Let's disperse the dispersion

Extraordinary intervention aimed at the reduction of territorial gaps in I and II cycles of secondary school and at tackling school drop-out (Mission 4, Component 1, Investment 1.4).

Italy's Recovery and Resilience Plan provides for guaranteeing adequate basic skills to students, also through the development of a single national portal for online training.

Particular attention will be paid to schools that have experienced greater difficulties in terms of performance by customizing interventions on students’ needs – where there will be a support intervention by the school manager with external tutors as well as, in the most critical cases, the availability of at least one additional staff unit per subject (Italian, Mathematics and English).

The investment will promote the implementation of mentoring activities for at least 820 000 young people at risk of early school leaving and young people who have already dropped out.

It envisages the use of an online platform for mentoring and training activities.

The intervention is expected to promote gender equality and to contribute overcoming inequalities, including territorial gaps, in access to education.

The investment is financed by the NRRP by EUR 1.5 billion.

As part of this investment, the project "Disperdiamo la dispersione" aims to prevent early school leaving, with strategies and methodologies useful for the development of cognitive, relational and orientation skills for the success of the training. In our territory the dispersion is mainly linked to the lack of cultural and/ or financial instruments, the presence of families belonging to other cultures (Roma, Moroccans, Albanians, etc.), the lack of a stimulating cultural environment, as well as the massive presence of pupils with BES and learning difficulties.

In most cases, before and more than from abandonment, school failure is characterized by demotivation, disinterest, boredom, up to behavior disorders.

Often children in these kinds of situations live school as an external obligation and not as an opportunity for growth and personal fulfilment.

The final recipients of the project are primarily pupils and their families, from kindergarten to secondary school, who are in a situations of socio-economic fragility and which present difficulties in terms of school integration and learning.

The main strategy adopted consists in building the training of children not only within the school institution but also in a network system that takes into account the problems of pupils, their families and the socio-cultural context in which they live.

In order to tackle the problem in the best possible way, it is also necessary to involve all institutions, local authorities and associations.

The project's objectives are: to prevent the discomfort caused by early school leaving, to develop and strengthen basic skills, to strengthen the educational offer with co-curricular paths, to create a welcoming school-community open to diversity, to promote educational success by experimenting with didactic strategies to improve learning, inclusion and socialization and to achieve psychological well-being.

The project is financed by the NRRP by EUR 96.747.