ERASMUS + Alliances

1. ERASMUS +Alliances Utrecht27 February 2014

2. EACEA - The old portfolio 2007-2013 • Lifelong Learning Programme • Erasmus • Leonardo da Vinci • Grundtvig • Comenius • Transversal: Key Activites 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 • Jean Monnet • (Eurydice) Erasmus Mundus Europe forCitizens Tempus

3. EACEA - The new portfolio 2014-2020 • Higher Education (EU and International) • Vocational Education and Training • Adult Education • School Education • Policy Support • Jean Monnet • (Eurydice)

5. Commission and EACEA - Partners with complementary roles Policy Programme implementation • DG EAC • DG COMM • DG ECHO • Management of centralised actions • Whole project life-cycle • Results & feedback • ~400 staff • Based in Brussels • Management: EC officials • Policy documents • Programme definition • Call Priorities • Committees • Impact analysis Management of decentralised actions via National Agencies

6. Unit EACEA – A5Vocational Education, Adult Education, Platforms • SectorskillsAlliances • ThematicnetworkWorkbased Learning (WBL) andApprenticeships • Specificcallto National Authorities on WBL andAppr. • Adult Learning National contactpoints • EPALE platform (CSS and NSS) • Etwinningplatform (CSS and NSS) • Legacy: • Leonardo da Vinci • Grundtvig • KA-4

7. A single integrated programme Erasmus+ 2. Co-operation projects 3. Policy Support 1. Learning Mobility • Specific activities: • Jean Monnet • Sport A streamlined architecture : 3 Key actions Existingprogrammes International higher education programmes: Erasmus Mundus, Tempus, Alfa, Edulink, Bilateral Programmes Grundtvig Erasmus Leonardo Comenius Lifelong Learning Programme Youth in Action Programme

8. 3 main types of Key Action • Learning mobility of individuals (KA1) • Staff mobility, in particular for teachers, lecturers, school leaders and youth workers • Mobility for higher education students, vocationaleducation and training students • Student loan guarantee • Joint Master degrees • Mobility for higher education for EU and non-EU beneficiaries • Volunteering and youth exchanges • Cooperation for innovationand exchange of good practices (KA2) • Strategic partnerships between education/training or youth organisations and other relevant actors • Large scale partnerships between education and training establishments andbusiness: Knowledge Alliances & Sector Skills alliances • IT-Platforms includinge-Twinning • Cooperation with third countries and focus on neighbourhood countries • Support forpolicy reform (KA3) • Open method of Coordination • Prospective initiatives • EU recognition tools • Dissemination & exploitation • Policy dialogue with stakeholders, third countriesand international organisations

9. What are Alliances • Big international cooperationprojects • Innovation • High impact to the systems • Sustainable cooperation • Education and training links with business

10. What is a Sector Skills Alliance • Sectorbased • tacklingskills gaps • enhancing the responsiveness of VET systems to sector-specific labour market needs with regard to one or more occupational profiles

11. A sector=economic sector/branch (NACE codes)Only some sectors eligible under call 2014:included in European Sector Skills Council, namely: textile/clothing/leather, commerce; sectors with skills imbalances: advanced manufacturing, ICT, environmental technologies (Eco-Innovation), cultural and creative sector What Sectors

12. Main objectives

13. Which Activities are supported

14. Defining skills and training provision needs Gathering and interpreting of skills needs (were possible draw on EU Skills Panorama) Identifying needs in terms of training provision

15. Joint curricula design • Designing EU sector-specific curricula, VET programmes, qualification standards (where basing on ESCO – European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations)

16. Joint curricula design (2) • Integratingskills/occupational profiles into curriculum design • Applylearningoutcomesapproach (e.g. EQF, ECVET) • Innovativeapproaches to teaching, learning (e.g. ict, open educationalresources, real life workplace situations, entrepreneurial mind-sets) Joint curricula delivery • Delivering (adapted/newlycreated) EU sector-specific curricula • Impelmentinginnovative VET methods (ICT, work-based etc.) • Recognition, certification of learningoutcomes (e.g. ECVET, EQAVET)

17. Application of European reference tools

18. Who can participate • Eligible participating organisations (from Programme countries and Partner countries. Partner country MUST bring added value.) • Participating organisations: Full partners (contractual requirements=contract) + (optional) Associated partners (NO contract)

19. Who MUST participate At least one organisation from each of the following three categories in each of the countries involved in the Alliance

20. KNOWLEDGE ALLIANCES

21. KNOWLEDGE ALLIANCES • What are they: • Partnerships between HEI institutions and enterprise that aim to promote creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship by offering new curricula, learning opportunities and qualifications. • Main activities: • Delivery of new multidisciplinary curricula responding to business needs • Stimulate entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial mind-set of students, academic and company staff • Facilitate the exchange, flow and co-creation of knowledge between HEIs and enterprises

22. Knowledge Alliances: Cooperation and Innovation Higher Education Research Business

23. Overall objective StrengthenEurope'sinnovationcapacity Cooperation Foster innovation in higher education, enterprises and socio-economic environment 23

24. Objectives Develop innovative ways of teaching, learning and governance Stimulate entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial competence of students, academics and company staff Strengthentheflowandexchangeofinformationandknowledge Stimulatetheco-creation of knowledge Stimulatethecooperationbetweenhighereducationinstitutionsandcompanies 24

25. WHICH ACTIVITIES ARE SUPPORTED?

26. Activities - A consistent and comprehensive set of activities • Development andimplemetation of newlearningandteachingmethods • Developanddelivernewand innovative studyprogrammes • Organisation of continuingeducationalprogrammesandactivitieswithandwithincompanies • Schemes of transversalsskills' learning in cooperationwithenterprises • Entrepreneurshipeducation in anydiscipline • Study fieldrelatedactivitieswhichareembedded in curricula • Exchange of students, researchers, teachingandcompanystaff • Etc. 26

27. Who can participate • Eligible participating organisations (from Programme countries and Partner countries. Partner country MUST bring added value.) • Participating organisations: Full partners (contractual requirements=contract) + (optional) Associated partners (NO contract)

28. How to participate Sector Skills Alliance Knowledge Alliance • At least 6 organisations from 3 different Programme Countries • At least 2 higher education institutions and 2 companies • HEI –Erasmus Charter • Duration of the project 2/3 years • Deadline 3/04/2014 midday CET. • Apply to EACEA. • Applications prepared using official templates. Number of partners (9 organisations from at least 3 Programme countries, including at least two EU Member States. Organisation can only be involved in one SSA application) One of 6 sectors Duration of the project 2/3 years Deadline 3/04/2014 midday CET. Apply to EACEA. Applications prepared using official templates. Proposal concerns one of the eligible sectors.

29. Award criteria • Relevance of the project • Quality of the project design and implementation • Quality of the project team and the cooperation arrangements • Impact and dissemination

30. Fundingrules • Maximum EU grant: 2 years(700 000 EUR), 3 years (1 000 000 EUR) • Budget based on unit costs (staff input) • Mobilitycosts (if applicable): units of travel and subsistencecosts Target: Up to 150 Knowledge Alliances by 2020 Up to 150 SectorSkills Alliances by 2020 30

31. FUNDING RULES Max EU contribution for 2-year project: 700 000 EUR Max EU contribution for a 3-year project: 1 000 000 EUR Eligible costs: implementation support activities Financing system: unit costs Amount: different categories of staff

32. Unit Cost financing system: Implementation support A new form of calculating the grant has been introduced for Alliances. Instead of determining the grant on the basis of real costs incurred, it is based on a unit cost financing system. It will calculate the global contribution to the project.

33. What is the Unit Cost financing system? - The unit cost system is defined as a single proxy cost to contribute to eligible costs; - The single unit cost system will calculate the global contribution to the project; - The unit cost calculation for any activity and output is solely based on the staff input (. The other costs are deemed to be included in this contribution and will not be calculated and added separately).

34. How does the Unit Cost financing system work? - the unit cost calculation for any activity and output is solely based on the staff input; - The grant amount determined via this financing system will cover all activities of the work-package, be it meetings, translations, equipment, intellectual work etc. (The unit cost is not to be considered as a reimbursement of staff costs but as means of determining the grant amount).

35. How does the Unit Cost financing system work? - In exceptional cases, when the Alliances foresee learning mobility activities, an additional component shall be added to the grant, an embedded mobility support, which covers the travel costs and subsistence costs.

36. Project implementation (amounts in € per day) Programme countriesThe amounts depends on a) Profile of staff b) Country of the participating organisation

37. Project implementation (amounts in € per day) Partner CountriesThe amounts depends on a) Profile of staff b) Country of the participating organisation

38. Useful links (Sector Skills Alliances) EACEA website http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/index_en.phpErasmus+ Guide http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/documents/erasmus-plus-programme-guide_en.pdf Contact e-mail at EACEA: EACEA-EPLUS-SSA@ec.europa.eu ESCO https://ec.europa.eu/esco/home;jsessionid=ryNsSmLT2wmyxtBsJCLcYWXPdhPBZ5kwCRlC3Kc2n2ZxpvWJLs8K!821862716!1390807155667 Skills Council http://europeanskillscouncil.t-c-l.eu/eng/EuropeanSkillsCouncil.aspxhttp://www.europeancommerce.eu/eng/default.aspx Skills Panorama http://euskillspanorama.ec.europa.eu/ Cedefop http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/Index.aspx Results of pilot call ECVET 2012http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/results_projects/selection_results_en.php Sector Skills Alliances: http://ec.europa.eu/education/policy/vocational-policy/doc/ssa/projects_en.pdf Adam database http://www.adam-europe.eu

39. Useful links (Knowledge Alliances) • University-Business Cooperation • http://ec.europa.eu/education/higher-education/business_en.htm • Knowledge Alliances – examples • http://ec.europa.eu/education/tools/docs/ubc-examples_en.pdf • EACEA website • http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/index_en.php • http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/results_projects/project_compendia_en.php 39

40. Thank you for your attention!