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Combatting school dropout: the Handbook is out!

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The Handbook with regional good practices to combat school dropouts compiled by Västernorrland has just been published. It brings together examples from 11 regions to help young people evolve on a success path, whatever their own challenges may be.

A long-standing engagement

Back in September 2012 Västernorrland organised a conference on combatting early school leaving, which kick-started the work on this topic in AER.In April 2013, the AER Sub-committee on Education decided to establish a working group to share good practices on a challenge which is

In April 2013, the AER Sub-committee on Education decided to establish a working group to share good practices on early school leaving, a challenge which is plaguing several European regions.

In 2014 some members of the working group then decided to further engage in mutual learning and developed the ERASMUS+ project Joint Efforts To Combat School Dropout (JET-CD), which ended in June 2016. The JET-CD Erasmus+ project represented an opportunity for regions already involved in exchanging experiences and working together to improve policy making on the topic. The consortium pinpointed the different good practices in each region and shared challenges. Despite very different contexts, commonalities were identified both in terms of causes and in terms of processes. The project particularly highlighted the need for cross-sectoral collaboration.

Sharing to improve policies

The working group organised several workshops on school dropouts:

-in Gelderland, on the occasion of the joint plenary meeting of Committee 1 and Committee 2, Östergötland, SE shared their experience. the idea of sharing good practices is to help formulate policy recommendations that are effective.

-on the occasion of the joint Committee 2 and Committee 3 plenary meetings in 2015 in Nordjylland, DK, the group focused on prevention & intervention with a good practice from Alsace

-In Autumn 2015 in Hampshire, GB,  the group discussed the findings from the region on the root causes of the problem and the formulation of solutions

-on the occasion of the Timis Spring plenaries, Catalunya, ES,  shared their experience and the group decided to develop a handbook bringing together regional good practices

-in Izmir, TR, the working group developed the structure of the handbook and the types of inputs to be included

A practical tool for regions

Following the last AER Fall Plenary meeting in Izmir, 11 AER regions have been collaborating, coordinated by the leadership of the region Västernorrland, to compile a handbook on regional best practice, which today has been finalised. The Handbook – Combatting school dropout provides insight into the cause and effect process, which is also essential for the development of comprehensive policies covering the entire chain – prevention, intervention and compensation – in order to achieve sustainable results.

Addressing and reducing the early school leavers rate is one of the target of the Europe 2020 Strategy. It is indeed a growing problem, which is not only involving the education system but it impacts also the society, increasing unemployment, poverty, social exclusion.

The structure of the handbook is divided in three main sections. Prevention comprises measures to identify students in risk zone, define their needs, and prevent them from dropping out of school. Intervention considers measures to re-motivate and re-engage students to return to education. Compensation, gathers measures to re-enter early school leavers to education, with emphasis on cooperation between actors and stakeholders in the region.

The realisation of this handbook can be considered as a tool for regions to find best practices and help raising awareness on the need to implement actions to address early school leaving.

It is also a very concrete and inspiring example of how regions can work together on a specific priority, enhancing cooperation and sharing experiences for mutual learning. The upcoming Spring Plenary meeting in London, 21-23 March can be the perfect opportunity to start new collaborations between regions and work together on a specific issue.

The regions involved in the realization of the Handbook:

Alsace-France
Brussels Capital-Belgium
Walloon Region-Belgium
Nordland-Norway
Vojvodina-Serbia
Värmland-Sweden
Västernorrland-Sweden
Østfold-Norway
Tulcea-Romania
Hampshire-United Kingdom
Catalonia-Spain

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Final conference school dropout: Just another brick in the wall?

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Young people are the future

Yet judging by the figures the perspectives are rather gloomy: according to Eurostats, one sixth of all young people were neither in employment nor in education or training in the EU-28 in 2014.

In this context early school leaving is a major issue and a threat to social and economic cohesion. AER members regions have been working on this topic via the working group on school dropouts. In this context the JET-CD project held its final conference on 21-22 June in Hampshire. 27 participants from the partner organisations and from different organisations from the region attended the event.

