Impressions about the first online meeting

 

IC Manerbio - Italy

Here are some impressions of our pupils about the first online meeting with our partner schools

YEAH! #ErasmusDays and Quotes about famous people

During the #ErasmusDays our students did work on famous quotes from famous people in the areas we worked on in the project: healthy food, sports, environment, personal relationships, responsible use of mobile devices and cyber-bullying.

Two of these sentences are those we have inserted in our photographs for the 2021 calendar.

"The human spirit must prevail over technology" (Albert Einstein).

 "Technology is only a tool. In terms of getting children to work together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important" (Bill Gates). 

Our students did small research papers which they presented to their colleagues from Italy, Lithuania and Slovenia at our first online meeting. Our collaborative work as a school has consisted of bringing all their productions together in one online site. The Bookcreator tool has allowed us to do this and now we are pleased to show you the final result. We hope that you will enjoy reading it.

Students doing the activity

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Spanish Agency Training Session: Post 4

SESSION 11: 5 STEPS TO COMMUNICATE YOUR ERASMUS+ PROJECT EFFECTIVELY

1. Where do we start? We start from the Convention.
2. Plan the communication and dissemination of your project. It is important that we use the SEPIE Communication Kit.
3. It uses tools and organises communication activities.
4. Giving visibility to the project.
5. Maximizes the impact on project dissemination.

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SESIÓN 12: PLATAFORMAS ERASMUS+ Y OTRAS INICIATIVAS DE APOYO AL PROGRAMA

The most important are: eTwinning, School Education Gateway, Selfie, Learning corner, Erasmus+ results platform...

eTwinning It is an ideal tool to make the local activities and to virtualize some of the meetings.

School Education Gateway: It offers news, articles by education experts, seminars and online courses, participation in surveys, provides quality teaching materials, mobility opportunities in KA1 projects...

Selfie: Platform for evaluating the use we are making of digital media at the centre. It is a free resource.

Learning Zone: Ofrece actividades secuenciadas por edades sobre la Unión Europea.

Erasmus+ Results Platform

Erasmusintern: It aims to put university students in touch with each other.

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SESSION 13: ETWINNING IN SCHOOL EXCHANGE PARTNERSHIPS

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Spanish Agency Training Session: Post 3

SESSION 6: COMMUNICATION WITH THE NATIONAL AGENCY. WHAT CAN AND CANNOT BE CHANGED ABOUT A PROJECT

Below are the most relevant points of this session:

Contact with SEPIE can be found on this website.

The electronic portal with the SEPIE can be found at the following link.

For communications on the day-to-day running of the project:

• E-mail: asociaciones.escolar@sepie.es
• Subject: Project number followed by subject. In our case: 2020-1-IT02-KA229-079077_3 Change of contact person
• Contact telephone numbers: 915506811 / 915506740

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SESSION 7: BUDGET ITEMS. MANAGEMENT AND JUSTIFICATION

Important items for our project are:

• Management and execution of the Project: To support the realization of the project. It is very important that these expenses are made during the period of execution of the project. The management item cannot be increased but these funds can be used in other budget items. Management costs are: Attendance to training days, mobility costs derived from internal activities (hosting of partners), insurance coverage for participants (clause 1.7), activities aimed at promoting sustainability, graphic or printed material, posters, consumables, good practice manuals, website, meetings, conferences...
• Learning, teaching and training activities: Item intended for the mobility of students and/or teachers. This item can be increased by the item Management and execution of the project. If we have money left over on the basis of real costs, we can use it on the basis of any expenditure of the project. If because of the Covid-19 it is not possible to carry out a mobility, up to 10% of this item can be transferred to "Exceptional costs" to be able to carry it out as a virtual mobility. The aid paid per participant is 15% of the individual aid granted for mobility.
• Travel: Travel assistance.
• Individual support: Accommodation and meals

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SESSION 8: THE LIFE OF THE PROJECT THROUGH THE MOBILITY TOOL+

The Mobility Tool+ cannot be accessed until the agreement is signed by both parties (school headmaster and SEPIE). Link to access the tool. 

Mobility Tool+ Guide for KA229: The guide can be found in the section Documentation - School Exchange Associations KA229.

With the Covid-19 situation we can propose to carry out virtual mobilities documenting the whole process. These mobilities should not be included in the Mobility tool+ for the time being. If the situation changes this year or next year, we could start planning the face-to-face mobilities, which are the ones we should plan in the Mobility tool+. In the worst case scenario, if the situation does not improve and we are still unable to travel, we will already have the mobilities done and they will be the ones we declare in the Mobility tool.

Activities affected by Covid-19: Update on health measures and FAQs on the impact of the pandemic.

