Space Network meeting 18/11 - Porto:Ideas for new projects esp. in the framework of Erasmus plus KA2 Host ISCAP/IPP – PortoFriday 18th November 2016Luc BroesJulie VerstraetenAnnemie Van den dries

Erasmus Plus

•is the European Union programme for education, training, youth and sport

•runs for 7 years, from 2014 to 2020

•invites organisations to apply for funding each year to undertake creative and worthwhile activities

•aims to modernise education, training and youth work across Europe

•is open to education, training, youth and sport organisations across all sectors of lifelong learning, including school education, further and higher education, adult education and the youth sector

•offers opportunities for participants to study, work, volunteer, teach and train abroad in Europe and further afield

Basic rule when writing an EU application

“Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's….”

When asking for EU money….abide by the EU wishes and rules…

See call 2017: Erasmus+ Programme Guide – version 1 of 26/10/2016

http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/sites/erasmusplus/files/files/resources/erasmus-plus-programme-guide_en.pdfApplication document:

Application document:

https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/sites/erasmusplus/files/files/resources/2017-strategic-partnerships-higher-education_en.pdf

To be sent to the EACEA for Centralised actions

To be sent to the NA for Decentralised actions

Basic information regarding DG EAC •the European Commission (EC) is the executive body of the European Union responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the EU treaties and managing the day-to-day business of the EU

•the Commission operates as a cabinet government, with 28 members

•the Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport is: Tibor Navracsics (HU)Speech 16/11/2016: How European and international policies are supporting inclusive education Speech 15/11/2016: Celebrating new UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Europe

•the Commission includes also the administrative body of about 23,000 European civil servants who are split into departments called directorates-general and services

•DG Education and Culture is divided in 5 directorates (A is for Modernisation of Education I: Europe 2020, country analysis, Erasmus+ coordination)

http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/docs/organisation_fr.pdf

•The Executive Agency Education, Audiovisual and Culture (EACEA), located in Brussels: its mission is to implement a number of strands of more than 15 Community funded programmes and actions in the fields of education and training, active citizenship, youth, audiovisual and culture (centralised actions)

DG EAC, EACEA, National agencies (NA) andNational Erasmus+ Offices (NEOs)

The EACEA orchestrates the actions undertaken at national level providing information on Erasmus+, selecting projects to be funded, monitoring and evaluating Erasmus+, supporting applicants and participants, working with other NA’s and the EU, promoting Erasmus+, and sharing success stories and best practices.

Decentralised: and this for the programme countries and for the partner countries

List of NAs: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/contact_nl

List of NEOs: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus-plus/contacts/national-erasmus-plus-offices_en

See also: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/about_en#tab-1-1

Example of National Erasmus+ Office

For the Russian Federation (Region 4):

Ms. Olga Oleynikova

Center for Vocational Education & Training Studies

National Erasmus+ Office

5, 2nd Entuziastov Street Block 41Premise V, Room 5111024 MoscowRussia

Tel: +7 (495) 972 35 90Tel/Fax: +7 (495) 915 72 54E-mail: office@erasmusplusinrussia.ru ; info@erasmusplusinrussia.ruWebsite: http://erasmusplusinrussia.ru

Erasmus +Key Action 1: Learning mobility of individuals

• aims to encourage the mobility of students, staff, volunteers, youth workers, and young people

• organisations can arrange to send or receive students and staff to or from participating countries, as well as organise teaching, training, learning and volunteering activities

KA107: international credit mobility Your own NA will tell you: which partner countries are involved for your own country and which flows will be recognized: for students BA, MA, DO, for teaching staff, for training staff (IN-OUT)

Key Action 3: Support for policy reform

aims to increase the participation of young people in democratic life, especially in discussions with policy makers, as well as developing knowledge in the fields of education, training, and youth

Jean Monnet

opportunities for teaching, research, and policy debate on the EU and its policies

Sport

designed to develop and implement joint activities to promote sport and physical activity, identify and implement innovative activities in the field of sport, and manage not-for-profit events to increase participation in sport

Key Action 2: Innovation and good practicesis designed to develop the education, training, and youth sectors through 5 main activities:

1.Strategic partnerships

to support innovation in the sector as well as joint initiatives to promote cooperation, peer-learning, and the sharing of experience

2.Knowledge Alliances

to foster innovation in and through higher education together with businesses, and beyond, contributing to new approaches to teaching and learning, entrepreneurship in education, and the modernisation of higher education systems in Europe

3.Sector Skills Alliances

to tackle skill gaps and ensure a better alignment of vocational education and training with labour market needs. There are opportunities to modernise VET, exchange knowledge and best practices, encourage working abroad, and increase the recognition of qualifications

4.Capacity-building projects in the field of higher education

to support the modernisation, accessibility, and internationalisation of higher education in Partner Countries

5.Capacity-building projects in the field of youth

to support the development of youth work, non-formal learning, and volunteer work, as well as promote non-formal learning opportunities with Partner Countries

Main changes introduced in 2017

•The introduction of the concept of “European priorities in the national context” under KA2 Strategic Partnership. For more information on this, please visit the website of each relevant National Agency!

