OBJECTIVES

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On the longer term we wish to CONTRIBUTE TO THE LOWERING OF EARLY SCHOOL LEAVING % in both of our countries, this is the most relevant priority for us. (Current rates are 12,5% in HU and 14% in IT (2020)).

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It can’t necessarily be achieved during this project. By strengthening our educators’ professional knowledge, by using tools (eg. with a cultural/arts background) that can make education more interesting for pupils likely to leave school early (and thus motivating them to continue their studies) we can reduce the number of early school leavers in about 2-5 years’ time in our areas.

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We would also like to create a network of organisations who work in similar areas, using various art/cultural forms to tackle early school leaving. This project is also A PREPARATION OF A LARGER-SCALE EUROPEAN PROJECT on this subject.

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PARTICIPANTS

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Our direct participant groups are: TEACHERS/ EDUCATORS from both organisations and PUPILS from both institutions.

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An important part of the local participants will be “the locals” – as we would like to invite a wider audience to the planned pupil performances/exhibits (eg. parents, the pupils’ friends, and members of the local communities).

ACTIVITIES

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M1: kick-off meeting in Miskolc

M2: sum-up meeting in Grosseto

P1: entry measuring

P2: preparation for E1

P3: preparation for E2

E1: short-term staff training in IT

E2: short-term student exchange in IT

P4: measuring after E1, E2

P5: relaying of experience after E1, E2

P6: preparation for E4

P7: preparation for E3

E3: short-term staff training in HU

E4: short-term student exchange in HU

P8: measuring after E3, E4

P9: relaying of experience after E3, E4

P10: fusion of practices, further use

P11: exit measuring

P12: internal evaluation

P13: project management

P14: dissemination/communication

P15: partner search, network extension

RESULTS/IMPACT

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PREVENTING EARLY SCHOOL LEAVING a very long-term objective; we’ll deem it a success if none of the project’s participants will drop off their studies.

Numbers about our dissemination activity (how many institutions learn about the best practices, through how many channels) can show how widely can we contribute to the SUPPORTING TEACHERS.

The topic CULTURE AND CREATIVITY is an underlying one throughout the project – music/art education and activities in themselves are a cultural notion; we’ll organize concerts/exhibits during the exchanges (this always attract interest); and we’ll create a new best practice using music education as an incentive against early school leaving.

The INTERNAL EVALUATION of the project (by the key persons’ committee) in May 2023 will go through the project events and all these points mentioned here, to formulate a joint opinion that can be incorporated in the final report.

LONG-TERM BENEFITS

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Participation in this project will GREATLY CONTRIBUTE to both organisation’s development:

- gaining experience in international projects

- having a more compact and motivated staff by the end

- having more motivated pupils

- gaining useful tools and methods for further professional use

- gaining professional recognition among our respective peer schools

- fortifying links to national-level decision-makers (these latter 2 through dissemination).

It is a given that we wish to INCORPORATE the learned outstanding best practices into our respective work programs, this is why we started the cooperation in the first place.

We also wish to continue working on the FUSION OF THE BEST PRACTICES (starting by the end of this project, see activity P10) into a nation-level system of incentives through art/music education/activities.

If the results of the project are overwhelmingly positive, we can renew the experience by a wider partnership – this requires an extended partner search where we’ll look for music education methods that we would love to learn about (and implement if they prove to be a success).