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SESSION 9: KEYS TO SUCCESS OF A KA229 PROJECT

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Selection of the slides we consider most relevant:

Link to the website of the Ministry of the Interior.

SESSION 10: PRIMARY CONTROLS

Annex III contains everything relating to primary controls.

For controls at the end of the project it is advisable to have the Mobility Tool updated and to write a complete final report.

The following documentation will be required for the mobilisation activities:

• Proof of attendance at the activity in the form of a attendance list or individual attendance certificates signed by the host organisation, specifying the names of the participants and the purpose of the activity; as well as its start and end dates (Annex III).
• Linking participants to the institution: Contracts, appointments... 
• Participants' insurance.

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Spanish Agency Training Session: Post 2

SESSION 4: MY CENTRE'S PROJECT HAS BEEN SELECTED, NOW WHAT?

In the case of our centre, as partners, we will have to do the following tasks:

1. Signing and sending the grant agreement on e-sepie. Link to the portal. The steps we have to follow are Download the agreement - Sign it electronically - Upload it through the e-sepie register. In Annex II we can consult the budget granted and it is important to review it before signing.
2. Read the project calmly.
3. Communicate with the coordinator and partners.
4. Ask the coordinator for the project and the quality evaluation.
5. Agree with the Management Team on the following actions: Inform the Education Inspectorate, Faculty and Board about what we are going to do and the results we expect.
6. Gather the team and distribute the tasks. Our team will be made up of the following teachers:
1. María Luisa Dávila Ladero (Director).
2. Eva Mª Moriel Jiménez (Head of Studies).
3. Ester León Carrascal (Secretary).
4. Laura Nogales Carrión (Child Tutor 4 years A).
5. Belén López Moreno (Children's Tutor 5 years old).
6. María José Díez García (Infant Tutor 5 years B).
7. María Nieves Jaraíz Sánchez (Tutor 3º A)
8. Rebeca Rivas Ortiz (Tutor 5º A)
9. Mª Lucila Audije Vega (Tutor 5º B).
10. Daniel Gallardo Pajuelo (Tutor 5º C).
11. Carmen Romero Gómez (Tutor 5º D).
12. Juan Antonio Rincón Carballo (Tutor 5º E, Project Coordinator).
13. Marcelino Sanchez Portalo (Tutor 6º A).
14. Pablo Campo González (Tutor 6º B).
15. Inés Mª Carretero González (Tutor 6º C).
7. Distribute the tasks:
1. Contact persons: María Luisa Dávila Ladero and Juan Antonio Rincón Carballo. Functions: General coordination, mobility management, SEPIE contact, contact with partners and Mobility Tool+.
2. Director: María Luisa Dávila Ladero. Functions: General coordination, mobility management, contact with SEPIE, contact with partners and Mobility Tool+: Responsible for documentation.
3. Head of Studies: Travel management and communication with authorities.
4. Secretary: Ester León Carrascal. Duties: Accounting, economic justification before SEPIE and Extremadura.
5. Translator: Inés Mª Carretero González. Functions: If necessary for any specific communication.
6. Head of Communication: Juan Antonio Rincón Carballo. Functions: Creation of the blog; maintenance of the blog, the centre's website and social networks; dissemination to the media.
7. Selection committee for participants in the transnational activities: Mª Luisa Dávila Ladero, Eva Mª Moriel Jiménez, Ester León Carrascal and Juan Antonio Rincón Carballo).
8. Read the Subsidy Agreement.

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SESSION 5: WHAT IS MY INSTITUTION'S COMMITMENT TO THE PROJECT?

This session discusses in detail the annexes that make up the Convention.

• Annex I: General conditions.
• Annex II: Description of the project and budget.
• Annex III: Financial and contractual rules.
• Annex IV: Applicable tariffs for unit costs
• Special conditions: Document signed by the centre's director and SEPIE.

For any application to SEPIE, we will use Spanish as the language. At the end of the project, we will present a report justifying the expenses we have incurred. For transnational activities we must have parental consent (Clause 1.13) which is kept by the centre.

If we have to virtualize any activity as a consequence of the COVID-19, as far as Exceptional Costs are concerned, we may transfer up to 10% of the funds allocated by any budget category based on contributions per unit for the purchase and/or rental of equipment and/or services needed to carry out virtual mobility activities.

TRAINING VIDEO

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Spanish Agency Training Session: Post 1

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From 22nd to 28th October, the Spanish National Agency is giving us the "Initial Training Days for Erasmus+ 2020 KA229 School Exchange Association Projects". Due to the health crisis the sessions are being held virtually and as evidence of our online participation in them both in this post on the official project blog and in eTwinning or our centre's website we will be reflecting the most important aspects of our project.

