Name of the Project: InSchool - Innovation in Early School Leaving
Project Number: 2013-1-GB2-LEO05-10778
Project Coordinator: Bury College [UK]
Type of Project: Leonardo da Vinci – Transfer of Innovation
Project Lifetime: 24 months, starting on the 1st of November 2013
Project Website HERE
Partners
P0 – Bury College [Manchester, UK]
P1 – IPA SA S.C. pentru Cercetare, Proiectare și Producție de Echipamente și Instalații de Automatizare [Bucarest, RO]
P2 – ISCAP – Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto [Porto, PT]
P3 – E.RI.FO. Ente per la ricerca e la formazione [Roma, IT]
P4 – Nahit Menteşe Girls Technical and Vocational High School [Aydin, TR]
ISCAP Team: Anabela Mesquita (Head of the project in ISCAP), Diana Vieira, Paulino Silva e Paula Carvalho.
Aims and Objectives
The overall aim of this project is:
- To establish a network of European VET organisations to facilitate the import and export of best practice to improve the quality of training for people at risk of / who are early school leavers
Objectives of the project are to:
- To share best practice within the partnership by delivering 5 workshops aligned to the key issues affecting early school leaving.
- To produce corresponding best practice manuals.
- To enable partners to observe the application of best practice through benchmarking visits that will be facilitated within the workshop schedule
- To ensure the involvement of key stakeholders including beneficiaries, employers, and funders in project implementation and dissemination activities.
- To enable all partners to import and apply at least 1 innovative aspect of best practice within their organisation
- To undertake formative and summative evaluation of the programme
- To share learning from the programme by hosting local and European dissemination events for a wider network and by making all products freely available on the Internet
Expected outcomes:
- Identification and monitoring of early school leaving, e.g. on analysing national, regional and local specificities of early school leaving
- Prevention, e.g. sharing innovative practices on reducing the risk of early school leaving before problems start.
- Intervention, e.g. transferring innovative practices on avoiding early school leaving through strategies / practices to improve the quality of education and training
- Compensation, e.g. transferring innovative practices on helping those who have left education early with opportunities to re-engage back into learning
- Transferring innovative activities developed by Bury College to partners on these measures will address a number of EU priorities, including:
- Europe 2020 strategy and headline target to ‘Reduce early school leaving to less than 10% by 2020, from 14.4% in 2009’.
- EU flagship initiative “Youth on the Move”, which aims to “raise the overall quality of all levels of training in the EU".
- EU flagship initiative “A European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion”, which recognises the need to focus on breaking the cycle of disadvantage and stepping up preventative activities.
