Gulbenkian Programme to Combat Failure at School and Early School Leaving

The Gulbenkian Programme to Combat Failure at School and Early School Leaving was set  up in 2008, with the aim of encouraging the development of innovative projects that help  to combat failure at school and early school leaving and to improve the standards of both teaching and learning. Such projects must identify, promote and develop concrete experiences that make it possible to create the appropriate conditions for an effective improvement  in the quality of the learning achieved by children and young people.

The aim is also to issue a challenge to the whole educational community, in its broadest and most complete sense (teachers, parents, school support staff, students, cultural, recreational and business associations, etc.), to commit themselves to projects of quality and excellence that may be promoted as effective proposals for combating failure at school and early school leaving.Under the scope of this programme, public institutions from the basic education system (pre-school and 1st, 2nd and 3rd cycles) were invited to apply for support for projects  designed to combat failure at school and early school leaving.