STAY IN SCHOOL Erasmus Project

Project Title

STAY IN SCHOOL

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Inclusion – equity; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

PROYECT CONTEXT AND PARTNERS

Romania suffers a fierce immigration that causes an important Early School Leaving (ESL). Greece, Cyprus and Turkey have a difficult economic and social situation that propitiate ESL as well. Netherlands has an economic and educational situation more solid. Spain has an unemployment rate very high and a difficult economic situation.

MAIN GOALS

– To find ideas and solutions to avoid ESL
– To facilitate the students insertion in a demanding and changing labor market

The early abandonment of school is due to various reasons. Poverty, economic hardships, economic compulsion, the lack of a decent standard of living create a negative background for attending school. Other reasons are poor performance at school, negative experiences such as bullying, unsurpassed learning difficulties, lack of special education and compensational teaching, the impersonal and cold reality of the educational system, the educational level of the family, the social surroundings, and various social stereotypes.

– Which is the result of the abandonment of the school by students? The creation of groups of vulnerable, uneducated children who are prone to exploitation, child work, juvenile criminality, deviant behavior, social marginalization and exclusion.

– Which is the aim of the project? Studying/understanding of this phenomenon and the development of strategies to contain and restrict the early school abandonment by students.

With the help of this project students will:
– be exposed to different learning methods and strategies
– be trained to find and use different sources of information,
– become aware of the negative results of early school leaving
– learn new productive methods to connect with the school and create a strong sense of belonging in the school setting.
With the help of this project teachers and school/staff will:
– develop ICT skills, with the creation of databases and a website
– learn to work together in a collaborative way with teachers and pupils from across the partner schools
– develop team leadership and project management skills
– put into practice new techniques and methods of working/teaching
– develop new approaches to ESL

How do we hope to achieve all of these goals?

OUTPUTS
We want to develop different activities and share their final products, which can be used in order to help people who are directly or indirectly concerned in ESL (teachers, students, authorities, school psychologists and counselors, social workers), e.g.:
– Good practice guide: Making school more attrative
– Education and career guidance /helping students to choose better decisions
– Helping parents to help their children brochure
– Blogs, wikis and website will be published for sharing all the events of the project
– artistic/graffiti production

BENEFICTS AND IMPACTS IN THE LONG TERM

This project is an opportunity to influence in the citizens of the future and of the present: students, teachers, parents, mass media and all the community. How many people will be involved in this project? Almost 4000 people, between teachers, students, parents, school psychologists, social workers,…

All of our activities and products will be published in an official website project for five years and the brochures we want to make will be given to parents, authorities and another schools . That way, we hope that our project can make people reflect on ESL.

DEVELOPED PLATFORMS:

WEBSITE. Coordinator: Spain

https://sites.google.com/site/stayintheschool/

BLOG. Coordinator: Romania

http://erasmusstayinschool.blogspot.ro/

WIKISPACE. Created by Greece. Coordinated by Netherlands.

https://stay-in-school.wikispaces.com

ETWINNING. Coordinator: Netherlands
Coordinator: Netherlands
It lets communication among partners by means of forums, chats and video-conferences.

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/12528

DRIVE: ACTIVITIES AND OUTPUTS. Coordinator: Spain
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6cLB1AA5uwmTXcwRFEzTG9tXzg

OUTPUTS AND ACTIVITIES
https://sites.google.com/site/stayintheschool/1-my-school-my-future

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 152308 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES Macià Abela & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Hasan Ferdi Turgutlu Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
• Cambreur College
• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA COMUNA STOILESTI
• EVRIVIADEIO GYMNASIUM
• 1st GYMNASIO ELEFSINAS “AISCHILEIO”