A report will be written to describe how is led, in national and various contexts, a cross-categorial work to fight early school leaving, to compare the national situations one to another and finally, it to assess the local effects produced by specific actions led to promote the cross-categorial work inside schools.
The object of the analysis and the most relevant method to use gradually became more and more precise through TITA partners exchanges, in particular the ones with the French Ministry of Education, the French Institute of Education (IFé), Luxembourg (Lycée d’Ettelbruck) and Swiss partners (Haute Ecole Pédagogique du Valais). The interactive work with these partners was all the more necessary since they were also, by their sides, refining the frame of their actions and the content Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche sur les Qualifications (Céreq) would have to study and assess. An analysis of the collaborative work is done in a comprehensive way led by interviews inside schools and with a quantitative method by questionnaires, to have information from a larger number of schools. The report will articulate the two methods to comprehend in the best way the various aspects of the assessment. A randomized assessment will be led.
The relevance of the statistical approach is ensured by sampling a sufficient number of secondary schools in France, Switzerland and Luxembourg. The involvement of three regional education authorities in France, a Canton in Switzerland and a large number of schools in Luxembourg in the experiment made possible to draw a significant sample of secondary schools considering the ESL risks. The results will be available on the TITA website.
First results about the functioning and practices of the multiprofessional action
Fonctionnement et pratiques de l’action pluri-professionnelle dans la prévention du décrochage scolaire

One of the TITA’s outputs is an international literature review on researches and main data on ESL.
According to the rationale of the TITA project, its scientific base developed by the Slovene Educational Research Institute (ERI), is based on interdisciplinary approach (policy analysis, theory of organisations, pedagogy, andragogy, psychology, philosophy). By taking into consideration wide range of research evidence, it provides a holistic approach to ESL, its understanding and targeting policies.

With the same goal as the ESL database, a directory is launched by the French Institute of Education (IFE - ENS Lyon) in order to gather academics, scholars and emerging researchers, having research interests pertaining education and training, whatever the disciplines. They can be contacted via the platform

A platform of videos analysing the real activity of the multi partnership teams is developed by the Ifé. This platform is designed to be used to train the members of those teams (TIT@ction)

The Spanish ministry of education is offering an online course.
The general objective is giving information, guidance and training to professionals for whom this course is oriented so that they can contribute to get the conditions that make it possible to reduce early school leaving to the minimum, to limits that cannot be alleviated from the educational and social world.

• The specific objectives are :
   Thinking about the conditions that guarantee the permanence and success in the educative system, especially for those citizens in vulnerable situations.
   Getting information about the strategies that promote effective permanence in training activities that lead, as a minimum, equivalent to the essential training in accordance with European parameters.
   Understanding second chance systems and support mechanisms for the incorporation of lifelong learning in adult lives.
   Getting the necessary skills to identify, analyse and early intervention in factors affecting school failure.
   Getting to know the way to increase the access to information, school and professional guidance and counselling to promote that the students can take meditated decisions about their training, educational and professional qualifications process.

The target group is all professionals who share the mission of promoting and ensuring education and training of quality for all the citizens throughout their life guaranteeing their overall development and success in the educational process, introducing measures of educational intervention affecting factors of risk of early living, detecting risk cases and intervene to facilitate the reintegration of those who left the education system prematurely.
A specific online course is currently been achieved.

The purpose is transforming the training process and the professionals work in “good practice” that contributes to improvements in references to other professionals who wish to address the same uses of educational intervention.

Two meeting with European professionals involved in a collaborative work against ESL are planned. These are meant to be a great opportunity to discuss the first results of the project and to test the tools developed.