Transcript Lifelong Learning Programme 2007

Lifelong Learning Programme
2007 - 2013
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Why is the EU active in education &
vocational training?
EU Treaty
Article 149
To contribute to the
development of quality
education by encouraging
cooperation between Member
States and, if necessary, by
supporting and supplementing
their action.
Article 150
To implement a vocational
training policy which supports
and supplements the action of
the Member States.
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Member States are in charge
of their education and training
systems…
…the European Commission has a
supporting, fostering role
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Over-arching EU policy goal:
The Lisbon Strategy
“The Union must become the most competitive and dynamic knowledgebased economy in the world.”
Lisbon, March 2000
2005 re-launch:
“EU to become an advanced knowledge society with
sustainable development, more and better jobs and
greater social cohesion.”
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The EU is working towards Lisbon …
Policy work with
Member states
Programmes subsidies
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The Lifelong Learning
Programme (LLP)…
…the European Union flagship
programme
in education & vocational training
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The Lifelong Learning Programme
fosters…
• co-operation among institutions in countries
participating in it
• mobility
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Lifelong Learning Programme
Duration:
January 2007 – December
2013
Budget:
€ 7 billion
Participating countries in 2007:
27 EU-Member States
Norway, Iceland and
Liechtenstein
Turkey
The programme is
also open for future
participation to:
• (Swiss Confederation)
• (Countries of the
Western Balkans)
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Lifelong Learning Programme
Specific Objectives
a) Contribute to the development of quality lifelong learning and promote high performance, innovation and a European
dimension in systems and practices in the field
b) Support the realisation of a European area for lifelong learning
c) Help improve the quality, attractiveness and accessibility of the opportunities for lifelong learning available within
Member States
d) Reinforce the contribution of lifelong learning to social cohesion, active citizenship, intercultural dialogue, gender
equality and personal fulfilment
e) Help promote creativity, competitiveness, employability and the growth of an entrepreneurial spirit
f) Contribute to increased participation in lifelong learning by people of all ages, including those with special needs and
disadvantaged groups, regardless of their socio-economic background
g) Promote language learning and linguistic diversity
h) Support the development of innovative ICT-based content, services, pedagogies and practice for lifelong learning
i) Reinforce the role of lifelong learning in creating a sense of European citizenship based on understanding and respect
for human rights and democracy, and encouraging tolerance and respect for other peoples and cultures
j) Promote cooperation in quality assurance in all sectors of education and training in Europe
k) Encourage the best use of results, innovative products and processes and to exchange good practice in the fields
covered by the Lifelong Learning Programme, in order to improve the quality of education and training
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LLP: Structure
Comenius
Erasmus
School education
Higher education
& advanced
training
Leonardo da Vinci
Vocational
education and
training
Grundtvig
Adult education
Transversal Programme
4 key activities – Policy Cooperation; Languages; ICT; Dissemination and
exploitation of results (valorisation)
Jean Monnet Programme
3 key activities – Jean Monnet Action; European Institutions; European
associations
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Budget Breakdown of LLP
Comenius
≥ 13%
Erasmus
≥ 40%
Leonardo de Vinci
≥ 25%
Grundtvig
≥ 4%
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Budget Breakdown of LLP
LLP programme budget 2006-13
1200
EUR million
1000
Others
800
Grundtvig
600
Leonardo
400
Erasmus
200
Comenius
0
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
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Simpler money
• Increased use of lump-sum funding for mobility, Intensive
Programmes, etc
• Single contract for decentralised actions with scope for
transfer between headings
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Less money
(than requested)
• Commission original proposal € 13.6 billion
• Final figure € 7 billion
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COMENIUS
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Who was Comenius?
Jan Amos Comenius
1592 - 1670
Czech bishop
‘Father of Modern
Education’
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Comenius – Specific Objectives
• To develop knowledge and understanding among young
people and educational staff of the diversity of European
cultures and languages and its values
• To help young people to acquire the basic life-skills and
competences necessary for their personal development,
for future employment and for active European
citizenship
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Comenius – Operational Objectives
• Improve the quality and to increase the volume of mobility involving
pupils and educational staff in different Member States;
• Improve the quality and to increase the volume of partnerships
between schools in different Member States, so as to involve at
least 3 million pupils in joint educational activities during the period
of the programme;
• Encourage the learning of modern foreign languages;
• Support the development of innovative ICT-based content, services,
pedagogies and practice for lifelong learning;
• Enhance the quality and European dimension of teacher training;
• Support improvements in pedagogical approaches and school
management.
