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Manchester 23/10/2008

Dugald CRAIGInternational Development ManagerWest of Scotland Colleges’ Partnership

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Input informed by:

Hands-on involvement in European and international projects and activities since 1989;

Experience as Head of Department of European & International Programmes at Scotland’s largest college of further & higher eductaion from 1996 to 2002;

Head of Socrates team at Technical Assitsance Office, in Brussels, from 2002 to 2006;

Work as Commission/EACEA "expert" for Erasmus, Grundtvig, EQF, Culture, Accompanying Measures since 2006 to present;

Role as sector representative on UK NAs’ Advisory Groups, Scottish Bologna Stakeholders’ Group, SCQF Partnership, Scottish INTERREG Forum;

Being Council Member of EURASHE (European Association of Institutions in Higher Education)

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Basic tools

EUC HandbookRelevant EUC application formGuide with technical instructionsUsername and PasswordAvailable from the Erasmus University Charter Selection 2009 webspace on the Education and Culture Executive Agency website

http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/funding/2009/call_erasmus_university_charter_en.htm

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EUC “experts”

May not be native EN speakers

Have a daily quota to evaluate

Are “experts”

Are, generally, from universities

Have European and international experience

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Erasmus Policy Statement

Most important element

Quality enhancement

Boost mobility and cooperation

Recognition and transparency

Coherent policy for Euro-coperation

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Many EPSs:

Say something about the institution, its place in the national education scene and its history of transnational collaboration.Outline future plans for transnational cooperation in context of LLP and link these to work done so far.Describe their arrangements for promoting transnational mobility.List quality procedures to support transnational activities.Make specific mention of policies to combat inequality.Promote benefits of formal recognition.Make reference to Bologna.

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Basic avoidable mistakes in EUC applications:

choosing ‘ wrong’ Charterincomplete applicationsabsence of detaillack of coherenceinconsistent /contradictory informationirrelevant informationno European dimension(obvious) plagiarismstreams of consciousness

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The foolish learn, only, from personal experience …………..but the wise also learn from the experience of others, so……….

……….be WISE!