Early school leaving: long term impacts

Early school leaving (ESL) is predictive of a range of economic and social outcomes. Early leavers experience considerable disadvantages in relation to adult-life chances: higher rates of unemployment, poorer health status…

Exclusion from education is also a strong determinant of ending up NEET and may lead to further social exclusion. The term NEET (not in education, employment or training), is commonly used to capture disengagement and social exclusion, as well as levels of unemployment among young people.

Exclusion is expensive

According to Eurofound, the consequences of long-term disengagement of young people from the labour market are dramatic at the economic, societal and individual level (Eurofound, 2012a). The European agency estimated the economic cost that Europe is paying for having a large cohort of young people in a NEET situation at €162 billion in 2013.

The ability to combat school dropout is therefore directly linked to long term economic development potential. Sustainable development goes hand in hand with youth participation and inclusion.

Share, learn, do

AER member regions Catalunya (ES), Västernorrland (SE), Hampshire (GB), Tulcea (RO) and Østfold (NO) analysed the whole chain of early school leaving: prevention, intervention and compensation. This was done in the framework of an Erasmus+ project called Joint Efforts  to Combat School Dropout, or JET-CD.

The consortium pinpointed the different good practices in each region and shared challenges. Despite very different contexts, commonalities were identified both in terms of causes and in terms of processes. The project particularly highlighted the need for cross-sectoral collaboration.

Prevention

The final conference was an opportunity to present good practices implemented in the different regions. For instance in Catalunya, the Adapted Curriculum Programme allows to prevent the dropout of young people. It is implemented in partnership with El Llindar, a second chance school, which provides prevocational training courses and personal guiding.

In Tulcea, AMN Insight is an online evaluation platform, which provides specialists support to prevent dropouts as well as educational and vocational guidance to students on the basis of psycho-pedagogical testing.

Intervention & Compensation

Within the category “intervention” the project sought to collect good practices aimed at detecting and re-motivating early school-leavers for education. The region of Västernorrland and Hampshire presented their experience and good practices which involve actions led by diverse stakeholders such as social services, youth counselling and the employment agency. Health receives major attention in Västernorrland in particular. In Hampshire cross-sectoral collaboration, tenders specifying the importance of social value and jobs for young people, and a focus on data rich analysis prove extremely successful: the level of NEET was reduced by 1000 individuals in 3 years. The category “compensation” included good practices aimed at re-entering early school leavers in the education system. The region of Østfold stressed the need to have a early intervention, an individual plan and close follow-up. It is essential to focus on the needs of students and not on what they have failed at!

Photos of the Final Conference are published on the AER Facebook Page

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Early school leaving: working group meets at AER plenary

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The first presentation on the working group meetings in Timis was about the efforts and achievements to combat drop-out in Catalonia by the representatives of the Employment Service of Catalonia (ES). This regional organization is also a partner of the Erasmus+ JET CD project. Catalunya also chairs the AER Subcommittee on Youth.

 

Report on JET-CD project

The presentation and discussion on the regional experiences were followed by an update on the ERASMUS+ poject “Joint Efforts To Combat Dropout”. Ilona Novak, the project Co-ordinator presented a summary of the results and achievements from the start of the project regarding the following intellectual outputs

O1 – Study reports on dropout in regional context and about the result of the inventory work regarding best practices for prevention, intervention and compensation measures;

O2 – Joint methodology to prevent dropout by cross sectorial cooperation;

O3 – Joint methodology to detect early school leavers and to identify their needs for re-motivate and re-engage them and

O4 – Joint methodology and solutions for compensation measures to re-enter early school leavers in the education system.

The intellectual output about compensation measures raised particular interest among the group of AER member regions.

 

Upcoming outputs of the JET-CD project

The recent work in the Erasmus + project on the toolbox was presented in details. This toolbox will gather the joint methodologies for prevention, intervention and compensation measures from the participating regions and will be presented during the dissemination final conference in Hampshire 21st of June. The policy recommendation to combat school dropout, will be published before the project closure in the end of August this year. Members of the AER working group members were invited to attend the final conference in Hampshire.

