How can colleges, communities, families and policymakers reduce the high school drop out rates of young people in Europe?

This is the key issue at stake in a new research and development project the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) is involved in together with a range of European partners.

We are working with European partners to develop our understanding on early school leaving and develop pilots to reduce school drop out rates across five European countries (Slovenia, UK, Hungary, Germany and Portugal).

The RESLEA project (Reduction of Early School Leaving) will be:

• Analysing policies and practices on reduction of early school leaving in five countries;
• Identifying good practice cases and success factors for young people to complete secondary education;
• Running a pilot project in four partner countries;
• Developing toolkits for schools, communities/families and trainers to identify young people at risk of dropping out and intervention methods to prevent them from doing so;
• Validating and exploiting the toolkits in close cooperation with stakeholders.

We are doing the work in cooperation with CEPCEP (PT), School Centre Velenje (SI), Hackney community college (UK), NTL (DE), EPIS (PT), CENOA (PT), Szalmak (HU).

The work is funded by the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme.

For more information please contact Thomas Spielhofer at t.spielhofer@tavinstitute.org.