We can’t stand losing one more student Erasmus Project

Project Title

We can’t stand losing one more student

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

“We Can’t Stand Losing One More Student”

Early school leaving (ESL) is a multidimensional and complex problem. It is the result of personal, social, economic, educational or family-related reasons. Schools play an important role in
determining ESL. However, schools should not try to solve the problem by expelling such students. Reducing ESL will help young people participate in the labor market and contribute to the solution of a significant problem that leads to social exclusion of a large number of young people.

Lowering the rate of early school leaving in Europe by less than 10% by 2020 is one of the educational objectives of the 2020 European education Strategy. The investment in the success of
young people in education is very important for the employment of every young person.

5 high schools from all over the Europe came together and prepared this strategic partnership project. Partner schools will cooperate in this project to solve the early chool leaving problem at a basic level. They will analyze the common problem. They will carry out improvement activities on the basis of social activities, student-teacher, student-school, student-society, student-parent, parentschool relations.

The main purpose of this project is to reduce the number of early school leaving students, to increase students’ motivation and to find new methods to create a more supportive school
environment.

Project activities include; sharing and analyzing good practices, and adapting these good practices to each partner’s own training environment. Our project activities are aimed at reducing
early school leaving by providing a successful learning environment for all students. Students should feel comfortable and supported in the school environment, owning their own learning environment. This is important for the student’s emotional, social and educational development and the overall management of the institutions. For a successful learning environment, teachers should play a facilitating role in learning. Teachers need improved opportunities for continuous professional development in education, as well as access to these opportunities. Our project will provide this opportunity for partner school teachers.

In our project, the reasons for early school dropouts in partner schools were first investigated, and ESL rates in partner schools were determined. Accordingly, LTT activities and contents were determined. The coordinator school, Camlıdere CPAL, has an ESL potential of 33%. The rate of ESL is 22% within our Portuguese partner school. The rate of ESL in the Italian partner school is 22%. The ESL rate within the Romanian partner school is 17.5%. The ESL rate in the Greek partner school is 40%.)

5 LTTs will be organized in our project.
1st LTT:(Early school leaving (ESL): A big problem!): ): It will take place in Turkey with the participation of 3 teachers from each partner school. Duration is 5 days.
2nd LTT: (Motivation to increase the participation and academic achievement of early school leaving students in the risk group): It will take place in Greece with the participation of 6 students and 2 accompanying teachers from each partner school. Duration is 5 days.
3rd LTT: (For early school leaving, STEM is a remedy!): It will take place in Portugal with the participation of 4 participant teachers from each partner school. Duration is 5 days.
4th LTT: (Parliament of European Educational Affairs): It will take place in Italy with the participation of 6 students and 2 accompanying teachers from each partner school. Duration is 5 days.
5th LTT: (Art Workshop Works): It will take place in Romania with the participation of 6 students and 2 accompanying teachers from each partner school. Duration is 5 days.
In our project, the number of participant students’ mobility is 72, the number of participant teachers’ mobility is 28, and the number of accompanying teachers’ mobility is 24.

As the target group in our project, we have selected students who have little opportunities and have not been noticed. For this reason, we have identified our target audience as those students are in danger of early school leaving. In addition, the parents of students, at risk of early school leaving and teachers, who need guidance on innovative methods to deal with these students, are included in the target groups.

In the long term, we aim to disseminate the project to all relevant people and institutions that play a role in the education and social life of students. These are teachers, families, peers, each equal educational institutions, local schools around the partner schools, local authorities, the public, local, regional decision-makers, national and European social media users. We believe that our project results will have long-term effects on our schools, education, economy and society through dissemination.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 145090 Eur

Project Coordinator

Çamlıdere Çok Programlı Anadolu Lisesi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Einstein De Lorenzo Potenza
• 2 EK Peiraia
• LICEUL TEHNOLOGIC ELENA CARAGIANI, TECUCI
• EPRALIMA – ESCOLA PROFISSIONAL DOALTO LIMA – COOPERATIVA DE INTERESSE PUBLICO E RESPONSABILIDADE LIMITADA