Future EU programmes on Education and Training -
Lessons Learned and Improvements Needed
Carlos Afonso – IP Portalegre, Portugal
Future EU programmes on Education and Training -
Lessons Learned and Improvements Needed
Carlos Afonso
Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Portugal
Vice-President EAEC
Future EU programmes on Education and Training -
Lessons Learned and Improvements Needed
Carlos Afonso – IP Portalegre, Portugal
Starting point: the future of LLP and the public
consultation on this
Areas covered in the public consultation are:
- Objectives of the programme
- Scope of the programme and activities covered
- Mobility and beneficiaries
- Cooperation activities
- Policy Support Activities
- Management
- Synergy with other programmes
- Funding
Future EU programmes on Education and Training -
Lessons Learned and Improvements Needed
Carlos Afonso – IP Portalegre, Portugal
Methodology for the discussion:
1 – A short contextual presentation (10’)
2 - Each participant will address one of the topics (5’)
3 - Focus on Lessons learned during LLP and Improvements needed in
the future programme
4 - For time and practical reasons we will have to focus on three main
topics : mobility, cooperation projects, funding
5 - We would then open the discussion to the audience
Future EU programmes on Education and Training -
Lessons Learned and Improvements Needed
Carlos Afonso – IP Portalegre, Portugal
Contextual presentation
• Some generic data on each topic
• What have we learned for a fact?
• What have we learned from experience?
• What questions do we have?
• What could be improved?
Future EU programmes on Education and Training -
Lessons Learned and Improvements Needed
Carlos Afonso – IP Portalegre, Portugal
MOBILITY
• Some generic data
Future EU programmes on Education and Training -
Lessons Learned and Improvements Needed
Carlos Afonso – IP Portalegre, Portugal
-2.00%
0.00%
2.00%
4.00%
6.00%
8.00%
10.00%
12.00%
14.00%
16.00%
18.00%
20.00%
AT BE BG CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MT NL NO PL PT RO SE SK SL TR UK
Graph % TM and SM flows
% SM IN % SM OUT % TM IN % TM OUT
Future EU programmes on Education and Training -
Lessons Learned and Improvements Needed
Carlos Afonso – IP Portalegre, Portugal
Country flows 2004-05
Students’ flows Teachers’ flows
Country
Rank
St. in HE
Rank
IN
Rank
OUT
Rank
IN
Rank
OUT
DE 1
3 1
1 1
UK 2
4 6
5 5
FR 3
2 2
3 2
PL 4
14 5
4 7
IT 5
5 4
7 3
TK 6
23 20
19 20
ES 7
1 3
2 4
RO 8
19 13
10 10
GR 9
17 15
17 13
NL 10
6 8
11 15
SE 11
7 14
16 16
HU 12
18 16
15 14
PT 13
11 11
14 8
Future EU programmes on Education and Training -
Lessons Learned and Improvements Needed
Carlos Afonso – IP Portalegre, Portugal
What have we learned for a fact?
• What the country preferences are
• There is a preference for certain destinations
Future EU programmes on Education and Training -
Lessons Learned and Improvements Needed
Carlos Afonso – IP Portalegre, Portugal
What have we learned from experience?
• Grant amounts are short
• There are problems in the recognition of study periods
abroad
• Teaching staff mobility is visible, non-teaching staff
mobility not so
• SMP is difficult owing to problems in finding partners
Future EU programmes on Education and Training -
Lessons Learned and Improvements Needed
Carlos Afonso – IP Portalegre, Portugal
What questions do we have?
What is the reason for the destination preferences?
• Attraction potential of institutions, in terms of place (country)? Course
offers? Course offers in English? Institution’s reputation?
• A country’s number of inhabitants/students in higher education?
• Economic situation of students?
• Home institution’s policy?
How can we modify IN and OUT unbalance?
Who should benefit from the mobility activities in the future programme?
How can mobility be enhanced?
Future EU programmes on Education and Training -
Lessons Learned and Improvements Needed
Carlos Afonso – IP Portalegre, Portugal
What could be improved?
