The VOLATE project was aimed at entities involved in educational support activities for the primary school students in small communities characterized by educational poverty, such as rural areas and peripheral urban areas. The aim of the project was to improve the quality of support teaching carried out by teachers/educators and volunteers by improving the analysis of the context , the training needs of the staff and the planning skills of interventions to combat educational poverty. The main objectives achieved by the project were the following: - having provided operators with easy-to-use tools for the analysis of the local educational context and the detection of their own training needs, a correct assessment of special educational needs and the design, planning and evaluation of effective interventions against educational poverty. - having started a "Peer Learning" Community as a place for discussion and exchange of good practices and with a training offer made up of videos and materials produced "by peers" (teaching staff and volunteers).
The VOLATE Project was created to improve skills in the planning and implementation of interventions to combat educational poverty by associations operating in small territorial areas characterized by the phenomenon such as rural areas and peripheral urban areas. These associations can rely on a small internal staff and some volunteers despite having to operate on large heterogeneous groups (in terms of age and problems) of school-age children. The project contributed to supporting the educational support action by improving the skills of the staff in the self-assessment of training needs and enriching the training offer through the creation of a "Peer Community" as a place for the use of contents as well as for the exchange of experiences and good practices. The context of the intervention is that of Romanian and Italian rural and urban communities characterized by the presence of students at risk of marginalisation, coming from families living below the poverty line, single-parent or numerous. The target has been the EDUCATIONAL STAFF committed to the implementation of educational support activities.