European Project for the Prevention of Student Disengagement

The First Transnational Meeting

Pixel organized and coordinated the kickoff meeting of the European project entitled ENGAGE 11 - 13: A Holistic Approach to Preventing Student Disengagement which took place online – using the Zoom web platform – on 12 November 2024. The European project entitled ENGAGE has been written and coordinated by the project applicant Istituto Comprensivo “Ennio Quirino Visconti” (Italy) in cooperation with CONFAO and Pixel. The project was funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, Cooperation partnerships in School Education. The ENGAGE project has the aim to address the lack of preparation of the school community, considered as a whole (i.e. students, teachers, headmasters, counsellors and families) in identifying, preventing and tackling student disengagement and implicit school dropout at middle school level (student age 11 to 13) according to an holistic approach overcoming the identified main causes of the phenomenon: insufficient personalization and consideration of emotional needs, inadequate support systems, relevance of the educational offer, high-stakes testing pressure, mismatched learning styles, social isolation, socioeconomic disparities etc. During the first meeting, WP activities were described (with a specific focus on Case Studies), next face-to-face meetings dates were identified, project related documents (Memorandum of Understanding, Quality Plan and Dissemination Plan) were presented. More information about the ENGAGE European project is available at: https://pixel-online.net/PRJ__projects_form.php?id_prj=197&id_area=&id_ben=