This blog is developed for our Erasmus KA229 project. With its implementation we will achieve a change in habits of students and teachers toward their wellbeing and healthier and more sustainable lifestyles.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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:
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.
Read the project calmly.
Communicate with the coordinator and partners.
Ask the coordinator for the project and the quality evaluation.
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.
Gather the team and distribute the tasks. Our team will be made up of the following teachers:
María Luisa Dávila Ladero (Director).
Eva Mª Moriel Jiménez (Head of Studies).
Ester León Carrascal (Secretary).
Laura Nogales Carrión (Child Tutor 4 years A).
Belén López Moreno (Children's Tutor 5 years old).
María José Díez García (Infant Tutor 5 years B).
María Nieves Jaraíz Sánchez (Tutor 3º A)
Rebeca Rivas Ortiz (Tutor 5º A)
Mª Lucila Audije Vega (Tutor 5º B).
Daniel Gallardo Pajuelo (Tutor 5º C).
Carmen Romero Gómez (Tutor 5º D).
Juan Antonio Rincón Carballo (Tutor 5º E, Project Coordinator).
Marcelino Sanchez Portalo (Tutor 6º A).
Pablo Campo González (Tutor 6º B).
Inés Mª Carretero González (Tutor 6º C).
Distribute the tasks:
Contact persons: María Luisa Dávila Ladero and Juan Antonio Rincón Carballo. Functions: General coordination, mobility management, SEPIE contact, contact with partners and Mobility Tool+.
Director: María Luisa Dávila Ladero. Functions: General coordination, mobility management, contact with SEPIE, contact with partners and Mobility Tool+: Responsible for documentation.
Head of Studies: Travel management and communication with authorities.
Secretary: Ester León Carrascal. Duties: Accounting, economic justification before SEPIE and Extremadura.
Translator: Inés Mª Carretero González. Functions: If necessary for any specific communication.
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.
Selection committee for participants in the transnational activities: Mª Luisa Dávila Ladero, Eva Mª Moriel Jiménez, Ester León Carrascal and Juan Antonio Rincón Carballo).
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.
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.
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 852projects 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.
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.
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.
