Good practice Imported

The Escolhas School Programme

Portugal · lisboa · National · See the Portugal profile

A country-wide initiative in Portugal is providing thousands of disadvantaged children and young people with the opportunity to build a better future. The Choices (‘Escolhas’) school programme started in 2001 with the aim of promoting the social inclusion and life chances of youn

20000

People reached

50000

People targeted

2001

Running since

Details

Maturity: Established
Promoter: Agência para o Desenvolvimento e a Coesão — website
Type: Policy
Status: Ongoing
Target groups: Migrants, Marginalised young people and children
People reached: 20000
People targeted: 50000
Period: 2001-01-01
Region (NUTS): PT17
Keywords: Schools, disadvantaged young people, migrants, funding framework, digital inclusion

Context

The Choices ('Escolhas') school programme, running in Portugal since 2001 and now in its 6th phase, funds municipalities, schools, immigrant associations and civil-society bodies to run projects addressing school absenteeism, unemployment and anti-social behaviour among 6-30 year-olds from vulnerable socio-economic groups, including migrant families and Roma communities.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

Commonly funded by

National / regional programmes ESF+ — European Social Fund Plus

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Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

MEDICI / Digital Inclusion Atlas — accessed 2026-06-14
Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14

Quality score: 76/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 33% in this catalogue (610 scored practices)

Scores cluster high, so position within the catalogue is often more telling than the number alone.

Evaluation

Evaluated by MEDICI consortium

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Innovation level4/5

How novel the approach is, from the source innovation rating (graded 0–5).

Sustainability (ongoing)1/1

Whether the initiative is still ongoing rather than ended.

Evaluation evidence0/1

Whether a substantive evaluation of the initiative exists.

Demonstrated reach1/1

Whether the initiative reached a measurable number of people.

Documented learning1/1

Whether transferable lessons learned are documented.

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Evidoria. The Escolhas School Programme. Persistent ID: 7d7464d6-4525-43bf-a9e3-976b73f073b1.

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