 November 2017, the Agency hosted a meeting with representatives of the project ‘Europe begins in Lampedusa’. Mr Renato Girelli from the European Commission, Mr Raffaele Ciambrone, representative from the Italian Ministry and Agency Representative Board member, Mr Tereke Bhrane, President of ‘Comitato 3 Ottobre’ together with a delegation of students and teachers from three Italian high schools from Lampedusa, Rome and Trieste, joined the Agency office in Brussels.

A series of events entitled ‘Europe begins in Lampedusa’ took place for the second consecutive year on the island of Lampedusa in Italy, between 30 September and 3 October 2017. The Italian Ministry of Education organised the event together with the Italian Ministry of Interior, the association ‘Comitato 3 ottobre’ and the Municipality of Lampedusa and Linosa.

The Inclusive Early Childhood Education (IECE) conference took place on 1–2 November 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal. The Agency organised this event in co-operation with the General-Directorate of Education, Ministry of Education and Science, Portugal.

The conference aimed to highlight and present the project’s main outcomes:

Access the 2017 November eBulletin in html format here.

The European Agency Statistics on Inclusive Education (EASIE) data tables and country background information for the 2014/2015 school year are now available on the Agency’s Data web area. This is the second EASIE dataset to be published.