ERASMUS +
Alliances
Utrecht
27 February 2014
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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
Tempus
Europe for Citizens
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EACEA - The new portfolio 2014-2020
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Higher Education (EU and International)
Vocational Education and Training
Adult Education
School Education
Policy Support
Jean Monnet
(Eurydice)
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Commission and EACEA - Partners with complementary roles
Policy
- DG EAC
- DG COMM
- DG ECHO
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Policy documents
Programme definition
Call Priorities
Committees
Impact analysis
Programme implementation
• Management of
centralised actions
• Whole project life-cycle
• Results & feedback
• ~400 staff
• Based in Brussels
• Management: EC
officials
Management of decentralised actions via National
Agencies
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Unit EACEA – A5
Vocational Education, Adult Education, Platforms
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Sector skills Alliances
Thematic network Workbased Learning (WBL) and Apprenticeships
Specific call to National Authorities on WBL and Appr.
Adult Learning National contact points
EPALE platform (CSS and NSS)
Etwinning platform (CSS and NSS)
Legacy:
– Leonardo da Vinci
– Grundtvig
– KA-4
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A streamlined architecture : 3 Key actions
Existing programmes
Lifelong
Learning
Programme
Grundtvig
International
higher education
programmes:
Erasmus Mundus,
Tempus,
Alfa, Edulink,
Bilateral
Programmes
Erasmus+
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Learning
Mobility
Erasmus
Leonardo
Comenius
A single integrated programme
2.
Co-operation
projects
3.
Policy
Support
Youth in Action
Programme
Specific activities:
• Jean Monnet
• Sport
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,
vocational education 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 innovation
and 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 and business:
Knowledge Alliances & Sector Skills
alliances
 IT-Platforms including
e-Twinning
 Cooperation with third countries
and focus on neighbourhood
countries
Support for
policy reform (KA3)
 Open method of
Coordination
 Prospective initiatives
 EU recognition tools
 Dissemination &
exploitation
 Policy dialogue with
stakeholders, third
countries and
international
organisations
What are Alliances
• Big international cooperation projects
• Innovation
• High impact to the systems
• Sustainable cooperation
• Education and training links with business
What is a Sector Skills Alliance
• Sector based
• tackling skills gaps
• enhancing the responsiveness of VET systems to sector-specific
labour market needs with regard to one or more occupational
profiles
What Sectors
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
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Main objectives
VET modernisation, competiveness
of sectors
Exchange VET-labour market, work
based learning
Recognition at European level,
increased mobility
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Which Activities are supported
Defining
skills and
training
provision
needs
Joint
curriculum
design
Joint
curriculum
delivery
mobility
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
Joint curricula design
• Designing EU sector-specific curricula, VET programmes,
qualification standards
(where
basing on
ESCO –
European
Skills,
Competences,
Qualifications
and
Occupations)
Joint curricula design (2)
• Integrating skills/occupational profiles into curriculum design
• Apply learning outcomes approach (e.g. EQF, ECVET)
• Innovative approaches to teaching, learning (e.g. ict, open
educational resources, real life workplace situations,
entrepreneurial mind-sets)
Joint curricula delivery
• Delivering (adapted/newly created) EU sector-specific curricula
• Impelmenting innovative VET methods (ICT, work-based etc.)
• Recognition, certification of learning outcomes (e.g. ECVET,
EQAVET)
European
Qualification
Framework
Application of European
reference tools
European
Quality
Assurance
Framework
for VET
Learning
Outcomes
Approach
European
Credit
System for
VET
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)
Who MUST participate
At least one organisation from each
of the following
three categories
in each of the
Vocational
Education &
countries involved
Training
in the Alliance
providers
Partners
representativ
e in sector
with sector–
expertise/Res
earch (if
needed)
Bodies (with
regulatory
function)
responsible
for
qualifications/
certification/
accreditation
KNOWLEDGE ALLIANCES
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
Knowledge Alliances: Cooperation and Innovation
Higher
Education
Research
Business
Overall objective
Strengthen Europe's innovation capacity
Foster innovation in higher education, enterprises
and socio-economic environment
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Objectives
Develop innovative ways of teaching, learning and governance
Stimulate entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial competence of
students, academics and company staff
Strengthen the flow and exchange of information and knowledge
Stimulate the co-creation of knowledge
Stimulate the cooperation between higher education institutions
and companies
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WHICH ACTIVITIES ARE SUPPORTED?
