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Key Action 2 HEGuidance on applicationsDavid HiblerJoanna Collins
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Overall objectives
• Boost skills, employability, labour market relevance
• Modernise education, training, youth work• Focus on young people• See http://
ec.europa.eu/education/policy/strategic-framework/index_en.htm
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Key facts
• Simpler, cross-sectoral structure based on ‘Key Actions’
• Worth €940m to UK over seven years• Replaces Lifelong Learning Programme, Youth
in Action and other EU programmes• Addresses EU agenda for modernisation of HE
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Erasmus+ is ‘the new EU
programme for education,
training, youth and sport’
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European policy context
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Key Actions
• Key Action 1: Learning Mobility of Individuals• Key Action 2: Co-operation for Innovation and
Exchange of Good Practices• Key Action 3: Support for Policy Reform• Some activities managed centrally, not by
National Agencies• Organisation, not individual applications• No funding for preparatory visits
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Key Action 2
• Strategic Partnerships (by sector and cross- sectoral)
• Knowledge Alliances and Sector Skills Alliances• Capacity Building Projects• Support to IT Platforms • Broadly, absorbs Tempus within changed focus
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Key Action 2 Strategic partnerships
• Development, transfer and/or implementation of innovative practice (incl. mobility) and development of labour market skills
• Partnership size and type flexible• HE, VET, schools, adult education, youth and
cross-sectoral• Funding based on unit costs
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Strategic partnerships in HE
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Basic criteria• Wide variety of organisations: public or private,
professional bodies, NGOs etc, in programme countries; sectoral, cross-sectoral
• Participating HEIs - Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE)
• Minimum 3 organisations from 3 programme countries• Up to €150,000 per year • 2 or 3 years: duration depends on objectives and activities• Overall budget less for UK, expect much competition
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Application deadline
DEADLINE
30 APRIL
12.00 CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME
(11.00 BST)
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Possible Strategic Partnerships themes
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Priorities for KA2 HE
• Enhance quality and relevance of learning, attainment levels
• Key skills: entrepreneurship, languages, digital • labour market relevance: links with work• Non traditional approaches, virtual mobility, use of ICT• Professional development• Capacity building, Organisational development• Equity and inclusion • Pursue EC priorities for modernisation of HE
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Projects
• Address policy objectives• Foster transversal (cross-cutting) skills for employability• Promote practical experience, work-based learning• Professional development in using ICT, support for OER• Develop innovative curricula • Validation of non-formal and informal learning and
connection with formal; transition to new levels with European tools, link with national recognition systems
• Career guidance and counselling
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Activities • Very flexible to deliver project objectives
Separate budget lines:• Project management and meetings• Intellectual outputs• Multiplier events• Teaching, training and learning activities • Linguistic support• Dissemination of results
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Award criteria• Relevance: policy; needs; objectives; synergies between
fields; innovative or complementary; added EU value • Design and implementation : work programme phases;
consistency; methodology; quality control; VFM; appropriate T&L if any; recognition of learning outcomes
• Quality of team and cooperation: participating organisation skills and competencies ; tasks and responsibilities; management arrangements
• Impact & dissemination: evaluation; impact; dissemination; sustainability
• Programme Guide pages 99 to 100
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The application eform
• Completed online• Guidelines on NA website www.erasmusplus.org.uk • “Declaration of Honour” to be signed off by legal
representative of institution (download for signature, scan, upload)
• IT issues - to Erasmus helpdesk [email protected]
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Advice • Read relevant sections of Programme Guide, especially
objectives and priorities for KA2 (pages 93 to 96); award criteria (pages 99 to 100); examples of projects (page 243)
• See project examples http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/project_reports/project_reports_erasmus_en.php
• Guidance on using the eforms is at www.erasmusplus.org.uk
• Read full application form and guidance before completing the form
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The application form content overview
• Context: background• Participating organisations: basic information• Description of the project: rationale for project and
partnership, objectives• Preparation and project management: including
m&e; target groups• Project activities: details of all outputs and
activities
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The application form content overview
• Follow-up: dissemination, use of results, sustainability
• Budget: management and activities• Project summary • Formal aspects: data protection, sign off
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• Basic information• NA – select UK1• Details fill in automatically when PIC input• HEIs – accredited (ECHE), do not have to add
further information to show eligibility• Summary of background and experience• Partners – as above
Context and participating organisations
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Description of the project, objectives• Rationale, issues and needs ie why this project?
• Innovative or complementary: how fits with other activity?