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Comenius Actions
1. Multilateral Cooperation Projects
2. Comenius School Partnerships and Comenius
Regio
3. Mobility of individuals: Individual Pupil Mobility,
In-Service Training, Comenius Assistantships
4. Comenius Networks
5. Accompanying measures
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Multilateral Cooperation
Projects
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Multilateral Cooperation Projects
Development and transfer of innovation in
– educational best practices
– guidance for learners & teachers
– new teacher training courses
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Criteria
• Participants — Minimum 3 partners from 3
different countries.
Typically teacher training institutes, universities,
associations, NGOs, etc.
• Duration — Max. 2 years
• Budget — up to 300.000 Euro
• Selection — By the European Commission
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School Partnerships
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School Partnerships
Multilateral* partnerships between schools.
Activities may be
• pupil-oriented and / or
• school-oriented
(*bilateral partnerships possible with a focus on language learning,
including class exchange)
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Criteria
• Class exchanges can be included
• Staff and Pupil Mobility — Budgetary support
for mobility and local project costs
• Duration 2 years
• Selection by National Agencies
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Comenius Regio
• New action
• Objective: to foster inter-regional cooperation between
organisations responsible for any aspect of school
education
• Not starting before 2008
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Individual Pupil Mobility
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•
•
•
•
New action
Duration: up to one school year
Secondary level pupils
Not starting before 2008
Only between schools involved in Comenius School
Partnerships
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In-service Training
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In-Service Training
• Participation in European training activities for
teachers and other school education staff
• Training has to take place abroad, not in home
country
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Criteria
• Course themes: teaching techniques,
methodologies, school management issues, etc.
Also placements or job-shadowing
• Grant contributes to travel and subsistence costs
and course fees
• Duration — Several days to 6 weeks; typically
1-2 weeks
• Selection — By National Agencies
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Comenius Assistantships
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Criteria
• Student teachers gain first teaching experiences
in another European country
• Grant contributes to travel and subsistence,
linguistic preparation
• Duration — 3 months to max. 1 school year
• Selection — By National Agencies
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Comenius Networks
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What are the Comenius Networks
for?
• Improve education in a discipline or subject area
• Facilitate cooperation between projects working
on similar themes
• Disseminating best practice
• Content support and needs analysis
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Criteria
• Participants — Min. 6 partners from 6 different
countries, all actors in the field of school
education
• Grant — up to € 450.000
• Duration — up to 3 years
• Selection — By the European Commission
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Comenius Accompanying measures
• Activities not eligible under the main Actions,
• Communication and dissemination activities
Partnership
min. 3 partners from 3 countries
Duration
max. 1 year
Grant
up to 150.000
Selection
by the European Commission
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ERASMUS
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Who was Erasmus?
Desiderius
Erasmus
1466 – 1536
‘Father of the
Revival of
Learning’
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Erasmus - Specific objectives
• Support the realisation of a European Higher
Education Area
• Reinforce the contribution of higher education
and advanced vocational education to the
process of innovation
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Erasmus - operational objectives
towards
3 mio students
by 2012
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•
Improve the quality and increase the volume of:
• Student and teacher mobility (3M by 2012!)
