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 … [Read more...]
This tag is for all posts relating to Project School Dropout.
Welcome to our projects section. AER was involved in the "School dropout" project. The articles below are related to policies for school dropout prevention.
Final conference school dropout: Just another brick in the wall?
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 … [Read more...]
Early school leaving: working group meets at AER plenary
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 … [Read more...]
Self esteem key to combat school dropouts
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 … [Read more...]
Fourth muliplier event on school dropouts: getting to the next level
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), … [Read more...]
School dropouts: peer learning essential for better policy-making
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 … [Read more...]
Third Multiplier event on preventing school dropout
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 … [Read more...]
Second Multiplier event on preventing school dropout
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 … [Read more...]
Joint methodology to prevent dropout by cross sectoral cooperation
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: Links JET-CD project page and outputs Erasmus+ website … [Read more...]
Early school leaving: Prevention & Intervention
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 … [Read more...]
First Multiplier event on preventing school dropout
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 … [Read more...]
Analysis reports on dropout in the regional context
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: Links JET-CD project page and outputs Erasmus+ website … [Read more...]
Experience sharing on early school leaving to define better strategies
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 … [Read more...]
Kick-off meeting of the “Joint Efforts to Combat Dropout” project
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 … [Read more...]
Conference on “Combating School drop-out”
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% … [Read more...]