Transfer of Innovation Multilateral Projects (TOI)

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Transfer of Innovation Multilateral Projects (TOI)

• The Call for Proposal 2009
• Priorities and Application Form

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Aim

• Improving the quality and attractiveness of the
  European VET System by adapting and integrating
  innovative contents or results from previous
  Leonardo da Vinci projects, or from other
  innovative projects into public and/or private
  vocational training systems and companies at
  national, local, regional or sectoral level

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Transfer of innovation

• At geographical level
• Import from other countries
• Export to other countries
• At sectoral level
• Adaptation of products to the needs of other
  sectors / areas of training provision
• To new target groups
• Adaptation of products to the needs of other
  potential users (and/or development of supports
  for facilitators)
• From laboratory to real world
• Transfer as integration into current systems and
  practices (dissemination, enlarged testing,
  actual exploitation of results, etc.)

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Process for transferring

• Identifying and analysing targeted user
  requirements
• Selecting and analysing innovative content to
  meet these requirements
• Analysing the feasibility of transfer
• Integrating (certifying) it in European,
  national, regional, local and/or sectoral
  training systems and practices

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Who can participate

• All those in VET, other than at tertiary level,
  as well as the institutions and organizations
  facilitating such education and training, such
  as
• Institutions or organizations providing learning
  opportunities in the fields covered by the
  Leonardo da Vinci sectoral programme
• Associations and representatives of those
  involved in vocational education and training,
  including trainees, parents and teachers
  associations
• Enterprises, social partners and other
  representatives of working life, including
  chambers of commerce, other trade organizations
  and sectoral organizations
• Bodies providing guidance, counseling and
  information services relating to any aspect of
  lifelong learning
• Bodies responsible for systems and policies
  concerning any aspect of lifelong learning
  vocational education and training at local,
  regional and national level
• Research centres and bodies concerned with
  lifelong learning issues
• Organization at tertiary level can participate in
  the projects, but the results should not target
  those attending vocational education and training
  at tertiary level
• Non-profit organizations, voluntary bodies, NGOs

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Operational provisions

• Duration
• Minimum 1 year Maximum 2 years
• Financial provisions
• Maximum Grant is 150.000/year
• Maximum Community Grant is 75 of eligible cost
• Minimum number of countries
• 3 organizations from 3 different countries (one
  EU Member State)
• Minimum number of organizations
• 3 organizations

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Call for Proposal 2009 (1)

• Policy framework
• Copenhagen process
• updated by the Maastricht Communiqué (2004)
• by the Helsinki Communiqué (2006)
• most recently by the Bordeaux Communiqué (2008)
• Main focus on
• Enhancing the attractiveness, quality and
  performance of VET systems
• Improving transparency, information and guidance
  systems
• Recognition of competences and qualifications
• Strengthening the European dimension

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Call for Proposal 2009 (2)

• Policy framework
• Promoting testing and implementation of the
  common European tools for VET
• European Credit Transfer System for Vocational
  Education and Training(ECVET) system
• European Qualifications Framework (EQF)
• Follow-up to the 2004 Council Conclusions on
  quality assurance in VET
• Special attention to facilitating the
  participation of sectors, social partner
  organizations and companies, in particular small
  and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

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Call for Proposal 2009 (3)

• LdV General objectives
• Supporting participants in training and further
  training activities in the acquisition and the
  use of knowledge, skills and qualifications to
  facilitate personal development, employability
  and participation in the European labour market
• Supporting improvements in quality and innovation
  in vocational education and training systems,
  institutions and practices
• Enhancing the attractiveness of vocational
  education and training and mobility for employers
  and individuals and to facilitate the mobility of
  working trainees

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Call for Proposal 2009 (4)

