About the project The European Policy Network on School Leadership (EPNoSL) aims at improving policy and practice on school leadership in Europe. To this effect a collaborative network in which members co-construct, manage and share knowledge has been set up. The term "School Leadership" refers to the process of strategically using the unique skills and knowledge of teachers, pupils, and parents, toward achieving common educational goals. EPNoSL is a partner-run consortium created in 2011 in response to an increasing focus on school leaders’ professional development, including preparation and selection of school leaders across Europe. Through this Platform partners can collaborate privately and the network members can share information publicly with interested individuals, institutions and associations engaging in activity pertaining to school leadership. Among the themes being addressed this year are: Autonomy Accountability Distributed Leadership Policy Response Educating School Leaders The EPNoSL project also involves learning exchange events to which those interested can participate, and participation in smaller national networks of stakeholders functioning as “Communities of Practice”, as well as an international online forum. Annualy two European Level Peer Learning Activity Events are organized by EPNoSL. Please refer to EPNoSL events for further information. The Network represents stakeholders on School Leadership from 42 European based institutions and intends to expand to all EU and Associated Member-States. EPNoSL partners include academic and other experts engaged in key thematic areas, education ministries and other policymakers, as well as professional associations at national, regional and European levels. In addition, research and capacity-building actors serve a fundamental role in enabling and facilitating meaningful exchanges among partners, as well as evaluation and dissemination of findings. The project has set itself six broad objectives which are implemented through corresponding activities designed to achieve a set of expected outcomes and affect the target groups. The work carried out by EPNoSL is partly financed by a four-year grant (2011-2014) from the European Commission, Directorate-General for Education and Culture (Grant Agreement - EAC-2010-1388/1), within the framework of the Lifelong Learning Programme. The EPNoSL partnership engages in diverse activities resulting in different types of resources on school leadership, among which are National Case Reports, Synthesis Reports on specific themes, Typologies, Networking at national level as well as higlights on School Leadership issues and related bibliographical references.
On the behalf of the European Policy Network on School Leadership partnership.
Dr. Kathy Kikis-Papadakis Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics (IACM) Educational Research and Evaluation Division