General objective of the project/Project purpose (It will present and describe the general objective of the project; it will explain how the project contributes to the achievement of the specific objective of the program and call specifying how the project will generate a positive long-term effect.) The general objective of the project is to provide integrated preventive measures and to ensure equal opportunities for 270 children/students whose parents are abroad, who belong to the category of vulnerable groups, with a focus on pupils belonging to the Roma minority and students from rural areas/society-economically disadvantaged communities, with the aim of increasing their participation in preschool and school education and reducing their early school leaving. In order to meet the complex social, emotional and educational needs of children, it is necessary to provide integrated support services for children, as well as parental education and counselling for their representatives (parents/caregivers). At the same time, for professionals directly involved in working with these vulnerable children, it is necessary to increase their capacity to identify and support their children and adults, and in terms of local institutions to strengthen the partnership between those representing the field of social assistance (local authorities) and schools. Another type of intervention needed is to conduct information and awareness campaigns for parents and the caregivers of children. The main aim is to stimulate the participation in education of children whose parents are away abroad and to prevent early school leaving. Within this project, measures under OS 6.2. and OS 6.3. are implemented to ensure the improvement of children’s participation in education from an early age as well as the prevention of early school leaving. In the elaboration of the project we consider the Strategy for reducing early school leaving in Romania 2015-2020, a programmatic document containing mechanisms and measures to be implemented by 2020, in order to reduce the percentage of young people aged 18-24 who have completed at most the eighth grade and do not follow any other form of schooling or vocational training. The objective of the Strategy is to reduce the early school leave rate by six percent, from 17.3 % in 2013 to 11.3 % in 2020, thus reaching the target assumed by Romania under the Europe 2020 strategy. The idea of the project starts from the priorities set by the Strategy on Early School Leaving in Romania 2015-2020, through which we aim globally to increase participation in compulsory education, especially groups at risk of early school leaving and to reduce early school leaving through integrated prevention measures