School & Home Involvement Participation Erasmus Project

Project Title

School & Home Involvement Participation

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Access for disadvantaged; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

CONTEX: The current numbers of early school leaving (ESL) are impressive as far the EU 27 countries and non-EU countries is concerned. According to the Final Report “Reducing early school leaving: key messages and policy supports” (Nov. 2013), in the first case we have a 22.8 % and for the second 26.7 % while the native born early school leaving data at 11.6%.In particular the percentages of ESL non-EU born students in the partners countries are : Belgium 26%; France 22,7%; Italy 40,5%; Portugal 19,4 %; Norway 15,3%. According to these data the consortium decided to develop the SHIP project.
OBJECTIVES:The principal objective was to reducing the ESL percentage of the students with foreign origin. SHIP project wanted to ensure a parents involvement in the school activities by giving them the possibility to be aware about what is happening within the school attended by their children. In order to reach this aim, improving communication between parents and schools and establishing positive educational environment at home for pupils with migrant background was a precondition.
PARTICIPANTS: SHIP targeted 56 parents with half of them in an experimental group and the other half in a control group. Parents were coming from a migrant background and they have been identified according to their origin and the school attainments of their pupils. On the first group it has been implemented the largest part of the activities while the second was just taken as a group control and for measuring the impact of the project.
ACTIVITY ORGANIZED AND METHODOLOGY APPLIED
After the project redesigning, the coordinator organized the project kick-off meeting on the 01/12/2016. Project managers of each organization have participated and we were ready to start with the IPA (Internal Partnership Agreement) preparation and signatures.
A second online meeting was held at the end of June 2017 with the aim to organize the short-term joint staff training event in Oslo.
The methodology applied during the project implementation is the traditional PCM (Project Cycle Management) methodology.
Then, there has been the short-term joint staff training event held from the 18/09/2016 to the 22/09/2016 during which participants have been trained on MIR good practice by using mostly non-formal and informal learning methodology. The training helped also in better adjusting the methodology for carrying out the activities with the parents. In this case the methodology was non-formal and informal
Afterwards, we have had also the activity with the parents: language class, school environment explanation, meeting with school teachers, etc. were some of the activities organized with the parents.
2 transnational project meetings were also put in place in order to focus on the state at the art of the project and the project next step.
Finally, the consortium has also organized a dissemination activity in order to promote the result and the activity done by the project.
LONG TERM BENEFITS: By parents understanding of the importance of a mutual collaboration with schools and by involving other migrants communities, parents involved in the project can have a positive long term effects. On the other side, teachers by sharing the best practice, have have acquired new and complementary tools, skills and methods to work with pupils with migrant background, developing appropriate pedagogical holistic approaches.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 71135 Eur

Project Coordinator

EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY ANALYSIS AND AFFAIRS & Country: BE

Project Partners

• EURO
• MULTIKULTURELT INITIATIV OG RESSURSNETTVERK (MIR)
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Silves
• EUROCIRCLE ASSOCIATION
• CIEP asbl