a) Identifying socio-educational practices, with an impact at the local level, which are successful in overcoming school failure and dropout;

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b) Characterizing the practices under study, according to parameters defined on the basis of relevant literature;

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c) Gathering perspectives from multiple actors (young people, professionals, members of partner organizations, teachers, families and other community members) about the dynamics, processes, factors and rationales contributing for the construction of the successful socio-educational practices under study;

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d) Identifying, gathering information about, and characterizing the successful academic pathways of young people participating in the previously identified socio-educational practices;

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e) Understanding in what ways, and at what levels, the socio-educational practices under study constitute learning communities and communities of practice;

 

f) Disseminating and promoting a broad debate about the research outcomes.