ESF Plus project Successfully dealing with study doubts: recognising and supporting at-risk groups (RISKEB)

The reason for the RISKEB project is the following situation:
The proportion of students who drop out of their degree programme without successfully completing it has long been considerable throughout Germany. Even in the university context, dropout rates in Bachelor's degree programmes often reach an average of around one third of the first-year students who originally started their studies. Even taking into account conceptual vagueness, it can therefore be assumed that this is not only an individually but also institutionally significant problem area. However, despite countless studies on drop-outs and drop-outs with countless interventions derived from these studies, not least counselling services, the situation outlined here in brief has not improved. This is why RISKEB is trying to break new ground and is using the concept of study doubt. On the one hand, it addresses an early phase in the consideration and decision-making process of a possible change of subject, change of study location or dropping out of studies; on the other hand, this concept brings other dimensions into focus, which should then also be taken up in the design of counselling services.

RISKEB's project objectives are

1. to identify and monitor risk groups and types of students in doubt in the heterogeneous student body and
2. to derive customised counselling services for the counselling network (BTU, HWK, IHK, DB, AA), in order to help more students achieve a successful final degree.