This Project addresses to two problematic issues  at schools and in the long term in the society. The first one is students can not identify their needs, demands, personal traits, interests and abilities well enough to plan their career. And the second one, as a result of the first one, the students find it hard to cope with the pressure and stress of the vague future, they leave school earlier.

According to the content of a recent statistics (after Eurostat, 28th Sep 2015), the drop out rates in participating countries are:

Italy: 14,6%, Estonia: 11,8%, Poland: 5,3%, Romania: 18,9%, Turkey: 36,6%, Spain: 20,3% and Greece: 8,3%.

 In order to be helped, the students need motivation in learning and more care in learning process.

    As participant countries our main aim is to reduce the number of students at risk of drop out by conducting a new system based on teachers - coaches. It has been noticed that when the factor of pleasantness of the school raises, students are not in tendency to  leave or change their school. Mentoring is the presence of a caring individual who provides a young person with support, advice, friendship, reinforcement and constructive role-modelling over time. It is also about building positive relationships. This is a relationship beyond the traditional training that’s why this system, related to our project, will be  new and innovative at public schools.

    Every partner school has evaluated the percentage of the students at risk of early school leaving:

Italy: 20%, Estonia: 2%, Poland: 7%, Romania: 15%, Turkey: 23%, Spain: 20% and Greece: 15%. The schools used surveys, school reports of social backgrounds of the local communities or other available materials from their Educational Departments.

Refering to our main aim which is reducing the number of students at risk of drop out we want to achieve the following states:

Italy: 10%, Estonia: 0%, Poland: 0%, Romania: 10%, Turkey: 10%, Spain: 10% and Greece: 10%

The second very important aim we want to achieve is reducing stress level and developing the necessary abilities to manage emotions as well as overcoming anxiety within the classroom. The basic method how to do that will be taught during Yoga workshops in Estonia and EFT Tecnigues  in Turkey Participating students will be 'school experts' and they will demise their knowldge to other students at their schools. This way all the students at risk of drop out in every school will know the new techniques of coping with stress.

   The other goal is improving creativity in using new ICT technologies by working with robotics experts in Italy. Students and teachers participating in this workshop will present this new approach at their schools. In every group there will be 4 students and 1 teacher as experts and they will teach how to build and  program a small robot. Students will make hypothesis to find solutions; the robot will become a " physical tool"for the experimental verification of concepts. Learning while doing is our aim.

 

   The next aim to gain is providing the motivation of students for learning and socializing by showing them how to plan their future career and creating opportunities for them to involve themselves in various activities that suit their taste.

   There are also some aims that will be achieved not in a direct way:

- improving English language skills, all students - participants of the meetings will get better marks on English lessons,

- developing team-working skills - all participants will be active and cooperative while working in groups,

- learning about other countries and cultures, being tolerant and respectful to other people's cultures - writing a blog considering the global issue of immigrants and refugees,

- being positive towards European projects and values - organising a European Fair for local comunities at the end of the project.