Transcript What’s next?

Some thoughts on international
strategic partnerships
What has been achieved?
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Many student and teacher exchanges
Dynamic community of IRCs in AEC
Intensive Programmes
First joint programmes
Various tools (Qualification Framework,
handbooks, code of good practice, etc)
developed by AEC, ‘Polifonia’ and other
projects
But then:
• Is current mobility effective?
• Have opportunities for joint curriculum
development been sufficiently explored?
• How about Continuing Professional
Development?
• Strategic use of international relations (see
EUA report “Internationalisation in European
Higher Education: European policies,
institutional strategies and EUA support”)
SO WHAT IS NEXT?
Context and literature
• Application to ECHE for ERASMUS +
• EU Communication “European Higher Education in the
World”(July 2013)
• EU Directive on the conditions of entry and residence
of third-country nationals
• LERU Advice Paper “International Curricula and
Student Mobility”: exchange mobility -> embedded
mobility
CONNECTING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS TO
INSTITUTIONAL POLICIES, BUT HOW?
ARE WE GOOD?
HOW to do it?
• International mobility
• Inclusive <-> exclusive partnerships
• Curricular innovation: international advice, IPs
and joint programmes
• Continuing Professional Development of teaching
staff with an international dimension
• International comparisons
– International external examiners
– AEC reviews
– RNCM benchmarking exercise
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS ARE NEEDED!
Some possible themes (I)
• Continuing professional development of
management, teachers and non-academic
staff (ICON-style?)
• International standards: international
exchange of external assessors
• Sharing weak/strong points (exchanges, joint
modules, joint appointments)
• Focused mobility
Some possible themes (II)
• Curricular innovation in (e.g.)
– Master research
– ‘Performance science’
– Music theory (incl. eLearning)
– 1-to-1 teaching, pedagogical skills artist faculty
– Entrepreneurship
– Internal quality assurance
– Specific subjects (early music, collaborative piano,
etc)
And the good news is…
There may actually
be money for it!
SO WHAT ARE WE
WAITING FOR?
Today…
• Explore ideas on ways to improve ourselves by
cooperating with others
• Based on institutional priorities, challenges &
dreams
• Discuss future status of this group, possibly by
the formulating a ‘charter’?
• Explore concrete possibilities of cooperation
supported by ERASMUS+
A PENTACON+ charter?
• Institutions subscribe to shared values, e.g.:
o Commitment to artistic excellence
o Commitment to intensified international cooperation
to exchange and develop expertise
o Commitment to continuous improvement through
curricular innovation
o Permanent search for new approaches and methods
for teaching, assessment and research
o Joint permanent reflection on position within society
o Entrepreneurship, links profession????
o Focus on student-centred learning???
A streamlined architecture : 3 key
actions in a single programme
Lifelong
Learning
Programme:
Grundtvig
Erasmus
Leonardo
Comenius
International
higher education
programmes:
Erasmus Mundus,
Tempus,
Alfa, Edulink,
Bilateral
Programmes
Erasmus+
2.
3.
1.
Learning Cooperation Policy
projects
Support
Mobility
Youth in Action
Programme
Education
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12 pts
+ Sport, Jean
Monnet
About 14,5 billionErasmus+
euros for the next 7 years:
+40% budget increase in EU funding for
education and training:
4 million people to study, train or teach abroad
Education
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Strategic
Partnerships

Sectoral / cross-sectoral, structured
cooperation, applying innovative solutions,
leading to institutional modernisation and to
high quality in teaching, training and youth
work
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Ranging from small to large scale projects

Fully decentralised management
DG EAC
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Policy
objectives for
Higher
Education I.
 Foster intense and long-term
cooperation among HEIs and with
key stakeholders (e.g.:
enterprises; local/regional
authorities; social partners; youth
organisations and other relevant
actors)
 Promote cross-sector cooperation
between the different educational
sectors Education
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Policy
objectives for
Higher
Education II.
Support HEIs to achieving the objectives set
under the HE Modernisation Agenda:
1 - Increasing attainment levels
2 - Improving the quality and relevance of
higher education
3 - Strengthening quality through mobility and
cross-border cooperation
4 - Linking higher education, research and
business for excellence and regional
development
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5 - Improving governance and funding
DG EAC
Possible work
areas
Development & delivery of joint study
programmes and curricula, IPs, joint modules
and new teaching materials (incl. ICT)
 Project-based
international
collaboration
between HEIs & enterprises
 Cooperation and exchange of practice either
between HEIs or HEIs & other sectors
 Promote entrepreneurship
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Education
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Mobility
Activities
Only if added value for
achieving project objectives, e.g.:
 Intensive Programmes
 Blended mobility of students combining
short term physical mobility (< 2 months)
with virtual mobility
 Long term teaching assignments (2 - 12
months)
 Short term staff training events (5 - 60
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Education
days)
Partnership and
Duration
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Benefit from the different experience,
profiles and expertise of a diverse range
of organisations
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Partnerships can last 2 to 3 years,
(depending on the objective and the type
of activities foreseen) starting Sep 2014
Education
and Culture
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PARTICIPATION
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Min. 3 organisations from 3 different
programme countries
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In addition, 3rd country
organisations may participate, provided
they bring a genuine value added to the
project
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AEC for dissemination?
Education
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FINANCING
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Max. funding: 2 years 300.000€, 3
years
450.000€
(no
co-financing
needed!)
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Unit costs per activity (management,
meetings, multiplier activities, mobility)
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Clearly formulated assessment criteria
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Application through ERASMUS National
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Agencies
Education
…
in other words
Counting
down
 Deadline for applications: 30 April
2014
 General Call and Programme Guide:
December 2013
 Inter-institutional agreement forms:
July 2013
 Deadline for ECHE applications: May
2013
Education
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Current possible initiatives (I)
1. New Audiences and Innovative Practice
– NAIP (Reykjavik)
2. European Chamber Music Academy
(Vienna or Oslo)
3. Improvisation (Tallinn)
4. Contemporary Music Performance &
Early Music (The Hague)
5. Performance science (?)
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Current possible initiatives (II)
6. Entrepreneurship (Arhus)
7. Pentacon+ (who?)
8. Research/3rd cycle?
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