Calls for proposals 2016
Proposte Progettuali
ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership for Schools
Title Climate Sentinels
Climate Sentinels aims to raise awareness on environmental sustainability and
climate change mitigation activities among elementary school children through
on-line simulation and demonstrations.
The stakes are high: modern society cannot afford failure in the environmental
education of children. Climate Sentinels will deploy explorative pedagogy based
on age-appropriate virtual and practical experimentation and mostly graphical
interfaces that overcome language barriers and hide potential underlying
computational complexity.
A blended learning approach will combine in-class instruction, virtual
demonstrators, site visits, and on-line collaboration that will enable children to
build on each-other’s experiences under the mediation of teachers and in the
context of a European school network.
Aims: The didactical activities will be developed by environmental and pedagogical
experts. Foreseen proof of concept pilot activities for children may include: Natural resource management, the activity will encourage children to explore the
current status quo on the management resources such as forests, biodiversity,
and water basins, through on-line demonstrations of resource depletion trends
and the consequences on climate and quality of life.
This pilot will help raise awareness on sensible and sustainable management of
resources. - Production and conservation of energy, involving both traditional and
emerging methods, such as coal and renewable resources, including the wind,
the sun, and waves. On-line demonstrators will be used to show how emerging,
renewable energy resources help control pollution. - The contribution of everyday
practices to pollution.
Problem solving approaches will encourage children to discover mitigation
solutions that can be applied to everyday life, including waste and water
management, and efficient buildings.
Children will describe methods used in their countries, to compare practices, and
to get informed about the methods of the future.
ACTIVITIES Instead, it aims to provide value-adding on-line tools that complement existing
practices and promote collaboration among European schools while at the same
time they build children’s ICT skills.
To ensure maximum impact, the projects aims to design the proposed ICT-based
learning activities for delivery through the channels of existing school curricula,
such as field education, in a value adding manner that enhances the learning
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Proposte Progettuali
process, and not as independent, standalone learning modules. Leveraging the
existing school curricula facilitates post-project exploitation and adoption of the
proposed learning methodologies. The proposed activities will be validated
through pilots that will engage primary school teachers and pupils in real-life
learning activities through which the children will have the opportunity to use the
developed simulators in hands-on lab sessions and to collaborate with pupils in
other countries through the proposed school network exchanging experiences
and building an awareness of the international nature of environmental
sustainability issues. Finally, Climate sentinel aims to support the teaching
process by providing good practice recommendations targeting teachers, higher
education students majoring in pedagogics, teacher associations, and policy
makers on the seamless integration of the proposed solutions into instructional
practices to be disseminated through on-line portal services. This comprehensive,
vertical implementation approach that reaches all stakeholders in primary
education will further facilitate the acceptance and adoption of the proposed
methodologies post work plan completion.
Calls for proposals 2016
Proposte Progettuali
ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership VET
Title Smart Synergy
Aims:
ACTIVITIES
The on-going changing society marked by demanding expectations and challenges raised the
policy-makers awareness that only joints efforts provide appropriate measures and actions for
sustainable economic growth and fair competitiveness. The Lisbon declaration, the Bruges
Communiqué emphasized the role of education and training as main instrument that stand as
basis for an enforced human capital, “Rethinking Education” urges European Member States
to take immediate action and “re-think”, adapt education and training systems to the labour
market real needs.
Apprenticeships as one successful form of work-based learning ease the transition from education
and training to work, and evidence suggests that countries with a strong VET and apprenticeship
system have lower levels of youth unemployment.
Apprenticeships formally combine and alternate company-based training with schoolbased education and lead to a nationally recognised qualification upon successful
completion. Most often there is a contractual relationship between the employer and the
apprentice, with the apprentice being paid for his/her work.
The contribution of work-based learning to supporting youth employment and economic
competitiveness is widely recognised. Countries with strong and attractive VET systems, and
notably those with well-established apprenticeship systems, tend to perform better in terms of
youth employment.
The objective of our proposal is to support the introduction or modernisation of apprenticeships
within initial VET systems.
Our proposal encourages the development of high-quality apprenticeship-type training and
excellence in work-based learning in VET.
The project general aims are:
- Creating the starting point for the development and introduction of a more flexible, workbased learning and training opportunity for young people who want to train for a
labour-market relevant qualification by enrolling in an apprenticeship pathway in
initial VET.
- combining and alternate company-based training with school-based education and lead
to a nationally recognised qualification upon successful completion.
- Developing strategies for setting up joint training centres or collaborative training that
could be used by a pool of SMEs that would work together to host apprentices;
- Production and dissemination of teaching and information material or other practical
tools focusing on SMEs available in the online platform
The main activities are:
- The Study on Apprenticeship and ICT Based Learning Practices will offer a
comprehensive understanding on the Apprenticeship system in nowadays and the
existing ICT based learning practices capable of effectively replace or support
learning processes that traditionally rely on an apprenticeship approach
Defining a methodology to identify, analyse and describe apprenticeship
approaches in use and well succeeded ICT based learning practices applied to
traditional apprenticeship learning systems
Stimulating small companies investing in apprenticeship and in young people and
in their "value"
Offering to small companies simple tools, immediate, innovative, effective and
shared as much as possible, for the management of all that the activation of an
apprenticeship contract involves, thus initiating a process
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TARGET GROUPS
Realization a online platform promoting systematic cooperation between VET
schools, training centers and companies
Creating a business network between employers' organizations, chambers of
commerce, training agencies to be able to encourage the transnational mobility of
young people both during and after the term of the contract of apprenticeship.
