Realiza.te: a multilevel and cross-sectoral approach to educational success
About this good practice
Realiza.te is a territorial action program, which aims to promote school success, social equity, employment and equal opportunities for its young people.
The project is aimed at all public schools in the 19 municipalities of the Region of Coimbra, from students, teachers, parents, non-teaching staff, among others, and aims to reduce failure and early school leaving by 10% in the territory of the Intermunicipal Community of Coimbra Region.
With the aim of acting at the level of prevention, adequacy of the response and recovery of young people who are already at risk of school failure, its lines of intervention seek to involve the various contexts in which the child/young person is inserted - school, family and Community.
This program is co-financed by Centro 2020, Portugal 2020 and the European Social Fund, and is an integral part of the Pact for Development and Territorial Cohesion of the Intermunicipal Community of Coimbra Region (CIM-RC).
The second phase of the Realiza.te program ended in the June 2023.
Resources needed
The 1st phase had with an initial investment of EUR 4.521 million. Authority in terms of human resources it comprises in terms of multidisciplinary teams: psychology, speech therapy and educational sciences, but some teams also included music therapists, physiotherapists and nutritionists.
Evidence of success
The 1st phase of the project had a financial execution rate of 94.5%. It reached 100% of the performance indicators in both in the number of measures implemented Schools involved.
With regard to results, the degree of achievement of the indicators was 147.50%, surpassing the expected results: the reduction in the % of students in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd cycles and secondary with negative levels of curricular years is 225.89% and the reduction in the retention and dropout rate is 158.27%.
Potential for learning or transfer
According to the statistics, Coimbra Region currently has an early school leaving rate lower than the national average, and it can be seen that, among the students who attend the CIM-RC school network, “it shows improvements over the years and at all levels of schooling, with the retention and dropout rate of students having been decreasing more and more”.
These indicators show us how this project impacted student’s lives as well as the overall school network of the Region. Meanwhile, CIM-RC will continue to focus on promoting literacy and the SGD’s, “in a collaborative work with the existing networks and agents in the territory” and intends to continue with actions aimed at promoting scientific knowledge in schools, as well as an innovative and integrated intervention, based on the concept of mindfulness, which develops skills of self-regulation of attention and emotions, seeking, in this way, to support the educational community in mitigating some of the consequences of the pandemic.