Transcript Eligible Activities
Erasmus+
Strategic Partnerships
What is a SP?
• Support the development, transfer and/or implementation of innovative practices • Support the implementation of joint initiatives promoting cooperation, peer learning and exchanges of experience at European level.
• They are open to any type of organisation active in education, training and youth or other socio-economic sectors as well as to organisations carrying out activities that are transversal to different fields • Involve the most appropriate and diverse range of partners in order to benefit from their different experiences, profiles and specific expertise and to produce relevant and high quality project results.
Priorities (1)
Strategic Partnerships must address either: a) at least one horizontal priority OR b) at least one specific priority relevant to the field of education, training and youth that is mostly impacted.
• • • • • •
Horizontal Priorities
develope basic and transversal skills (entrepreneurship, digital skills and language competences) using innovative and learner-centred pedagogical approaches and developing appropriate assessment and certification methods.
develope new approaches to strengthen the education and training paths of prospective and practicing educators enhance digital integration in learning, teaching, training and youth work at various levels: promoting access to and learning through Open Educational Resources (OER); supporting ICT contribute to the development of a European Area of Skills and Qualifications support innovative projects aimed to reduce disparities in learning outcomes affecting learners from disadvantaged backgrounds/with fewer opportunities stimulate the development and use of innovative approaches and tools to assess and increase the efficiency of public expenditure and the investment in education (public private partnerships)
Field Specific Priorities (1)
Activities supporting HEIs to implement the necessary reforms in line with the 2011 EU Modernisation Agenda:
• Attune curricula to current and emerging labour market needs and equip the young generation with transversal skills • Develop innovative strategies to boost mobility or ways to remove obstacles to mobility in higher education providing more opportunities for students to gain additional skills through study or training abroad • Strengthen the links between education, research and business to promote excellence and regional development; • Aim at increasing the number of graduates, widening the participation and raising completion rates of underrepresented groups and non-traditional learners
Field Specific Priorities (2)
Supporting the implementation of the 2013 Communication on Opening Up Education:
• promoting the development of new modes of delivery • integration of a greater variety of study modes (distance, part-time, modular learning) through new forms of personalised learning, strategic use of open educational resources, virtual mobility, blended mobility and virtual learning platforms; • stimulate the internationalisation of Europe’s higher education systems in Europe and beyond.
Eligible Activities
• Strengthen the cooperation between organisations with a view to establishing
exchanges of practices
; • Promote the development, testing and/or implementation of
innovative practices
in the field of education, training and youth; • Facilitate the
recognition and validation of knowledge, skills and competences
acquired through formal, non formal and informal learning; • C
ooperation between regional authorities
to promote the development of education, training and youth systems and their integration in actions of local and regional development;
General Features
•
Partnership
: minimum 3 organisations from 3 different Programme Countries (management costs is capped to 10 partners); partner countries eligible but added value must be at EU level •
Duration
: 24-36 months •
Application
: Decentralized management; per deadline ,the same consortium of partners can submit only one application and to one National Agency only.
•
Deadline
: March 31 st
Eligible Activities
• • Blended mobility of learners combining short-term physical mobility (5 days to 2 months; excluding travel days) with virtual mobility; Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils (5days to 2 months; excluding travel days); • • • • • Intensive Study Programmes (5 days to 2 months; excluding travel days); Long-term study mobility of pupils (2 to12 months); Long-term teachingor training assignments (2 to12 months); Long-term mobility of youth workers (2 to12 months); Short-term joint staff training events (5days to 2 months; excluding travel days).
Activities of learners as well as long-term activities of staff from or to Partner Countries are not eligible.
Key Aspects
• Innovative character • Coherence • Relevance to priorities • Progressiveness
Funding
• 150.000 € per year (max 450.000 €) Eligible costs: • Management and implementation: • Coordinator: 500 €/month • Partner: 250 € /month • Tot max 2750 €/month • Transnational project meetings: • 100 – 1999 KM: 575 EUR per participant/meeting • > 2000 KM: 760 EUR per participant/meeting • Tot max 23.000 per year
Funding (2)
• Intellectual output: unit costs per day of work (4 categories with rates per country) • Multiplier events: unit costs – 100 € per local participant / 200 € per participants from other countries (max 30.000 € per project) • Exceptional costs: real costs - 75% of eligible costs (Maximum of
50.000 EUR
per project) • Special needs support: real costs (100%)
Funding (3) Training, teaching and learning activities
• • • • • Travel: unit costs • 100 – 1999 KM: 275 EUR per participant/meeting • > 2000 KM: 360 EUR per participant/meeting Individual support: – Long term teaching or training assignments: tables for stays up to 14 days, 60 days, 12 months – Short term joint staff training events/teaching in Intensive Study Programmes: • • Day 1-14: 100 Day 15-60: 70 €/day €/day Long term mobility of pupils: flat rate per month (table) Short term mobility for learners: • Day 1-14: 55 €/day • Day 15-60: 40 €/day Linguistic support: 150 € per participant (only for 2-12 month activities)
Example of activities
• • • • • • • • • • curricula, courses, joint study programmes, common modules (including e-modules), integration of a greater variety of learning modes (distance, part-time, modular learning); learning, teaching, training, youth work materials and methods, pedagogical approaches and tools; project-based collaboration, peer-learning, workshops, virtual laboratories, virtual collaboration spaces; capacity building and networking activities; elaboration and implementation of strategic cooperation plans; information, guidance, coaching and counselling activities; surveys, comparative analyses, evidence-gathering, studies of real life cases; definition of qualitative standards and competence-based/occupational profiles; improvement of qualifications frameworks, credit transfer, quality assurance, recognition and validation; training, teaching and learning activities
Example of activities - HE
• • • • • • • •
Develop, test, adapt and implement innovative practices relating to:
joint study programmes and joint curricula
, intensive programmes and common modules ensuring the relevance towards the needs of the labour market; transnational collaboration between enterprises and students/staff at higher education institutions to study
real life cases
;
pedagogical approaches and methodologies
(transversal competences, entrepreneurship mindset and creative thinking), embedded mobility, better exploitation of ICT;
integration of a greater variety of study modes
virtual mobility; (distance, part-time, modular learning), notably through new forms of personalised learning, strategic use of open educational resources and
new approaches to facilitate permeability between education sectors
(i.e. through validation of prior learning and possibility of flexible learning -modular studies, blended learning etc.);
professional guidance and counselling
and coaching methods and tools; cooperation HEIs, local/regional authorities and other stakeholders to promote
regional development and cross sectoral cooperation
to build bridges and share knowledge between the different sectors; cooperation and exchange of practice between staff responsible for
support services
(guidance counselling, coaching methods and tools, etc)
KTH internal procedures
– Handläggningsordning – Medgivande + Project abstract – Different levels of support – Collection of questions and visit to Brussels – January 2015: hands on sessions for the support of specific project proposals