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An overview of our success with a view to the future

The project started in September 2018 and has been planned to end by February 2021. Due to Covid-19 emergency, the project has received an extension period of six months until August 2021. The project by itself could be viewed as a small one that builds upon a...

Disseminates project “Drop In” results

On August 16-17 in the guest house “Lācītes” gathered together Gulbene district teachers, career education teachers, youth workers and students and teacher support persons to present the intellectual results of the international project “Drop In”, as well as to...

DROP’IN Bulgarian event was a success!

The Bulgarian multiplier event in the frame of DROP-IN project was organized on 9th July 2021 in Ramada by Wyndham Sofia City Center, shortly after the final versions of the e-platform and products were finalized and released in national languages for use by the...

DROP IN: final project results presented in Italy

On the 8th of July 2021, the Multiplier Event of DROP IN project has been held at ICS Rita Borsellino, an unmissable chance to discover what has been achieved by our partnership.  The event gathered more than 40 people (teachers from other schools, educational...

DROP’IN ACTION – Summary of the results

The implementation phase of the DROP’IN activities can be summarized as successful both for the teachers and the students involved in the activities. During the experimentation phase of DROP’IN, 25 teachers from France (5), Bulgaria(6), Latvia(7) and Italy (7)...

The challenge is accepted!

On October 21-22 we organized the dissemination event-training course of the project “Drop in”, in which teachers of the Gulbene Municipality gained knowledge on how to reduce the number of early school leavers using various non-formal education methods, and to...

DROP’IN National peer trainings: a short overview

The main aim behind DROP’IN project is to test the effectiveness of non-formal methods in learning about school subjects and transferring knowledge. DROP IN is in line with the recommendations of the EU working group on early school leaving, which states for example...

Expertise: Non-formal education to prevent dropping out of school

Expertise: Non-formal education to prevent dropping out of school

​Drop-In is the European cooperation project of Pistes Solidaires which aims to fight against dropping out of school through the use of non-formal education methods. But what exactly is non-formal education? And how can it help pupils to stay in school? We asked Anita...

PEER TO PEER training at 119 Secondary School, Sofia Bulgaria

PEER TO PEER training at 119 Secondary School, Sofia Bulgaria

Following the training in Dax, France, the 119 Secondary School in Sofia, implemented the peer to peer training with the scope to introduce non-formal education methods within the school and motivate students to continue their education and prevent early school...

Peer to Peer Training, Teachers in action!

Peer to Peer Training, Teachers in action!

On 24th and 25th February 2020 in Palermo at the Istituto Superiore Duca Abruzzi, the teachers involved in the training in Dax conducted a peer to peer training, to let their colleagues know the non-formal education techniques present in the EDUC'ACTION (A catalogue...

Let’s drop’in a teacher

Let’s drop’in a teacher

Sure, the project is about getting students involved in school, learning process and shaping their lives, but currently is the active phase of getting teachers involved – in the project and in non-formal education. Gulbene Municipality has involved teachers from two...

Peer to Peer Training in France

Peer to Peer Training in France

19 mid-school and high schools’ teachers from 3 different schools in Landes district in the south west of France, took part on the 20th of December 2019 and the 8th of January 2020 to 2-full days of peer-to-peer training in the frame of DROP IN project. The concept...

DROP’IN – C1 Learning Mobility: “SP-SCHOOL-EVENT”

DROP’IN – C1 Learning Mobility: “SP-SCHOOL-EVENT”

From 7 to 12 October 2019 in Dax, France, Pistes Solidaires, with the support of the partners, organised a non-formal training programme led by experts for teachers who want to discover and develop non-formal techniques to be introduced in their classrooms. The aim of...