•The funding rules for some decentralized actions have been fine-tuned

•The action "Sector Skills Alliances" is no longer covered by this General Call and Programme Guide and will be dealt with separately through a Specific Call for Proposals announced by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency

•As in 2016, the 2017 Programme Guide places a special focus on encouraging projects supporting social inclusion (notably of refugees and migrants), as well as preventing radicalisation

•New: Recommendations on the inclusion of higher education students and staff with physical, mental or health-related conditions in the Erasmus+ programme

https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/sites/erasmusplus/files/erasmus-plus-recommendations-higher-education_en.pdf

Recommendations on inclusion

•Place the information for Erasmus+ students and staff with physical, mental or health-related conditions prominently on your webpage and other communication channels in an accessible format. This information should include how students and staff can request the special needs support.

•As a starting point, you can use the draft website text at the end of this document to inform your students and staff with physical, mental or health-related conditions about Erasmus+ mobility opportunities and support.

•You can take further inspiration by the webpages of University of Jyväskylä (Finland) with information for both outgoing and incoming Erasmus+ students, Frederick University Students (Cyprus) or İstanbul Aydın Üniversitesi(Turkey) for outgoing students and Ludwig Maximilians Universität (LMU) München (Germany) for incoming students.

•Provide support to your students and staff, taking inspiration from other HEI’s and networks. For example, the A-Z Guide to inclusive international mobility is designed to give you some tips: http://www.eaie.org/eaie-resources/library/publication/Other/abc-guide-inclusive-international-mobility.html

Capacity building in the field of HE

•aims to support the modernisation, accessibility and internationalisation of higher education in the Partner Countries

•is to be carried out in the context of the priorities identified in the Communications:

“Increasing the impact of EU Development Policy: an Agenda for Change” and “European Higher Education in the World”.

•It is implemented within the framework of the external policies of the EU, defined by the financial instruments of the European Union which support this action, namely the:

European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI), Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI), Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA), European Development Fund

•This action contributes to the development of sustainable and inclusive socio-economic growth in Partner Countries and should ensure development and EU external actions objectives and principles, including national ownership, social cohesion, equity, proper geographical balance and diversity. Special attention will be given to the least developed countries as well as to disadvantaged students from poor socio-economic backgrounds and to students will special needs.

Capacity building in the field of HE (2)Capacity-building Projects are transnational cooperation projects based on multilateral partnerships, primarily between higher education institutions (HEI’s) from Programme and eligible Partner Countries financed through the above-mentioned instruments. They can also involve non-academic partners to strengthen the links with society and business and to reinforce the systemic impact of the projects.

Through structured cooperation, exchange of experience and good practices and individual mobility, Capacity-building Projects aim to:

• support the modernisation, accessibility and internationalisation of higher education in the eligible Partner Countries;

• support eligible Partner Countries to address the challenges facing their higher education institutions and systems, including those of quality, relevance, equity of access, planning, delivery, management and governance;

• contribute to cooperation between the EU and the eligible Partner Countries (and amongst the eligible Partner Countries);

• promote voluntary convergence with EU developments in higher education;

• promote people-to-people contacts, intercultural awareness and understanding.

Capacity building in the field of HE (3)

These objectives are pursued in the eligible Partner Countries, through actions that:

• improve the quality of higher education and enhance its relevance for the labour market and society;

• improve the level of competences and skills in HEI’s by developing new and innovative education programmes;

• enhance the management, governance and innovation capacities, as well as the internationalisation of HEI’s;

• increase the capacities of national authorities to modernise their higher education systems, by supporting to the definition, implementation and monitoring of reform policies;

• foster regional integration and cooperation across different regions of the world through joint initiatives;

• stimulate sharing of good practices and cooperation.

Capacity building in the field of HE (4)

Two categories of Capacity-building projects are supported:

Joint Projects:

aimed at producing outcomes that benefit principally and directly the organisations from eligible Partner Countries involved in the project. These projects typically focus on three different types of activities:

• curriculum development;

• modernisation of governance, management and functioning of HEIs;

• strengthening of relations between HEIs and the wider economic and social environment.