• Recognition should be required before the start of the
mobility period
• Europass awarding should be made easier
• Partners database for SMP
• Structured training events for non-teaching staff
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Lessons Learned and Improvements Needed
Carlos Afonso – IP Portalegre, Portugal
Cooperation (beyond mobility)
• Some generic data
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Lessons Learned and Improvements Needed
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0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MT NL NO PL PT RO RU SE SI SK TR UK
59 54 40 0 18 32
130
27 20 71
31 42 47 42 12 2
112
0 24 3 9 9
51 29 49 33 67
0 33 22 26 38
81
83
210
79
4
24
64
201
64 54
180
117
159 103
74
60 32
216
5
65
17 41 30
136
50
110 123 94
2
75 54 52
95
219 111
50
54
0
16
36
185
29 14
108
47
70
52
23
27
5
183
0
55
3
21 8
43
10
50 39 77
0
38
40 18
28
118
97
90
88
1
21
35
194
27
30
157
64
106
98
55
37
3
200
0
40
8
22
13
82
20
71 62
85
1
44 49
38
32
178
47
57
29
1
12
21
96
18
14
89
36
84
57
34
20
2
139
0
16
5
7
8
36
15
35 37
47
0
25 37
11
21
84 Leonardo
TRANSV
Grundtvig
Erasmus
Comenius
Country participation in all LLP centralized projects 2007-09
And the winners are... Country participation in LLP
centralized actions, 2007-2009
Carlos Afonso – IP Portalegre, Portugal
0.00%
2.00%
4.00%
6.00%
8.00%
10.00%
12.00%
AT
BE
BG
CH
CY
CZ
DE
DK
EE
ES
FI
FR
GR
HU IE IS IT LI
LT
LU
LV
MT
NL
NO
PL
PT
RO
RU
SE SI
SK
TR
UK
% Country Funding in ALL LLP CENTRALIZED Projects
…Five countries alone get more than half of
the allocated funds…
Future EU programmes on Education and Training -
Lessons Learned and Improvements Needed
Carlos Afonso – IP Portalegre, Portugal
Country Grants Centralized Actions 2007-2009
Rank Country Total Grant %
1 IT 45.853.741,88 € 16,11%
2 DE 42.071.611,42 € 14,78%
3 BE 25.012.392,25 € 8,79%
4 ES 22.283.654,48 € 7,83%
5 UK 18.711.322,22 € 6,57%
Subtotal 153.932.722,24 € 54,07%
6 NL 17.523.909,01 € 6,16%
7 GR 15.448.958,64 € 5,43%
8 AT 14.660.096,63 € 5,15%
9 FR 12.462.514,70 € 4,38%
10 FI 9.153.465,27 € 3,22%
11 PT 8.096.989,03 € 2,84%
12 BG 6.108.288,32 € 2,15%
13 SI 5.103.568,46 € 1,79%
14 IE 4.959.069,19 € 1,74%
15 RO 4.844.661,66 € 1,70%
16 DK 3.773.825,53 € 1,33%
17 PL 3.767.576,26 € 1,32%
18 HU 3.086.261,66 € 1,08%
19 CZ 3.026.750,00 € 1,06%
20 CY 2.939.321,00 € 1,03%
21 SE 2.776.146,66 € 0,98%
22 NO 2.615.947,86 € 0,92%
23 LT 2.599.297,34 € 0,91%
24 TR 1.940.530,66 € 0,68%
25 SK 1.772.131,66 € 0,62%
26 LU 1.756.777,00 € 0,62%
27 LV 1.236.642,00 € 0,43%
28 EE 766.106,00 € 0,27%
29 MT 199.995,00 € 0,07%
30 IS 150.000,00 € 0,05%
Subtotal 130.768.829,57 € 45,93%
TOTAL 284.701.551,82 € 100%
And the winners are... Country participation in LLP
centralized actions, 2007-2009
Carlos Afonso – IP Portalegre, Portugal
Coordinators’ choice of partners
And the winners are... Country participation in LLP
centralized actions, 2007-2009
Carlos Afonso – IP Portalegre, Portugal
Coordinators’ choice of partners
…and small countries choose themselves and big
countries for partners …
Future EU programmes on Education and Training -
Lessons Learned and Improvements Needed
Carlos Afonso – IP Portalegre, Portugal
What have we learned for a fact?
• Big countries choose other big countries for partners
• Small countries choose themselves and big countries
for partners
• Five countries alone get more than half of the
allocated funds
• Applicants use the maximum amount allowed for
each project type/sectorial programme
Future EU programmes on Education and Training -
Lessons Learned and Improvements Needed
Carlos Afonso – IP Portalegre, Portugal
The application process is complicated and time-consuming
What have we learned from experience?
Future EU programmes on Education and Training -
Lessons Learned and Improvements Needed
Carlos Afonso – IP Portalegre, Portugal
What questions do we have?
Should the future programme put more emphasis on cooperation
between education/training organisations and the world of work
(enterprises, chambers of commerce, associations, trade unions etc.), of
culture and civil society?
What type of actions would you suggest to support this cooperation?
What should be the main purpose of cooperation projects?
- To prepare mobility actions between sending and receiving
organisations?
- To enable peer-learning activities between similar organisations (for
instance schools) on their own education and training priorities?
- To develop joint educational methods or projects (other than
mobility) such as joint pedagogical tools, joint curricula?
- To foster innovative approaches linked to specific European
priorities?
Future EU programmes on Education and Training -
Lessons Learned and Improvements Needed
Carlos Afonso – IP Portalegre, Portugal
What could be improved?
• Project funding should be based on the number of partners in each
project, rather than on project
• Management should be made at the national level
• Participating countries should receive a minimum share of the budget
according to some criteria (share) and manage it nationally
• Application forms should be friendly and ‘proportionate’
Future EU programmes on Education and Training -
Lessons Learned and Improvements Needed
Carlos Afonso – IP Portalegre, Portugal
THE END
Thank you!