Dissemination activities will support a better communication, collecting the best
possible resources for further learning. The project would like build on the already
existing European VET networks and institutions
Action Plan for scaling-up and strengthening the system of apprenticeships in the
participating countries
The target groups of the project and the pilot scheme are: VET bodies and professionals, to build
their capacity to deliver quality training and effective support to SMEs; social partners to
strengthen their role and facilitate transfer to other sectors and/or regions; SMEs, to support them
in playing a more robust educational role and quality of their contribution to development of young
human capital
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Proposte Progettuali
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activity
Reference call
(if applicable)
Deadline (if
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Applicant
Contents
School Education
Erasmus + Call for proposals 2016 – KA2 Strategic partnership (School) – Innovation
31/02/2016
TUCEP
The I-LIKE project intends to prevent school drop-out and early school leaving, ensuring the
educational success of children in primary and secondary junior schools, especially the ones
who live in areas at risk and / or who have disadvantage backgrounds. Prevention educational
failure is a priority for all EU member states coherently with the new objectives of the Europe
2020
Strategy.
The project aims at creating the basis to ensure that pupils will reach both the goal of linguistic
competence and a greater awareness regards their skills and inclinations, thanks to an inclusive
education that uses and integrates different approaches (such as, for example, the teaching of
multiple intelligences, cooperative learning, “Rodari approach – being wrong, you invent"). This
will be useful in order to prevent early school leaving and encourage the choice of an
appropriate studies course in the future.
Failure at school at different stages of development of student's personality may adversely
affect the motivation to study and self-confidence, triggering a self-assessment process that
could lead to early school leaving. This holds even more true in the case of students who are not
yet
integrated
or
with
special
educational
needs
or
disabilities.
Starting from Gardner's theory stating that not all students learn the same way and therefore, it
is essential to transmit knowledge and develop skills based on individual inclinations, the project
proposes a teaching program centered on an inclusive education, which is able to integrate
different methods and approaches to promote the optimal development of students’ cognitive
profile.
Calls for proposals 2016
Proposte Progettuali
KA2 Partenariati strategici nel settore dell’istruzione e formazione ERASMUS+ SCUOLE
TITOLO
OBIETTIVI
ATTIVITÀ
ARTES
Il progetto Artes si propone di individuare e di promuovere approcci innovativi nei settori
dell’istruzione, della formazione e della gioventù, introducendo lo studio dell’arte come
metodo per sviluppare, negli studenti, le loro soft skills.
Le soft skills sono complementari alle hard skills, che invece riguardano l’insieme delle
abilità di una persona e la capacità di eseguire un compito o un’attività. Nell’ambito
dell’istruzione, il termine “soft skill” viene spesso utilizzato in alternanza alle competenze
trasversali (interdisciplinari).
La Commissione europea individua una serie di competenze trasversali, come il
problem solving, competenze sociali e civiche, spirito di iniziativa e di imprenditorialità,
sensibilità culturale e di espressione, imparare ad imparare, creatività, innovazione,
pensiero critico, processo decisionale, comunicazione, collaborazione, informazione e
ricerca, flessibilità ed adattabilità, iniziativa, autodeterminazione, produttività, leadership
e responsabilità, integrità, empatia e socialità.
Le soft skills includono anche una solida etica professionale, un atteggiamento positivo,
la capacità di gestione del tempo, saper lavorare in team, fiducia in sé stessi, la capacità
di accettare le critiche e imparare da esse, lavorare bene anche sotto pressione. Una
definizione strettamente collegata è “capacità critica”.
 Elaborazione e diffusione di una ricerca europea su buone pratiche,
metodologie ed esperienze nell’ambito dell’art-based learning per lo sviluppo
delle soft skills negli studenti delle scuole primarie e secondarie;
 creazione e sperimentazione in classe, sulla base dei risultati della ricerca, di
specifici modelli pedagogici e strumenti didattici da parte di insegnanti ed
educatori, volti a promuovere l’art-based learning come metodologia per la
crescita delle soft skills nei bambini e nei giovani;
 diffusione di modelli di apprendimento cooperativo per insegnanti volti alla
progettazione di nuove metodologie didattiche;
 realizzazione di linee guida per i policy maker operanti nell’Educazione, al fine di
sistematizzare l’art-based learning nell’istruzione primaria e secondaria.
Calls for proposals 2016
Proposte Progettuali
KA2 Partenariati strategici nel settore dell’istruzione e formazione ERASMUS+ SCUOLE
TITOLO
OBIETTIVI
ATTIVITÀ
IDEES - INNOVATION DRIVEN EVOLUTION of EUROPEAN SCHOOLS
Il progetto IDEES intende promuovere e sviluppare le competenze imprenditoriali nelle
scuole secondarie, utilizzando approcci innovativi basati sull’imprenditorialità,
considerata quale competenza di base per lo sviluppo della carriera scolastica, e per il
miglioramento dell’intero “sistema scolastico” (compresa la gestione delle scuole, i
rapporti con i responsabili politici e "il mondo del lavoro).
