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Reference
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S29
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last
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06.05.2002
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Title
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Socrates:
Dissemination Activities
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JO/budget
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(2002/C 103/
08)
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Directorate
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Education
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General
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Socrates
is the European Union's action programme in the field
of education. Its purpose is to help enhance the quality
and strengthen the European dimension of education,by
promoting cooperation and mobility across the 30 countries
participating in the programme. For Socrates to be fully
successful,it is not enough for projects of good quality
to be devised by the educational community and supported
by the European Commission during their development and
implementation phase. It is equally vital that the results
and insights deriving from these projects are actively
brought to the attention of those potentially interested
and,where appropriate,the public in general. With this
aim in view,the Commission is developing a comprehensive
strategy for the dissemination of the results of Socrates
projects.This will be implemented in the form of a three-year
dissemination plan covering the period 2001-2003.
The present call for proposals is an important part of
this plan. Its purpose is to encourage the educational
community to participate more actively and widely in the
process of exchanging good practice and experience across
Europe. By drawing attention to the outcomes and achievements
of the projects supported under the various ‘actions ’of
Socrates,the call also seeks to increase the visibility
of the Socrates programme as a whole,throughout all of
the 30 participating countries. By inviting proposals
for projects devoted specifically to dissemination,and
by doing so across the Socrates programme as a whole,the
call is designed to complement the dissemination activities
which each specific project is expected to undertake,in
particular within the institutions participating in the
project and among those parts of the broader educational
community with which the project partners are in direct
contact.
It also complements the dissemination-related initiatives
that have been taken over the years by certain specific
actions in the programme,notably Comenius and Erasmus
in the school and higher education sectors respectively.
For this reason,the present call,as set out in greater
detail below, places particular (though not exclusive)
emphasis on dissemination activities which go beyond the
confines of any one action of the programme. A further
objective of the call is to contribute to the further
development of dissemination strategies and methods that
are relevant for Socrates-type activities. It is hoped
that the dissemination projects to be supported pursuant
to the call will open up new dissemination channels and
demonstrate innovative,creative and imaginative dissemination
approaches which will,in the medium term,help improve
the dissemination efforts undertaken by future projects
under all actions of the Socrates programme. Finally,by
helping to draw together the results of several projects
working in similar fields,or in a particular sector of
education,or in particular regions and localities,or on
a specific theme spanning several educational sectors,the
present call for proposals should help to develop more
effective links and synergies between the projects supported
by the programme,thereby adding to their intrinsic value
and supporting their sustainability over a longer period
of time.
In all these ways,the call is seen as a means of helping
to improve the overall effectiveness of the Socrates programme,
and of ensuring that the Community funds invested in the
programme generate the maximum return possible for the
European educational community as a whole.
Under the present call, proposals are invited which aim
to disseminate outcomes from one or more of the ‘centralised
actions ’of the Socrates programme,i.e.those under which
the projects for support are submitted to and selected
by the Commission.Such outcomes may be either ‘products
’,in the sense of tangible results,or ‘processes ’ (i.e.the
totality of the experience or know-how derived from the
project or network, including methods of collaborating
effectively across borders).
The centralised actions concerned are as follows:
(a) projects or networks supported during the first phase
(1995-1999)
of the Socrates programme:
— Comenius (school education):
— Comenius action 2:Transnational projects relating to
intercultural education;education for the children of
migrants,travellers and gypsies,and occupational travellers.
—Comenius action 3.1:Transnational projects for the in-service
training of school education staff,and in particular the
training courses developed by such projects.
—Erasmus (higher education):
—Erasmus action 1:European inter-university cooperation
(curriculum development projects and intensive programmes
supported within inter- university cooperation programmes
in 1995-1996 or 1996-1997,and the institutional contracts
awarded in 1997,1998 or 1999).
—Erasmus action 3:Thematic networks
—Adult education
—Lingua (language learning):
—Lingua action A:European cooperation programmes for language
teacher training.
—Lingua action D:Development of tools and materials for
language teaching and learning.
—Open and distance learning (ODL)
—Exchange of information and experience on education systems
and policy —Complementary measures.
