Developing the motivation of adults at risk of drop-out Erasmus Project

Project Title

Developing the motivation of adults at risk of drop-out

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

The project gathered 4 partners from Belgium, France, Hungary and Aruba. It contributes to the Europe 2020 strategy which sets out a target of increasing the share of population aged from 30 to 34 to have completed tertiary education or equivalent to at least 40%. The European Agenda for Adult learning highights the need to increase participation in adult learning and enhance the possibilities for these people to access high-quality learning opportunities in order to promote personal and professional development, empowerment, adaptability, employability and active participation in society. Obtaining a diploma in the second chance education system is clearly valuable in today’s society for people who hadn’t the opportunity to obtain a qualification in their early life in the school education or higher education systems. Together with this statement there is a need to develop personal engagement, autonomy and responsibility of the students to help them persevere in their curriculum and validate their skills and competencies in order to enhance their employability.

Our project has the ambition to tackle the issue of drop-out and find solutions to prevent it in our local contexts. The partners are all active in the adult education sector and or higher education sector, enabling adults to pursue higher education programmes. Our target audience is composed with fragile learners having a weak socio-economic background. These people have in common a difficult school route combined with a will to reinforce their qualifications and to build up a life’ project. But this specific target-group faces many practical obstacles to pursue their objective mainly because of their demanding professional or family life. Combining studies with adult life and trying to maintain a long-term motivation is an everyday challenge for them. Therefore, institutions involved in this initiative note a high drop-out rate and are willing to join their forces to share practices and develop ready to use solutions to tackle the issue and support their learners in their project. The partnership has a sense of what causes adult learners to drop-out but is willing to go in-depth and to lead a project to verify their assumptions together with the input of the learners. The latters need to be in the heart of the project as their input is highly valuable to the issue. This would allow the partners to find appropriate solutions to tackle real causes.

General objectives of the project:
Reduce the drop-out rate of learners by favouring solutions to prevent drop-out in the partners institutions and answer 2 questions:
– Why some learners in adult education drop-out before graduating?
– What are the best tools and practices that exists in the field of orientation and prevention in the partner’s organisations and national contexts?

The main results is the portfolio to develop motivation of learners in adult education. It includes research about causes of drop-out, identification of solutions, recommendations and a toolkit with practical tips and tricks, checklists and materials easy to use by the staff. This output is used as a tool dedicated to staff at the benefit of learners and has a great potential to reduce drop-out. The transferability potential is real for other adult education providers to use the portfolio and to politicians to be aware of the issue.

Project Website

http://www.stop-drop.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 134983,25 Eur

Project Coordinator

Institut Supérieur de Formation Continue d’Etterbeek & Country: BE

Project Partners

• BUDAPESTI GAZDASAGI EGYETEM
• GIP FTLV-IP
• UNIVERSITEIT VAN ARUBA