Activity report
Early school leaving (ESL) and underachievement remain persistent challenges across Europe, disproportionately affecting vulnerable groups such as ethnic minorities, migrants, and Roma communities. These issues have lasting negative effects on individual well-being, employment prospects, and broader social cohesion.
Over the past three years, the SCIREARLY project, involving 11 partners from 10 European countries across academic and non-academic sectors, worked on identifying, developing, and scaling effective evidencebased education policies and practices to reduce ESL. Taking a whole-child, multidimensional, and transformative approach, with co-creation as a core principle, SCIREARLY generated scientific knowledge across six interlinked work packages. The outcomes of this work are presented in the final report, which is structured around the project’s five-dimensional framework: Understand (WP1), Prevent (WP2), Implement (WP3 and WP4), Inspire (WP5), and Engage (WP5).
