This Scientific Working Group focuses on the role of formal and non-formal education in the process of school-to-work transition in rural areas. Some of the key topics to be addressed here are:

(a) rural education infrastructure and human resources to address school-to-work transition;
(b) mapping non-formal education aimed at vulnerable young people in rural areas, in terms of existing infrastructures, types of organization and types of interventions;
(c) the role of VET in preventing Early School Leaving from Education and Training (ESLET) in rural areas (including best-practices that can be delivered as case studies);
(d) analyzing how available curricula address local resources and young people’s needs.