Framework for second chance schools in Europe : Report

Abstract

The current report is a key deliverable of the pan-European project S2CENE, supported by Erasmus+. The project S2CENE - Strengthening Second Chance Networks in Europe – is a Erasmus funded KA3 project, that aims at the establishment of national/reginal networks of Second Chance Schools (SCS) for young adults’ education, mostly by contributing to 1) the Institutional positioning of the European Network of SCS, 2) the creation of new national/regional networks of SCS and 3) the reinforcement of the capacity of existent SCS and the genesis of new SCS in European countries.
S2CENE partnership is composed of five organizations – AE2O (Portugal), E2C (France), NBU (Bulgaria), DANTE SCHOOL (Croatia), Inova+ (Portugal). The project aims at contributing to the establishment of national/regional networks of Second Chance Schools for young adults’ education. The specific objectives are related to
creation of Second Chance Schools in 2 countries of the partnership (BG and HR); establishment of formal national networks of Second Chance Schools for adult education in 3 countries of the partnership (PT, BG and HR) and institutional and positioning reinforcement of the European network of Second Chance Schools (E2C Europe – FR).
The report is structured in 4 main chapters, which can be synthesised as follows:
• Chapter 1 – maps current state-of-the-art of the field addressed through analysis of European and national strategic
documents, identified by the partnership.
• Chapter 2 – further expands the state-of-the-art analysis by consolidating opinions collected from practitioners and
key stakeholders in the field.
• Chapter 3 – focusses on outline of good practices and methods in second chance education.
• Chapter 4 – presents key conclusions with focus on establishing common definition and elements of a second chance schools, synthesised in a framework and also provision of policy-recommendations for further development.