Sylvia Solomonidou

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Foundation for the Management of European
Lifelong Learning Programmes Grundtvig Contact
Seminar Creativity and Innovation in Adult
Education
Nicosia, 6 - 9 November 2008
Grundtvig Learning Partnerships

Sylvia Solomonidou

Coordinator of Grundtvig

Cyprus LLP National Agency
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What is a Grundtvig Learning Partnership?
(1/2)

• The Grundtvig Learning Partnership is a
  framework for practical co-operation activities
  between organisations working in the field of
  adult learning in the broadest sense formal,
  non-formal or informal.
• In a Grundtvig Learning partnership staff and
  learners work together on one or more topics of
  common interest to the co-operating organisations

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What is a Grundtvig Learning
Partnership? (2/2)

• A partnership consists of Adult Learning
  Organisations located in at least three of the
  countries participating in the Lifelong Learning
  Programme.
• (At least one participating institution is
  located in a member state of the EU at the
  starting date of the partnership).

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Aims/Objectives of the partnerships

• Grundtvig Learning Partnerships contribute to
• an increased awareness of the varied European
  cultural, social and economic scene
• a better understanding of areas of common
  interest in the field of adult learning

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Focus of Learning Partnerships

• Partnerships can focus on
• the active participation of learners or,
• on management of adult education and/or teaching
  methods

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Activities of Learning Partnerships (1/2)

• The following activities may be supported
• Partner meetings and seminars between all
  institutions involved in the Partnership
• Exchanges of staff and adult learners involved in
  project activities
• Exchanges of experiences by using ICT
• Fieldwork, project research
• Preparation of performances (theatre plays,
  musicals, etc.)

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Activities of Learning Partnerships (2/2)

• Linguistic preparation for persons involved in
  the partnership
• Making of technical objects, drawings and arts
  related to the project
• Self evaluation activities
• Organisation of exhibitions
• Production and dissemination of information
  material or the co-operation activities
• Dissemination of project experience and outcomes

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Call for proposals 2009-2011

• No European priorities
• National eligibility criteria and/or national
  priorities in some countries

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Duration 2 years Eligibility
period 01/08/2009 - 31/07/2011
Budgetary support for mobility and local project
costs. (Predefined lumpsums, based on a minimum
number of mobilities)

• Mobility action types based on minimum number of
  mobilities
• 4 mobilities
• 8 mobilities
• 12 mobilities
• 24 mobilities (out of which16 learners)

Mobility for staff and learners One mobility
means one trip (by one person) Grant amounts
vary from country to country
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Outcomes/Results of a partnership

• They can be descriptive or tangible
• a CD-Rom,
• Video,
• a booklet, a leaflet
• a webpage
• Performances (theatre music, sport)
• Strategic / policy papers
• Art objects

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How to start a project

• Agree with your partner institutions on the
  topic/theme, expected results and final products
  of project
• Decide how the theme will be developed in each
  participating institution
• Decide which learning and/or other ongoing
  activities at each institution are likely to be
  involved either directly or indirectly
• Choose the language of communication between
  partner institutions

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Setting up the project (1/2)

• Be clear and coherent in setting up a work plan
• Dont be over-ambitious
• Be flexible and open-minded
• Decide about the coordinating institution
• Decide which of the partners volunteer to act as
  replacement coordinators
• Decide about the final product(s)

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Setting up the project (2/2)

• Plan the activities at each institution
• Plan the project meetings (transnational
  mobility)
• Plan the exchange of materials, products and
  results
• Decide about the methods of monitoring and
  evaluation
• Discuss about the dissemination of the outcomes/
  end products

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What makes a good partnership? A good
partnership

• is coordinated effectively
• promotes active and balanced involvement of all
  members of the partnership
• has clear objectives and realistic outcomes
• has a clear project calendar
• uses ICT effectively

• promotes equal opportunities
• plans for the ongoing evaluation
• plans for the use and dissemination of project
  outcomes at local, regional, national level
• has the full support of the management team of
  the institution

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Procedure to apply

• Each participating institution has to apply to
  its own national agency using the 2009
  application form
• Each institution checks with its national agency
  whether there are any national eligibility
  criteria, national priorities and/or any other
  additional information to be submitted in support
  of the application
• Each institution submits a copy of the
  common/jointly completed application to its
  national agency on paper (some national agencies
  require electronic submission too)
• Closing date for all countries 20 February 2009

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Selection process

• Eligibility check by national agencies
• Quality assessment by experts under the
  responsibility of the country of the coordinator
• Matching / selection phase at European level
• By end of July 2009 selection decisions
• National Agencies send agreements to selected
  applicants
• Partnership starts 1st August 2009
• Partnership ends 31st July 2011

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Tools for monitoring andself evaluation of
partnerships

• MICE a tool for self evaluation of projects
  www.mice-t.net
• QAS a tool for project support for quality and
  sustainability http//qas.programkontoret.se
• CAT a tool for how ICT can be used in
  collaborative transnational projects
  www.leargas-ie/cat
• PROBENET a tool for self evaluation of
  projects www.i-probenet.net

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• Europe creates opportunities
• Your application is your ticket to funding
• GOOD LUCK