Il progetto si fonda sull’idea che “non tutti devono diventare imprenditori ma tutti
possono essere più imprenditoriali”. La partnership ritiene che portare le persone ad
affrontare le sfide e le incertezze del mondo scolastico, con uno spirito imprenditoriale
innovativo, consegnerà all'economia europea pensatori indipendenti e creativi, in grado
di “pensare fuori dagli schemi”, di rispondere alle sfide e di adattarsi ai futuri
cambiamenti del mondo del lavoro. In tale contesto l’apprendimento e l’orientamento
imprenditoriale devono essere considerati come un processo continuo di miglioramento
della sicurezza, delle abilità, delle attitudini e dei comportamenti individuali.
 Creazione di un quadro di ricerca per lo studio della percezione e delle esigenze
del sistema scolastico relativamente a competenze ed abilità imprenditoriali, per
definire quali siano le principali conoscenze, competenze e comportamenti
necessari che insegnanti, gli educatori ed i responsabili politici preposti
all'istruzione scolastica necessitano per creare una scuola Imprenditoriale; la
ricerca sarà realizzata sul campo, con la somministrazione di questionari e
mediante interviste semi-strutturate; sui risultati della ricerca sarà realizzato un
report transnazionale;
 sulla base dei risultati della ricerca, verrà organizzato un circolo di studio, in
ciascun Paese partecipante, al fine di far sì che insegnanti, educatori, dirigenti
scolastici e attori politici preposti all’istruzione acquisiscano le competenze
imprenditoriali finalizzate all’insegnamento e alla gestione nell’ambiente
scolastico, permettendo agli studenti di diventare “persone imprenditoriali”,
capaci di affrontare il cambiamento e le sfide della vita quotidiana, in modo da
prevenire l'abbandono scolastico;
 la partnership convertirà l’attività didattica e gli outputs formativi, che emergono
dai circoli di studio, in materiali ICT (moduli e-learning, video, etc), li valuterà e li
divulgherà attraverso un ambiente di apprendimento virtuale (VLE).
Calls for proposals 2016
Proposte Progettuali
ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership for Schools
Title Climate Sentinels
Climate Sentinels aims to raise awareness on environmental sustainability and
climate change mitigation activities among elementary school children through
on-line simulation and demonstrations.
The stakes are high: modern society cannot afford failure in the environmental
education of children. Climate Sentinels will deploy explorative pedagogy based
on age-appropriate virtual and practical experimentation and mostly graphical
interfaces that overcome language barriers and hide potential underlying
computational complexity.
A blended learning approach will combine in-class instruction, virtual
demonstrators, site visits, and on-line collaboration that will enable children to
build on each-other’s experiences under the mediation of teachers and in the
context of a European school network.
Aims: The didactical activities will be developed by environmental and pedagogical
experts. Foreseen proof of concept pilot activities for children may include: Natural resource management, the activity will encourage children to explore the
current status quo on the management resources such as forests, biodiversity,
and water basins, through on-line demonstrations of resource depletion trends
and the consequences on climate and quality of life.
This pilot will help raise awareness on sensible and sustainable management of
resources. - Production and conservation of energy, involving both traditional and
emerging methods, such as coal and renewable resources, including the wind,
the sun, and waves. On-line demonstrators will be used to show how emerging,
renewable energy resources help control pollution. - The contribution of everyday
practices to pollution.
Problem solving approaches will encourage children to discover mitigation
solutions that can be applied to everyday life, including waste and water
management, and efficient buildings.
Children will describe methods used in their countries, to compare practices, and
to get informed about the methods of the future.
Instead, it aims to provide value-adding on-line tools that complement existing
ACTIVITIES practices and promote collaboration among European schools while at the same
time they build children’s ICT skills.
To ensure maximum impact, the projects aims to design the proposed ICT-based
learning activities for delivery through the channels of existing school curricula,
such as field education, in a value adding manner that enhances the learning
process, and not as independent, standalone learning modules. Leveraging the
existing school curricula facilitates post-project exploitation and adoption of the
Calls for proposals 2016
Proposte Progettuali
proposed learning methodologies. The proposed activities will be validated
through pilots that will engage primary school teachers and pupils in real-life
learning activities through which the children will have the opportunity to use the
developed simulators in hands-on lab sessions and to collaborate with pupils in
other countries through the proposed school network exchanging experiences
and building an awareness of the international nature of environmental
sustainability issues. Finally, Climate sentinel aims to support the teaching
process by providing good practice recommendations targeting teachers, higher
education students majoring in pedagogics, teacher associations, and policy
makers on the seamless integration of the proposed solutions into instructional
practices to be disseminated through on-line portal services. This comprehensive,
vertical implementation approach that reaches all stakeholders in primary
education will further facilitate the acceptance and adoption of the proposed
methodologies post work plan completion.