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“Tackling Early Leaving – Out of Box Education” is a project funded by European Union’s Erasmus Plus programme (2019-2021). Our project aims to offer an innovative and creative approach to ESL, stimulating the students to engage in more attractive formal and non-formal education, in order to reach the desirable level of knowledge, skills and competence and to increase their commitment to quality, as well as their interest to learn, achieve and become active and responsible members of our society, actively engaged in the labour market. “Tackling Early Leaving – Out of Box Education” is a project funded by European Union’s Erasmus Plus programme (2019-2021). Based on current research, as well as on European guidance and child protection research (Stremfel and Vidmar, 2018; Daniel, B; Wassell, S. and Gilligan, R., 1999; The 8th European Forum on the Rights of the Child, 2013; European Centre for the Development of the Vocational Training, 2012), we plan to encourage students to develop personally and socially, with a particular focus on their self-esteem and self-efficacy in order to become more resilient, aiming to address the identified problem by using a structural, school based and person centered strategy that involves: a) to raise students’ aspirations and to motivate them to develop personally and socially, b) to encourage a proactive multi-agency approach to ESL, c) to increase parental involvement in motivating and supporting the students and d) to strengthen the teachers’ capacity to work with potentially school leavers and to offer a more attractive teaching and learning environment, using participatory approaches, game based learning and gamification and Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) -based methodology.