(b)projects and networks supported so far during the second
phase of Socrates,commencing in the year 2000 (proposals
relating to the dissemination of outcomes from these projects
and networks will be concerned more with cooperation processes
than with final outcomes,as most of the projects and networks
in question have not yet been completed):
—Comenius (school education):
—Comenius 2.1:European cooperation projects for the initial
and in-service training of school education staff.
—Comenius 3:Comenius networks.
—Erasmus (higher education):
—Erasmus action 1:European inter-university cooperation
(curriculum development projects and intensive programmes
supported within the
institutional contracts awarded in 2000 and 2001).
—Erasmus action 3:Thematic networks.
—Grundtvig (adult education and other educational pathways):
—Grundtvig 1:European cooperation projects.
—Grundtvig 4:Grundtvig networks.
—Lingua (language learning):
—Lingua 1:Promotion of language learning.
—Lingua 2:Development of tools and materials.
—Minerva (open and distance learning;information and communication
technologies in the field of education)
—Observation of educational systems,policies and innovation
(action 6.1) —Accompanying measures.
Dissemination projects which also seek to establish links
with outcomes from projects supported under other Community
programmes,such as Leonardo da Vinci,will be welcome.
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Target
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Any
type of organisation demonstrating that it has the necessary
capacity to carry out useful dissemination activities,
may apply for support under the call.The following types
of organisation are likely to be particularly interested
in participating:
—organisations that are or have been involved in Socrates
projects/networks either as coordinators or as partners,
—local and regional authorities,
—national authorities,
—important national bodies,
—associations active in the educational field,
—other agencies and institutions with expertise in dissemi-
nation of the results of education projects,
—social partners,
—NGOs (particularly with activities on women,disability,
anti-racism). Depending on the type of dissemination activity
envisaged (see section 4 below),other types of organisation
such as publishing houses and the media.
The dissemination activities to be conducted by the projects
supported under the call may be of any kind,provided they
are demonstrably appropriate for the particular dissemination
objectives the project aims to fulfil.A good dissemination
project proposal will set out notably how it is intended
to:
— identify good quality results of the particular Socrates
projects/networks on whose results the dissemination project
will be focusing its attention,
— ensure that a broader public,and in particular,those
professionally concerned with the field covered,will be
made familiar with the results to be disseminated,and
how the results are to be presented for this purpose,
—define the particular target groups likely to be able
to benefit from the results of the dissemination projects,
—make visible how projects and networks have been developed
and implemented,and which collaborative processes have
been particularly effective and why,
—set the results of Socrates projects in a larger framework,
and relate them if possible to the results of other projects
supported at regional,national or European level by other
programmes,
—communicate the results in a professional way in order
to achieve a possibly wide-reaching impact. To be supported
under the call,a dissemination project will need to do
more than merely repeat the dissemination activities already
carried out by the project/network concerned. Rather,it
is expected that each dissemination project will draw
together results deriving from a substantial range of
projects/networks: —either from one specific Socrates
action (whether during the first or second phase of Socrates
or both),
—or from several such actions. With this coverage in view,the
project will propose dissemination activities designed
to ensure exploitation of project/ network results:
—in several countries and/or regions,or at European level,
—in a specific thematic area,
—for specific target groups in the educational community/the
interested public at large.
These three approaches may also be combined within one
dissemination project. The precise dissemination activities
will depend on the dissemi- nation objectives to be fulfilled
by the project,in terms of the specific results to be
disseminated,the countries/regions to be targeted,the
thematic topics to be covered and the groups to be addressed.
They may for example include the organisation of conferences,workshops,seminars,travelling
exhibitions, information campaigns in the media (TV,newspapers,
magazines,radio) and other awareness-raising activities,
Internet-based activities (websites,information platforms,
internet forums etc.) and various written forms of dissemination
such as specialised periodicals or monographs,or texts
written in appropriate publications for a wider audience.
Where activities involving information and communication
technology are proposed,applicants will be expected to
give precise details on the hardware and software to be
used,and on the precise strategy envisaged for the development,
implementation and maintenance of the websites etc.proposed.
