The aim of the Activity 2.11: Fast track for gifted students was to carry out in-depth analysis of current commitments, initiatives, and practices in the field of giftedness/excellence. In our first step we analysed the words giftedness and excellence to find out what common literature says. The breadth of models and approaches make clear that the topic of gifted students and excellence is vast, with many different approaches both in literature and in practice. Children capable of high performance include those with demonstrated achievement and/or potential ability in any of the following areas, singly or in combination: general intellectual ability, specific academic aptitude, creative or productive thinking, leadership ability, visual and performing arts, psychomotor ability.
The encouragement from different Arqus Universities of gifted students follows a series of recommendations:
