The document aims at identifying and setting the students' common characteristics needed to be selected as participants in the INSTALL training course organized in each Partner Country. The Consortium identified 2 essential criteria (academic performance and personal factors), and 1 preferential criterion (high potential of the student) to be followed in order to select the students.
The Essential Criteria of academic performance are: a) Students who are in a delay in making exams and b) Student who have a low average mark.
Essential Criteria related to the personal story of the student have been established considering the characteristics of the nontraditional/disadvantaged student as described in the international literature: Low income, Living far from his/her parents' home, Living in urban or rural places, Low mark diploma, Ethnic minority, Full time, part-time, occasionally worker, With family responsibilities (single parent, supporting children, orphan), disabled, older than 25, from a family with a low level of education, first generation university student.
Preferential criterion (evidence of the high potential of the student) is operationalized as follows: a) the student must have obtained at least one high mark at an exam, during his degree career; b) the student must have obtained a good mark at the Diploma, before enrolling in university.
Each country involved in the project will adapt these criteria to their own context.