The ESY Project “Easy School for Young Students” aimed at sharing good practices in prevention of early school leaving, especially for young students from vulnerable groups.Particularly the project focused on transferring the “Sport& Thought, Football as Therapy” approach to other partners form Italy, Spain and Greece. “Sport & Thought” is an innovative way of working with adolescents with behavioural issues, that uses a proven psychodynamic model of working with adolescents and fuses the sport of football, psychodynamic thinking and theory to act as a preventative tool to early school leaving, via the use of sport and the symbolism of sport. Recent IPPR research (https://www.ippr.org/research/publications/making-the-difference ) underlines psychological reasoning behind ESL and potential ways to counter it, and high economic and social costs of school exclusion (study estimates that the cost of exclusion is around £370,000 per young person in lifetime education, benefits, healthcare and criminal justice costs). Even though great efforts have been undertaken at European level for reducing the share of early school leavers below the 10 % benchmark by 2020, ESL still remain a relevant issue nowadays.Overall the evaluation findings show that the ESY Project has mainly met its original objectives and some activities exceeded the initial expectation.First of all, the achievements of the project were largely positive with reference to sharing the S&T model with partners and exchange of good practices.17 persons from partners (mainly psychologists, teachers, educators, pedagogues and other experts with experiences in working with students with complex and special educational needs) were trained at the 3-days London-based Transnational Training Course and mobility action; and 9 people from partners took part into two transnational meetings in Milan and Lisbon for exchange of ideas, good practices. The methodology used in the mobility action and project meetings was based on experiential learning and practical participation to practical sessions in classroom and on the field, the teaching methods were dynamic, with group discussions and practical sessions in order to assure the active involvement of participants.In connection with the course in London, the “Sport & Thought toolkit” has been realized and distributed to partners (and also made available to interested parties online) in order to go deeper in S&T approach, and better understand the S&T innovative intervention that uses football sessions as therapy for young students at risk of social exclusion.The ESY project’ results have been very positive with reference to development of cooperation and European network of organizations operating in ESL.Communication and dissemination activities undertaken via online tools, project promotional materials, local workshops and interaction with other projects in the fields of educations, youth and sport contributed to raise awareness on importance of prevention and combating ESL.In this way the project also created the conditions for increasing partners’ capacity to cooperate internationally, to develop new collaborative projects (e.g. the “Sport4life project” which further develop British coordinator and Italian partner and aims at promoting skills development, wellbeing and health-enhancing physical activity among young students), and last but not least, to enlarge the EU network in other EU Countries and beyond the initial consortium (with organisations in Spain and Lithuania and a new project titled “FIS4YES Football in Schools for Young Students”).The impact of the project has been largely positive. Participants in mobility action and transnational project meetings developed their knowledge, acquired new skills and competences in working with young people with behavioural issues; they also increased their capacity to work and cooperate at transnational level.Partner organizations benefited from synergies and exchange of good practices and benefited from different experiences of other partners, improved their capacity to cooperate at European level and the quality of their work environment.The project impact on young students at risk of school exclusion, and schools directly involved in the project, was also positive: project findings so far, underline how the project supported schools in tackling early school leaving and reducing their ESL rate, as well as improving school financial performance, reputation and ranking. Project’s results were particularly positive with reference to the reduction of ESL rates among young students directly involved in project activities.Finally, relevant stakeholders outside the consortium benefited from synergies between the world of education and informal/ non-formal education in dealing with ESL and education failures, form strengthening cooperation between different actors in the fields of education, youth and social inclusion.