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L e a r n i n g eLearning programa
efektyviai IKT integracijai Europos vietimo ir
mokymo sistemose
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Vilma Butkute, ITC vilma.butkute_at_itc.smm.lt
Vilnius, 2004 gegues 24 d.
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This Call for Proposals aims to address three of
the four areas of intervention of the e Learning
Programme

• Promoting digital literacy
• European virtual campuses
• Transversal actions
• The fourth area of intervention, e-twinning of
  schools in Europe and promotion of teachers'
  training, will be the subject of separate calls.
• The duration of each proposal will be between 12
  and 24 months.
• Closing date for submission 28 June 2004.
• Submission of the application
• Details on this call for proposals
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/ele
  arning/index_en.html

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Eligibility of applicants

• The co-ordinating/promoting institution and the
  other organisations involved must possess a legal
  identity.
• Both the co-ordinating/promoting organisation and
  the partner organisations must be established in
  one of the following states one of the 25 EU
  Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway.

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1st Action Line Promoting Digital Literacy
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1st Action Line Promoting Digital Literacy
Action in this field must cover both conceptual
and practical issues. Digital literacy is one of
the essential skills and competencies needed to
take an active part in the knowledge society and
the new media culture. Digital literacy also
relates to media literacy and social competence,
as they have in common objectives such as active
citizenship and the responsible use of ICT.

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1st Action Line Promoting Digital Literacy

• Actions in this area will address the
  contribution of ICT in school and more broadly in
  a lifelong learning context, in particular for
  those who, owing to their geographical location,
  social situation or special needs, do not have
  easy access to those technologies.
• The objective is to identify good examples and
  build synergies between the many national and
  European activities, which address these target
  groups.

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1st Action Line Promoting Digital Literacy

• Priorities for 2004
• identification and dissemination of good practice
  in the promotion of digital literacy

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1st Action Line Promoting Digital Literacy

• Action in this domain will focus on work underway
  in the following topics
• Building a common understanding of digital
  literacy
• Improving access to learning resources for those
  who have no easy access to ICT
• Addressing different cognitive and didactic
  approaches
• Addressing needs of disadvantaged groups
• Exploring the use of engaging and motivating
  approaches

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1st Action Line Promoting Digital Literacy
Criteria for award Proposals will be evaluated by
external independent experts against the
following criteria - European added value,
including the relevance of approaches coping with
linguistic and cultural issues - Relevance to the
call - Approach, methodology and work
plan -Transfer, dissemination and exploitation of
results - Cost effectiveness

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1st Action Line Promoting Digital Literacy

• Call for proposals 2004
• Total funding for 2004 1 500 000 Euro
• Expected average size of projects is 200 000 ,
  with a minimum of 100 000 and a maximum of 300
  000
• EC financing on average 50, with a maximum of
  80 of eligible costs

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2nd Action Line European Virtual campuses
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2nd Action Line European Virtual Campuses
Objective Providing an "eLearning dimension" to
European initiatives in the field of Higher
Education, contributing to the creation of a
European Area of Higher Education. Projects may
address three specific objectives

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2nd Action Line European Virtual Campuses

• Specific objectives
• Developing existing Community instruments for
  European co-operation and building on what exist
  under Erasmus, such as mobility schemes and ECTS,
  and paving the way to the next generation of
  European programmes
• 2. Setting up the favourable conditions for
  European universities to work together for
  developing sustained public services and to
  compete worldwide with respect to an e-learning
  higher education market

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2nd Action Line European Virtual Campuses
Specific objectives 3. Upgrading the ability
of any European University to develop its
know-how in this domain so it may effectively use
ICT for learning and for answering current and
future challenges.

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2nd Action Line European Virtual Campuses

• Priorities for 2004
• Virtual mobility, as a complement to physical
  mobility or building upon the specific potential
  of distance education
• Development of learning support services for
  all those involved in higher education
• Build upon successful ventures at European,
  national or regional levels, to foster European
  partnerships and trans-European deployment
  strategies for virtual campuses.

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2nd Action Line European Virtual Campuses

• Criteria for award
• Proposals will be evaluated by external
  independent experts against the following
  criteria
• - European added value, including the relevance
  of approaches for coping with linguistic and
  cultural issues
• - Relevance to the call
• - Approach, methodology and work plan
• - Transfer, dissemination and exploitation of
  results
• - Effective and efficient use of resources,
  commensurate with the objectives of the project

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2nd Action Line European Virtual Campuses

• In line with the general selection criteria, the
  following issues should then be closely
  considered in the selection process
• Ways in which organisational issues are
  tackled, taking into account the differences
  between universities
• Long term educational vision and planning, with
  respect to deployment and sustainability, with a
  special emphasis on mutual recognition and
  accreditation mechanisms
• Evaluation framework in order to better
  understand the conditions for success or failure,
  and approaches to overcome obstacles to change

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2nd Action Line European Virtual Campus

• Call 2004
• 4.950.000
• 50 to 80 funding
• 500.000 average EC funding (250,000 to
  1,000,000 )
• Minimum participation 3 organisations from 3
  different countries)

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3rd Action Line e-Twinning of schools in
Europeand promotion of teacher training
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3rd Action Line e-Twinning of schools
Objective
This action should facilitate schools twinning
via the Internet, and promote teachers training,
while stimulating European schools to build
pedagogical partnerships with schools elsewhere
in Europe, fostering language learning and
intercultural dialogue. The action will address
primary and secondary schools.
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3rd Action Line e-Twinning of schools

