RECIPE (Regional Educational Centres in Pedagogical Europe) uses qualitative methods of action-research to investigate how schools can best work in partnership with Regional Educational Centres (RECs) to reduce Early School Leaving (ESL) to below 10% - a Europe 2020 headline target. RECs include a wide range of government departments, municipal education authorities and pedagogical centres providing training and support to local networks of schools. We explore, develop and evaluate practical means of meeting this challenge “on the ground”, asking “what works where and why?” within a variety of socio-economic, cultural and educational contexts in five European countries. We focus on how RECs can best meet the training and support needs of teachers and school leaders working with the children and families of a wide range of educationally disadvantaged groups, including migrant and Roma communities The project’s major outputs are a range of innovative products including: resource packs of training and support materials based on cumulative updates on the state of the art in each partner’s region; analysis and documentation of best practice including DVD presentations and other audio-visual materials; academic and professional publications and presentations feeding into national and regional symposia; an international European conference on school-REC partnership working; a residential training course and handbook; and a sustainable web-site as the basis for dissemination and exploitation of the project’s outputs across the European area. Our target groups are teachers and school leaders, regional educational advisors and guidance workers, and national and European policy makers.