If an applicant wishes to propose a dissemination project
oriented towards a particular thematic area,it is up to
the applicant to make a case for choosing that area,indicating
the reasons why that choice of thematic area is meaningful
and relevant. Where such a thematic approach to dissemi-
nation is proposed, priority will normally be given to
dissemination projects drawing together the results of
Socrates projects and networks supported under more than
one action of the programme in the thematic area chosen.
Without being in any way exhaustive,the following list
provides some examples of the kind of themes which might
usefully be proposed:
—basic skills,
—education for citizenship (active participation in society),
—information and communication technology,media education,open
and distance learning,
—intercultural learning;
-education relating to gypsies and travellers,ethnic minorities,people
with itinerant occupations,combating racism and xenophobia,
—learning about Europe,European Union,European countries,
—raising awareness for a multilingual/multicultural Europe,
—language teaching and learning,
—the European dimension in a specific academic field of
study or a multidisciplinary area,
—access to teaching and learning resources,
—education for parents and families/intergenerational
learning,
—learning communities/cities/regions,
—gender issues,
—arts and culture,
—Health education
—environment education;education for sustainable development,
—consumer education,
—stimulation of demand for learning among socially marginalised
groups, —promotion of lifelong learning,
—initial and further training of teaching staff,
—initial and further training of managerial and administrative
staff involved in education,
—innovation in the teaching/learning process,
—funding of transnational cooperation activities in the
field of education, —mobility for teachers and learners,
—curriculum development in a specific field or multidisciplinary
area, —Socrates contribution to enhancing employability,
—information services on education/guidance and counselling,
—certification,assessment,validation,accreditation of
institutions and educational performance,self-assessment,
credit for prior experiential learning,credit accumulation
and transfer within a given country,
—methods for transnational transfer of study credits,
—quality assurance strategies,performance indicators in
education, —management of European cooperation activities,
—methods for evaluating European cooperation activities. |
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Geographical
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Eligibility criteria:
Proposals must be submitted on the official application
form, which can be obtained from the address indicated
below.
The form must be completed in full,in one of the 11 official
languages of the European Community,and despatched (postmark)at
the latest by the closing date and in accordance with
the procedure specified in section below.
Each proposal must be submitted by one ‘coordinating organisation
’on behalf of the whole partnership participating in the
project.The coordinating organisation must have legal
status and be located in one of the 15 Member States of
the European Union,the three EFTA/EEA countries (Iceland,Liechtenstein,
Norway) or the 12 accession candidate countries participating
in Socrates (Bulgaria,Cyprus,the Czech Republic,Estonia,
Latvia,Lithuania,Hungary,Malta,Poland,Romania,Slovakia,
Slovenia).
Each proposal must include participation from at least
four of the countries mentioned above,of which at least
one must be EU Member States.
Proof of participation must be provided in the form of
written confirmation from each of the partner institutions
that it is in agreement with the application as submitted.
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Finance
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The
budget available for the dissemination activities to be
supported under this call for proposals is around EUR
1,5 million,drawn from the Socrates centralised action
budget for the year 2002. It is expected that some 15
to 30 dissemi- nation projects,normally with an average
Community grant in the range of EUR 50 000 to EUR 100
000 per project,will be supported.
The Community grant will not cover more than 75 %of the
total cost of each dissemination project. The Commission
will take particular care to avoid any duplication of
funding of dissemination activities through projects supported
under the specific actions of Socrates and dissemination
projects to be supported pursuant to this call. Before
taking a final decision on which proposals to support
and the grant to be awarded in each case,the Commission
will subject the shortlisted proposals to rigorous budgetary
scrutiny. The total amount of funding provided for a project
and the relative weight given to the activities for which
it is awarded, may differ from those set out in the applicant's
initial proposal. Projects will be supported for a maximum
of one year and should start from February 2003. |
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Duration
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Deadline
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Contact/Address
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‘Call
for proposals —Socrates dissemination ’
Socrates,Leonardo and Youth Technical Assistance Office
(TAO)
T-61
B-1049 Brussels
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