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Erasmus Plus Funding for your Institution: Attract and Apply Sarah Mount, Business Development Director Hanna K Furre, Business Development Co-ordinator
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Erasmus Plus Funding for your Institution: Attract and Apply
Sarah Mount, Business Development
Director
Hanna K Furre, Business Development
Co-ordinator
What is Erasmus Plus?
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Erasmus plus funding hopes to improve opportunities by
‘…providing support for schools and training organisations, so
that they are able to address new phenomena such as the
internationalisation of education and the growing use of digital
learning, and create flexible learning pathways in line with
learners needs and objectives’.’
Erasmus + Programme Guide 2015
Some facts
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• Total budget of €14.7 billion over 7 years
• Some 56 countries (EU & neighbouring countries) are eligible
to apply
• Grants available for 4 million people, 125,000 institutions
• 40 % increase in funding available under the previous
‘Lifelong Learning Programme’.
• What does this mean? 800,000 educators and youth workers
will acquire new teaching and learning methods abroad
European Funding post 2014
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Main differences:
Main differences:
• Institutional V personal applications
• Applications for whole training programme V single training
activity
• Development plan for increased competences (European
dimension) V individual CPD
The Application Process
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A step-by-step Plan:
• Identify: training needed
• Research: formal application requirements
• Investigate: training opportunities available
• Plan: European Development Plan
Example Application Form
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European Development Plan
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What is a European Development Plan?
• What is you wider goal? (Where are you now?)
• How are you going to reach this goal? (Where do you want to
get to)?
• Who do you need to help you reach this goal (How are you
going to get there?)
When referring to your EDP - Be specific, use examples
Main Activities
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How do the different parts of your project fit into your European
Development Plan/School strategy?
Example
• Goal – Increasing CLIL competencies
1. Job-shadowing at a partner school to increase knowledge
2. CLIL for secondary teachers TT course
3. Language improvement course for teachers
Follow-up
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Dissemination
Evaluation
Don’t underestimate the importance of this step!
Keys to Sucess
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Feasibility and Impact
Show links/relationships between:
Needs and requirements; planned activities; expected outcomes
AND long-term effects/dissemination
International Dimension, Networking & Learning from
Colleagues
Why transnational mobility is key to the impact of the project
SMART
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S Specific
M Measurable
A Achievable
R Realistic
T Timebound
Success stories –
Open-enrolment course
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M Rapisardi Paterno school, Sicily
1) Context:
• Setting up European network of Sicilian schools
• Offer language courses and CLIL
• Insufficient English level of teachers and management
2) Objective and participant profile
• Strengthen professional profile of management staff
• Train prospective CLIL staff
3) 2 week courses for all three groups
NILE Experiences
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4) Methodology:
• Accredited schools,
• Project group,
• Europass
5) Results and Impact:
• Improving competences of management staff
• Implementing CLIL
• Promoting materials sharing through webpage and other channels
6) Long Term benefits:
• School as reference pint in the internationalisation process
• Using the school as a resource in non-school projects
Success stories –
Tailor-made course
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Instituto Comprehensivo Assissi
Project: ‘Global Education 2020’
Identified the need for a course combining language
improvement, CLIL and innovative uses of technology in the
classroom.
• Needs analysis
• Programme negotiation/differentiation
• Learner outcomes
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Summary
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A step-by-step Plan:
• Identify: training needed
• Research: formal application requirements
• Investigate: training opportunities available
• Plan: European Development Plan – Does your project take
you from A to B?
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Please feel free to contact us with any further questions.