 

Final output of working group

In the last part of the working group meeting the participants discussed and agreed on the final output of the AER working group on Combating school drop-out. The final output of the working group will be a “Handbook on regional best practices to combat school drop-out” which will be an inventory of regional good practices. They also agreed to use the same template which has been used in both the working group and in the project for best practice case studies to allow for comparison and benchmarking. The handbook and the EU-project results will be presented on the occasion of a joint conference, potentially during the spring AER Committee meeting 2017.

 

Links between the working group and the JET-CD project

Within the AER Committee on Culture Education and Youth the Subcommittee on Youth initiated work on combatting early school leaving. To facilitate the exchange of experiences and engage in mutual learning a working group was created in April 2013 under the leadership of the region of Västernorrland.

The JET-CD Erasmus+ project represented an opportunity for regions already involved in exchanging experiences and working together to improve policy making on the topic within the framework of the AER working group on early school drop-outs, to deepen this cooperation in a very concrete way.

The working group follows the progress of the JET-CD project via its regular meetings. The JET-CD outputs are shared both via the meetings and via social media and the AER website. News articles are regularly published on the homepage to ensure wider outreach of the JET-CD findings. Members from the project also benefit from feedback and experiences from other members in the working group, ensuring a constant flow of knowledge between members involved in the project and the wider group of regions interested in combatting school dropouts.

Pictures of the meeting are available on the AER facebook page

 

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Self esteem key to combat school dropouts

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Early school leaving (ESL), is a growing severe problem in Europe which has long-term effects on economic growth, societal developments and individuals. The future of Europe depends on young people’s success both in working life and in society. Dropouts have hence become a major obstacle in these respects.

Combating ESL demands a deep insight of the whole cause and effect process, which is also essential to develop comprehensive policies focusing on the entire chain (prevention, intervention and compensation) in order to achieve sustainable results. This is why the AER has created a Working Group that is part of a broad partnership from different countries and cultures that studies the above-mentioned chain in the framework of the ERASMUS+ Project “Joint Efforts to Combat School Dropouts” JET-CD.

This project’s cross-sectoral collaboration focus has made it a very valuable platform to exchange good practices in the path towards finding a solution to this issue. One of the good practices shared within the JET-CD project on the occasion of a visit to Ålsta Folk High School, in Västernorrland, tackles the issue of low self-esteem in young people who have dropped out from school.

Due to today’s increasing number of high school dropouts, the Swedish Ålsta Folk High School and the Employment Service created a course called “Study Motivational Course” (“SMF”) which is a sort of novitiate where the student can study for 3 months without any student loan. The overall object is to decrease long-term unemployment by giving young people a chance to complete their elementary education in order to prepare for higher education, higher vocational education, and/or to improve the chance to get a job. Since many of the students that have dropped out share previous bad school experiences, this kind of novitiate prevents them from a second drop-out and another failure.

Ms. Jenny Runa, teacher at Ålsta Folk High School, explains: “there is a variety of students and of reasons to why they’re at our school. One could say that the only thing that students do have in common is that they haven’t completed their elementary or secondary education and also that a majority of them share different degrees of previous failures and negative school experiences.”

To regain power and control over one’s life is a challenge that demands a lot of hard work but the results are often amazing. This is why working with the participants’ self-esteem by helping them set individual goals while they also participate in the planning of the courses, is the foundation of the course.

After the 3 months period at SMF, a majority of the students chose to continue their studies at Ålsta, which is a natural step forward since they’re already familiar with the environment and have established relations with a few of the teachers and other participants. Some others turn to other forms of education, and a few chose to postpone their plans to study. “If this last one is the case, we try to help that person to go over some other alternatives”, Ms. Runa explains.

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Fourth muliplier event on school dropouts: getting to the next level

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Partners of the ERASMUS+ project Joint Efforts to Combat School Dropouts met last week in Västernorrland for a seminar and workshop on ways to help early school leavers to re-enter the education system. 55 participants from the partner organisations and from different organisations from the region attended the event. Partners from Östfold (NO), Hampshire (UK), Barcelona (ES), Tulcea (RO) and Västernorrland (SE) shared their experience and the solutions they have implemented in their regions. Solutions include for instance professional guidance and training, coaching, as well as re-motivation and self-appreciation methods to help youth rebuild confidence and trust.