• LdV Operational objectives
• Improving the quality and increasing the volume
  of mobility throughout Europe of people involved
  in initial vocational education and training and
  in continuing training, so as to increase
  placements in enterprises to at least 80.000 per
  year by the end of the LLP
• Improving the quality and increasing the volume
  of co-operation between institutions or
  organizations providing learning opportunities,
  enterprises, social partners and other relevant
  bodies throughout Europe
• Facilitating the development of innovative
  practices in the field of VET other than at
  tertiary level, and their transfer, including
  from one participating country to others
• Improving the transparency and recognition of
  qualifications and competences, including those
  acquired through non-formal and informal learning
• Encouraging the learning of modern foreign
  languages
• Supporting the development of innovative
  ICT-based content, services, pedagogies and
  practice for lifelong learning

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Call for Proposal 2009 (5)

• Priorities for TOI projects

Priority 1 Transparency and recognition of competences and qualifications
Priority 2 Developing the quality and attractiveness of VET systems and practices
Priority 3 Developing the skills and competences of VET teachers, trainers and tutors
Priority 4 Develop Vocational Skills considering the labour market needs
Priority 5 Raising competence levels of groups at risk

• Priorities applicable across all multilateral
  Leonardo projects
• Vocational oriented language learning (VOLL)
• Content integrated language learning (CLIL)

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Priority 1 Transparency and recognition of competences and qualifications

• Supporting the development of national and
  sectoral qualifications systems and frameworks
  which incorporate common European tools for
  transparency and recognition (Europass portfolio,
  ECVET system and EQF)
• Projects should support the testing and
  implementing of elements of such frameworks
• Description of qualifications in terms of
  learning outcomes
• Mapping VET qualifications onto the eight EQF
  reference levels via national qualifications
  frameworks and systems
• Design of qualifications in transferable units of
  learning outcomes with allocation of credit
  points
• Design of VET programmes with flexible devices
  for validation, transfer and recognition of
  learning outcomes achieved in formal, informal
  and non formal contexts
• Combining and further developing the European
  tools and frameworks or their application in
  particular sectors

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Priority 2 Developing the quality and attractiveness of VET systems and practices

• Developing and testing quality assurance
  procedures in initial and in continuing
  vocational education and training, including by
  using European Quality Assurance Reference
  Framework
• Fostering the development of high quality VET
  pathways leading to smooth transitions to work
  and/or progression to further and higher
  education and promoting guidance and counselling
  at all levels
• Enhancing the governance and attractiveness of
  VET systems through increased cooperation with
  social partners and all relevant stakeholders

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Priority 3 Developing the skills and competences of VET teachers, trainers and tutors

• Developing the skills and competences of VET and
  guidance professionals, including their
  continuous professional development and their
  learning of languages.
• Proposals should include
• Developing the role of VET professionals in
  response to systemic changes such as the shift to
  learning outcomes and competence-based systems
• Strengthening the liaison between VET
  professionals and working life (enterprises,
  occupational sectors, etc.)
• Developing their pedagogical skills and their
  involvement in curriculum development

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Priority 4 Develop Vocational Skills considering the labour market needs

• Supporting close links to working life in order
  to make VET more responsive to labour market
  needs.
• Improving sectoral identification and
  anticipation of skill and competence needs and
  their integration in VET provision. It implies
  also promoting integration of learning with
  working.
• Proposals should include
• Fostering the involvement of the different
  stakeholders in making VET more responsive to the
  needs of the labour market taking into account
  systemic changes such as the shift to learning
  outcomes and competence-based systems
• Developing and testing common sectoral methods
  and systems for anticipation of skills needs,
  involving companies / sectoral organisations /
  social partners in VET
• Fostering the integration of learning with
  working life by promoting more learning-conducive
  environments at the workplace, work-placed
  training and apprenticeship pathways as a basis
  for development of vocational skills relevant to
  the labour market needs

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Priority 5 Raising competence levels of groups at risk

• Integrating groups with particular difficulties
  on the labour market (e.g. early school leavers,
  low-skilled workers, people with disabilities,
  immigrants and those with a migrant background,
  and ethnic minorities), by developing their
  work-related skills and competences
• Increasing the interest and participation of men
  or women in those VET fields in which they remain
  under-represented (for instance women in
  technology)
• Redressing problems caused by demographic change,
  such as retaining older workers in employment

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Application Form(draft version)

• Project Information
• Institution/Organisation
• Organisations and activities
• Presentation of the proposal
• General information
• Eligibility checklist
• Declaration by Legal Representative
• Relevance towards the Objectives of the Programme
  and the Priorities of the Call for Proposals
• Project description
• Methodology and workplan
• Budget

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Project Information

• Summary
• In case of approval, the summary will be used as
  the published abstract of the project, so it must
  summarise the key issues covered in the proposal
  (EN/FR/DE)
• the reason for the project (the main problem
  being tackled)
• the main aims and objectives of the project
• the characteristics of the partnership that will
  implement the proposal
• a general description of the tangible and
  intangible outcomes
• the impact envisaged

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Institution/Organisation
Organisation (role in the application, legal name in Latin characters, website, country, etc.)
Legal entity (legal address, legal name in national characters, etc.)
Person authorised to legally commit the participant Legal Representative
Responsible for the implementation of the action Contact person
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Organisation and activities (1)
Classifications (profit/non-profit, public/private, etc.)
Objectives and activities of the Organisation General description of the organization (size, scope of work, areas of specific expertise and competence in relation to project proposed) Role of the participant organisation in the proposed project Skills and expertise of key staff involved in the project (few lines per person)
Other Community funding Details of projects funded by Community programmes in the last financial year
Involvement in other applications Details of other LLP applications in this selection year in which the participating organisations are involved
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Organisation and activities (2)

• Demonstrate how the consortium brings together
  all the skills and competences required to carry
  out the work programme
• Distribute in an appropriate way the tasks among
  the partners in order to reach the objectives and
  the results of the project

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Presentation of the proposal (1)
General information
Eligibility checklist
Declaration by Legal Representative of Applicant organisation
Relevance towards the Objectives of the Programme and the Priorities of the Call for Proposals
Project description
Methodology and Workplan
Budget
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Presentation of the proposal (2)
Relevance towards the Objectives of the Programme and the Priorities of the Call for Proposals

• Select and explain how the proposal addresses
  the
• Programme General Objectives
• Programme Operational Objectives
• European priorities of LdV (indicate only one)
• If applicable
• Contribution to national priorities 
• Horizontal issues (click only)

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Presentation of the proposal (3)
Relevance towards the Objectives of the Programme and the Priorities of the Call for Proposals

• Select only the strategic issues that are
  relevant to your planned activities
• Provide a short explanation of the way(s) in
  which the issue is addressed in your plans
• Demonstrate how the results are relevant to the
  priorities of the Call for Proposals, to the
  operational and general objectives of the
  Programme

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Presentation of the proposal (4)
Project Description
Why is the project necessary?
Aims and Objectives
Type of transfer
Innovative result(s) on which the project is based
Pedagogical materials
Quality of the Consortium
European added value
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Presentation of the proposal (5)
Why is the project necessary?

• Explain the rationale of and background to the
  project by defining the needs that it seeks to
  address
• Describe the current situation in the countries
  involved, the previous or preparatory work in the
  domain and the results of any needs analysis
  undertaken
• Outline the main (published) indicators that
  illustrate these needs and include references to
  any declared national or international political
  priority in this area

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Presentation of the proposal (6)
Aims and objectives

• Define the concrete aims and objectives of the
  project and describe the ways in which the
  situation set out under the needs analysis will
  be changed and addressed by the project
• Show how project aims and objectives are linked
  to the selected priorities of the Call for
  Proposals
• Suggestions
• Definition of general and specific objectives to
  meet the identified needs
• Definition of clear, realistic and measurable
  objectives addressing to relevant issue

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Presentation of the proposal (7)
Type of transfer

• Explain the type of transfer and how the proposal
  implements the Transfer of Innovation at
• Geographical level
• Sectoral level
• Any other level
• Suggestions
• Clear description of specific needs at
  geographical, sectoral, target group level the
  product intends to satisfy
• Real innovative product for the context it is
  going to be transferred

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Presentation of the proposal (8)
Innovative result(s) on which the project is based

