ICT for Minimizing Dropout Erasmus+ KA219 Strategic Partnerships supporting exchange of good practices between schools with the identification number 2016-1- LV-01- KA219-022656_2 has been implemented between September 2016 and September 2019 by five European schools.

The project aimed to reduce the student dropout rate by exchanging good practices in the use of ICT tools or other effective approaches among the partner schools.

The project was coordinated by Ventspils Secondary school Nr.6 from Ventspils, Latvia. The partners involved were Tauragė Adult Training Centre from Tauragė, Lithuania, Sarayönü Mehmet Emi̇ne Akdoğan Anatoli̇an Hi̇gh School from Konya, Turkey, Matei Basarab Technical High School from Caracal, Romania, and I.P.S.S.E.O.A. “U. Di Pasca” from Potenza, Italy.

The main project activities were the 4th Short-term Learning/ Teaching/ Training mobility activities which were organized in Latvia (C1), Turkey (C3), Romania (C4), and Lithuania (C5) and the two transnational meetings organized in Italy (M1) and Latvia (M2). The C1, C4, C5 mobility activities targeted school staff and the C3 mobility activity targeted students and school staff from all partner countries. In addition, there were implemented the other project activities A1-A13 by all project partners locally in each school involved.

After the 3 year cooperation between all partner schools involved, there were obtained the project results for all the activities specified. These are available at the project website http://www.dropoutmin.eu/ on the `Outcomes` section. Furthermore, the project has as intellectual output the online course `Career Education and Guidance in the Context of the European Single Market` that was created on the Moodle Platform by Romanian partner and offered in English to 65 EU students from all five partner countries. The course is published with an open license and can be accessed at http://dropoutmin.eu/moodle/ . The course settings allow guest access without being necessary to create a Moodle Account and can be accessed, used, and adapted for any educational purpose for free.