"<< Background >>Among the key European research conducted in the teaching community, the most frequently mentioned educational NEEDs of this professional group indicated by beginner teacgers, were social competences.When asked about their weaknesses, they most often mention: problems with maintaining discipline in the class, difficulties in relations with students, including, on the one hand, a high distrust towards students, and at the same time excessive indulgence, lack of patience, distance, self-control, as well as being guided by stereotypes in the students assessment. In many countries, a large number of newcomers to the profession, quit school work, which puts into question both the quality of their preparation during their studies and the level of support in difficult beginnings of their professional career. Interestingly, research shows that leaving the profession is often related to the low salary, but rather too heavy workload and communication problems with students, their parents and colleagues.The training programme ""On the way to excellence"" is a response to the above-mentioned needs of young teachers. The training program complements the knowledge acquired by graduates during their studies, internships and apprenticeships. Participation in trainings will equip teachers starting work at school with competences and tools necessary to cope with everyday, but above all, difficult professional, situations. Additionally, counteracting the negative effects of a pandemic in the work of a teacher.The training program complements the knowledge acquired by the graduates during their studies, internships and apprenticeships, and is part of the support programs conducted in the Polish, Greek and Italian system.Partners, as institutions operating for the education system in their countries, undertook the task of filling the gap in the access to support programs improving the social competences of begginer teachers on the training market. Noticing the scale and importance of the problem (e.g. as a result of contacts with the teachers' community resulting from the activities carried out by the Partners), the Partners will provide the market with a ready-made training program along with the necessary educational materials, which will respond the real answear to the development needs of begginer teachers.<< Objectives >>The partners assumed the achievement of the following goals through the implementation of the project:1. Development of an innovative training program ""On the way to excellence"" for beginning teachers.2. Developing educational materials to support teachers in difficulties related to work in crisis situations, changeable environment (with particular emphasis on pandemic and post-pandemic situations).3. Increasing the professional competences of teachers who start work at school by participating in training courses on development of social skills necessary in working with the student, taking into account the pandemic and post-pandemic situation.As part of the project implementation, an innovative training program ""On the way to excellence"" will be developed. Participation in training will equip teachers starting work at school with the competences and tools necessary to cope with everyday, but above all difficult professional situations, such as: building authority, building relationships with students, including in an emergency pandemic, work with a student in remote conditions, work with a student in a crisis situation, in uncertain and changeable conditions, coping with peer aggression, working with a student who has poor control of their behavior under influence, emotions, disciplining the class (including working remotely), building partnerships with the student's parents and solving problems related to with difficult behavior of students, especially those at risk of social exclusion. and ESL - aggression, depression, suicidal thoughts. Additionally, counteracting the negative effects of a pandemic at teacher's work.Through the implementation of the project, the Partners want to draw attention to the important problem of the need for professional development of young teachers in the field of key competences in their work, i.e. social competences, and at the same time responding to the above-mentioned. problem - provide effective help for beginner teachers through the developed training program.The expected indirect result is the building of a coalition by the Partners to support teachers starting work at school by gathering around them organizations / institutions that are already working today to improve the competences of this professional group (including teacher training centers, universities, including pedagogical higher institutions) and providing them with a ready to use product that they can successfully use in their training activities. An important aspect of the project activities will be to pay attention to the above-mentioned the problem of the school staff itself - principals and teachers, including experienced teachers, who can support their younger colleagues, encouraging them, inter alia, to improve their competences or by sharing their own experiences with them.<< Implementation >>1. Partners' work on developing a training program ""On the way to excellence"" for teachers beginning work at school.2. Preparation by the Partners of a comprehensive training program along with educational materials.3. Testing the developed training program by organizing pilot training with the use of the above-mentioned program for min. 45 teachers from three different countries (Poland, Greece, Italy - at least 15 from each country).4. Evaluation of the developed training program with the participation of testers (including training participants and trainers).5. Development of the final version of the training program ""On the way to excellence"" along with educational materials.6. Providing the developed training program - publication in an electronic version on the project website and the partners' websites7. Conducting activities disseminating the results of the project, i.e. the training program ""On the way to excellence"" along with educational materials in institutions supporting the education of educational staff, in higher education institutions educating teachers, especially among pedagogical universities, including, inter alia, organization of information meetings (6), international conferences (1), mailing containing a publication with a ready training program and educational materials (approx. 3,000 locations in Partner countries).The sequence of planned activities results from the logic of the project.<< Results >>Main results planned to be achieved under the project:Development of an innovative training program ""On the way to excellence"" with methodology and tools for begginer teachers and educational materials in the form of an on-line publication - a guide for trainers and teachers, which will equip teachers starting work in school with the professional skills necessary to work with the student, including a student with special educational needs and supporting students in a crisis situation. Moreover, the prepared educational materials supporting the training program will allow young teachers themselves to prepare themselves to cope with difficult professional situations, including crisis situations.Expected results of the project implementation:- increasing the quality of preparation of educational staff to work at school;- increasing the quality of teaching work in schools;- reducing the outflow of teaching staff from schools (burnout, stress);- increasing the professional competences of the teaching staff;- increasing the quality of teacher education by equipping young teaching staff with the social skills necessary to work with students, including interpersonal competences;- increasing the access, participation and level of education of teachers by expanding the training offer and preparation for work in the profession,- improving the quality of the training offer available on the market, taking into account the real needs of beginning teachers."

