“Early school leaving” and student retention is a challenge amongst educational institutions across Europe. Students who have dropped out of school struggle with lower employment rates and lower participation in adult education for the rest of their lives. This means, that there is lasting and possible devastating effect on the individual pathways in life of early school leaving.
Traditionally the approach to student retention has been reactive; when the student has been missing classes for some period of time, the school initiates a plan for “bringing the student back”. What the Erasmus+ O&SR-project proposes is to change this approach from reactive to proactive: Developing a structured way of using data proactively could make it possible to help a given student – maybe even before he or she realizes that they need help.
By creating methods described in a Guidebook and developing the Onboarding & Student Retention-app (O&SR-app) that both “onboards” the students to the given educational environment and creates a possible predicative retention approach to guidance counseling by having the students themselves easily indicate how they experience going to school, we could help a lot more students before they drop out, instead of trying to bring them back. The objective of the project is therefore to use data proactively to combat the considerable challenge of early school leaving.

Please note that in order for O&SR's SMART application to function properly, we need your personal data (last name / first name / e-mail address) to be able to identify you and offer you an optimal user experience.
We collect statistics on the time spent in the application as well as your results in the various educational activities in order to:
- offer you a follow-up of your progress
- improve the quality of your training
- enable us to monitor your participation and progress
You have rights of opposition, access, rectification, deletion, limitation and portability of your data. To exercise these rights, you can contact us by e-mail: [email protected], or you can delete your account at any time by choosing this option in your account settings.