Description
Erasmus+ projects represent a significant opportunity for schools to improve and keep pace with innovation. They generate organizational and personal development as they create opportunities to share best practices, create new methods, grow a network, and transform your school’s weaknesses into strengths and opportunities.
However, gaining access to EU funding requires the possession of a full package of skills and knowledge, and can be highly challenging – especially for schools at their first experience in writing a proposal.
The main objective of this course is to equip you with such practical expertise. The course will thus prepare you at the best for planning and writing successful Cooperation Partnerships (Key Action 2) and Mobility (KA1) projects within the Erasmus+ Programme (2021-2027).
As a participant, you will discover the Erasmus+ priorities and the many opportunities offered to educational institutions by the Programme. You will learn to assess and communicate the needs of your school (or organization), and how to write a coherent funding request aimed at implementing effective solutions and outcomes within a European partnership.
The course will have a hands-on approach to gain a deeper understanding of project design. Through a step-by-step path, you will become familiar with the different funding schemes to finance different project ideas and with the success award criteria followed by evaluators in assessing project proposals.
Moreover, you will receive training on how to structure a clear KA1 and KA2 project draft that fully respects those criteria, follows the project life cycle, and will maximize its chances of reaching a high score at evaluation.
Thus, by the end of the course, you will have already achieved a first significant accomplishment – i.e., you will have a structured draft of a project of your choice, already reviewed by the trainer and discussed with the other participants – while having acquired all the necessary competencies to start planning at best the future of your school.
Based on 20 years of experience in the Erasmus world
What is included
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, participants will:
- Navigate the funding schemes made available by the Erasmus+ Programme;
- Select call for proposals that best reflect the interests and needs of their school;
- Draft ideas for project proposals aligning with the priorities of the Erasmus+ Programme;
- Select the most appropriate partners for their Cooperation Partnerships;
- Design a project step-by-step following the project life cycle;
- Outline the most important project-related plans;
- Write a project proposal in agreement with the success award criteria considered by the evaluators.
Tentative Schedule
Day 1 – Course introduction and Erasmus priorities
Course introduction
- Welcoming of participants, introduction to the course, the school, and the external week activities;
- Ice-breaking activities;
- Presentations of the participants’ schools.
Discovering the Erasmus+ Programme
- The structure and aim of the Erasmus+ Programme;
- Comparing Erasmus+ KA1 and KA2;
- The top priorities of the Programme.
Day 2 – Prepare your project idea
- A SWOT analysis of your school;
- Choose the right call for applications;
- Prepare a needs analysis for your project;
- Identify goals and objectives.
Day 3 – Plan your project
- Identify project results, work packages, and outcomes;
- Select the most appropriate partners;
- The fundamentals of Project Management (project life cycle);
- Plan an activity (roles, responsibilities; resources; milestones and impact indicators).
Day 4 – Write your project
- Let’s write a structured project draft;
- The budget;
- The impact: communication and dissemination;
- Project-related management plans.
Day 5 – Online Application and Project Presentations
- The EU digital platform and the OID code;
- Filling out the online forms;
- Project Presentations and Final Evaluation (relevance of the project; quality of the project design and implementation; project team; impact).
Day 6 – Course closure & cultural activities
- Course evaluation: round-up of acquired competencies, feedback, and discussion;
- Awarding of the course Certificate of Attendance;
- Excursion and other external cultural activities.
