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ONCE Again-st Abandon, Opening to New Countries Experiences

Promoter: Ce.Ri.S. Centro Ricerche Sociali

The proposal concerns actions and practices coping with dispersion and school abandon. It has been conceived as a follow up of the outcomes achieved by the implementation of the pilot project Again-st Abandon (2003) and regarding the complexity of social, cultural and economic factors that characterize young dropouts and the identification of their main needs. Direct beneficiaries of the project are guidance and counselling operators; the sector is the one of services aimed at supporting individuals in their personal and occupational development. Indirect beneficiaries and potential users of results are young drop-out (14-24 y.o.) and education and training Institutions (schools, vocational training centres, employment services, etc).

GENERAL GOALS

The proposal general goals are synthesizable as follow: Opening the reflection and experimentation to Countries different from the ones involved in the previous project, in order to widen and strengthen the network of reference and exchange; Outcomes and Products Transfer and experimentation to/in other contexts, countries and target groups (the previous project was addressed to young drop out aged 14-16 y.o.);

SPECIFIC AIMS

Creation of a virtual community (Pedagogical Resources Centre), permanent but with an expandable structure, with the aim of rationalize, disseminate and valorise existent practices and solutions, through the collation of different and interrelated materials and tools. The centre will be a sort of Portal of Dispersion and School Abandon; Increasing of the direct involvement of direct and indirect target group, through the experimentation of laboratories (Press and Television Editorial Staff for the creation of schedules) aimed at transferring competencies of communication techniques).

EXPECTED RESULTS (ADDRESSED TO BENEFICIARIES)

- to update and integrate the competencies of training operators and professionals (working within the 8 Countries involved in the partnership) on the analysis of services provided on local contexts of reference and on communication and relation techniques and methodologies usable with target group (dropouts); by providing them with specific and specialised tools and documents;
- to valorise the results of a wide range of projects realised, by disseminating and testing them within the national contexts involved in the partnership;
- adjustment and adaptation of existing products, referring to different national contexts and professional profiles (including also guidance operators, media managers and teachers);
- to set up a wider and permanent European network aimed at becoming a Pedagogical Resources Centre (sort of physical and virtual multimedia library) where teachers, trainers, guidance operators and policy makers can find didactic and informative materials, experiment and make validated their own products. The Centre might also become, in the medium-long period, a “High Quality” Training Centre ensuring the transition from the dissemination of existing practices (on the pattern of open source software) to a phase of evaluation and validation of them, addressed to all professionals related to Institutional Organizations as Second Chance Schools, Folk High Schools and Training Centres for Adults without qualification.

EXPECTED PRODUCTS

Compendium of practices and experiences realised (local projects); Territorial Analysis Courseware (ODL); Handbook on Territorial Analysis Techniques (set of indicators and tools); Glossary integrated by Romanian, Polish, Danish, Germans and Greek words; European Portal of Dispersion and School Abandon; Editor on line Courseware (ODL) (to publish articles on the Portal); Communication Tools – on paper – realised within the experimental laboratories with Dropouts; Communication Tools – on TV – realised within the experimental laboratories with Dropouts.

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