We want to compare the way that Special Educational Needs are dealt with in the participating schools in order to find out (a) in how far the theory (the policy in place) matches practice (the way it is experienced by outsiders) and (b) in how far we can learn from each other about how we deal with SEN.We do this by (1)devising instruments to (a)compare the systems/policies in theory and (b)observe how these policies are executed/experienced by outsiders. (2)sending (8 teachers and 8 SEN students) to visit each other's schools in order to make observations and come up with ideas for themselves and the schools they visit.On return home, each school writes a report about how they experienced the way SEN is dealt with in the schools they visited so that each school in the end gets reports on how SEN is experienced in practice from other schools, together with recommendations on how things can be improved.The final steps are: (1)look at which improvements the school wishes to make on the basis of their own observations inabroad, but also the observations made by visitors from abroad and (2)see whether the prevailing law allows them to make these improvements.At the end of the project every school will have had objective feedback from experts and SEN students from four other schools, resulting in improved policies or a better way in which they are carried out.