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“T-TRUST – Training on Techniques & Research on Unemployment, School-leaving of Teen-agers” has been an Erasmus plus project of Mobility for youth workers, which took place in Sandrigo (Vicenza - Italy), where Cooperativa Margherita gives its primarily commitment. This Project gave the chance to 36 professional and non-professional educators coming from France, Spain, Serbia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Croatia and Italy to participate in a Seminar lasted 5 days in June 2015. According to the latest analysis of the EU and Italian youth field, we can deduce that the phenomenon of Early School Leaving is still affecting the population, even if its ways of manifest are changing. It finds its origin in several causes as the youth condition, the changes in the labor market and family frailty. It affects different age groups, but especially those who pass from one level of education to the next one, which in Italy corresponds to the passage from the Middle to the High school.T-TRUST contributed to prevent early school leaving during the transition from the Middle to the High school. The project allowed the organization of a thematic seminar aiming at educators dealing with students of the Middle schools. Where for “educator” we intend every different professional and non-professional figure working with and in support of the young students such as animators, professional educators, volunteers, social workers.The final concrete objective reached has been an exchange of best practices and sharing of innovations through the new expanded network, which strengthened the adoption of non-formal education practices and their integration with formal ones among young people. This offered new tools and perspectives to the participant educators.The planned activities during the seminar have been divided into two categories:1. Theoretical part: it consisted in a conference and some workshops organized to involve actively all the partners, to discuss the issue of early school leaving.2. Practical activities: this phase offered hands-on activities starting from local educators’ experiences and good practices. The theoretical part has been specifically designed to create a common basis of the issues and topics to be covered. Instead, the practical part helped the participants to focus on specific issues in an active way.The achieved results have been: Professional development of the educators supported with a view to innovation;* Quality of youth activities across Europe improved;* Best practices and new methods in participants’ daily activities integrated;* Synergies with organizations active in different social, educational and employment fields established;* Competences linked to the participants’ professional profiles improved;* Knowledge of practices, policies and systems in education, training or youth across countries disseminated;* Understanding of interconnections between formal and non-formal education increased;* Ability to address the needs of the disadvantaged improved;* Motivation and satisfaction in daily work or activity enhanced.After the end of the activities and the seminar-experience impacts has been produced at different levels.T-TRUST project contributed to the goal of preventing early school leaving through a mutual cultural knowledge. The participants are still playing a key-role in broadcasting and amplifying the effects, the content and the policies resulting from the good practices exchange. Furthermore, the out coming network of partnership is thought to last even beyond the end of the project. In fact, T-TRUST laid the foundations for new projects and strategic partnerships that will capitalize the results obtained to design new actions to tackle and prevent early school leaving across Europe.
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