• Multilateral cooperation of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)
• HEIs / enterprises cooperation
Increase the degree of transparency and compatibility between higher
education and advanced vocational education
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Facilitate the development of innovative practices in education and training at
tertiary level and their transfer, even between participating countries
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Support the development of innovative ICT-based content, services,
pedagogies and practice for lifelong learning
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Erasmus – University Charter
The entry ticket and quality commitment for all Erasmus activities
Fundamental
requirements
Erasmus Policy
Statement
• HEIs eligible to participate
in the LLL programme
according to the national
authorities can apply
• currently ~ 2500 EUC
holders
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Erasmus Decentralised actions
(managed by the National Agencies)
Student mobility
- Studies
- Placements
Staff mobility
- Teaching assignments
- Staff training
Intensive programmes (IP)
Mobility support
Organisation of mobility (OM)
Erasmus Intensive languages courses (EILC)
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Erasmus Centralised actions
(managed by the Executive Agency)
Multilateral projects
- Development of Study Programmes
- Co-operation between universities and enterprises
- Modernisation Agenda for Universities (Bologna)
- Virtual Campuses
Thematic Networks
Accompanying Measures
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Student Mobility
Student Mobility
Studies/Placements
budget: appr. € 290 million 2007
average mobility grant:
€ 200 per month for studies
€ 500 per month for placements
students are selected
by their HEI
Student mobility — STUDIES
The traditional student mobility
•Duration 3–12 months
•Enrolled at least in second year
•Inter-institutional agreements
•Full recognition
•Learning agreement
•Transcript of records
•No tuition fees
Student mobility — PLACEMENTS
Enterprises, training and research centres, other organisations
•Duration 3–12 months
•Enrolled at least in second year
•Contract between student, home
HEI and host organisation
•Full recognition
•Application either:
- directly by HEI to NA
- via certified consortia to NA
Staff Mobility
Staff Mobility
Teaching assignment
Staff training
budget: appr. € 21 million 2007
teachers are selected
by their HEI
Staff mobility — TEACHING
the traditional mobility / exchanges, co-teaching
Minimum of 5 hours
Maximum 6 weeks
•
Inter-institutional agreements
•
Pre-agreed programme of lectures
Staff mobility — TRAINING
for teaching and other staff in HEIs and enterprises
Duration 1-6 weeks
• Mobility to/from enterprises — For
seminars, workshops, courses,
practical training, short secondments,
etc.
• Mobility of administrative staff to
another university — For learning and
transfer of good practice via short
secondments, job shadowing, study
visits, etc.
Decentralised Actions —
OM – organisation of mobility
Grants to institutions
• to cover costs for:
– language preparation, academic recognition
arrangements, tutoring, information and publicity,
student services
• per capita grant based on performance:
– based on the number of outgoing students and
teachers
Budget approx. € 28 million in 2007
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Decentralised Actions —
IP – Intensive Programmes
Grants to institutions
• Project based application and selection
–
–
–
–
courses taught by teachers and attended by students
from at least 3 different countries
special topics which might otherwise not been taught at all
recognition
Minimum of 2 weeks
Maximum 6 weeks
budget approx. 7.5 million in 2007
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Decentralised Actions —
EILC - Intensive Language Courses
Grants to institutions and to students
• On the less widely used and taught languages
• For Erasmus students in the host country
• Normal duration one month, before the start of the
academic year or semester
• Grants to institutions and to students
budget approx. 1.5 million in 2007
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Centralised actions —
Multilateral Projects
•
•
•
•
Curriculum Development
HEIs / enterprise cooperation
Modernisation projects
Virtual campuses
budget approx. 10 million in 2007
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Centralised Actions —
Curriculum Development
Grants to institutions
• Joint development of European modules
• Joint development of study programmes
• Project on development of the curriculum until
the implementation and dissemination
• Minimum of 5 HEIs from 5 countries
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Centralised Actions —
HEIs / Enterprise Co-operation
• Curricular innovation aimed at enhancing
employability and competences of graduates
• Intensification of exchange of practice
• Recognition
• Quality assurance arrangements 3 partners from
3 different countries
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Centralised Actions —
Modernisation Projects
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Grants to institutions
Updating of curricula
Open learning centres
Diversifying funding
Governance
Enhancing quality
Accountability
Attractiveness
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Centralised Actions —
Virtual Campuses
New under Erasmus, from previous e-Learning
Programme
• Aim to support the development of innovative
• ICT-based content, services, pedagogies and
practice for LLL supported by sustainable
organisational, educational and economical
models
• Recognition
• 3 partners from 3 different countries
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Centralised Actions —
Thematic Networks
• Large-scale consortia (avg. 60 partners), all
countries represented (min. 31 partners)
• HEIs, public bodies, enterprises, professional
associations etc.
• Focus on an academic discipline, to develop
new learning concepts and competences
budget 7 million in 2007
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Accompanying Measures
• Various activities that contribute to
achieving the programme’s
objectives
• Activities that are not supported
under the main actions
Budget 1.3 million in 2007
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3.800 EILC
students per year
1.5 million Erasmus
Students since 1987
Developments
of ECTS/DS
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Thematic Networks
per year
155.000 Erasmus
students per year
Erasmus
THE IMPACT
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Curriculum
development
programmes per year
23.000 Erasmus
teachers per year
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Intensive programmes
per year
Erasmus
more information on:
European Commission
sur EUROPA
EAC EA Agence Executive
http://eacea.cec.eu.int/static/index.htm
LEONARDO DA VINCI
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Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
Leonardo da Vinci
1452-1519
Italian scientist,
inventor & artist
‘Renaissance Man’
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Leonardo da Vinci
Specific Objectives
• Is a Community programme to promote cooperation in
vocational education and training.
• Aims at:
– Supporting participants in training activities in the acquisition and
use of knowledge, skills and qualifications to facilitate personal
development, employability and labour market participation
– Supporting improvements in quality and innovation in VET
systems, institutions and practices
– Enhancing the attrictiveness of VET and mobility for employers
and individuals and facilitating the mobility of working trainees
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Leonardo da Vinci
Operational Objectives
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
Improve quality and increase volume of mobility throughout Europe of people
involved in initial vocational education and training and in continuing training so as
to increase placements in enterprises to at least 80 000 per year
Improve quality and increase volume of cooperation between institutions or
organisations providing learning opportunities, enterprises, social partners and
other relevant bodies throughout Europe
Facilitate innovative practices development in vocational education and training,
other than at tertiary level, and their transfer even between participating countries
Improve transparency and recognition of qualifications and competences, including
those acquired through non-formal and informal learning
Encourage the learning of modern foreign languages
Support the development of innovative ICT-based content, services, pedagogies
and practice for lifelong learning
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Actions
Centralised
Management
Decentralised
Management
Mobility
National Agencies
in each country
Partnerships
National Agencies
in each country
Multilateral projects on
development of innovation
Executive Agency
Multilateral projects on
transfer of innovation
National Agencies
in each country
Thematic networks
Executive Agency
Accompanying measures
Executive Agency
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Mobility of individuals —
quality criteria
• Linguistic and cultural preparation;
• Objectives, content and duration of the
placement;
• Pedagogical organisation, tutoring and
mentoring;
• Validation of the competencies acquired in the
training placement;
• Degree of integration of the traineeship abroad
into training contents and pathways.
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Mobility
Actions and Target Groups
Target Group
Activity
Duration
IVT
Mobility of persons
in initial vocational
training
Training
Placements at the
2 – 39
work place or within
weeks
a training
organisation
PLM
Mobility of People
on the Labour
Market
Training
Placements at the
2 - 26
work place or within
weeks
a training
organisation
Funding
Beneficiary: lump sum for
subsistence and travel
based on scales of unit
costs per destination
country
Project organisation incl.
Preparation,
administration,
monitoring: lump sum
based on scales of unit
costs
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Mobility
Actions and Target Groups
Target
Group
Activity
VETPRO
Mobility of
Professionals
in Vocational
Education and
Training
Trainers, Teachers, human
resource managers,
guidance specialists,...
to exchange experiences on
vocational training in
different countries
Preparatory
Visits
Preparation of future projects Max
(for all project types in LdV)
1 week
Duration
Funding
1 - 6 weeks
Beneficiary: lump sum for
subsistence and travel based
on real costs
Project organisation incl.
Preparation, administration,
monitoring: lump sum based
on scales of unit costs
Lump sum
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Mobility of individuals
• Individuals cannot directly apply for a grant at
National Agencies
• They have to apply through:
– Organisations involved in professional education and
training such as
– vocational training schools and training organisations;
– enterprises;
– craft chambers of commerce;
– bodies responsible for systems and policies
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Partnerships
• Focusing on themes of mutual interest to the
participating organisations
• Only from call 2008
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Priorities for all multilateral projects
and networks
• Promoting transparency of qualifications (EQF)
• Developing the quality of VET systems and
practices
• Developing relevant and innovative e-learning
content
• Continuous training of teachers and trainers
• Credit transfer in VET
• Validation of non-formal and informal learning
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Multilateral
projects
Development of
innovation
Transfer of innovation
CONTENT
Develop a brand new solution
to help several countries to
cope with a common
challenge in the area of VET
which is not yet addressed
One (or more) solution(s) in
the area of Lifelong Learning
that is (are) already
implemented in one or more
countries and needs to be
adapted for implementation in
some other countries
AIM
Modernisation of educational
and training systems of the
countries participating
It is for benefit of the partners
and the country(ies) involved
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Thematic
Networks
Multilateral
projects on
development of
innovation
Multilateral
projects on
transfer of
innovation
Max. duration
3 years
2 years
2 years
Minimal
partnerships
3 partners /
3 countries
3 partners /
3 countries
3 partners /
3 countries
€ 150 000
€ 250 000
€ 150 000
Commission
Commission
National Agency
Level of funding
(max per year)
Selection
procedure
Management of
projects
Commission, by the
Executive Agency
Commission, by the National Agency
Executive Agency
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Accompanying measures
• For communication and valorisation activities.
Proposals to be presented to the Executive
Agency.
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Grundtvig
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Who was Grundtvig?
Nikolai Frederik Severin
Grundtvig
1783-1872
Danish clergyman and
writer
‘Father of popular and
adult education’
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Grundtvig – Specific Objectives
• To respond to the educational challenge of an ageing
population in Europe
• To help provide adults with pathways to improving their
knowledge and competences
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Grundtvig – Operational Objectives
a) Improve quality and accessibility of mobility throughout Europe for
individuals involved in adult education and increase its volume
(≥ 7 000 mobility individuals per year by 2013)
b) Improve quality and increase volume of cooperation between organisations
involved in adult education throughout Europe
c) Assist people from vulnerable social groups and in marginal social contexts,
in particular older people and those who have left education without basic
qualifications, in finding alternative opportunities to access adult education
d) Facilitate development of innovative practices in adult education and their
transfer, including amongst participating countries
e) Support development of innovative ICT-based content, services,
pedagogies and practice for lifelong learning
f) Improve pedagogical approaches and management of adult education
organisations
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Grundtvig — such variety!
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Basic skills
Active citizenship
Foreign languages
Environment & sustainable development
Arts & culture
Health and consumer issues
Parental education
Prison education
….
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What are the Grundtvig Actions?
1. Multilateral Cooperation Projects
2. Learning Partnerships
3. Mobility of individuals: In-Service Training
4. Networks
5. Accompanying Measures
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Multilateral Cooperation
Projects
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Emphasis on development and transfer of
innovation through improving:
• the content and delivery of adult education
• adult education at a system/policy level
• the accessibility of learning opportunities for
adults
• the management of adult learning
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Criteria
• Participants — Minimum 3 partners from 3
countries
–
–
–
–
Adult education institutions
Universities
Associations
NGOs, etc.
• Budget — Up to € 300,000
• Duration — 2 years max.
• Selection — By the European Commission
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Learning Partnerships
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Learning Partnerships
Small scale co-operation activities on themes of
mutual interest
• process-oriented
• Involvement of learners
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Criteria
• Partnership — Minimum 3 partners from 3
countries
– Later: individual learner mobility
• Budgetary support for mobility (staff &
learners) and local project costs
• Duration — 2 years
• Selection — by National Agencies
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In-service Training for
Adult Education Staff
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In-Service Training
Improve teaching, coaching, counselling or
management skills through:
• Attending a structured course (database)
• Undertaking a job-placement or job-shadowing;
or
• Attending a conference or seminar in another
country
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Criteria
• Course themes: priority to courses developed
through projects
– Also placements or job-shadowing
• Grant contributes to travel and subsistence
costs, course fees and language preparation
• Duration — Several days to 6 weeks; typically
1-2 weeks
• Selection — by the National Agencies
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Grundtvig Networks
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What are the Networks for?
• Developing adult education in a discipline,
subject or management area
• Identifying, improving and disseminating best
practice/innovation
• Content support to projects & partnerships
• Needs analysis and quality assurance
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Criteria
• Participants — Minimum 10 partners from 10
countries
– Any organisation in the field of adult education
• Grant — up to € 450,000
• Duration — Up to 3 years
• Selection — by the European Commission
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Grundtvig Accompanying measures
• Activities not eligible under the main Actions,
• Communication and dissemination activities
Partnership
min. 3 partners from 3 different
countries
Duration
max. 1 year
Grant
up to 150.000€
Selection
by the European Commission
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Transversal Programme
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Transversal Programme
Specific Objectives
• To promote European cooperation in fields covering two
or more sectoral sub-programmes
• To promote the quality and transparency of Member
States‘ education and training systems.
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Transversal Programme
Operational Objectives
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Support policy development and cooperation at European level in lifelong
learning, notably in the context of the Lisbon process and Education and
Training 2010 Work Programme, as well as the Bologna and Copenhagen
processes and their successors
Ensure adequate supply of comparable data, statistics and analyses to
underpin lifelong learning policy development, as well as to monitor
progress towards objectives and targets in lifelong learning, and to identify
areas for particular attention
Promote language learning and linguistic diversity in Member States;
Support the development of innovative ICT-based content, services,
pedagogies and practice for lifelong learning
Ensure that the results of the Lifelong Learning Programme are
appropriately recognised, demonstrated and implemented on a wide scale
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Transversal Programme
4 Key Activities:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Policy cooperation and innovation
Language learning
ICT
Dissemination and exploitation of results
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Key Activity 1
Policy cooperation and innovation
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Objectives
• To support policy development and cooperation
at European level in lifelong learning (particularly
in the context of the Lisbon process, Education
and Training 2010 work programme)
• To ensure an adequate supply of comparable
data, statistics and analyses
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Actions
• Public actions:
– Studies and comparative research
• Restricted actions:
– Targeted and experimental actions (eg EQF projects)
– Support to Member States and European bodies to
take part in surveys etc
– Eurydice
– Support for mobility: NARICs, Ploteus, Europass,
Euroguidance
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Studies and comparative research
Who can participate?
– Research organisations and institutions of all sorts
– Networks of researchers
– Minimum 3 institutions from 3 countries
What support is available?
– Up to EUR 250,000 per year
– Max duration 2 years
Budget 2007: EUR 3.2 million
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Studies and comparative research
Topics for 2007:
• Promoting excellence, efficiency and equity in higher
education: student access and retention
• Development of adult learning: identification,
assessment and promotion of quality in organisation,
management and funding of adult learning
• Weaknesses in compulsory education concerning
acquisition of key competences
• Promoting attractiveness of vocational education and
training: governance of systems, and improving links
with higher education and working life
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Key Activity 2
Languages
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Key activity languages
…“The challenge for
Europe is that of
going toward
multilingualism; we
Multilingualism
must place our hope
in a polyglot Europe”
Umberto Eco
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Languages in LLP
Objectives
• To promote language learning and linguistic diversity
• To complement the specific LLP programmes by addressing language
teaching and learning needs at every life/stage
Activities
• Multilateral Projects
• Networks
Accompanying measures
Budget approx. 15,4 million in 2007
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Multilateral projects
Priority areas
• Material for teaching less widely spoken and taught
languages to primary and pre-primary learners
• Building up competence in languages reinforcing European
global competitiveness (e.g. Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Russian,
Japanese, Korean)
• Methods to motivate language learners
• Promotion of multilingual comprehension between languages
• Projects addressing lesser used languages
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Networks
Priorities
• Links between organisations that promote language learning
and linguistic diversity at national or regional level
• Links between universities which create Chairs in
Multilingualism and/or Interculturalism
• Exchange of good practices that serve to motivate language
learners
• Links between national language teacher associations
• Networks for the promotion and valorisation of multilingual
comprehension competences
• Networks for the promotion and valorisation of early
language learning
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What’s new?
• All languages will be eligible for submission,
even if priority will be given to European
languages (before only official languages from
participating countries were eligible)
• More possibilities for projects (mixed projects)
• Networks are a new activity
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Accompanying Measures
• Information and publicity campaigns (Calls for
Tender)
• Linguistic Competence Indicator
• Conferences, studies
• European Language Label (decentralised
action)
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Key Activity 3
ICT
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Objective
• To support the development of innovative ICT
based content, services, pedagogies and
practice for lifelong learning
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ICT Multilateral Projects
Aims
• To promote a new vision for ICT enabled learning
embedded into long-term educational objectives
• To foster the uptake of ICT in education and training
systems
• To consolidate the evidence base on the added-value
and impact of ICT for learning
• To complement ICT activities and projects under the
sectoral sub-programmes Comenius, Erasmus,
Grundtvig and Leonardo da Vinci, by addressing ICT
needs across two or more of those sectors
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ICT Multilateral Projects
Activities
• Understanding innovation – improved understanding
and evidence base of the benefits and impact of ICT
• Designing, developing and testing new methods and
educational resources – contribution to the development
of innovative learning environments and services
• Providing access and supporting dissemination –
information services and systems on educational
methods and resources involving the use of ICT
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ICT Multilateral Projects
Who can benefit
• Resource centres
• All types of educational institutions and providers, in any
sector of education
• Teachers and learners associations
• Research teams working in the field of ICT in education
• Academic/educational associations or consortia
• Public and private publishers/producers/broadcasters
and other actors in the field of ICT
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ICT Multilateral Projects
Duration
• Max of 2 years
Minimal partnership
• 3 partners from 3 participating countries, one being at
least from an EU Member State
Selection
• Commission
Co-financing % by EU
• 75% of the total eligible budget
Level of funding
• Maximum of 250.000 Euro per year
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ICT Networks
Aim
Support the building of partnerships and the
networking of learning communities in the field
of ICT in education
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ICT Networks
Networks should
• Support knowledge sharing
• Increase the visibility and awareness of the benefits and
impacts of ICT enabled learning
• Contribute to the uptake and efficient use of ICT enabled
learning
Activities
• Organisation of conferences, workshops, fora, summer
universities, etc. designed to help attain the objectives of
the network and disseminate results
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ICT Networks
Who can benefit
• Resource centres or other organisations with expertise in
the field of ICT in education and/or open and distance
learning
• All types of educational institutions and providers
• Research teams working in the field of ICT in education
• Academic/educational associations or consortia
• Organisations/institutions involved in educational
innovation
• Public and private publishers/producers/broadcasters
and other actors in the field of ICT
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ICT Networks
Duration
• Max of 2 years
Minimal partnership
• 3 partners from 3 participating countries, one being at
least from an EU Member State
Selection
• Commission
Co-financing % by EU
• 75% of the total eligible budget
Level of funding
• Maximum of 150.000 Euro per year
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Key Activity 4
Dissemination and
exploitation of results
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Dissemination and Exploitation of
Results in Lifelong Learning
Programme 2007-2013
• Art 1.3 (k) Specific objective ‘ to encourage the best use
of results, innovative products and processes and to
exchange good practice in the fields covered by the
Lifelong Learning Programme, in order to improve the
quality of education and training’
• Art 3.2 ‘The Transversal Programmes shall comprise the
following four key activities: ….
(d) dissemination and exploitation of results of actions
supported under the programme and previous related
programmes, and exchange of good practice’
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Dissemination and exploitation
of results – What and Why?
Promotion and
awareness-raising
Dissemination
Exploitation
Publicising the existence of programmes and the
availability of funding
Providing information in a
planned way to relevant
audiences
Multiplication: end-users adopting or
applying results
Mainstreaming: using results as part of a
policy
Exploitation provides the link back into policy
Dissemination & exploitation play an important role in reinforcing
capacity to deliver on Lisbon and citizenship agendas
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Dissemination and exploitation of
results – Where in the new
Programme?
