Desk research report in the project "Preventing post-COVID Social Exclusion Together" : Partial report on education systems during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland

Abstract

This document is one of four desk research reports (from all the V4 partner countries). It is the second output of the project "Preventing post-COVID Social Exclusion Together" (Strategic Grant No. 22110213). The project is co- financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from the International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe. It is implemented by a transnational Research Team composed of: Poland: • Dr. hab. Piotr Długosz, prof. UP, Head of the Research Team • Dr. Damian Liszka, Project Coordinator, Researcher's Assistant in Poland • Dr. Paweł Walawender - Reports Author, Poland Czech Republic: • Dr. Vít Šťastný - Reports Author, Czechia • Dr. Lucie Šťastná - Reports Author, Czechia Hungary: • Dr. Karolina Eszter Kovács - Reports Author, Hungary • Dr. Fruzsina Szabó - Reports Author, Hungary • Krisztina Győri - Reports Author, Hungary • Katalin Godó - Researcher's Assistant in Hungary Slovakia: • Dr. Lucia Šepeľáková - Reports Author, Slovakia • Dr. Janka Ferencová - Researcher's Assistant, Slovakia The main goal of this project is to support social integration of young people, and their families, residing in rural areas and small towns in less developed regions of Central and Eastern Europe during periods of epidemic threats. This goal is to be achieved through the development of recommendations for civil society on how to successfully create Local Support Groups - Rapid Response Teams in the local environment. This project aims to help reduce the scale of educational and social inequalities in peripheral areas where the introduction of remote education had far more negative effects than in urbanized areas and metropolises. Each of the project partners developed a separate diagnostic document for the country they represent. The development of a partial analysis is a necessary stage for the implementation of further research activities undertaken in this project. The documents have a similar structure, however, due to the specificity of the countries some chapters of the partial analysis may differ from each other (e.g. in terms of the statistical indicators or sources used). This document concerns the situation in Poland.