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COMENIUS PROGRAMME General overview Comenius School Partnerships

COMENIUS PROGRAMME General overview Comenius School Partnerships. Comenius Contact Seminar Oulu, Finland October 7th-10th, 2009. Comenius objectives:.

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COMENIUS PROGRAMME General overview Comenius School Partnerships

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  1. COMENIUS PROGRAMME General overviewComenius School Partnerships Comenius Contact Seminar Oulu, Finland October 7th-10th, 2009

  2. Comenius objectives: • To develop knowledge and understanding among young people and educational staff of the diversity of European cultures and languages and its values • To help young people to acquire the basic life-skills and competences necessary for their personal development, for future employment and for active European citizenship

  3. What is Comenius? • Comenius School Partnerships • Mobility of Individuals • Comenius in-service training • Comenius Assistantships • Comenius Individual Pupil Mobility (within ongoing/past partnerships, first time 2010) • eTwinning Projects • Comenius Regio • Comenius Multilateral Projects • Comenius Networks

  4. Comenius School Partnerships • Promote cooperation between schools in Europe • 2 school years (i.e. 2010-2011 and 2011-2012) • Working together with one or more common topics, producing a common end product • Multilateral Comenius School Partnerships • Bilateral Comenius School Partnerships

  5. Participants? • 27 EU Member States + Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Turkey, Croatia • One school must be from EU Member State • Geographical balance • Not too many schools from the same country

  6. Life-cycle of a Partnership 2009-early 2010: Find partners, write application 19th February 2010 (?): Application deadline Spring-summer 2010: Evaluation of the applications June/July 2010: Results at EU level 1st August 2010: Start date of the project activities August/September 2010: Issue and return of contracts 30th June 2011: Year one progress report to NA 31st July 2012: End of the partnership funding September 2010: Final report to NA

  7. Bilateral Partnerships • Two schools involved • Seek to encourage the use of European languages • Class exchange (reciprocal!) / min. 10 days • Pupils 12 and older • Pupils work together on a common theme & produce a joint end product • Mobilities: 12 or 24

  8. Multilateral Partnerships • Schools at least from 3 different countries • Themes broadly linked to the pupil’s curriculum, school management, teaching techniques and methodologies • Project meetings, exchanges of staff&pupils, head-teacher study visits, certain conferences • Mobilities: 4, 8, 12, 24

  9. Roles in a Partnership • One coordinator • Responsible for finalizing and submitting the application to its NA • Application is evaluated in the coordinator’s country • Bit more rights to update EST-database • Partners • Submits signed copy of the application to their NAs

  10. Topics and themes • Topic and theme is the driving force of the project: Think carefully, take your time! • Focus on your interest, needs & problems • The topic needs to motivate & inspire the participants • Ideally integrated to general curricula and cross-curricular activities

  11. Partnership activities • Project meetings, exchange of staff&pipils, class exchange • Project work: fieldwork, project research, drafting, publishing, disseminating project work, producing materials, exhibitions, performances, • Self evaluating activities • Disseminating experiences and outcomes

  12. Partnership funding • Flat rate funding • Administration, activity cost and travel • Depends on the number of minimal mobility chosen: on how many teachers / pupils will travel to visit partner schools • Minimum number of transnational mobilities are required for the full grant • Differs from country to country, check your NA instructions

  13. Reporting – standard forms • Progress report, after one year of project activities (dl 30th June) • Each school individually to their own NA • Final report, at the end of the project, after two years of project (dl 30th September) • Part A: together with partners / agreed with partners • Part B: individual country report • Turned in each school individually to their NA

  14. Running the project: exemplar schools schedule for 2010-2012 Fall 2009 - Contact seminar in Oulu February 2010 – Application submitted Fall 2010 – Planning meeting at partner A Spring 2011 – Pupil mobility at partner A May/June 2011 – evaluation meeting at partner B Fall 2011 – Planning meeting at partner C Spring 2012 – Pupil mobility at partner C May/June 2012 – evaluation meeting at partner D

  15. Documents to consult • Call for proposals: to be published for 2010: http://ec.europa.eu/llp • Strategic priorities • LLP Guide • Part 1: general provisions • Part 2: Sub programmes and actions • Fiches: short description of each activity • NAs websites & instructions • Comenius Handbook for schools

  16. Other websites of interest eTwinning: http://www.etwinning.net European Schoolnet: http://www.eun.org MyEurope: http://myeurope.eun.org Europa Go! : http://europa.eu/europago/ Eurydice: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/education/eurydice/index_en.php Eurydice tools: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/education/eurydice/tools_en.php#diagrams

  17. Good Luck with the project planning!!

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