Integrated Holistic Approach to a Validated European Tool Erasmus Project

Project Title

Integrated Holistic Approach to a Validated European Tool

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Recognition, transparency, certification; Migrants’ issues; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

CONTEXT & OBJECTIVES
The consortium built around the IHAVET project decided to focus on one of the most impelling social problem European societies must deal with: the social inclusion; particularly the social inclusion of disadvantaged people, especially migrants. As we have seen over the last couple of years, the pandemic from Covid 19 has also exacerbated this problem.
Data on youth with migrant education dropout is dramatic: “early school leaving (ESL) rate of young people born outside of the European Union was, on average, more than double that of natives (25.4 percent compared to 11.5 percent)”.
Thus, in line with the general policy of the Erasmus+ Programme, the aim of the IHAVET was to have Youth with migrant background education high dropout rate reduced while, a more specific objective, was to develop a toolkit that supports students with migrant background, parents and teachers/trainers/youth workers dealing with youth with migrant background within the school system.
NUMBERS AND PROFILES OF THE PARTICIPANTS
There have been different kind of participants and their involvement changed according to the type of activity. We had 210 participants that answered to the questionnaire. Besides, we had other more 42 participants that took part to 7 focus groups. As for the transnational meetings, we had 18 people in Ruse Bulgaria and 16 in Marseille (France). At the short-term joint staff training event at Katerini, Greece, the number of participants were 39.
Finally, regarding the IHAVET validation process we had 125 participants during the multiplier events.
ACTIVITIES DESCRIPTION & METHODOLOGY
IHAVET planes several activities.
Beyond the project management activities, the project realized the following activities:
a) A research in which it was foreseen do administer an online questionnaire;
b) A focus group with the target group of the project;
c) A short-term training event;
d) 2 transnational meetings;
e) The development of the toolkit;
The project applied a range of different methodologies that depended on the activities carried out. To begin with, we applied the traditional Project Cycle Management in order to guaranty the smooth activities implementation. The research part, on the contrary, used quali-quantitative methodology. While the questionnaire to the students, parents and teachers and trainer/youth workers was mainly with closed questions; the focus group had a more qualitative approach with an open-interview structure. Finally, the short-term joint staff training used more a not-formal and informal methodology.
RESULTS ACHIEVED AND IMPACT
The project achieved 3 results during the project implementation and 1 on its completion.
The first result was to having students with migrant background more involved in the education process by made them have the power to influence the decision about their education.
The second result was to make busy migrant parents, especially those coming from disadvantaged contexts and countries, having a more proactive attitude so that can help the education performance of their children.
The last and final result achieved, which is also the one who mostly address to the organizations’ needs, was to have provided teachers (in schools) and trainers/youth workers (in training and youth centers) with a more mixed teaching/training approach to students with migrant background.
Finally, IHAVET had different impacts: on participants thanks to the research, focus group and the training, on participants organizations through also the toolkit developed and, finally, on the target group via the toolkit validation process and its dissemination. The project impacted at local level by contributing to reducing, in the long term, students with migrant background school dropout high rate. At regional level, the project impacted by making local councilor aware about the results achieved by the project.

Project Website

https://www.ihavet.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 131645,75 Eur

Project Coordinator

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

Project Partners

• Caritas Norge
• First Private School Leonardo da Vinci Ltd
• CIEP asbl
• MULTIKULTURELT INITIATIV OG RESSURSNETTVERK (MIR)
• EUROCIRCLE ASSOCIATION
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Silves
• 2o Epaggelmatiko Lykeio Katerinis