Time to stay, Time to learn

FOR NOW WE ARE LOOKING ONLY FOR A LEADER, WHO WILL ATTEND ADVANCED PLANNING VISIT AND LATER ON THE PROJECT AS A LEADER AS WELL.

Date of APV – 4. – 7.4. 2024  
Date of  Youth exchange – 31.5. – 7.6. 2024

The general objective, however, is to mitigate the problem of school dropout, which is particularly relevant in the countries of the Mediterranean area: Romania, Spain, Hungary, Germany, and Italy are respectively taking the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth place in the 2022 Eurostat ranking of Early school leavers (young people aged between 18 and 24 without qualifications or qualifications after a middle school diploma).
The lowest percentage of school dropouts is, however, in Croatia, followed by Ireland, Greece, Slovenia and Lithuania Countries like Portugal have managed to enormously reduce the school dropout rate over the last ten years. In Slovak Republic, Sweden, Austria on the contrary, the percentage of school dropouts continues to rise.

OBJECTIVES
*To reflect on the conditions that influence young people who get early dropouts, in all participating countries.
**To rise awareness on the importance and usefulness of education, cooperation between youth organizations and schools, and the use of non-formal methodologies in the process of learning, as a tool to increase the interest of young people towards their continuing studies.
***To increase youth participation of young people at the European level, and develop the sense of active citizenship and entrepreneurship at the European and local level.
****To develop further cooperation of participating organizations in the field of youth participation, active citizenship, and youth entrepreneurship;

Youth exchange is for everybody who are interested in the topic, want to travel, learn and meet new people and cultures from the age of 18 – 30. Leaders can be older than that.