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1st December, IT-CLEX 2nd Newsletter released
IT-CLEX 2nd Newsletter
The second issue of IT-CLEX is focused on the creation and piloting of local clusters in Spain, Romania and Lithuania as well as on the ICT platform to share knowledge and good practices. It also includes and article about “parenting practices and school dropout: a longitudinal study” as well as information on the III project’s transnational meeting and a summary of its main dissemination actions.
14th November 2011. The project IT-CLEX celebrates its third transnational partners’ meeting in Iasi (Romania)
On the 10th and 11th November the third transnational partner's meeting of the IT-CLEX project took place in Iasi (Romania), hosted by Colegiul National de Arta "Octav Bancila".
The main objective of this meeting was to discuss about the status of the transfer and adaptation of the Flexible Prevention and Support System model, the setting up of local clusters and the Piloting in the different countries: Spain, Romania and Lithuania.
During the meeting the IT-CLEX ICT-based platform was presented to the consortium. This platform, one of the main results of the project, offers a meeting point for educational and non-educational actors working with early school leavers. It enables them to share good practices and knowledge to work collaboratively in order to find innovative solutions to academic failure and school leaving.
Furthermore, the representative from the University of Iceland, Kristjana Stella Blöndal, made a presentation regarding the identification and analysis of best practices and its transferability potential
9th December 2010 - The project IT-CLEX against early school leaving starts its activity
9th December 2010
The project IT-CLEX against early school leaving starts its activity
The Managing Director from Florida Universitària, Empar Martínez, the Minister of Fundación Comunidad Valenciana - Región Europea, Rafael Ripoll, and the Managing Director of the telecommunications company Tissat, Manuel Escuín, have signed an agreement of collaboration for elaborating a European project whose objective will be to fight early school leaving, as well as to improve the quality of education and training in Europe. This agreement means the starting point of the EU project IT-CLEX, the only Key Activity 4 project in Spain that has been approved within the call 2011 for the Lifelong Learning Program and which is led by the Region of Valencia. Among other measures, this European project will promote an ICT Platform in order to share resources, tools and methods, allowing all agents involved in the educational environment to work in a collaborative way. In this EU initiative, led by Florida, Icelandic universities and schools from Lithuania, Romania and Norway will also participate.
15th January 2011 - IT-CLEX Project against early school leaving holds in Valencia its kick off meeting
15th January 2011
IT-CLEX Project against early school leaving holds in Valencia its kick off meeting
This initiative aims to create European clusters to promote the exchange of knowledge and best practices in fighting early school leaving through ICT IT-CLEX Project, whose objective is fighting early school leaving, has held in Valencia its Kick off meeting. All the partners –coming from Spain, Iceland, Norway, Romania and Lithuania- have met up in order to clarify and define together the main objectives of the project and the steps to be taken within next 2 years. During the meeting, the partnership identified the most important aim of IT-CLEX, which is to provide support to both, educational and non-educational agents and stakeholders by means of an ICT Platform to share best practices, experiences, methods, resources and tools to work with early school leavers. Besides, within the project a working methodology will be improved and provided to these agents to enable them to tackle in a holistic way the work with students at risk of dropping out. This task will be successfully reached by setting up European local clusters in the participant regions to take into account the perspective of all the agents and actors involved in the educational process. By using this methodology, it will be more effective to plan actions and search solutions to early school leaving. The partners of IT-CLEX Project who attended the meeting are: Florida Centre de Formació, C.V. (the leader and promoting organisation), TISSAT, and Fundación Comunidad Valenciana - Región Europea, the three of them from the Valencian Region (in Spain). University of Iceland and University of Reykjavík (also from Iceland) join the partnership too. Finally, in this European initiative participates Vennesla Videregaende Skole (Norway), Colegiul National de Arta "Octav Bancila" Iasi (Romania), and Trakai Vytautas Magnus Gymnasium (from Lithuania).