All the sessions with the videos and presentations can be found on the page of our National Agency and by clicking on the following link.

LINK TO CONFERENCES, FAIRS AND EVENTS SEPIE 2020

SESSION 1: WHO ARE WE? THE RESULTS OF THE 2020 CALL. 

From the first session it is worth noting that our centre is one of the 657 that have achieved an Erasmus+ KA229 Project. In our case we are going as partners.

A total of 852 projects have been approved and our country is the third in terms of projects selected. Italy stands out with 1,024 projects. Nearly 6.000 boys and girls will participate in short-term exchanges such as the ones we have designed in our application.

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SESSION 2: THE EXPECTED IMPACT OF A SCHOOL EXCHANGE PARTNERSHIP KA229.

In the second video, Andrés Ajo, Director of SEPIE (Spanish Agency) explains the types of mobilities that exist in the KA229 projects. In our project we have two types of transnational activities:

• Joint training events. The object is not the discussion of the project, they are not transnational coordination meetings.
• Short exchanges of groups of learners. They are not mere cultural exchanges or study trips. The aim is to work together on activities linked to the objectives of the partnership. With the health crisis we are encouraged to carry out activities of the online type.

In our case Italy is our coordinating team and we as partners have to sign an agreement with our National Agency from which we receive the grant directly. Our budget is 250 euros per month.

A good project is built day by day from local and virtual activities.

It is important that we take into account the report of the project quality evaluation.

Impact refers to the effect that activities have on people, practices, organizations and systems. It is important that we reflect this in the final report. In projects of our kind we have to look for impact on participants and on schools. An example of this would be the improvement of common spaces for carrying out activities; different forms of time organisation; changes in methodology motivated by activities or tasks that require project work; collaboration with associations... We can measure the impact through surveys that measure the satisfaction of the project and its activities. Impact analysis is very important and has a 40% weight in the evaluation of the Final Report.

The evaluation of good practices considers 6 criteria: Impact, transferability, innovation, sustainability, communication, communication and management.

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SESSION 3: MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF PROJECTS IN TIMES OF PANDEMIC BY COVID-19

Due to the pandemic situation we may have to make some adaptations in our projects. From our Agency these are the proposals:

• Transforming short exchanges into virtual meetings.
• Flexibility to change the timing, to change types of activities, to virtualize some activities, budget to change items and force majeure for unforeseen events.

A new clause on virtual activities has been added to the Convention containing a number of rules. If we virtualize an activity we would not have travel money. From individual support we could use up to 15%. The amount for the days of travel before and after would not exist either. If we had any real cost for any student with special educational needs, we could spend money from any item to cover this need.

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#ERASMUSDAYS: Getting to know each other

On the 15th of October some students and teachers from IC Manerbio, Italy started this beautiful adventure called YEAH!, a project that will give us the opportunity to improve our lifestyle. Everybody was so excited! The online activity helped us to feel a bit closer 😊

Our first infographics!

Thanks to our participation in the #ERASMUSDAYS of our In-service Teacher Training Centre in Mérida we got this incredible and fantastic infographics of our project.

Dissemination in the Italian School Website

 On our school website we have made known to the community our first Erasmus experiences: KA1 (ITACA)  and KA229 (YEAH!). We are very proud of them!

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Regional Presentation of YEAH! in Spain

On Tuesday 20th October we presented our Erasmus project to the In-Service Teacher Training Centre in Mérida. Our presentation was one of the performances of this centre for the celebration of the #ErasmusDays and for us an excellent opportunity to present our project to the centres of our demarcation. More than 30 teachers attended the session.

#ERASMUSDAYS: Quotes from famous people

 

On Thursday 15th of October we will celebrate #ERASMUSDAYS with our first collaborative activity. Our students have done an investigation about quotes of famous people in different health areas such as sports, healthy food, environment, emotions and technology. In an online class though Meet Platform we will show our products of this interesting activity.

In the following photos you can see pupils of Ciudad de Mérida School preparing their works.

Spanish Class Erasmus Corner

Between the months of September and October our students in the 5th level have been collaborating in the design of our Erasmus corner of the class. They have done it with a lot of care and it is a very special place. In it we will be placing the most significant evidence of the activities that we will be carrying out during the course. The activity was closed with the official photo in which our Management Team appears.

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Presentation of the project to Italian Teachers

 Italy too has done its presentation inside the school!Some colleagues have already expressed their availability to cooperate to the project and to join the community of E-twinning!!

Presentation of the project to Spanish teachers

Today we presented our Erasmus project to the teachers of my school. It was a fantastic session where I talked about the schools and countries participating, teachers coordinators of the project in each country, objectives, activities, beneficiaries and methodology. Next you can see some photos of the session.