About IDEAS

Looking for Examples of Proven Success

We are collecting examples of equity interventions from all corners of the world.
We are researching if they worked, how they worked and why they worked.

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Directly Involved Stakeholders

We are a partnership of 5 organisations from 4 countries from a variety of fields.
We are actively involved with equity issues on a day-to-day basis.

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Inspiring & Transferring Best Practice

We are highlighting the very best equity interventions.
We are telling educators how to replicate the cases to improve equity in their own institutions.

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Partners

57

Collected Cases

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Planned Events

35

Countries Covered

Effective Approaches to Enhancing
the Social Dimension of Education

By identifying effective and efficient approaches to improve the social dimension in higher education, this publication presents examples of good practice with proven quantitative and qualitative successes. In the report, which brings together the entire work of the project over the last 2.5 years, the partners provide the necessary data and frameworks of tested experience to inspire (higher) education institutions in particular, other stakeholders like governments (local & national) and foundations to translate, implement and replicate.

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Equity Initiatives

Browse our collection of peer-reviewed examples of equity interventions with proven success from across the globe.

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Filter by Tag (primarily) Disabled students 1st generation 5th and 6th grade pupils Academia Academia (mainly staff) Academic counselling Academic HE Academic preparation Academic skills Access Access to HE Access to Higher Education Activism Admissions Adult learners Advocacy Aspiration development Aspirations audio Australia Awareness campaign Awareness Raising Belgium Belgium – Flanders Belonging Bradley report Bradley Review Bursary Canada Children Community Community Colleges completion Counseling Counselling Culturally sensitive D&I in organisations Decreasing drop-outs Democracy Disabilities Disability Disability or long-term medical condition Distance learning Economic disadvantage Educational Video Egypt Employability Empowerment Equality Law Ethnic minority Families Financial assistance Financial assistance / bursaries / scholarships Financial Counselling Financial disadvantage Financial support Finland First Generation Students Foreign students France gallery Gender Gender equity Germany Girls Graduate support Health counselling Health Sciences Higher Education Housing support Inclusion Inclusive excellence Indigenous Indigenous status Inner City Institutes International Education International Qualifications International students Internships Isolated students Kenya Language development Language learning Latvia Law students Leadership development Learning disabilities Learning to learn Legal Advice link Link between school and Higher education Lisbon Lobby Local students Mainly academic Managing diversity mental disability Mental Health Mentoring Migrants Mind mapping Multilingualism Netherlands Netherlands – Amsterdam Netherlands – Rotterdam New Zealand Nursery OER On-campus experiences Open education Outreach Overall students population Parent education participation Peer learning Peer mentoring Peer support Poland Portugal Post Formats Preparation Preventing discrimination Primary School Psychotherapeutic support Pupils quote Refugees Regional collaboration Retention Retention theory Riga Scholarships Science Science clubs Science Festival Self-awareness Sense of belonging shortcode Skills gap Social inclusion Social Justice Socio economic disadvantage Socio-economic background Somalia Staff and management level / STEM STEM Stereotyping Strength based approach Student support Student Union Students Students ( with migrant backgrounds) Students services Students with children Study Skills Study-assistance Summer programme support service tailored courses Teacher training Tertiary Entrance Rank Texas Transition to HE Transversal skills Tutoring Under-represented schools Underrepresentation Underrepresented Underrepresented groups United Kingdom United States University colleges Urban development Urban education US USA video Volunteering Volunteers Vulnerable pupils Well-being Widening participation Women Women (of color) Work shops Workshop Workshops Young professional programme

Filter by Learning Sector Academic HE Higher Education Level 5 / Short Cycle HE Other Professional HE Secondary Education Short Cycle HE Vocational Education

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  BHER Borderless Higher Education for Refugees

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  Couple Learning Programme (former)/Culture Exchange Programme (current) – inter-universities’ student councils’ project

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  Conseil Social (CS / Social Council)

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  Peer counselling

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  Academic Advancement Program (AAP) at UCLA

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  The Brilliant Club

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  Psychotherapeutic Help

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  Student tutoring (Practical example from Antwerp University)

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  MIDS (Educational Area) non-profitable organization working among the poor sections of the society

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  I Belong Program

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  Improving the democratic character of higher education “Democratisering van het hoger onderwijs”

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  Pre Academic Programme (PAP)

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Background Info

IDEAS is inspired by the results of the EQUNET project which ran from 2009-2012.
– Download Overview of Equitable Access to HE in Europe
– Download Participation of Students with an Immigrant Background in European HE
– Visit EQUNET website