A series of study visits and interviews allowed to go deeper in the analysis of common denominators between regions.

The project is now in its final year and  aims at developing tools, which can be transferable. The social, economic or administrative situation being different in each region, it is not enough to merely present different practices. In order to produce recommendations which can be useful for all regions, partners identify the elements of success of their own experience. The challenge of a toolbox is then to define how generic or how specific recommendations should be. This is what the partners are now working on, until the final conference, which will take place in Hampshire on 21-22 June 2015. The outputs of the project will then be used within the AER working group on school dropouts.

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School dropouts: peer learning essential for better policy-making

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In the framework of the AER Committees’ Autumn Plenary Sessions, from 2-4 November (Hampshire-UK), the working group on schol dropouts met to share the findings from the Erasmus+ JET-CD project on combatting school dropouts. Participants in particular discussed the actions implemented in Hampshire.

Identifying the roots of the problem

Quite interestingly surveys amongst both students and teachers, found diverging views on the most important factor preventing students dropping out of school. Students generally considered the quality of education (25, 9%) and the teachers’ efforts (20,4%) as the most important factor while “classmates and the atmosphere in the class” and “other” ranked equally (16,7%).

Teachers in turn attributed most weight to other factors (28,6%), closely followed by individual support from adults at school and the quality of education (23,8%). Interviews also allowed to identify reasons for not dropping out. Unsurprisingly the main reason remains the perspective of potential further studies and a good job. But other reasons include good classmates and a good clasroom environment, teachers who are interested and engaged with pupils, high quality professional training and support from adults at school.

Causes for dropouts include various elements such as socioeconomic background, lifestyle and psychological problems, the lack of meaning for the future, and in terms of education wrong choices of programmes, the grade system, the importance of theory in school curricula and the fact school is considered boring and monotonous.

formulating solutions

The project therefore also asked interviewees to suggest solutions to combat school dropouts and re-engage pupils. Personal contact and the possibility of finding someone who can motivate the individual pupil was repeatedly mentioned as a key element. More practice, less theory and the possibility to choose from more options were also underlined. Other elements included a structured everyday life, social belonging and well being, basic security outside the school in terms of economy and housing and improved career guidance services.

This is why cross-sectoral approaches are currently being developped by the project and shared within the AER network.

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Third Multiplier event on preventing school dropout

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Tulcea (RO), 5-6 October 2015

Partners of the Joint Efforts to Combat School Dropout (JET CD) project met in Romania for their third myltiplier event. 49 participants from the partner organisations and from different organisations from the region and including 4 representatives from Tulceas twinning region from the Republic of Moldova attended the event. They shared their third intellectual outputs; Joint methodology to detect early school leavers and to identify their needs for re-motivation and re-engagement.

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Second Multiplier event on preventing school dropout

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16-17 April 2015, Ostfold (NO) – partners of the Joint Efforts to Combat School Dropout (JET CD) project met in Norway for their second myltiplyer event. 30 participants from the partner organisations and from different organisations from the region attended the event.

They shared their second intellectual outputs; joint methodologies to prevent dropout by cross sectorial cooperation with the invited local and regional stakeholders from Ostfold County. They also discussed the results of the partnership with the participants from the view of local and regional context in Ostfold in order to exchange and increase knowledge and experiences between five different European counties. The dissemination event continued the next day when the partnership visited an upper secondary school and discussed the subject with invited researchers from the university in the field of early school leaving.

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Joint methodology to prevent dropout by cross sectoral cooperation

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In the framework of the Joint Effort To Combat Dropout  (Erasmus+) project, partners have published their second intellectual output.

You can find below the reports of the partner regions (Hampshire-UK, Tulcea-RO, Catalunya-ES and Ostfold-NO) to get a grasp of the regional perspective:

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Early school leaving: Prevention & Intervention

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The AER working group on early school drop outs gathered on the occasion of the AER  spring plenary meetings in Nordjylland (DK).

