The final demo of the EDDI Application has been finalised on January 30th 2023. The app has a great black and blue design. The Android application has various screens with topics sucha as the EDDI Catalogue, EDDI modules and EDDI social apps, connected to our social media accounts on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. has an interactive online toolbox that gives opportunity to teachers, learners, parents and others involved.

Android App

Since the demo was finalised, we have updated the app seven times. It functions perfectly.The EDDI App can be uploaded from Google Play. The app, as a BETA VERSION, has been tested for a long time. Any feedback is stll welcome till the end of the project. See below our YouTube EDDI App video and our Quick screenvideo of the app: Enjoy!

QR Code

The Android EDDI app can already be uploaded on the Google Play Store. Soon we will also provide a QR Code, easy for you to scan and get access.

In 2009 Eric van ’t Zelfde became director of one of the worst schools in Rotterdam. A school with only 34 new student registrations, dramatic exam results, tired teachers and crime. Van ’t Zelfde tackled the problems off the beaten track. No less than 56 teachers left, 34 of whom in his first year as director. He introduced the ingenious rule of conduct ‘you behave yourself’, which is brilliant in its simplicity. He expelled a number of students against the law and had to answer to the judge. After several years, his school began to score at or above the national average. From the worst school in the Netherlands to one of the best schools in the Netherlands in five years.

Superschool

The EDDI 4-day Learning, Teaching, Training activities were held in Thessaloniki, Greece at the offices of Stimmuli for Change. During the LTT-days informative seminars have been conducted by the experts from Universities and successful enterprises from the host country and also by the experts from the other partner countries joining at the location and via interactive tools like skype, zoom etc.

Stimmuli for Change

It was the first time that the EDDI partners saw each other face-to-face. Important feature of the LTT was getting some valuable feedback on the EDDi platform. Furthermore there were interview sessions planned about module 4 – Absenteeism. Overall discussions took place and future plans were made on the last day of the training.

What does the project EDDI do?

Absenteeism

All EDDI-partner organisations were interviewed on the absenteeism topic. All videos below are EDDI-videos are productions of the LTT-days. Below Masha Garibyan from the Aston University (United Kingdom) EDDI-project manager about ‘how absenteeism affects student performance:

Theofilos Poulipoulos, project manager Stimmuli for Change about tackling absenteeism in school. This video is an EDDI production.

More results of the training will be published and broadcasted by all the partners via videos on Youtube, the organiosation Websites and the website of the project.

The EDDI (Early Digital Diagnosis and Intervention) project aims to help teachers, families and students to better understand the causes and consequences of leaving education early. In turn this will help find possible solutions to the problem of Early School Leaving (ESL). Currently we are building a catologue with policy documents and good practices on Early School Leaving (ESL), a platform and an App.

Dutch Catologue on ESL

One of the articles which will be in the EDDI Catologue is the one about the significant reduction of Dutch Dropouts in VET: The number of students having successfully finished their VET course has risen to almost 84%, concluded the Inspectorate of Education in its 2019 report on the State of Education in the Netherlands. What more can be done to reduce the share of drop-outs even further, now since more than a decade a great number of policy instruments has already been applied?

In search of innovative methods the Ministry of Education allowed VET schools to experiment with homemade interventions. Subsidies were granted to three VET-schools under the condition of participating in an evaluation of the effectiveness of the instrument of choice. One VET school improved the intake procedure for prospective students under the assumption that the risk of dropout will be reduced by a careful match between the student’s expectations and competences and a study program. Another VET school introduced stricter policies in the event of a student’s unauthorized absence, as absence often precedes early school leaving. And the third encouraged parental involvement in the education of their children through the use of e-coaching for parents.

The aim of the EDDI Project is to prevent ESL in the partner countires and in the EU as a whole.

Objectives of the EDDI Project

The objectives of the EDDI Project are:

• Provide practical ideas and new strategies for classroom interventions
• Raise students’ motivation to learn
• Improve competences linked to the teachers’ professional profiles
• Provide teachers with a resource of ready- to-use materials to prevent ESL
• Involve students, families, health and social agencies
• Improve students’ and teachers’ knowledge and competences in English and ICT
• Promote social integration at school

EDDI Platform & App

One of the main outcomes of the project is the EDDI platform, which will provide an online space for teachers to develop a wide European network for institutions, teachers, trainers, students and parents to
share and exchange tips and suggestions in regards to fighting ESL. The EDDI app will be complimentary to the platform.