Objective:  To identify the features of the teaching process in an open-air setting, to determine how it differs from traditional school systems, and to document the organisational difficulties involved.
Methods: Lesson observation, interviews with teachers, comparative analysis across the two countries.

Objective: To assess pupils' levels of concentration, activity and cognitive interest during lessons, and to establish which external and internal factors shape their engagement.

Methods: Direct observation, conversations with children, analysis of behavioural responses.

Objective: To systematise the main causes of family crisis — orphanhood, poverty, violence, homelessness — and to identify the most vulnerable groups of children.
Methods: In-depth interviews with centre directors, collection of data on the life circumstances of the children in their care.

Objective: To assess how children experience their first weeks at a centre, which forms of support produce the best results, and how the centre affects their physical and emotional condition.
Methods: Visual assessment of the children's condition (health, physical development), conversations with children and staff, analysis of recovery dynamics.

Objective: To trace changes in academic performance, motivation, discipline, independence and social skills over the course of the children's schooling.
Methods: Interviews with the school's teachers, study of their pedagogical observation records.

Objective: Through interviews with parents, to record changes in the children's behaviour, confidence, social ties and plans for the future, and to assess how far the school eases the daily difficulties their families face.
Methods: Semi-structured interviews with parents.

Objective: On the basis of direct observation and conversation with the children, to judge how far the centre's work corresponds to its stated aims: physical health, emotional well-being, and the absence of signs of neglect.
Methods: Observation, informal conversations, photo and video documentation.