The TEIP4 Program will run from the 2024/2025 school year and is an educational policy measure aimed at school groups and non-grouped schools located in territories with a high number of children and young people at risk of social vulnerability, with the aim of ensuring inclusion and educational success, improving the quality of learning and combating school dropout. CIS-Iscte researchers participate as external experts.  

The r.a.í.z.e.S. project - Sintra's social and emotional skills development program - is part of the (inter)municipal programs for promoting school success (PIPSE), as a continuity of the project ADN Socioemocional 2.0. The proposed action plan for the project includes: The proposed intervention with its conceptual framework, including technical and scientific justification; Initial assessment; Methodology of the intervention to be implemented; Monitoring of the intervention; Final impact assessment.  

In this project, a cooperation protocol was established between the Ministry of Education, the Municipality of Sintra, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and CIS-Iscte to create a local structure of specialized technical support, which promotes and supports the implementation of plans for the development of social and emotional skills in the school context.

The Priority Intervention Educational Territories Program (TEIP), which began in 1996 and is currently in its fourth generation, is an educational policy measure that aims to ensure social inclusion and educational success, improve the quality of learning, and combat school dropout rates. This program is intended for school clusters and non-clustered schools located in territories with a high number of children and young people at risk of social vulnerability. (Despacho No. 7798/2023)  Since 2013, CIS-Iscte has been developing a scientific consulting and research support project with TEIP school clusters and non-clustered schools.  This project consists of a multidisciplinary team of experts who promote systematic, regular, and close monitoring of each of the school clusters that make up its network. This monitoring provides opportunities for critical reflection and access to resources that contribute to the successful implementation of these clusters' Action Plans, as well as their monitoring and evaluation. The project is also characterized by its focus on creating opportunities for training and exchange of experiences, thus contributing to increasing opportunities for synergy and collaborative work between TEIP school clusters.  As part of the scientific consulting and research support provided by this team, at the beginning of each school year, an action plan is drawn up with the management and TEIP coordination of each school cluster, which may include: •    Consulting for middle management, teaching teams, and/or specialized senior technicians •    Supervision of strategic actions •    Support in defining impact assessment plans for specific projects selected by the school cluster •    Design and promotion of continuing education actions •    Support in organizing or participating in seminars/meetings for debate and dissemination of practices, promoted by the school group •    Participation in meetings with the monitoring team of the Directorate-Ge...