Cooperation partnerships in higher education
The main objective of the Erasmus+ cooperation partnership project, ‘Clinical Practices in Institutions for the Inclusion of Autistic Subjects’ (PIISA), is to include students in clinical and research practices with autistic subjects in institutions (co-construction).
The project has two sub-objectives aimed at inclusion:
I. inclusion of autistic individuals in institutions;
II. The second is the inclusion of multiple practices among those proposed as ‘good practices’ at the European Community level.
The project began in December 2024 and will be carried out jointly by the University of Rennes 2 (France) – the project coordinator – and three partner institutions for three years until December 2027: the University of Ghent (Belgium), the Freudian Institute for Clinical Practice, Therapy and Science (Italy), and the Quarto Nodo Foundation – ETS (Italy).
The PIISA project is based on a needs analysis covering four areas:
1. Education: Organisation of a biannual European seminar on clinical practices in institutions (PIISA seminar), during which students will present a clinical case. These presentations will be reviewed from theoretical and clinical perspectives during a course at the students’ place of study. The presentations will also be used to produce a collective work co-authored with the students.
2. Teaching and training: teaching group practice.
Training students in clinical positioning within their professional practice based on clinical experience. The link between professional practice, clinical experience and clinical positioning will be reinforced through clinical presentations during seminars and follow-up teaching courses. This focus will also contribute to the development, implementation and dissemination of the MOOC.
3. Clinical focus: co-construction of case studies with students using the case study methodology. Reconstruction of the six case studies presented during the PIISA seminar, with a report available online in three languages.
4. Research focus: co-construction of a study/research protocol and its implementation in three countries. Production of evaluation sheets for case studies focusing on quality of life criteria.
In general, the objectives of our action research are:
- Didactic-pedagogical
- innovative research
- Disseminating the results to meet the requirements of the guidelines of different European countries in the field of autism and good clinical practice.
