Early school leaving is a real social issue. The unemployment rate among early school leavers is higher than 40%. Dale’s studies confirm that a student learns better when he acts: he retains 20% of what he hears, 50% of what he sees and hears, and 90% of what he does. Non-formal education, active education, make teaching more attractive, more “snappy”. Students change over the years, the same is true regarding their ability to pay attention and to be focused, but teaching methods often struggle to evolve to cope with it. While recent years have seen significant progress in tackling early school leaving, efforts need to be sustained and the focus must be put on prevention.This is the objective that DROP'IN gave itself by allowing the cross between the formal education and the non-formal education environment to keep students and teachers to be into in the educational environment.It is the question of keeping the students motivated that is worked here, in response to the fight against school dropout. DROP'IN is a long-term investment and is therefore a project that worked closely with teachers during 36 months to give them knowledge and skills in the non-formal education sector, to enable them to become trainers for their peers so that the dynamics continue beyond the project. The achievements of this 36-month project were: teacher training on techniques and attitudes / method of non-formal education, research and state of the art in the partner regions, test period and implementation through teacher-expert pairs of non-formal methods for students from 12 to 18, capitalization, dissemination and multiplication of good practices developed for opening up to other schools.The project developed a state of the art, a catalogue of techniques, a training in non-formal methods - a veritable vademecum for teachers - an analysis of the practices tested and their valorisation in the form of an online portfolio as well as a policy paper indicating the specific axes to develop to contribute to this fight against early school leaving. The partners gathered around the project combined expertise from the non-formal education sector with secondary schools as well as a University from 5 European countries impacted by the issues of school dropout (Latvia, Belgium, Italy, Bulgaria and La France). Transversality is a key word of the DROP'IN project: the partners are diverse and complementary in the consortium (associations, municipalities, schools and University) and in each country, a local steering committee was created and developed the adaptation of DROP'IN in the local context, involving all the stakeholders of the wider educational community (teachers, parents, institutions ...). In doing so, these steering committees facilitated the ownership of the project by a broad network of associated partners and the dissemination of results on a large scale.

"The Mediaparks Europe project aims to develop a collaborative writing pedagogy between students and adults from foreign countries and to work on public speaking in order to defend shared ideas and values. 4 secondary schools are partners: the Rosa Parks College (coordinator) in Rennes (France), the Max-Planck-Gymnasium in Saarlouis (Germany), the Edmondo de Amicis comprehensive school in Randazzo (Italy) and the Garcia Lorca Institute of Secondary Education in Algeciras (Spain). The project was born from the experience of Rosa Parks College which in 2015 initiated the production of a thematic review dealing with social issues and based on collaborative methods with teachers, academics and professionals from civil society. As an extension of this approach focused on critical eye on the media, common democratic culture and ""living together"", the project went further with the creation of the Ceremony of the Tribuns of the Republic which takes place every year since 2017 at the Opera of Rennes. During this event, supported by local authorities and the world of culture, adolescents from different institutions speak out in a plea for the values that should reign unconditionally in our society, and this in front of a jury composed of renowned people. This place to oralization follows a work of reflection and then of writing articles for the magazine Mediaparks.We wish to confer a European dimension to the magazine Mediaparks and to this ceremony, renamed Tribune of Europe for the occasion. For this project, we have chosen a global problematic: ""How to make environmental protection a factor of social integration?"" This echoes several facts:- The difficulty for young people who lack integration in defining ecology as a priority- The need for social recognition of immigrant populations by factors no longer economic, but civic behaviour- The difficulty for teenagers in defining a collective identity at a European level- The communicational problems between people who speak different languages, the need to develop strategies to communicate better, understand each other better and break down identity barriers- A lack of understanding and practice of the media within the European society which generates a flagrant inequality in access to information- Lack of proficiency in written and oral communication codes to convey ideas and values to a broad and diverse audience- The need for social integration without cultural denial through humanistic and ecological values, common to allWe will organize pedagogical exchanges between teachers on the issue of media education via the students' mastery of information channels (learning written and oral communications) and how to inculcate ecological behaviour in terms of social recognition for young people in need of integration.After a few mobilities of teachers between September and December 2020 in order to develop their teaching methods, 4 student mobilities are planned in the 4 participating countries.- At the first meeting, students will develop communication strategies so that in groups they can think and then write an article on the topic of their choice in relation to the themes of social inclusion and sustainable development. Following the meeting, articles will be published on the Mediaparks magazine blog (http://revue.mediaparks.fr/)- At the second meeting, students will have to quickly re-appropriate communication techniques in order to write a second series of articles.After these first 2 meetings, a paper edition of the magazine Mediaparks will be published.- During the third meeting, students will work on the oral adaptation (in argumentative speech) of previously written articles.- The last meeting in Rennes will be devoted to the preparation of the Tribune of Europe Ceremony, which will take place this same week at the Opera of Rennes and will be broadcast on social networks. The students will work on the staging of their speech with the help of a theatre company.Between these mobility, teachers' work with students will be continuous in order to improve communication and writing strategies. Not all students will participate in each mobility, which is why we are preparing a system of peer-to-peer training and methodological relay between students.This project will be an incentive for everyone to pursue actions aimed at promoting the integration of young people through ecology and developing skills of written and oral expression."