• In all sectoral programmes and KAs Languages and ICT
– compulsory dissemination and exploitation plans for all projects
(ex ante)
– Dissemination and exploitation activities under Accompanying
Measures (sectoral programmes and KA Languages)
• National Agencies’ role in promoting dissemination and
exploitation of results eg:
– thematic monitoring, visibility and accessibility of national project
results, national ‘mainstreaming’ activities
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Dissemination and exploitation of
results – Where in the new
Programme?
• KA4 Dissemination and Exploitation of Results
– aim is to create framework for exploitation of results at
all levels
– proposes national projects, multilateral projects and
studies
– funding currently available only for multilateral
projects
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KA4 Dissemination and Exploitation
of Results - Priorities for funding
– Development of framework to facilitate exploitation of
results (analysis, mechanisms, methodologies and
practical tools);
– Cross-programme actions promoting the exploitation
of results at European level (by sector, theme, user
group…);
– Promotion of ’exploitation’ activities by existing
European networks and associations
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KA4 Dissemination and Exploitation
of Results
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€ 2,864M in 2007
Deadline for proposals to EACEA – end April 2007
Max €150.000 per year
Max 75% co-financing
Max 2 years
Min 3 partners from different countries
Applications also accepted from single European
networks/associations
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EAC support for Visibility and Access
to Results
• 2008: a multilingual European electronic
platform will be on-line with
– up to date information on project results
– guidelines on how to exploit results of European
programmes
• Promoters will provide and keep the data on
their project outcomes up to date in the platform
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Jean MONNET
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Who was Jean Monnet?
Jean Omer Marie
Gabriel Monnet
1888-1979
First Chairman of the
High Authority (1951)
‘Architect of the
European Unity’
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Jean Monnet Action
Specific Objectives
• To stimulate teaching, research and reflection activities
in the field of European integration studies
• To support the existence of an appropriate range of
institutions and associations focusing on issues relating
to European integration and on education and training in
a European perspective
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Jean Monnet Action
Operational Objectives
a) Stimulate excellence in teaching, research and reflection in
European integration studies in higher education institutions within
and outside the Community
b) Enhance knowledge and awareness among specialist academics
and among European citizens generally of issues relating to
European integration
c) Support key European institutions dealing with issues relating to
European integration
d) Support the existence of high-quality European institutions and
associations active in the fields of education and training
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1990 / 2006
Jean Monnet Action
• started in 1990
• supports European integration studies at
university level
• world-wide scope
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1990 / 2006
Jean Monnet Action
• Involves 60 countries on five continents
• Jean Monnet professors contribute greatly:
– They improve European Union’s visibility; and
– Improve understanding of the European integration
process as a model for peaceful cooperation
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Jean Monnet Action
Main components of Jean Monnet
1. stimulating excellence in teaching, research and
reflection on European integration at university level
2. organising high level reflection on current issues in
European integration such as conferences and working
groups among professors, policy makers, civil society
representatives
3. supporting high level institutions in the field of EU
studies
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Jean Monnet Action
Results achieved by the year 2006
• An enhanced world-wide awareness of the European
integration process, content and history
• connecting Europe to citizens
• improving Europe’s visibility in the world
• A large pool of expertise on Europe and European
integration via the creation of:
– 1861 courses and modules
720 Jean Monnet chairs
112 Centres of excellence
• strong link and cross fertilisation between
policy makers and academics
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Structure of the programme
1
Jean Monnet Action
2
Operating grants to support
specified institutions
3
Operating grants to support other
institutions/associations active in
the field of education and training
1
measures and budget
Jean Monnet chairs
Centres of excellence
Modules
Association of professors
and researchers
Transnational research groups
Information and research activities
~ 4.300.000 euro
2
3
measures and budget
The 6 specified institutions
Other institutions and associations
~ 17.000.000 €
~ 850.000 €
1
call for proposals 2007
Jean Monnet Action
deadline 15 March
application are sent to the Education,
Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency
eligibility check
• evaluation by external experts
• selection panel meeting
• Commission decision
results 30 July
3
Separate call for proposals 2007
operating grants to support associations in education and
training
deadline May 07
Applications are sent to the Education,
Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency
eligibility check
evaluation by external experts
selection panel meeting
Commission decision
results Sept
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