Reducing Early School Leaving in Europe (RESL.eu)

I. Contact details

Contact name

Christiane Timmerman

Contact e-mail address

info@resl-eu.org

Contact website

www.resl-eu.org/

Name of the institution

University of Antwerp - Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies

Address of the institution

Lange Nieuwstraat 55, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium

II. Good practice introduction

Title of the good practice

Reducing Early School Leaving in Europe (RESL.eu)

Language of the good practice

English

Primary target group of the good practice

Policy makers

Primary target country of the good practice

Belgium

Tags

Keywords

research, failure to adapt

Abstract

TThe project funded by the Seventh Framework programme for Research and Technological Development is an ongoing international cooperation of the United Kingdom, Sweden, Portugal, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Hungary and Austria and planned to be finished in January 2018.
The project focuses on researches and its main outputs will be project papers, publications and working papers. The project targets the topic of education systems in the 21st century, since the participating partners believe that the high rate of ESL in the EU is a symptom of the traditional education systems inability to adapt to new circumstances. When a pupil decides to leave the school or training before getting a qualification is interrelated to several individual, institutional (school) and structural/systemic failures. The researches plan to make visible these three levels (individual – micro, institutional – meso, systemic – macro) resistance to change and failure to adapt to and to overcome these social transformations. These transformations are the changing labour market conditions, demographic changes or migration.
The project aims:
- to provide insights into the mechanisms and processes that influence a pupil’s decision to leave school or training early;
- to provide insights into the decision of school leavers to enrol in alternative learning possibilities.
- to focus on the pupils that left education or training early, and are identified as NEET.
- to identify and analyse the intervention and compensation measures that did succeed in transferring knowledge and in keeping pupils in education or training
- to uncover specific configurations of variables and contexts influencing the processes related to ESL which may led to formulate conceptual models useful for the development and implementation of policies and specific measures to influence ESL.

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