Structural Projects:

aimed at producing an impact on higher education systems and promoting reforms at national and/or regional level in the eligible Partner Countries. These projects typically focus on two different categories of activities:

• modernisation of policies, governance and management of higher education systems;

• strengthening of relations between higher education systems and the wider economic and social environment.

Capacity building in the field of HE (5)Capacity-building projects can be implemented as:

National projects, i.e. projects involving institutions from only one eligible Partner Country;

Multi-country projects within one single region, involving at least two countries from this region;

Multi-country projects involving more than one region, involving at least one country from each region concerned.

Capacity building in the field of HE (6)

In the case of Capacity-building projects targeting the eligible Partner Countries from Regions 1, 2 and 3 (see section "Eligible Countries" in Part A of this Guide), both categories of projects (Joint Projects and Structural Projects) may include, in addition, a Special Mobility Strand for staff and students. This Mobility Strand will be evaluated as a separate component.

The Special Mobility Strand

•must be instrumental to the objectives of the project (integrated mobility) and implemented through inter-institutional agreements

•it is important to note that this component of the project may be rejected (not funded) even if the project is selected; the non-selection of this component should not hamper the implementation of the other activities foreseen by the project

•should be seen as additional support provided by the EU to reinforce the intervention logic of the project but cannot be a condition for the successful implementation of the core project objectives

•the funding of a Special Mobility Strand within a selected project will depend on the results of the specific qualitative evaluation of the proposal and on the budget available. It is expected that no more than 40% of the Joint or Structural projects selected for funding for Regions 1, 2, 3 will benefit from such a grant

Capacity building in the field of HE (7)Capacity-building projects must respect all of the following criteria:

For projects addressing one Partner Country only (national projects):

1 eligible Partner Country and at least 3 Programme Countries must be involved in the project.

These projects must include, as full partners, a minimum number of HEIs, as follows:

• minimum one HEI from at least 3 of the Programme Countries taking part in the project;

• minimum 3 HEI’s from the Partner Country taking part in the project;

• projects must include at least as many Partner Country HEIs as there are ProgrammeCountry HEI’s.

Exception:

in Partner Countries where the number of HEI’s is lower than 5 in the whole country or in cases where one single institution represents more than 50% of the overall student population of the country, applications counting only one HEI for those countries will be accepted.

Capacity building in the field of HE (8)For projects addressing 2 or more Partner Countries (multi-country projects):

At least 2 eligible Partner Countries and at least 3 Programme Countries must be involved in the project. Partner Countries can be from the same region or from different regions covered by the Action.

These projects must include, as full partners, a minimum number of HEIs, as follows:

• minimum one HEI from at least 3 of the Programme Countries taking part in the project;

• minimum 2 HEI’s from each Partner Country taking part in the project;

• projects must include at least as many Partner Country HEI’s as there are Programme Country HEIs.

Exception:

in Partner Countries where the number of HEI’s is lower than 5 in the whole country or in cases where

one single institution represents more than 50% of the overall student population of the country,

applications counting only one HEI for those countries will be accepted on the condition that the

projects includes at least as many Partner Country HEIs as there are Programme Country HEIs.

Capacity building in the field of HE (9)

Additional specific criteria applying to:

Structural Projects

projects must also involve, as full partners, the Ministries responsible for higher education in each of the eligible Partner Countries targeted by the project

Projects involving partners from Region 4 (Russian Federation):

must involve at least another Partner Country

Projects involving partners from Region 8 (Latin America):

must involve at least two Partner Countries from that region in the project

Capacity building in the field of HE (10)Capacity-building Projects can last 2 or 3 years.

•The duration must be chosen at application stage, based on the objective of the project and on the type of activities foreseen over time.

•Only under exceptional circumstances, one extension of the eligibility period of maximum 12 months, may be granted if it becomes impossible for the coordinator to complete the project within the scheduled period.

And don’t forget when writing an application to check on the criteria the experts have to follow: relevance of the consortium, quality of the consortium and cooperation arrangements, quality of the activity design and implementation, impact and dissemination…,…

Think now already about intellectual outputs, multiplier events, study, teaching, training activities…

Deadlines: KA1: 02/02/2017 KA2: Capacity building in HE: 09/02/2017KA2: Jean Monnet: 23/02/2017KA2: Knowledge Alliances: 28/02/2017KA2: Strategic partnerships: 29/03/2017

Other proposals?....