Work Placement: Adding Value to Education 20 October 2006 Oxford Brookes University Headington Campus

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Work Placement Adding Value to Education20
October 2006Oxford Brookes UniversityHeadington
Campus
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Lifelong Learning Programme 1 January 2007 31
December 2013Projects may continue until 2015
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Sub-Programmes
Minimum Actual Proposed
Comenius 13 15.5
Erasmus 40 46.0
Leonardo 25 25.5
Grundtvig 5
Transversal 5
Jean Monnet 2.5
Operational .15
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ERASMUS

• Student Mobility 3 million by 2012
• Study placements
• Work placements
• Staff mobility
• Teaching
• Other staff training or teaching
• Enterprise
• Organisation of mobility funding

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Intensive Programmes

• Short multi-country programmes
• Organised on a decentralised basis
• Assessed by National Agency in country of
  coordinator
• Potential mobility for students for whom longer
  term mobility is difficult

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Multilateral Projects

• Improving Higher Education through transfer of
  innovation and good practices
• Thematic Networks

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Erasmus Budget

• Not less than 80 to support mobility

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Erasmus University Charter

• Simple application
• Entry Ticket for Higher Education Institutions
  to all parts of Erasmus
• Anticipated deadline for new programme is
• 15 February 2007

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Work Placements in Erasmus

• EUC entry ticket essential

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Work placements in Erasmus

• Stakeholder proposals
• Erasmus mobility capital 24 months
• Duration for work placement
• Minimum 3 months
• Maximum 12 Months

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Work placements Stakeholder Proposals

• No longer on a Project basis
• Simple application to National Agencies in March
  for next academic year
• Same basis as study mobility
• Allocation in one contract with all mobility
  funding - flexibility for institutions
• Potential to combine study and work placement
• Could entail shorter study and/or work placement
  e.g. 22 - minimum overall duration 3 months

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Organisation of work placements

• Institutions
• and/or
• Consortia (of institutions)

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Work placement requirements

• Student at least in second year
• Full recognition for placement
• Placement contract signed by
• Student Home Institution Employer - including
  job description
• National grant/loan to continue

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Erasmus Student Work Placement Grant

• Simple monthly allocation same basis as study
  mobility in Erasmus
• Same reporting requirements as Erasmus i.e. no
  financial report from student but certification
  of placement details and recognition

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Current Proposal from Commission

• Continue Leonardo good practice
• Competitive bids
• Applications similar to projects
• Description
• Finance numbers destination amount
• Objectives
• Expected results
• Organizational arrangements
• Quality assurance

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