Network Activities

2009 was the last year of the EU-project Succesful leadership in urban schools. Four members of our network have been working in this project,

Future Plans

The research network plans to produce a research publication in 2012 on innovative education and health and human services partnerships which provides an overview of the the nature and scope of ongoing systemic support for mental health and psychosocial problems of children and youth in schools and trends in the current educational and youth policy in the Europe, using the results of the research and development programmes of members of our EERA-network.
Furthermore, we would like to update our 1997 research publication Children and Youth at Risk and Urban Education; Research, Policy and Practice (Day & Van Veen, Garant Publishers).

Keywords

  • Urban education;
  • children, youth and schools at risk;
  • preventing dropout and improving results for children and youth;
  • interprofessional collaboration;
  • partnerships in education;
  • effective educational and youth policy

Interview with Convenor ECER 2011