Sharing and connecting experiences

The working group on early school drop outs brings together regional policy makers to share challenges and tried solutions aimed at combatting early school leaving which is a growing severe problem in Europe. The meetings which are held on the occasion of plenary meetings provide the opportunity to engage new policy makers in Europe, which are not yet working on this issue. The meeting in Aalborg therefore was an excellent opportunity for dissemination of good practices and awareness raising on the topic of early school leaving.

A crucial problem

While young people are the future of the continent they seem to see less and less relevance in the education systems. The problem with early school drop outs however is that young people very often end up not having any qualification or experience they can use to find an employment or create their own enterprise. This situation threatens both economic development and social cohesion and more generally is a terrible waste of talents and opportunities for our society.

Mutual learning

The meeting of the working group on early school drop outs was organised in two parts:

1/ Prevention measures
2/ Intervention measures.

Laurent Duez (Alsace-FR) presented the good practice that has been implemented in his region together with the results and lessons learnt from an international conference on combating school dropout.

Ilona Novak (Västernorrland-SE) shared results of the Erasmus+ project JET CD Joint Efforts to Combat Dropout, which is closely linked to the AER working group and offers regions the possibility to deepen the cooperation around early school leaving while producing recommendations for policy making which are valid for all regions in Europe.

The first multiplier event took place in Catalunya and showed the first benefits of the multi-stakeholder approach developed in the framework of the project.

Photos of this series of events are available on the AER facebook page

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AER publication

A leaflet, presenting the different activities organised on the occasion of the AER spring plenary meetings, was produced after this event. It was widely distributed at AER events and meetings during the whole of 2015-2016. It is available in the AER Library and embedded below:

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AER 2015 Spring plenaries “Regional Strategies FOR and WITH citizens”

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First Multiplier event on preventing school dropout

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16-17 December 2014, Barcelona (ES) – Following the kick-off meeting of the Erasmus+ project JET CD in Västernorrland in September 2014, the first multiplier event was organised by the region of Catalunya in December last year. 37 participants from the partner organisations and from different organisations from the region attended this event. The project partners had an opportunity to discuss with the stakeholders the activities and good practices that developed in the region. In addition to the theoretical aspects, the project members visited the “El Llindar” premises, an educational foundation which works in close collaboration with the regional authorities to develop practical solutions for combating dropouts.

The first intellectual outputs, the analysis report of each region, including the national and regional policy context, the overview of the compulsory educational system and some concrete actions to combat dropouts were presented and discussed during the meeting.

The JET CD project is carried out in simultaneously with the existing AER working group on ‘School Drop-Out’ which started its work in 2013. Both will benefit from and feed into each other’s expertise.

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Analysis reports on dropout in the regional context

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In the framework of the Joint Effort To Combat Dropout  (Erasmus+) project, partners (Hampshire-UK, Tulcea-RO, Västernorrland-SE, Ostfold-NO, Catalunya-ES) have published their first intellectual output.

You can find below the reports of the partner regions to get a grasp of the regional perspective:

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Experience sharing on early school leaving to define better strategies

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The AER Committee 3 Working group on early school drop outs met in Arnhem, Gerderland (NL) on 07 November to share good practices on this very topical issue.

AER members partner to create operational tools

After summing up the activities and achievements of the working group until end of 2014, Ilona Novak (Västernorrland, SE) informed members of the working group that the Erasmus+ project “Joint Efforts To Combat Dropout” which had been submitted in Spring 2014 for co-financing had been accepted and started its work with the kick-off meeting in Sundsvall (Västernorrland, SE) in September 2014.

The project is a direct product of the working group and the ambition is to create constant exchanges and links between the two entities in order to multiply the impacts of the project beyond the project consortium. The common aim is to improve policy making to combat early school dropouts. The project brings together the following regions: Västernorrland (SE), Tulcea (RO), Østfold (NO) and Catalonia (ES).

