Bearing in mind the European 2020 Strategy, in the educational field, our aim is to: -Reduce the early school drop out rate to below 10%. -Increase the rate of 30-34 year old completing tertiary level education by at least 40%. -Increase the number of young people who continue their studies after the compulsory secondary education which is crucial for the proper development of individuals and communities within the Europen Union. In order to reach this goal, we have two main objectives: -Decreasing the number of pupils who drop out the C.S.E. (compulsory secondary education) before getting a certificate. -Scheduling a realistic second chance educational offer allowing them to return to the formal education, vocational training or to harmonize their personal and professional life. Adult educational providers are considered as second chance centers, as a mean of achieving the aforementioned aims. The main project objective is to develop working strategies for the schools to finally get said achievements. Our partnership is constituted of different schools at different stages belonging to different European countries in order to have a larger vision of the problem, thus to identify the main reasons of school failure and early school leaving. Having analyzed those reasons, we will elaborate and implement tools to solve those problems eventually, which are: - Early diagnosis of school failure. - Decalogue of succesful teaching-learning methods. - New learning and communication platforms such as e-Twinning. - Communication channels between teachers and students with the help of I.C.T. The project's activities will be about: - Presentation of the range of school environments. - Descriptive diagnosis of the early school drop out causes in each country. - Elaboration of questionnaires to help us find the causes of dropping out. - Job shadowing in each country. - Sharing and comparing those causes among the partners in order to find common aspects. - Compilation of lesson plans of different subjects to be gathered in a e-book format. - Creating and maintaining a website containing all the information and products developed within this project. - Sociocultural immersion. The activities will be developed by the staff, but students and the whole educational community will directly benefit from the results acquired. Special attention will be given to students with a school failure profile and at risk of social exclusion. The chosen methodology to carry out this Project is based on collaborative work among the staff of the different partners. This collaborative work includes the sharing of tasks, taking decisions fairly and democratically. All the educational community will be involved in the Project directly or indirectly. The project will have an important impact on educators who are actively involved in the project: the exchange of experiences, new work methods, contrasting strategies, etc.. It will also serve to improve the quality of adult education and to gain better cooperation between adult education institutions of the European Union. Those trainers who do not take an active part in the project will be influenced through meetings and seminars in which the teachers are involved. This diffusion among members of each institution will make the impact of this project have an effect on the quality of the collective education of adult students as well as the skills of teachers in motivating their students and mastering some latest new innovative teaching methods which have been proved to be successful. Sharing this experience with other schools in the partner countries will bring added value for its organizers. The disclosure of each local and regional community, by means of specific documents developed within the framework of this project, conferences and meetings with other educational entities and the dissemination through the media (written press and project website) will ensure the results to be spread to an even wider social network, contributing to present a common educational vision within the diversity of a united Europe. The learning partnership hopes that the results and experience of the project can effectively contribute to improving access for adults to all levels of education and culture as it is the key to decreasing the risk of exclusion, ensuring and increasing participation in employment opportunities and access to all resources, goods and services. As a result, the number of students who fail in certain subjects will decrease and the ones who drop out from school will also decrease considerably. With the charts, tables and graphs that we are going to elaborate, we will prove that educating people is more profitable than ignoring early school drop outs.
The dropout and absenteeism rates of students is high, especially in vocational schools. These schools were found to be generally preferred by economically and socially disadvantaged children. We want to create training modules that provide the right guidelines on how to properly motivate students, emphasizing the importance of increasing students' motivation levels to prevent them from dropping out of school. To positively influence the basic psychological needs in order to reduce the rate of absences and dropping out of school in vocational high schools. To establish the right course of actions towards the students by the school administration and the teachers, and to provide support and feedback to the parents; to offer at-risk students with low self-esteem the chance to experience success by setting them tasks that are as easy as possible to complete. To develop accurate and targeted representations of various professions. To set the facts straight: why some schools succeed where others don't. In the interest of preventing early school leaving, the competences of teachers have to meet the needs of students. To ensure a coherent, systematic and coordinated approach, exchange of good practices and effective use of resources.
With globalization and the development of technology, people's knowledge and skills have become more important and their position in social and economic life has become more influential. This increase in the importance of individual qualifications in today's conditions has given a higher importance to education as a whole and to professional and vocational education in particular. The role of raising a skilled workforce for labor markets assigned to vocational schools in developing countries such as Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey makes the link between vocational education and economic development more visible. It is believed that every dropout in secondary and vocational education directly affects the effective and efficient use of the investment in education and indirectly affects the relationship between vocational education and economic development. The needs this project addresses are: - to reduce early school leaving to below 10% - to increase the number of young people who continue their studies after the compulsory high school education, which is vital for the proper development of an individual and the communities in the European Union. - to increase the number of graduates