Tomorrow, school for any success ! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Tomorrow, school for any success !

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

The prevention of early school leaving is one of the European Union’s main priorities. This Erasmus+ project is totally in line with this priority. The originality of the project will be that we are taking into account the child’s environment and that we plan to cross formal and non-formal learning approaches to find solutions to early school leaving. Our three partner countries come to the same conclusion: pupils aged 13 or 14 who see their results drop and who tend to keep a low profile. Troubled familial background, learning and school difficulties and a huge loss of motivation are the common denominator for these students. Each country has developed solutions or schemes that are more or less efficient regarding this issue, but the European Commission’s study on the phenomenon place our three countries below the median rate:
– Romania is the 3rd country in the EU regarding school leaving rates with 18.5% of school leavers,
– The UK is the 8th country with 11.2% of school leavers,
– France is the 13th country with 8.8% of school leavers.

Considering these results, we aim to change our students’ direction to go back to school. In order to have a wider insight, we will join up with five other partners as follows:
The University of Exeter will be collecting data from all the partner countries, while the social enterprise CN4C will bring pupils back to school in the deprived area they work in. In France, we will have two secondary schools (one from a rural area and the other from an urban area). An association will link up with the families to understand better the extracurricular environment of the students. Romania, facing other challenges linked to their gypsy community, will help understand what impact a certain way of life can have on early school leaving. For 24 months, the students will be the authors and the actors of small documentaries about the evolution of the child, at school and at home. They will make a chapter of the final scenario while testing the different solutions experimented in the partner countries. An assessment regarding the situation in families will be made. After the transnational meetings, the staff members will take stock of the experimented strategies. The students will be able to test the solutions from other countries themselves and we will measure the impact on their school performance but also on their personal life at home.
This will be the object of the serious game creation process. This game will develop the different paths to change one’s behaviour when facing a educational or personal difficulty. That way, we will have defined a common profile to go back to school. We will prove that this project will help the students gain in self-esteem and risk taking to choose an effective strategy to succeed. In the long term, we would like this adventure to be accessible to all in Europe, via the creation of our serious game.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 132006 Eur

Project Coordinator

college Kerzourat & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Centre d’Animation Locale
• Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change Ltd
• COLLEGE SAINT POL ROUX
• THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• Scoala Gimnaziala “Aurel Decei” Gura Raului