Sustainability of
universitybusiness
cooperation
Impact beyond
the project's
lifetime
Boosting
innovation in
higher
education,
business and in
the broader
socio-economic
environment
Developing
entrepreneurship
mind-set and
competences
Stimulating the flow
and exchange of
knowledge between
higher education
and enterprises
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Activities - A consistent and comprehensive set of
activities
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Development and implemetation of new learning and teaching methods
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Develop and deliver new and innovative study programmes
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Organisation of continuing educational programmes and activities with
and within companies
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Schemes of transversals skills' learning in cooperation with enterprises
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Entrepreneurship education in any discipline
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Study field related activities which are
embedded in curricula
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Exchange of students, researchers,
teaching and company staff
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Etc.
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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)
How to participate
Sector Skills Alliance
• 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.
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.
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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
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Funding rules
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Maximum EU grant: 2 years(700 000 EUR),
3 years (1 000 000 EUR)
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Budget based on unit costs (staff input)
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Mobility costs (if applicable): units of travel and subsistence costs
Target:
Up to 150 Knowledge Alliances by 2020
Up to 150 Sector Skills Alliances by 2020
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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
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.
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).
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).
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.
Project implementation (amounts in € per day) Programme countries
The amounts depends on a) Profile of staff b) Country of the
participating organisation
B2.1
Teacher/Trainer/Researcher
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Youth worker
B2.2
Austria,
Denmark,
Ireland,
Liechtenstein,
Luxemburg,
Netherlands,
Norway,
Sweden,
Switzerland
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228
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Belgium,
Germany,
Kingdom
336
257
194
157
Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece,
Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain
197
164
122
93
Bulgaria,
Yugoslav
Hungary,
Romania,
106
88
66
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Manager
Finland,
France,
Iceland, Italy, United
Croatia, Estonia, Former
Republic of Macedonia,
Latvia, Lithuania, Poland,
Slovakia, Turkey
Technician
Administrative staff
B2.3
B2.4
Project implementation (amounts in € per day) Partner Countries
The amounts depends on a) Profile of staff b) Country of the participating
organisation
B2.1
353
Teacher/Trainer/Resea
rcher/
Youth worker
B2.2
289
Andorra, Brunei, New Zealand, Singapore, United Arab Emirates,
Vatican City State
336
257
194
157
Bahamas, Bahrain, Equatorial Guinea, Hong Kong, Israel, Korea
(Republic of), Oman, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan
197
164
122
93
106
88
66
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Manager
Australia, Canada, Kuwait, Macao, Monaco, Qatar, San Marino
Afghanistan, Albania, and other countries (see Programme Guide for
details)
Technician
Administrative
staff
B2.3
228
B2.4
189
Useful links (Sector Skills Alliances)
• EACEA website
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/index_en.php
Erasmus+ Guide
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/documents/erasmus-plus-programme-guide_en.pdf
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Contact e-mail at EACEA: EACEA-EPLUS-SSA@ec.europa.eu
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ESCO
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Skills Council
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Skills Panorama
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Cedefop http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/Index.aspx
Results of pilot call ECVET 2012 http://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
https://ec.europa.eu/esco/home;jsessionid=ryNsSmLT2wmyxtBsJCLcYWXPdhPBZ5kwCRlC3Kc2n2ZxpvWJLs8K!821862716!13
90807155667
http://europeanskillscouncil.t-c-l.eu/eng/EuropeanSkillsCouncil.aspx
http://www.europeancommerce.eu/eng/default.aspx
http://euskillspanorama.ec.europa.eu/
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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
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Thank you for your
attention!