The project goal is to provide, within an international cooperation, a comprehensive analysis of the early school leaving (ESL) phenomenon among partner countries in the area of ESL monitoring systems, methods of ESL counteracting and students’ reintegration. The project activities aim at delivering an in-depth analysis of current situation in the above mentioned research areas and finding solutions that will allow for the introduction of significant improvements in that field.The project is carried out in a partnership between the following countries: Poland, United Kingdom, Italy and involves organizations working with the education system institutions on a day-to-day basis. The participating institutions have developed knowledge and experience in the area of human resources development in the education system and provide direct or indirect support to young people at a risk of early school leaving.Within the framework of international cooperation and the working group set up for this purpose, an analysis of existing ESL monitoring systems will be carried out and improvement areas will be identified. Partners will indicate best practice in this field and jointly develop conclusions and recommendations as a result of the carried out research. Good practices in the area of ESL prevention and students reintegration will be analysed and practical solutions in that area will be proposed.The research results will be presented during the conferences summarizing the different stages of the project. The reports summarizing the research outcomes will also be publicized.The project will contribute to a significant knowledge increase in the above mentioned areas. It will enable a creative exchange of good practices between partners and the development of new solutions in the discussed fields. In addition a training package will be developed, that will provide a support for professionals dealing with an ESL issue on a day-to-day basis (including teachers, educators, schools directors, etc.) as well as add to the dissemination of the project results.

"The aim of the project was to develop the competences of adult educators with particular emphasis on the function/competences of educational brokers, in particular those adult educators who work with people with low skills. This goal was achieved through three main actions:- a comparative analysis of systems fulfilling the educational needs of adults in Poland, England and Italy, countries of the project partners. Developing conclusions and recommendations was a result of the conducted research, on the basis of which the support system in the form of a training package was developed.-developing a training package, which is a model of supporting adult educators, taking into account the competences of education brokers.-development of competences of adult education professionals in the form of pilot trainings conducted on the basis of the training package in three partnership countries.All the project results were disseminated in the form of publications, i.e .:1. ""Report on the functioning of adult education systems in selected European countries: England, Poland, Italy.""2. ""The development of competences of adult educators. A training manual for independent and group work ”.3. Report compiling results of the pilot training and summarizing the project ""Expanding and developing Adult educator’s competences’’During the course of the project an innovative model of supporting the professional development of adult educators was developed, based on the educational needs of this professional group. A particularly important element is the introduction to the training materials the competences of the educational broker, which, in the opinion of the Partnership and the educators themselves, play an important role in their work.Thanks to international cooperation, the results achieved have a universal dimension and can, to a great extent, be used by institutions and educators themselves in any European country.The project significantly contributed to the dissemination and exchange of good practices within the competence area of adult education professionals and caused significant increase in knowledge in partner countries, participating institutions, among the trained individuals and all participating in dissemination activities in the field of improving the competences of adult educators.The project was implemented by institutions from Poland, United Kingdom and Italy, which are involved in the education of adults on a daily basis, have knowledge and experience in the field of professional development in the education system."