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.

ACCESS TO THE VIDEO WITH THE TRAINING

Link to the presentation

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.

ACCESS TO THE VIDEO WITH THE TRAINING

Link to the presentation

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.

ACCESS TO THE VIDEO WITH THE TRAINING

Link to the presentation