"The Europarks project aims to create a european school magazine. 4 secondary schools are partners : Rosa Parks College (coordinator) and Chalais College (both located in Rennes, France), Aigaleo Gymnasio in Athens, Greece and the Sibiu School No. 23 in Romania. The project was born from the experience of Rosa Parks College which initiated in 2015 the realization of a magazine by students of 4th, dealing with major social issues and based on collaborative methods with teachers but also academics and professionals from civil society. As an extension of this approach focused on critical eye on the media, common democratic culture and ""living together"", the idea is to develop the magazine Médiaparks by giving it a european dimension. This would answer to several observations, complementary to those at the origin of its creation: - the difficulty for young people to define a collective identity at the level of the European Union and to integrate a sense of belonging to a common space - the return of strong regional local identities that may, in some cases, run counter to a unifying European identity - a lack of mastery and practice of the media within the European society which generates a flagrant inequality in access to information - the possible learning of a cohabitation between different identities or a multiple identity, moving, and not frozen and exclusive, in the same individual, both anchored in its territory and open to others. The project therefore aims to organize educational exchanges between teachers focusing on the issues of the media, journalism and critical thinking, and on the different ways of approaching these questions with pupils, making them actors of learning. It also aims to make pupils (aged 13 to 16) from several EU Member States work together on the co-writing of articles dealing with common issues (the theme of european citizenship and belonging to a common space will be a central theme). Concretely, the project will see the production of 3 ""european"" issues of the Mediaparks journal (published in French and translated by the Romanian and Greek partners in their native language, distributed in 1000 copies and digitally to nearly 4000 contacts): - a first issue in June 2019 on the theme of european identity (central theme that determined the editing of the project itself) - a second isse in January 2020 on the theme of sustainable development (theme already identified by the partners as unifying and underpinning strong common issues) - a third issue in June 2020 on a theme that will remain to be chosen by pupils. The project will be marked by several mobilities: - 3 mobilities of teachers organized in a perspective of ""training-adaptation of co-writing methods"" intended to present in detail the existing review, to train the working methods used, and to adapt the deployment of these methods among all the partner schools. - 3 key moments for pupils and teachers meeting (42 pupils and 8 teachers at each meeting), successively in each of the partner cities (Rennes, Sibiu, Athens). Between these mobilities, the mobilization of teachers and pupils will be continuous through preparatory work times (research of themes and issues, preparation of press kits, writing exercises, draft articles) and co-writing times. articles. ""Virtual"" exchanges between teachers and partners from the 4 partners schools will be very regularly organized (by email, chat, video ..) to advance the project. The pupils involved will have the opportunity, through this project, to put into practice knowledge and skills, around the same language but while keeping their own identity, to express diverse and nuanced opinions. The project is resolutely focused on sharing common values ​​and developing civic and intercultural skills. For the 4 schools, this project would be a first step to bring any educational action oriented towards Europe (including school trips) within the framework of real european projects (in other words with a global, multidisciplinary and long-term approache, and aimed at strengthening european citizenship). At the end of this Erasmus experience, the partnership wishes to develop a pedagogical protocol (from the start of the school year 2020) to contact new schools in the Member States of the European Union to continue and expand the realization and dissemination of this european school magazine."