Structural funds and education policy in Portugal during the 2014-2020 multiannual financial framework: Mapping the PIICIE, a territorialized and cooperative operation

• Autor(a) principal: Grifo, Ana
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Duarte, Joana, Marques, João Lourenço
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.eselx.ipl.pt/index.php/invep/article/view/339
• topic: Fundos Europeus Estruturais e de Investimento; Insucesso escolar; Políticas e estratégias educativas; European Structural and Investment Funds; School failure; Educational policies and strategies; Place-based policy; Fondos Estructurales y de Inversión Europeos; Fracaso escolar; Políticas y estrategias educativas; Política basada en el lugar; Fonds européens structurels et d'investissement; Échec scolaire; Politiques et stratégies éducatives; Politiques à base territoriale

The governance of Education within the European Union (EU) is carried through guidelines framed by the Open Method of Coordination and by the allocation of funding to operations in line with the ex ante conditionalities from the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2014-2020. Education has been a priority within the EU since the 2000s and it was promptly realized that the performance of some Member States in a number of key indicators was far from desirable. Portugal displayed worrying early school leaving rates and the challenge of educational attainment demanded pressing action. The European Structural and Investment Funds unlocked new opportunities for the implementation of policies that pursue educational attainment and promote equity. The Planos Integrados e Inovadores de Combate ao Insucesso Escolar (PIICIE, translated as Integrated and Innovative Plans for Tackling Educational Underachievement) were launched during the MFF 2014-2020, framed by a National Programme aiming to improve Educational Attainment that transferred formulation and implementation responsibilities to local entities and communities.  Nonetheless, there is not a proportional distribution along the National territory. Thus, this paper intends to map the funding granted to regions, intermunicipal communities, and municipalities destined to the implementation of these Plans. This analysis results in an identification of patterns and tendencies, but mainly in the identification of differences.