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In the society of knowledge, life chances of people are increasingly conditioned to educational credentials. Accordingly, the OCDE and the European Commission identify the access and the end of elementary school as a way for social inclusion. However, early school leaving is a common problem in many European countries. Although the vast majority of European countries have implemented strategies to minimize leaving in elementary school, the changes seem not to be enough. Thus, an educational system thought to be inclusive and equative cannot allow the normalisation of today’s percentages of early school leaving.In this context, the general aim of CROSSROADS project is to develop a Toolkit for teachers gathering innovative methodologies, strategies and good practices aimed at reducing early school leaving caused by the impact of the intersection of different axes of inequality (gender, origin, social class, ethnicity, sexuality…), in the period between Compulsory and Post-Compulsory Secondary Education.The main activities of the project are: an Internal training (which will allow the partners to test methodologies and to exchange learnings and experiences); Focus Groups with Teachers and Focus Groups with Youth at risk of early school leaving (in which they will discuss the first draft of the Toolkit to guarantee that it takes into account their perspectives); the Exchange of Good Practices Seminar (which will include presentation of good practices, roundtables and field visits); and a Main Dissemination Activity (in Belgium) and National Dissemination Activities.The main result of the project is the Toolkit for teachers, gathering innovative methodologies, strategies and good practices to prevent early school leaving, from an intersectional perspective and taking into account the voice and experience of youth at risk of early school leaving. The Toolkit will be available in the project and the partners’ websites and it will be published under a Creative Commons licence to promote its use and dissemination. CROSSROADS targets three types of participants. The first one is teaching staff committed to prevent early school leaving. They will participate in Focus Groups carried out in the four participating countries (Spain, Poland, Croatia and Belgium), apart from attending the Exchange of Good Practices Seminar and the dissemination activities (100 participants in total). The second target is youth at risk of early school leaving due to their position in the intersection of different axes of inequality (gender, class, origin, sexuality and urban/rural). This target will participate as well in Focus Groups carried out in each participating country and will be invited to participate in the Seminar and the dissemination activities (150 participants). The third target are other stakeholders committed to the prevention of early school leaving, like Public Administrations, NGOs, experts and Media. They will be invited to the Seminar and the dissemination activities (80 participants).As a result of the project, teaching staff will have a Toolkit with innovative methodologies and best practices based on the experience of organizations working on the field and taking into account the voices of youth from groups at risk of early school leaving. Local and regional education authorities will have training material aimed at preventing early school leaving that they can disseminate to schools and Faculties of Education will be able to use the material in the training of future teaching staff. The main objective of the dissemination strategy of the project is to promote the distribution and use of these materials as much as possible, which will also be disseminated in international and national seminars held within the project framework, as well as in the distribution of newsletters and dissemination. Content on various social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and mobile device applications.The expected impact of the project in the long term is: to contribute to increase the visibility of the needs of different social groups at risk of early school leaving in the definition of specific methodologies for educational career guidance from an intersectional perspective; to increase the awareness and training of teaching staff regarding inequalities in education; to strengthen the transnational network of entities that are committed to prevent early school leaving; and to improve the knowledge and competences among teaching staff in European countries, through the dissemination of the Toolkit.
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