European Agency 
     •   An independent organisation that acts as a platform for collaboration for the 
         ministries of education in its member countries.
     •   Our mission is to help member countries improve their inclusive education 
         policy and practice for all learners.
     •   Our work is in line with and directly supports international and European Union 
         policy initiatives on education, equity, equal opportunities and rights for all 
         learners.
     •   A key Agency activity is the European Agency Statistics on Inclusive Education 
         (EASIE).
  European Agency Statistics on Inclusive 
  Education (EASIE)
  The Agency’s data collection work aims to provide clearly focused data that informs 
  the European Commission’s Education and Training 2020 strategic objectives and 
  the implementation of Article 24 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of 
  Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) (2006).
  EASIE work has developed procedures, indicators and outputs that provide 
  individual country, comparative and aggregated data to inform country-level work 
  relating to all learners’ access to inclusive education.
  Countries currently involved
  31 Agency member countries participate in EASIE:
  Austria, Belgium (Flemish and French communities), Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech
   Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, 
  Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, 
  Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom 
  (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales)
  Not all countries participated in all of the data collection cycles.
     Data collection procedure
     •   EASIE data has been collected for every second school year between 2014 
         and 2018.
     •   From 2020 onwards, data will be collected annually.
     •   Data is collected in collaboration with nominated data experts from the different 
         countries/jurisdictions. 
     •   All collected data is reviewed by Agency staff and approved by each country’s 
         Representative Board member.
     •   After approval, all collected data is published on the Agency website.
  Agreed EASIE operational definitions
  An inclusive setting refers to education where the learner with SEN follows 
  education in mainstream classes alongside their mainstream peers for the largest 
  part – 80% or more – of the school week.
  An official decision leads to a learner being recognised as eligible for additional 
  educational support to meet their learning needs.