• Give detailed information on previous project/s
  and/or product/s the project is based upon
• Describe the innovative content or result/s the
  project is based upon (i.e. the rationale of and
  the background to the project, the added value of
  the proposal, etc.) and how the proposal will
  trasfer and utilize them
• Suggestions
• Give a clear and detailed description of the
  innovative result/s the project is based upon
• Enclose a copy of any product/s which will be
  used as a basis for the current proposal

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Presentation of the proposal (9)
Pedagogical materials

• In case the proposal seeks to adapt and transfer
  pedagogical materials for learners or teaching
  staff
• Describe the international state of the art and
  summary of limitations of existing pedagogical
  materials in the area
• Describe the methodological/didactic approaches
  on which the products will be based
• Indicate how the planned project will contribute
  concretely to enhance the diversity of languages
  in its different activities

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Presentation of the proposal (10)
Quality of the Consortium

• Describe the consortium as a whole (structure,
  functioning and experience in transnational
  cooperation, rationale behind distribution of
  activities)
• How effective cooperation and communication will
  be ensured between partners, including
  arrangements for dealing eventual conflicts

European added value
Describe the anticipated benefits of implementing
the project at European level, which cannot be
gained at national or regional level
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Presentation of the proposal (11)
Methodology and workplan

• Work packages
• Expected results
• Dissemination and exploitation of results
• Quality management plan
• Expected impact

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Presentation of the proposal (12)
Methodology and workplan
Give an overall description of the methodology
and workplan in the project
Work packages

• Provide one table per work package, by adding as
  many work packages as required, including one
  for
• the management of the consortium
• the dissemination and exploitation of results

Expected results
Detailed description of the specific results
expected during the project lifetime
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Presentation of the proposal (13)
Dissemination and exploitation of results

• Provide a dissemination and exploitation plan and
  a timetable showing the key outputs and fitting
  with the work package/s on dissemination and
  exploitation of results described in the section
  Work packages

Quality management plan
Provide a quality management plan, including
procedures, criteria and resources for monitoring
and evaluation of the project and for internal
and/or external evaluation
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Presentation of the proposal (14)
Expected impact

• Describe the expected short-term and long-term
  impact of the proposal on
• Target groups and/or sectors
• Geographical target areas
• Explain how do you intend to measure the expected
  impact, by describing qualitative and
  quantitative indicators
• Explain the sustainability of the partnership and
  products after the project conclusion
• Describe the project impact on the national VET
  systems of all the partners

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Presentation of the proposal (15)
Budget

• Direct costs
• Staff costs (based on real daily staff cost rates
  not exceeding the maximum daily rate indicated
  in the LLP Guide 2009 - Part I)
• Manager
• Researcher, techer and/or trainer
• Technical staff
• Administrative staff
• Operational costs
• Travel and subsistence(staff only)
• Subcontracting (up to 30 of the total amount of
  direct costs)
• Equipment (up to 10 of the total amount of
  direct costs)
• Other
• Indirect costs (up to 7 of the total amount of
  eligible direct costs)

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Presentation of the proposal (16)
Budget

• Direct costs costs which are identifiable as
  specific costs directly linked to performance of
  the action and which can therefore be booked to
  it directly
• Indirect costs costs which are neither
  identifiable as specific costs directly linked to
  the project nor can be booked to it directly but
  which have nevertheless been incurred in the
  management of the project
• Examples
• communication costs (i.e. postage, fax,
  telephone, mailing, etc.)
• all costs for equipment related to the
  administration of the project (i.e. PCs,
  portables, etc.)
• Infrastructure costs (i.e. rent, electricity,
  etc.) of the premises where the project is being
  carried out
• photocopies

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Award criteria (LLP Guide 2009 - Part III)

• Quality of the work programme
• Innovative character and improvement of national
  VET systems through TOI
• Quality of the Consortium
• European added value
• The cost-benefit ratio
• Relevance
• Impact
• Quality of the Valorisation plan (dissemination
  and exploitation of results)

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Deadline for submission of applications
February 27th 2009
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Thanks for your attention.and good luck!