Seminar on the Life Long Learning Programme LLP ERASMUS

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Seminar on the Life Long Learning Programme (LLP)
-ERASMUS

• Nea Pajnic, CMEPIUS
• Matica Hrvatska,
• Zagreb, Croatia

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The content

• The speaker
• Role of Slovenian National Agency implementing
  Erasmus
• Presentation of the CMEPIUS
• Erasmus life cycle
• Questions and Discussion

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The speaker

• Nea Pajnic
• Degree in economy
• Phare project assistant
• Erasmus national coordinator, 1998
• Erasmus, Erasmus Mundus, CEEPUS, bilateral HE
  cooperation, Bologna process

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CMEPIUS

• Slovene National Agency
• Established in 1998
• Part of Centre of the RS for vocational
  education, Office for EU programmes
• Socrates ad Leonardo da Vinci programmes
• In 2003 CEEPUS/bilateral grants taken over from
  MHE
• Independent public agency established in October
  2003 ? Center of the RS for mobility and European
  education and trainig programmes LLP NA, Erasmus
  Mundus NS, CEEPUS NCO, bilateral grants, other
  initiatives

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CMEPIUS as LLP NA

• One integrated National Agency
• All activities managed in one agency good
  integrated knowledge, integrated aproach,
  cooperation, exchange of information, knowledge,
  experience
• One contact point for end-users, one contact
  point for EC

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Erasmus activities

• Individual mobility
• Intensive programmes (summer schools)
• Intensive language courses
• Multilateral projects (curriculum development,
  modernisation of HE, cooperation HEI-industry,
  virtual campuses)
• Networks (academic, structural)

• Decentralised
• NA

• Centralised
• EC

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Erasmus life-cycle

• Aquiring the Erasmus University Charter
  European Commission
• Appling for funds to implement Erasmus activities
  EC or NA
• Implementing the Erasmus activities monitoring
• Reporting
• Audit

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ERASMUS LIFECYCLE
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Erasmus University Charter

• ENTRY ticket ALL Erasmus activities
• Application deadline EACH year for new inst. OR
  for holders to change it
• STANDARD JUST FOR PLACEMENTS EXTENDED (ALL
  activities)
• CONTENT application (no finances)
• AWARDED for 1 year or till the end of programme
  period

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PART D Erasmus Policy Statement

• a) Please describe briefly your institution's
  strategy, objectives and priorities for its
  Erasmus activities (mobility, multilateral
  projects, etc.) and any other actions in the
  context of the Lifelong Learning Programme (2007
  - 2013).b) Please also provide information on
  the following pointsWhat specific actions are
  planned to give visibility to Erasmus activities
  and what type of publicity will be given to the
  Erasmus University Charter and the EPS?What kind
  of arrangements, if any, does the Institution
  ensure to comply with non-discrimination
  objectives (e.g. actions related to gender
  equality, integration of disabled students and
  staff, enhancement of social and economic
  cohesion and combating of xenophobia and racism)?

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PART D EPS

• Quality of academic mobility activitiesWhat
  kind of specific measures are implemented in the
  institution to ensure high quality in academic
  mobility activities?Details should be provided
  on recognition and credit systems, the provision
  of information on curricula, information and
  counselling of outgoing students, tutoring and
  integration of incoming students, provision of
  student services (in particular accommodation),
  preparatory and refresher language courses,
  support and acknowledgement of staff mobility.

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PART D EPS

• Quality of student placement activitiesWhat
  kind of specific measures are implemented to
  ensure high quality in student placements? Give
  details on how the work-programme and the
  placement agreements are prepared and
  implemented. Please describe the practical
  arrangements agreed between the parties. Please
  specify also the monitoring and evaluation of the
  placement(s) period as well as its recognition in
  the curriculum.

EXTENDED EUC
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Erasmus Individual Mobility

• Application for funding at NA
• YEARLY (each academic year)
• Common European rules national rules
• NUMBER OF MOBILITIES
• Number of students (for studies / placements)
• Number of teachers
• Number of staff

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Erasmus Individual Mobility

• Contract HEI NA
• Number of mobilities
• Amount of funds
• Basic rules and minimum requirements the HEI HAS
  TO RESPECT!
• Internal management decision of the HEI
• Institution student/teacher relationship
• Inter faculty/departmental relations
• Internal distribution of funding

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Erasmus Individual Mobility

• At least ONE interim report
• Monitoring activities by the NA (meetings,
  visits, reporting)
• Final reporting STATISTICAL (detailed data
  who-where-for how long-how much )

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Erasmus Individual Mobility

• Constant internal monitoring of activities at HEI
  level the bigger the inst., more monitoring
  needed
• Covering contractual periods
• EACH year each activity is special, different
  READ CHECK

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HVALA!Questions Discussion