Awarded in the Contest "School Alert!" 2024/2025

Category 1 (Pre-School Education and 1st Cycle of Basic Education)

1st Prize

Application entitled "Learning and Growing in Inclusion", from Standard Basic School of Légua, the Group of Standard Schools of Légua, municipality of Matosinhos, district of Porto.

2nd Prize

Application entitled “Put yourself in the Other’s shoes – for accessibility in the parking” from Aires Elementary School, Palmela Schools Group, Palmela municipality, Setúbal district

Category 2 (2nd and 3rd cycles of basic education)

1st Prize

Application entitled “Pictocate – communicate with pictograms”, from Aires Elementary School, Palmela Schools Group, municipality of Palmela, district of Setúbal.

Category 3 (Secondary Education)

1st Prize

Application entitled “Together, we raise our voice for more and better accessibility in Figueira da Foz!”, from Bernardino Machado Secondary School, Figueira Mar School Group, municipality of Figueira da Foz, district of Coimbra.

2nd Prize

Application entitled “Inclusive Tourism in the Restoration”, from Infante D. Henrique Professional Schoolmunicipality of Porto, district of Porto

Indicators of participation in the “School Alert!” Competition 2024/2025

In the current edition of the “School Alert!” competition, 30 applications (9 from Category 1, 13 from Category 2 and 8 from Category 3) were received from 28 schools, spread over 11 districts and involving 2109 students and 161 teachers.

Composition of the National Jury

The National Jury of the 2024/2025 edition has the following composition:

• Miguel Ferro (INR, I.P. - National Institute for Rehabilitation / President of the Jury);
• Adalberto Fernandes (Personality of Recognized Merit);
• António Dias (National Council of Education);
• Ana Paula Monteiro (Directorate-General for Schools);
• Eduardo Pizarro (Portuguese Autism Federation);
• Joaquim Brites (Portuguese Neuromuscular Association);
• Margarida Loureiro (Pro - Inclusion – National Association of Special Education Teachers).

Find out more...

The "School Alert!" contest is included, since its origin, in the Inclusive Education project, through which it is intended that all students develop and actively participate in projects that promote the construction of more just and inclusive societies, within the framework of Democracy, respect for diversity and the defense of human rights.

To learn more about the objectives of this project consult:

• o Regulation No 858/2024 of 7 August;
• a Grid with criteria for appraisal and selection of works [DOCX | 115 KB | 2 page(s)] which were defined by the National Jury
• a United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (also available in version of easy reading HERE)
• as Frequently Asked Questions about "School Alert!" [PDF | 94 KB | 2 page(s)]