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Education System Profiles

These profiles have been commissioned as an input for the 2021 regional report on inclusion and education in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. These versions are a working draft and will be subject to further copy-editing. Their content has not been edited nor verified by the GEM Report team. The views and opinions expressed in these profiles, including anecdotal evidence from interviews, are those of the interviewees or researchers of this profile and should not be attributed to the Global Education Monitoring Report, to UNESCO or to EASNIE and NEPC. The information in these documents was current in June 2020.

The European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education (EASNIE) was responsible for the profiles in: Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. The Network of Education Policy Centers (NEPC) was responsible for the profiles in: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo* , Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

 

Albania

Rozeta Hoxhallari, Griselda Zisi and Itena Hoxhallari, Children are the Future

Armenia

Lilit Nazaryan

Azerbaijan

Ulviyya Mikayilova, Elmina Kazimzade

Belarus

Hanna Siarova

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ivona Čelebičić and Zlatan Jovanović, PROMENTE Social Research

Bulgaria

Amélie Lecheval, EASNIE

Croatia

Amélie Lecheval, EASNIE, Eli Pijaca Plavšić, Forum for Freedom in Education

Czech Republic

Marta Presmanes, EASNIE

Estonia

Marcella Turner-Cmuchal, EASNIE

Georgia

Giorgi Machabeli and Tamar Meshki, International Institute for Education Policy, Planning and Management

Hungary

András Lénárt, EASNIE

Kazakhstan

Gulbadan Zakayeva and Aigul Iskakova, Community Educational Foundation School for All

Kosovo*

Ema Rraci and Dukagjin Pupovci, Kosovo Education Center

Kyrgyzstan

Larisa Marchenko, Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University and Aleksandr Ivanov and Anastasia Kutepova, Foundation Education Initiatives Support

Latvia

Verity Donnelly, EASNIE

Lithuania

Amélie Lecheval, EASNIE

Mongolia

Batjargal Batkhuyag, Mongolian Education Alliance

Montenegro

Elvira Hadžibegović Bubanja, Anđelija Lučić,, Jelena Fustic and Jelena Fustic, Forum MNE

North Macedonia

Ana M. Raleva, Macedonian Civic Education Centre

Poland

Verity Donnelly, EASNIE

Republic of Moldova

Virginia Rusnac, Republican Centre for Psychopedagogical Assistance and Educational Centre PRO DIDACTICA

Romania

Cristina Popescu, EASNIE

Russian Federation

Marina Moiseeva

Serbia

Verity Donnelly, EASNIE

Slovakia

Mette Højgaard Nielsen, EASNIE

Slovenia

Amanda Watkins, EASNIE

Tajikistan

Kutbiddin Mukhtori

Turkey

Burcu Meltem Arık, Özgenur Korlu, Merve Mert, Fidan Gözde Ertekin and Kayıhan Kesbiç, Education Reform Initiative

Ukraine

Natalia Sofyi

Uzbekistan

Paula Fredrica Hunt and Ulviyya Mikailova

 

*References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999).