Include Me – Creation of the Training Scheme for Prevention of Early School Leaving Erasmus Project

Project Title

Include Me – Creation of the Training Scheme for Prevention of Early School Leaving

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 : Capacity Building for youth in neighbouring and enlargement countries

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

Project Summary

Include me was a project with innovative approach to develop capacities of youth organizations to support young people with tendency for early school leaving. It was the opportunity for youth workers and other parties working with young people to first explore existing, then develop new methods and finally offer to this target group methods allowing them access to knowledge and modern skills needed for equal opportunities in life and specially in labor market. Project was aiming to build capacities of youth workers and youth organizations, before the other, to be able to work with possible ESL with methods that will be taking into account the learning styles and needs of these young people. For this purpose during the project the training scheme for youth workers was developed giving them needed tools for working with possible ESL students.
After the preparation period and preparation meeting we went through with study visit to Brussels where stakeholders collected valuable information from institutions and organizations working for and with ESL. Stakeholders gave their perspective of the topics and directions in which training scheme should be developed. The expert present at the stakeholder meeting started at this point to develop a t- kit, which was readjusted during the several phases of the project. T- kit general frame was developed at training for youth workers and other participants working with possible ESL. This training was tailored to meet two goals: a) to build capacities of participants to become able to work with ESL b) involving participants working on developing new methods for working with ESL which became a part of training scheme. At this point participants gave their contribution to t-kit preparation. After this we went into pilot period when participants from the training became multipliers for the developed methods. With new training scheme youth workers went to schools from Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo* and BiH which are detected as a schools of choice for possible ESL. They implemented number of test workshops collecting important comments from participants of the workshops and making their own remarks about the validation of the methods developed. T- kit was finalized after the pilot period. Its general parts were shared online almost from the start of development of the methods but its final version was posted fully online at this point and is left to be used by youth workers, organizations and institutions dealing with overcoming the challenges of ESL. This curriculum was made in English, Albanian, Bosnian, Serbian and Montenegrin and can be used by wide community committed to work in field of ESL. Project team proceeded with intensive advocacy for its use which was done to involve even wider range of possible stakeholders.
This project was successful in creating cross sectorial cooperation between youth organizations, educational institutions, and business sector by gathering them at the start of the project to offer their perspective for the topic; Capacities of youth organizations were built trough mobility activities, study visit and training to produce flexible learning methods for young people with poor school performance; New training scheme and online training kit were launched to be used by the community committed to ESL phenomena and young people affected by it; Advocacy activities were undertaken informing practitioners and institutions dealing with this problem about new flexible NFE training schemes that should support their work with young people with poor school performance. This was done in youth organizations, training platforms (CoE, YFJ, SALTO) schools/institutes/educational centers and other public institutions dealing with additional training and re-qualification for better access to labor market.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 59139,79 Eur

Project Coordinator

UDRUZENJE GRADANA LIBERO & Country: RS

Project Partners