OPEN CHALLENGE: it's time to invite the school to play

OPEN CHALLENGE aims at significantly reducing school dropout levels by intervening on the reduction of social situations that prevent a continuous and productive school attendance, supporting a path that renews participation in school life, and develops a higher level of prosocial and transversal knowledge and skills in students, facilitating the ability to relate with themselves and others, to intervene and also reduce phenomena of hatred, racism and bullying that arise many times in the class group. The project allows the student to develop their potential and knowledge, in compliance with the rules of cohabitation, relationship with each other, acceptance of the other, aims at supporting successful education. The educational value of the proposed activities lies in the student’s understanding that this path is significant for his development as an individual and as a student. The school, therefore, assumes an important value as a place to learn scholastic knowledge but also to accompany active participation within the community to which it belongs, where there are no gender, state, physical and social differences among people.To positively influence the attendance and the success in the school system through the promotion and the diffusion of an innovative path (Calciosociale methodology) to prevent the phenomena of racism, sexism, homophobia and bullying, in order to establish more solid relationships among young people, intervening on students at a greater risk of social exclusion.AIMS• Develop and disseminate the training methodology of Calciosociale as a new school curriculum able to promote the creation of an inclusive environment• Consolidate the collaboration between all the actors involved in the school sector, including the families of the students and all the staff collaborating with the school (headteacher, teachers, administrative staff, school staff)• Make students aware of the context in which they live and work in the protection, and enhancement of the territory outside and inside the school, facilitating the comparison and learning of the differences of the others, stimulating reflection and sharing on social and relational issuesThe project will involve 4 Countries: Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Bulgaria