IDEAS uses a methodology that ensures active and participatory work by all parties involved in the project; they include secondary school students from 12 schools/night schools from 11 different Networks; directors of educational institutions; the majority of the teachers involved; regional directorates and local(TEC-Costa Rica) and European (UAB, Spain) coordination teams, guaranteeing local ownership, a personalised management with project participants and more effective focus on secondary school students, especially night school students, ensuring their continuity and success in the education system.

The purpose is to create a methodology based on comprehensive and integrated tutorial action; integrated because it seeks to serve secondary night students, paying special attention to those who are most vulnerable and most at risk of exclusion from school, and is comprehensive because it addresses this purpose from four key areas of intervention and development:

Curriculum: Assumes reflecting on and enhancing educational resources, work is oriented towards secondary stage skills and monitoring and assessment systems for educational practices.

Organisational: Refers to the institutional improvements which use participation in the educational community to design a school project that is more committed to the success of young people, better management of resources and human relations that can facilitate communication and teamwork.

Professional: Acknowledges the entire professional career of teachers, views them as a reflective practitioner who works within a team and allows their work to be reviewed, analysed and is open to continuous improvement.

Community: Implies that educational action cannot be decontextualised: collaboration between the school and its context is necessary.

Techniques, methods and strategies arising from this Action framework should serve to standardise common approaches. Each phase designed for this project envisages actions, activities, methods and techniques, media, resources and products linked to the achievement of objectives.