Description

What is Stop Dropout?

Stop Dropout! is a European project within the Lifelong Learning Programme to reduce the number of early school leavers in the vocational education sector. Our holistic approach includes finding at-risk individuals, evaluating their needs and providing them with flexible support.
Stop Dropout! supports teachers, trainers and tutors and enables them to identify those learners who are endangered and to recognize risk factors for school leavers early enough work with learners supporting them to recognize their own profile, and to develop strategies to avoid school dropout ameliorate the efficiency of vocational school systems.
Stop dropout! transfers proven solutions that are already successfully used in Norway and Iceland to vocational school systems in Austria, Germany, The Czech Republic and Slovenia.

Why Stop Dropout?

Every sixth young European aged 18 to 24 leaves school with no more than lower secondary education and participates in no kind of education or training after this point.
Young people who leave school with only lower secondary education are at a disadvantage on the labour market in today's knowledge-based society. Their personal and social development is in danger of being curtailed and they are at risk of a life of poverty and social exclusion. They are also less likely to participate in lifelong learning than other young, who continue their education and training.
Therefore, a new and holistic approach to reduce dropout rates in the vocational education sector in all these four countries is highly welcome