those schools and projects that participate in innovation programmes with additional funding may be required as a condition of their participation to write up their approaches and materials into handbooks to be shared with others as in the experimental schools chosen by the experiments and entrepreneurship division of the israeli ministry of education the identified longerterm impacts included the value of literature and research as the basis for discussions about innovative practice the validation of innovative practices and in general for enhanced understanding and better design in the case of the austrian nms reform this was achieved through the creation of the national centre for learning schools cls similarly in slovenia the national education institute has been crucial to the reform in partnership with the ministry and the consortia of gymnasia