High School Drop Outs:’One is Too Many’ Erasmus Project

Project Title

High School Drop Outs:’One is Too Many’

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

Early school leaving is a multi-faceted and complex problem caused by a cumulative process of disengagement. It is a result of personal, social, economic, education or family-related reasons. Schools play an important role in addressing early school leaving (ESL) but they cannot and should not work in isolation. Reducing ESL can help towards the integration of young people into the labour market, and contribute to breaking the cycle of deprivation that leads to the social exclusion of too many young people.
Reducing the average European rate of early school leavers to less than 10% by 2020 is one of the education headline targets of the Europe 2020 Strategy. Investment in the educational achievement of young people is essential for the employment prospects of every young person.
In this Project High Schools from all over Europe prepared a strategic partnership and they co-operated to tackle ESL problem at roots level: by analyzing the problem and improving education atmosphere in term of; social activities, student teacher, student school, students society, student-parent, parent-school relations.
The main objective of this project was to find new methods for increasing motivation and creating more supportive school environments to decrease the number of student dropouts.
Project activities included the exchange of the information, sharing and analyzing best-practice models; comparing them and adapting them to each partner’s own activities and environment. Our project activities aimed to reduce ESL by establishing conditions for successful learning for all the students. Students should feel comfortable and supported, feel ownership of their own learning and can engage in the life of their school community.
This is important both for the emotional, social and educational development of the pupil and for the overall governance of the institution. As a condition of successful learning, teachers need to strengthen their role as facilitators of learning. They need autonomy, time, and space for innovation, teamwork, feedback, self-reflection and evaluation. They need access to enhanced opportunities for continued professional development.
We mostly targeted students with fewer opportunities in order to provide them with the missing opportunities they haven’t acquired by educational system so far. So our target group was who detected as being in danger of drop out. We also included parents of the students under the risk of drop out and teachers who needed guidance about methods to deal with the students who have drop out risk as a target group.
In long-term we aimed to disseminate the project all the related people and organization who has a role in students ‘educational and social life. They were; teachers, families, peers, other organizations leading the same type of activity, local schools in each partner school’s area, local authorities, European authorities by the help of European partners, public, wider life learning community, decision-makers at local, regional, national and European level. We believed that our project results will have long-term effects on economy and society with the help of dissemination activities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 236860 Eur

Project Coordinator

Korfez Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Kauno jezuitu gimnazija
• LIKIO AND TECHNIKI SCHOLI POLEOS CHRYSOCHOUS
• Kuben videregående skole
• Shooters Hill Campus
• Aluksne municipality`s secondary school
• Istituto Istruzione Secondaria Superiore E. Fermi
• 4th General Lyceum of Chania