Final Conference of CroCooS

EVERY STUDENT MATTERS – FINAL CONFERENCE OF CROCOOS

19-21 April 2017 | Budapest, Hungary

Event description

The Tempus Public Foundation – project leader of CroCooS project –  held the Final Conference of CroCooS on 19-21 April 2017.

The three-days high-level conference focused both on reflections and policy recommendation of the project and also the piloting phase with full of schools’ stories and best practices which will be delivered by the pilot actors – mentors, schools and teachers. The general aim of the CroCooS project (Cross-sectoral cooperation focused solutions for preventing early school leaving) was to contribute to the specification and to the applicability of a comprehensive early warning system in the European countries.

The Final Conference of CroCooS was a multi-national high-level conference with participants from the policy and research level with early school leaving (ESL) experts arriving from around Europe and also the practical level with schools and pilot supporting staff.

• The working language is English (Hungarian, Serbian and Slovenian interpretation was provided).
• Date: 19-21 April 2017
• Venue: Mercure Hotel Budapest, Hungary
• Keywords: ESL (ELET), dropout, dropout prevention, early warning system, teachers teams, cross-sectoral cooperation, development of institutions (schools), introducing the change in the schools

Pictures  about the conference can be found   here.

Background and further information

The CroCooS – Cross-sectoral cooperation focused solutions for preventing early school leaving – focuses on the prevention and early intervention levels of reducing early school leaving (ESL) with special focus on early warning systems (EWS). The general aim of the CroCooS project is to contribute to the specification and to the applicability of a comprehensive institutional early warning system for preventing early school leaving.
The project results, concept and 4-language materials could be found clicking on this link: www.crocoos.tka.hu

CroCooS - Prevent dropout! project is implemented in the framework of the EC proposal “Implementation of the European strategic objectives in education and training” (EACEA/04/13) under the Lifelong Learning Programme which target is to support innovative policy solutions to reduce and prevent early leaving from education and training (ELET).

Programme of the Conference

19 APRIL 2017 – FOCUSING ON INFORMAL RELATIONSHIPS

14.00 – 17.00 / Registration at the hotel

16.00 – 18.00 / International marketplace of the goods of the schools

• Placing the posters and booklets of the schools into the marketplace zone

19.00 – 22.00 / Social event

• Cocktail party with social activities for the pilot schools and CroCooS partnership members

20 APRIL 2017 – FOCUSING ON THE PILOT SCHOOLS

9:00   –   10:00 /  Getting the CroCooS Conference Kit

• Start the day at the Registration desk to get the Conference Kit

10:00 – 11.30 / Paralel workshops focusing on pilot programme main focuses and questions

• 3 thematic rooms filled with the life & stories of the pilot schools, led by the National Coordinators of CroCooS

• The  presentations  held can be found  here. 

• The Slovenian school teams presentations and posters can be found here.

11:30 – 12:00 / Coffee break

12:00 – 13:30 / Thematic discussion

• Focusing on CroCooS mentors’ efforts
• Moderator: Mr. Huub Friederichs, critical friend of CroCooS [presentation]

13:30 – 14:30 / Lunch

14.30 – 17.00 / International marketplace & social activities

• Networking platform in the field of ESL
• Activities: introduction of schools, conversations in thematic corners, introduction of the schools’ posters)

17.30 – 19.30 / Guided tours of Budapest

20:00 – 22:00 / Reception and celebration

• Reception party and celebration of schools
• Opening greeting words from Mária Bognár,  pilot leader, Equal Opportunities of Persons with Disabilities Non-profit Ltd. (FSZK)

21 APRIL 2017 – FOCUSING ON REFLECTION OF THE CROCOOS PROJECT 

8.30  –  9.00 / Registration  to the Conference Day

Moderator of the plenary session: Ms. Csilla Szabó, Tempus Public Foundation

9:00 – 9.30 / Opening

• Commissioner Mr. Tibor Navracsics (video message), European Commission, Education, Youth, Sport & Culture
• Péter Tordai, Executive Director of Tempus Public Foundation

9.30 – 10:30 / Plenary lectures: Every student matters – introducing CroCooS and its results

• Bertalan Péter Farkas, project manager of CroCooS, Tempus Public Foundation  [presentation]
• Mária Bognár, pilot leader, Equal Opportunities of Persons with Disabilities Non-profit Ltd. [presentation]
• János Setényi, executive director, Expanzió Human Consulting [presentation]

10.30 – 11:00 / Plenary lecture:  Policy recommendation and ESL in context 

• Eszter Szegedi, project leader of CroCoos, Tempus Public Foundation  [presentation]

11.00 – 11.30 / Coffee break

11.30 – 12.30 / Thematic discussion 

• Focusing on the previous day events and the National Coordinators’ efforts
• Moderator: Steen Hansen, UU-Nord Youth Guidance Center [topics of the discussion]

12.30 – 14.00 / Lunch with marketplace

14:00 – 16:00 / Paralel sessions focusing on ESL in European context

Session (1): Policy level

• Moderator: János Setényi, executive director, Expanzió Human Consulting
• Livia Ruszthy, DG Education and Culture, European Commission [SEG portal]
• Irene Psifidou, Education and training policy analyst, CEDEFOP [presentation]
• Csilla Szabó, Tempus Public Foundation & Zoltán Bogdány, executive director, Mondolat Iroda Kft. [presentation]

Session (2): Research in the field of ESL

• Moderator: Ágnes Balla, Expanzió Human Consulting
• Catherine Pérotin, Deputy Director, French Institute of Education, University of Lyon [resume]
• Ward Nouwen, PhD Researcher, University of Antwerp [presentation]
• Reinhold Schiffers, E2C Europe Network  [presentation]
• Judit Juhász: leader of research phase of CroCooS [presentation]

16:00 – 16:30 / Thank you and goodbye

• Bertalan Péter Farkas, project manager of CroCooS, Tempus Public Foundation