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"Early school leaving and dropping out of school before completing the normal course of secondary education have implications not only for the lives and opportunities of those who experience it, but also has enormous economic and social implications for society at large. Early leaving from education is a serious issue in many EU countries and has attracted the attention of many researchers, policy-makers and educators. Although the situation varies across countries and the underlying reasons for students leaving early are highly individual, the process leading up to it includes a number of common elements: learning difficulties, socio-economic problems, or a lack of motivation, guidance or support. Early leaving is highly challenging, not only for young people, but also for societies. For many, early leaving will lead to reduced opportunities in the labour market and an increased likelihood of unemployment, poverty, health problems and reduced participation in political, social and cultural activities. Furthermore, these negative consequences have an impact on the next generation and may perpetuate the occurrence of early leaving. Education systems play a crucial role in addressing early leaving from education. They must attempt to cater for the diverse needs of young people today. Dealing with the underlying causes of early leaving has thus become a central issue across Europe. EU countries have committed to reducing the proportion of early leavers to less than 10 % by 2020. Three Schools, three Municipalities and three NGO'S met a create a partnership in order to exchange of good practices, underlining the pressing demanded to develop more effective school-community approaches and common strategies to face to ESL in multicultural and multilingual learning communities. Overall the project aimed to share and confront at transnational level innovative ideas, school community approaches, methods and tools among key actors in School Education in order to develop common strategies to prevent and tackle Early School Leaving in learning communities where cultural diversity is growing. The project aimed to create a learning community based on training especially focusing on the fight against school failure and early school dropouts using Fine Art as a powerful tool. It also aimed at providing the target group with the necessary tools to develop these aspects amongst early-school leavers through Fine Art to build teacher capacity for competence oriented education. Building effective relationships between schools and the community at large can have an important effect on the quality of learning. These relationships may also change the community and structural factors that promote educational inequality. We developed a partnership to reinforce the bonds between schools, families and learners. This is particularly helpful for parents and families from disadvantaged backgrounds or for those parents who have had negative experiences of school in the past.In two years of implemetation of project all initial aims have been achieved.The LTTA'S and the Transnational Projects Meetings took place according the schedule. Dissemination activities were made by all partners in order to spread information in school and to the local authorities.The deliverables of the project were: - the Guide ""Michelangelo: didactic and inclusive practice to fight school failure, early school leaving and dropping out through Fine Art” , in English language and each partner language, we believe that will serve as reference for other schools- the short documentary on ESL and Fine Arts.- the project website : www.michelangeloproject.euThe project has impact to schools, teachers, local authorities and students. To students ,because many students took part in the actions which made it popular, effective and sustainable. The students' active involvement in them gave meaning to the concept of involvement and activation. To teacher and local authorities, because they saw and know the education systems of each country change view about their teaching methods and the relashionship between Municipalitie and school with basic aim to reduce early school leaving.All the deliverables but especially the Guide ""Michelangelo: didactic and inclusive practice to fight school failure, early school leaving and dropping out through Fine Art” , we believe that it has longer-term benefit for the students and teachers."
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