PROJECT CONTEXT.Tackling early school leaving is a key contribution to the Europe 2020 agenda. To reduce dropout rate in the EU to less than 10% (15% in the case of Spain) is one of the objectives of E2020 Strategy. The two participating countries show dropout rates significantly above the European average, being necessary to undertake strategic actions in this regard. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES The general objective of MEDES has been to promote a strategic partnership between the city of Vila-real (Castellón) and the City of Sacile (Italy) as local education authorities, with the support of educational centres and local educational organisations, to develop an innovative methodology, based on school mediation, for preventing early school leaving, that allows to provide high quality education and address the growing number of diverse needs that occur in school contexts.In addition, MEDES have had the following specific objectives:1. Increase the competences and skills of the teaching staff in school mediation, reinforcing also key competences such digital and linguistic competences.2. Train young mediators and facilitate the development of key skills to enable them to participate effectively and constructively in social and professional life.3. Improve the internationalization capacity of the participating organizations.4. Facilitate the permeability of the school mediation from non-formal to formal education, analyzing the possibilities of implementing the program in educational centers and guiding the implementation process with quality guarantees.MAIN ACTIVITIESIn the framework of MEDES, in addition to the development of the methodology of school mediation and dissemination activities of the project, training activities have been developed addressed to teachers and students (trained as school mediators); exchanges of student mediators between the participating centers (establishing a peer learning system); and creation and dynamization of a Twinspace.PARTNERSMEDES has been developed by six different organizations from Italy and Spain, the municipalities of Villarreal and Sacile; two educational centers, the Instituto de Educació Secundària MIRALCAMP and the Istituto Comprensivo di Sacile; and two expert entities in school and humanistic mediation, the Cooperativa Itaca and the Associació el Porc Espí.NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTSThe direct beneficiaries of MEDES have been teachers and students of secondary education between 11 and 16 years old as well as professionals from local educational organizations. The indirect beneficiaries had been students and teachers from other educational centers of different levels and/or educational fields, at local, regional, national, European and international levels; local, regional and national education authorities; teacher associations; unions; associations of parents of students; and other socio-educational professionals.In numbers: - 47 professionals and teachers from the participating organizations, who have been trained in school mediation; - 27 students participated in the training workshop: Peer learning; - 25 teachers in the participatory workshops for content creation; - 30 students have been trained as mediators and 20 have participated in the exchanges; - 1.424 people have participated in the multiplier events (teachers, students, professionals, educational authorities, etc.).RESULTS AND IMPACTMEDES project has trained in mediation teachers and students (as mediators), developing their key competeces (linguistic and digital skills). MEDES has developed open educational resources in different languages and has facilitated the implementation of mediation in educational centers. The following intellectual products have been developed (in digital format, in three languages ​​and under Creative Commons license):- MULTI-MEDES Toolkit consists of three types of materials: A PRESENTATION animated with all the contents of the educational program necessary to train future teachers specialized in school mediation; two videos that simulate a mediation in which mediators manage conflicts and a interactive web.- 3.2,1... MEDI-ACTION aims to be a simple guide to support the implementation of the mediation programme in an educational centre.- VALE is a methodological guide for the evaluation of quality in school mediation programs.- MEDES quality seal in recognition of the centers that implement these methodologies with quality guarantees.In terms of long-term impact, MEDES project aims to include school mediation as an innovative strategy for the prevention and reduction of early school leaving within the educational strategies, first at local level and then at regional, national and european levels.