Introductions

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Welcome

• Introductions
• How we can best work together

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Project aim

• Develop a train the trainer programme to help
  teachers integrate key competences in life skills
  into vocational teaching

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Project objectives

• Identify standards for integrating key
  competences in life skills
• Identify teacher training needs
• Develop train the trainer materials
• Pilot and evaluate materials
• Develop training guides in all partner languages

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Project objectives

• Produce examples of best practice
• Disseminate
• Investigate potential for including in national
  teacher training programmes

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Target groups

• Vocational teachers
• Trainers of teachers
• Learners unemployed, employees, employers, 16-19
  years, adults

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Transfer of innovation

• EUCIS findings
• EC basic skills group key competences

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Key results
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Communication

• VET partners
• Work package responsibility
• Project management and expert roles
• Communication with social partner
• Links with target groups national organisations
• Meet agreed timescales/identify problems

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Communication

• Social partners
• Advice to VET partners
• Dissemination to national organisations
• Communicate with national VET partner before
  after trans national meetings
• Attend meetings in own country

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Websites

• www.life-keyskills.info
• Further development- document bank, progress,
  conference/notice board
• Links with partner websites EfVET
• Links with other websites

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Communication co-operation between meetings

• E-mail
• Telephone
• Website

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Budgets, finance reporting
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Budgets, finance reporting
LEONARDO DA VINCI Guidelines for Administrative
and Financial Management and Reporting explained
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Eligibility of costs

• Budget Headings
• Staff costs
• Travel and subsistence
• Subcontracting (up to a ceiling of 30
• Other costs (including Equipment) up to a ceiling
  of 10
• Indirect costs (up to a ceiling of 7 of direct
  costs)

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Eligibility Budget changes

• Projects can change budget
• Between partners
• Between cost headings
• Notify NA of any proposed Virement between cost
  headings
• Refer to your National Agency APM or PM, who will
  confirm the documentation required (as this
  depends on the figures involved)

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Eligibility

• Costs must
• Occur within the participating countries
• Be directly connected to activities in the
  Agreement
• Be incurred by the funded partners, and not
  silent partners
• Be actual costs
• Be able to be substantiated
• Be incurred during the contract period
• Represent value for money

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Eligibility

• Ineligible Costs
• See list of ineligible costs in the Guidelines
  for Admin and Finance management
• Examples of ineligible costs
• Costs outside of the eligibility period
• Costs which cannot be evidenced by receipts/
  invoices/boarding passes
• Exchange rate losses

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Staff costs

• Staff costs must be actual costs, and can include
  social security contributions, social fees,
  holiday pay and pension costs
• Must exclude bonuses, incentive payments, and
  profit sharing
• Must not relate to persons undertaking
  subcontracting tasks
• If staff members receive a salary increases, this
  should be reflected from the date of the increase
• Staff costs must be calculated on the basis of
  the actual daily salary multiplied by the number
  of days working on the project

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Evidencing staff costs

• Evidence must be retained by the contractor
  relating to how
• its daily staff rates were calculated
• e.g. copies of payslips, or official accounting
  documentation
• This is in addition to contracts of employment
  and CVs
• These documents do not need to be sent with
  the Final
• Reports, but will need to be available in
  the event of an audit
• Timesheets need to accompany staffing claims at
  interim and final report.
• Partners will need to retain this evidence, and
  will need to make it available in the event of an
  audit

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Timesheets

• It is recommended that you use timesheets, which
  show
• The individual staff members name
• The partner they are working for
• The time worked, preferably expressed as
  fractions of a day (as this is what the
  Interim/Final Reports request)
• The Work Package number, and (briefly) the nature
  of the work undertaken
• And should be signed by the individual and the
  legal representative
• Norton Radstock College will provide template

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WP8 Valorisation dissemination

• Needs of vocational teachers
• National frameworks policies
• Links with national organisations mailing lists
• End products to wide audience

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WP8 Valorisation dissemination

• Use of websites end products
• Project brochure
• EfVET newsletters
• Press articles partner communications
• CDs/DVDs, videos
• Embed end products in national teacher training
  programmes

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Summary

• Agree outcomes from Day 1
• Plans for Day 2
• Eskerrik asko
• Gracias
• Grazie
• aciu
• Se e??a??st?
• Merci
• Thank you!

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WP3 Needs analysis

• Identify training needs of vocational teachers
• Meet the needs of learners and employers
• Identify delivery models
• Build on update EUCIS research

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Research summaries

• EUCIS
• Partner progress
• Translation requirements

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Practical

• From research so far, what are the training needs
  of vocational teachers best means of delivery?

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Actions

• Summary of group discussions
• Agree actions required
• Translation of questionnaire end Nov
• Complete research end Dec
• Country reports end Jan
• Synthesis report end Feb
• Translation of report end March

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WP3 Country reportsstructure

• Questionnaire sample research - who was
  consulted?
• Summary of research findings key training needs
  of teachers to meet learner/employer needs
  delivery
• Any difficulties/specific country requirements?
• Recommendations

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WP2 Standards for integrating key competences in
life skills

• Build on Eucis EC skills for life competences
• Identify standards for integrating skills into
  vocational teaching
• National Europe wide

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WP2 Key stages

• Discuss EC/EUCIS competences - WM1
• Agree provisional standards - WM1
• Paper on draft standards end Nov
• Consult with social partners relevant national
  bodies end Jan
• Partner reports end Feb
• Agree standards WM2
• Final report end May

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WP2 Skills for life standards

• Discuss these competences.
• Consider how they could be developed into
  standards for integrating key competences in life
  skills into vocational teaching in our countries

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Proposed approach

• Knowledge understanding
• Practice
• UK example

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UK example
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WP2 country reports

• Current situation who was consulted?
• How provisional standards could be applied to
  national teacher training frameworks
• Any difficulties?
• Recommendations

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Next steps

• WP2 3 summary of outcomes actions
• WP4 Train the trainer pack
• WP8 dissemination requirements
• Expected results problem areas

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Next meeting

• Cyprus 29 April 2 May
• Progress required
• Key topics for discussion

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Summary

• Agree outcomes from Day 2
• Eskerrik asko
• Gracias
• Grazie
• aciu
• Se e??a??st?
• Merci
• Thank you!