• Identification and analysis of existing
  initiatives
• analysis of existing practices
• identification of good demonstration projects on
  the use of educational multimedia for supporting
  school twinning
• case studies, evaluation materials and other
  useful material for teachers
• innovative cooperation methods, such as virtual
  classrooms, multidisciplinary approaches or
  sharing of teaching tools and resources

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3rd Action Line e-Twinning of schools
eTwinning support network This network
would be formed by teachers or educators with
experience in the area of European cooperation.
It will provide pedagogical support and guidance
tools and services for partner search methods
for exchange of experience as well as an Internet
hub, based on existing websites, for the twinning
action

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3rd Action Line e-Twinning of schools

• Support for cooperation networks in the
  field of in-service training of teachers and of
  other educational staff on the pedagogical use of
  ICT
• based on institutions responsible for teacher
  training
• focussed on the priority areas of cooperation
  identified in the Education and Training 2010
  Report
• fostering innovative cooperation methods,
  exchange of educational resources and approaches,
  and joint development of training materials

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3rd Action Line e-Twinning of schools
Promotion and communication actions.
The success of the initiative depends on a
dynamic communication action, anchored in the
website, and including, inter alia, design of an
attractive visual image, publications, press
releases, preparation of fact-sheets on schools
projects, launching and closing events,
competitions and awards.

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3rd Action Line e-Twinning of schools
Support networks General approach
Support networks will be the object of a
convention between the Commission and Member
States. They will be built on one of the existing
models for Community programmes.
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3rd Action Line e-Twinning of schools
Support to teachers and to schools

• Promotion, animation and monitoring of the
  action
• Information, advice and guidance
• Liaison with central support services
• Translation and localization of general
  information
• Validation of projects selection of best
  practice cases
• Help desk function
• Advice and feedback to the Commission
• Ongoing evaluation, at national and European
  level

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3rd Action Line e-Twinning of schools
Support networks
Call for proposals 2004 Direct subvention to
Member States requires a public announcement, not
a call for proposals. Subventions are granted
following the submission of specific work
programmes by Member States. Total funding for
2004 4 950 000 Euro
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3rd Action Line e-Twinning of schools

• e-Twinning Sitean Internet hub for facilitating
  e-twinning
• targeted at schools and teachers
• user friendly and service oriented
• multilingual
• relying on the collaboration with the national
  support network
• providing European added value

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Portal main features
3rd Action Line e-Twinning of schools

• General information about the e-twinning action
• why to participate
• how to participate
• general advice for succeeding at e-twinning
• contacts for support

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Portal main features
3rd Action Line e-Twinning of schools

• General information about schools in Europe
• national education systems
• school terms
• holidays
• multilingual glossary of school terms
• links to Eurydice and other relevant sources of
  info.

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Portal main features
3rd Action Line e-Twinning of schools

• Tools
• User friendly registration
• Partner search tool
• Database of interested schools
• Project library and gallery
• Tools for collaboration teacher meeting rooms
  and forums
• Smart search engine

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Action Line 3 - Portal main features

• Resources and services
• Examples of projects themes and free materials
• Links to resource repositories and to relevant
  national sites
• Helpdesk
• Expert pedagogical advice

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3rd Action Line e-Twinning of schools
Call for tenders 2004 Indicative total amount
1,950,000
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4th Action Line Transversal Actions
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4th Action Line Transversal Actions
Objectives Actions in this area will address
the promotion of e-learning in Europe, building
on the monitoring of the eLearning Action Plan.
The objectives are the dissemination, promotion
and transfer of good and innovative practices and
results from the projects and programmes and to
reinforce cooperation between the various actors
involved, in particular by fostering
public-private partnerships.
Decision No 2318/2003/EC, 5
December 2003
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BackgroundeLearning Action Plan
4th Action Line Transversal Actions

• ICT group for Objectives Report good practice
  case studiesand improvements to indicators
• The eLearning Portal launched (www.elearningeuropa
  .info)
• Meeting on Public-Private Partnerships (PPP),
  held with the European Investment Bank, CEDEFOP
  and the eLearning Industry Group
• Studies launched on e-learning in iVET in SMEs,
  and state of the e-learning market
• Benchmarking carried out under eEurope
• Liaison with Commission services Information
  Society, Enterprise,Research, Employment and
  social affairs, Regions, etc, also withCEDEFOP
  and Eurydice.

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4th Action Line Transversal Actions

• Actions
• Active monitoring of the eLearning Action Plan
• Clustering of projects support for exchange of
  experience,
• networking and any other possible synergies
• Maintenance of an eLearning Portal
• Awareness and information actions via European
  networks
• Design and development of monitoring, analysis
  and
• forecasting tools for e-learning in Europe, in
  co-operation
• with Eurostat and the European Investment Bank

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4th Action Line Transversal Actions

• Priorities 2004
• Continuation of the eLearning Portal
• Commission presence at conferences and
  exhibitions
• Monitoring, comparative analysis and information
• Quality and standards
• Peer reviews and good practice
• Public-Private Partnerships educational
  perspective
• Follow-on workshop with the EIB and the eLIG,
• e-learning in SMEs
• Series of regional workshops with the eLIG

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4th Action Line Transversal Actions

• Criteria for award
• Proposals will be evaluated by external
  independent experts against the following
  criteria
• European added value
• Relevance to the call
• Approach and methodology and work plan
• Transfer, dissemination and exploitation of
  results
• Cost effectiveness

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4th Action Line Transversal Actions

• Budget
• 1.275.000
• Daugiau informacijos apie eLearning programa
  galite rasti interneto svetainejehttp//europa.e
  u.int/comm/education/programmes/elearning/index_en
  .html

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