“Parents in the classroom – How can we support students with children in higher education?” – Webinar presentation
June 12, 2025
As part of the webinar, we will present our Erasmus+ project 2023-1-HU01-KA220-HED-000156058 “Supporting inclusive learning environments – strategies for supporting students with children in higher education,” which is being implemented with the support of the European Union as a major higher education project under the Erasmus+ program.
Partners:
- Károli Gáspár Reformed University
- Komáromi Selye János University
- II. Rákóczi Ferenc Carpathian Hungarian College
- Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania
Webinar program
Information about the project – presentation of the project elements to date and the project tasks planned for the second half of 2025 – Örs Levente Kovács, project coordinator NOE
Results of the research carried out within the framework of the project – Bálint Duráczky, research leader
About the project
The main objective of the project is to reduce the barriers affecting students with children in higher education institutions. The project, implemented within the framework of a partnership, creates an inclusive approach for universities that enables the integration of the target group into higher education activities. Within the framework of the program, the partnership considers the development of family-friendly higher education systems to be its top priority, with a particular focus on increasing the access, participation, and completion rates of disadvantaged students.
With the comprehensive resources created as a result of the project and their use, the partnership aims to implement inclusive, family-friendly curricula and practices in the participating higher education institutions.
Comprehensive focus group research will be carried out within the institutional framework of the partner organizations. Two research documents will explore the challenges families face in university life and the skills teachers need to respond to these challenges. Based on the research results, a toolkit will be compiled to provide guidance and methodological tools for teachers to support students with families in higher education institutions.
Presentation of current program elements/Research summary
In addition to presenting the events that took place during the six-month project period, the briefing also provided a brief overview of the research activities that are a central element of the program, with particular emphasis on the fact that the institutional testing phase of the previously completed toolkit is nearing completion. During the predominantly qualitative data collection, student opinions and feedback from teachers and institutions were and are being channelled to the partner institutions with a deadline of the end of May 2025. Selected teachers (7 at Károli Gáspár University and 5 at the other partner institutions) are keeping test logs of the testing activities. These documents will be used to compile a set of recommendations, which will be compiled and finalized in a broad interpretative context, applying the perspective of students with families, in a toolkit document that is considered one of the main objectives of the project. Following the testing period, interviews with teachers will be conducted, and the experiences and results of the test logs will be used in this research phase.