The project aims at:

  • developing a toolbox of successful methodologies and practices to combat dropouts;
  • developing a permanent network of actors and stakeholders in the regions;
  • contributing to future policy developments in the regions through shared knowledge and experiences of the partners;
  • increasing the knowledge of the target groups to handle dropouts and thus creating long-term effects.

After the project presentation the working group discussed how to link the AER working group to the EU project in order to enhance the efficiency of both through collaboration.

 

During the working group meeting the members shared best practices from East Sweden Region in the Swedish Plug-In project to combat early school leaving, and discussed the next milestone: Intervention measures.

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Kick-off meeting of the “Joint Efforts to Combat Dropout” project

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11-12 September 2014, Västernorrland (SE) – The project “Joint Efforts to Combat Dropout” (JET CD), co-financed by the Erasmus+ programme, was launched in September 2014. 15 partner representatives from the partnership attended this event.

The meeting aimed to confirm the project application, set up the management, agree on the communication and dissemination strategy and discuss the means and tools of implementation. The aim of the Kick off meeting was also to learn about each other’s organization and confirm its role and responsibility to achieve the project objectives.

Agenda 

11 September

13:30-15:00 Presentation of each partner organisation by its participant focused on its role and contribution to the project (10 minutes per organisation)

15:00-18:00 Confirm the project

a) Aim and objectives of the project
b) Implementation: activities and outputs
c) Time schedule of the implementation
d) The management of the project

19:00 Dinner

12 September

08:30-12:00 Means and tools of implementation

a) The project budget and the eligibility rules of the Erasmus+ program
b) Communication and dissemination strategies
c) Partner agreement

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Conference on “Combating School drop-out”

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Sundsvall, Västernorrland (S)

Sundsvall, Västernorrland (S)

For their Autumn plenary meeting, Committee 3 members are invited to focus on two main issues : a conference on school drop-outs and discussions on our new work programme for 2013/2014.

Conference on combating school drop-out in Europe

One of the main educational goals of the EU 2020 strategy is to reduce school drop-out rates below 10% within the European Union. The average level of early school leaving ranges from 14 and 15% within the EU and the rate varies within the Union from 5% to an alarming 37%. This means that each year more than six million young people aged 18 to 24, leave education and training with only lower education or less. A majority only complete primary school education.

The consequences of early school leaving are very serious both on an individual and a global level.
The conference wants to draw attention to this increasing threat for our future by sharing knowledge and experience in this field and most importantly exchange best practice about combating school drop-out in Europe.

Committee 3 Work Programme 2013/2014

The Autumn plenary meeting will be the opportunity to discuss in depth what you want to see as priorities for our Committee for the next couple of years. Exchange is the key word for our meeting and we designed the format of our meeting to facilitate discussions.

We look forward to seeing you in Sundsvall!

Committee 3 Team

Presentations of the Conference on School drop-out:
European Social Fund (ESF) in Sweden and drop-outs, by Nardin Crisbi, Swedish national coordinator, European Social Fund – ESF_School_DropOut-Nardin_Crisbi
Plug In – A Swedish Project for early school leavers & drop-outs, by Leif Klingensjö and Birger Eriksson, Senior Advisors, Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions – Plug_In_Project_-_LKlingensjö_BEriksson
Adult drop-outs: Back on Track, by Gerd Leonora Forseng, Leader and supervisor at the Karrieresenter Mo i Rana (N) – AdultsBack_on_Track-GerdLeonoraForseng
Lost opportunities, wasted resources and a suffering society – Austrian experiences in combating early school leaving & school drop-out, by Herbert Seher, Vocational Education Coordinator at the European Office of the Vienna Board of Education (A) – EarlySchoolLeaving-DropOut-HerbertSeher
Targeting young people not in employment, education or training (Neet) in Hampshire, by Jude Robinson, Area Manager, Hampshire County Council (UK) – Neet_Hampshire_-_JudeRobinson
Programme & Agenda
General programme – Conference & Plenary meeting
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Programme C3 Sundsvall-FR
Final Agenda (Conference & Committee 3 meetings)
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