• Partners: how chosen? skills, knowledge, experience? New partners? EU added value
• Communication and meetings, partners and stakeholders
• Priorities (cf EU priorities) - overall objectives eg partnerships between education and employment
• Topics - eg regional dimension; environment; discipline
• Results: outputs, products, changes; people trained, skills, knowledge, cultural awareness, languages
• NB not outputs covered below under “activities”.
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Preparation and project management• Preparation: analyses, planning, building engagement,
possibly before funding starts (cf. “activities”)• Budget and timelines: management and monitoring
budget between partners, monitoring timelines, rectifying • Quality of activities: monitoring quality of delivery; who,
how, when? (cf. “activities”)• Risks: internal and external, how monitored and mitigated• Assessing achievement: qualitative and quantitative
indicators and activities (outputs, results, objectives) cf. “activities” and “impact” below
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Implementation• Organisation of activities: who, what, where, how
coordinated, timelines (template annex promised)• Target groups: who? cf. “needs”, above• Participants with fewer opportunities: number; proportion of
participants • Support for them• Difficulties in participation
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Project activities (and outputs)• Divided into types• For each type (eg intellectual outputs, events, mobility) :
– Phase of the project: Preparation; Implementation; Follow-up; Dissemination; Closure
– Title– Description– Tasks– Estimated start and end dates– Organisation leading the activity– Other participating organisations.
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Intellectual outputs• Publications e.g. academic papers; policy
recommendations at different levels; curricula , course materials; training materials; assessment methods, materials; handbooks, advice, guidance; case studies ; good practice; websites; innovative uses of IT and
different media; software • Type • Languages • Media
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Multiplier events
• Emphasis on visibility and dissemination in Erasmus+• Beyond participating individuals and organisations• Event type • Intellectual outputs covered
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Learning, teaching and training activities
• Must contribute to overall objectives of project• Eligibility criteria and funding different from mobility in KA1:
quality criteria (eg recognition) the same• Students: blended mobility i.e. up to 2 months physical
mobility with virtual mobility• Staff teaching and training: 2 to 12 months• Intensive programmes of 5 days to two months• Short – term joint staff training events: 5 days to 2 months
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Learning, teaching and training activities• Activity type – click as appropriate• Activity description • Number of participants• Participants with special needs: even if you are not sure of
the details, included any anticipated participation by people with special needs.
• Accompanying persons – as above• Long (months) or short term (days) – as appropriate. • Participating organisations
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Follow up - impact
• Impact (effects, results, changes) on participating individuals and organisations and other stakeholders
• Impact beyond the project, local, regional, national, European
• Measurement – who, what, how
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Follow up - dissemination• Important in Erasmus+ - added value of EU funding, wider
reach and impact• Communicating successes and results widely: for use by
others including other sectors; to influence policy; into the future
• Measureable, realistic objectives• Timetable• Resource planning• Involvement of target groups if possible
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Follow up - dissemination
• Target audiences, different levels• Responsibilities, skills of team• Accessibility, media • Monitoring
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Sustainability
• Of project activities and results• Resources – financial, other (eg institutional
support)
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Budget (summary)
• Different activities: different funding levels and structures • Most payments conditional on justification in application• Unit costs and lump sums, with ceilings• Project management - 500 per month for coordinating;
250 per month for participating • Transnational project meetings (must be justified) per
participant and distance travelled • Intellectual outputs per day and staff role (manager,
researcher/teacher/trainer, technician, administrator)
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Budget (summary)
• Multiplier events related to intellectual outputs: per local and foreign participant
• Learning, teaching, training: travel by distance, and subsistence per participant by day or month
• Linguistic support: lump sum per participant in 2 to 12 months mobility
• Special needs: actuals – costs included in application• Exceptional costs: 75% actuals , subcontracted goods and
services which partners cannot provide
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Project Summary
• Synopsis: to be used for publicity, uploaded to EC dissemination platform
• Context• Objectives • Participants• Activities• Methodology• Results, impact, longer term benefits• Summary of participating organisations and budget
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ECAS and PICs• Need PIC http://www.erasmusplus.org.uk/how-to-apply • HEIs ask Erasmus coordinator • Other organisations: register on the European
Commission Authentication Service (ECAS), see http://www.erasmusplus.org.uk/how-to-apply
• Log in to Participant Portal with ECAS account details, see EC Participant Portal User Manual
• Register on the Unique Registration Facility (URF) • You will receive a PIC.
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Further information• Call for Proposals and Programme Guide
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/index_en.htm
• UK NA website www.erasmusplus.org.uk • #erasmusplusuk – BC/Ecorys hashtag• Erasmus Helpdesk (detail) [email protected] • Examples of centralised projects under LLP
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/project_reports/project_reports_erasmus_en.php