Prevenzione e lotta contro la dispersione scolastica in Lombardia

ERRE2 is a 3-year project co-funded by Impresa Sociale Con I Bambini, run by 23 partners acting in the Bergamo Province (Lombardy region), leaded by Opera Diocesana Patronato San Vincenzo.

It is based on the assumption that although high level of welfare, educational poverty remain an issue in the area. Despite a high presence of different education offers, youth often perceive these as inaccessible with a negative impact on their personal education especially them residing in disadvantaged areas. ERRE2 involves some suburbs of Bergamo city where educational poverty is more present and focuses on doing to motivate youngsters who have experienced school failure.

The main objective is to establish and activate a network to create a favourable environment for youngsters, enabling them to experiment different and innovative/educational opportunity, and positive/stimulating models of educational relationship. ERRE2 works on common space rehabilitation, families’ support and involvement, school role reinforcement, cognitive/non-cognitive skills’ strengthening. Youth is directly involved in the design and implementation of educational/cultural activities inside/outside the school. The school is promoted as a central hub for youth and community’s educational/cultural life supported by the territorial network. PuntoSud involvement in ERRE2 is mainly dedicated to assure the project implementers with an impact study.

The exercise is organized in 3 moments: initial, at the project end, and two years after the conclusion of the activities.

The evaluation system focuses particularly on the network “model” implemented and how this model effectively supports the target group identified (pre-adolescents and adolescents). Within this framework, the evaluation investigates also the expected positive interaction among Public administrations, civil society and the private sector. The impact assessment uses a theory based approach with a longitudinal statistical-descriptive study.