1. Staff Mobility, so-called Key Action 1, allows teachers (including student teachers) and other school staff to attend training, engage in job shadowing, or carry out teaching assignments in another country.
2. Strategic Partnerships, so-called Key Action 2, allows schools to work with other schools and organisations to improve teaching and learning approaches, and the quality and relevance of education and training.

• This course does not address other sectors, i.e. Higher education, Adult education, Vocational education and training, Youth and Sport. If you are looking for opportunities in those fields, please see the Erasmus+ website and/or contact your National Agency.
• You can’t receive individual guidance and advice for your application from this course. 

• The course does not replace the official information provided by the Erasmus+ website and Erasmus+ National Agencies. These sources always take precedence over this course.
• Completing this course does not guarantee the approval of your project application.

• Main content (reading and videos)
• Further material
• Module quiz

• Module 1: starts on Monday, 30 October
  • Live webinar: Thursday, 2 November 17:00h (CET)
    Erasmus+ programme KA1 and KA2 for schools: overviewLink: https://eun2.adobeconnect.com/tools-mooc/Before the actual webinar you can do a test session at any time.
• Module 2: starts on Monday, 6 November
• Module 3: starts on Monday, 13 November
  • o Live webinar: Tuesday, 14 November 17:00 (CET) – to be confirmed
• Module 4: starts on Monday, 20 November
  • o Live webinar: Thursday, 22 November 17:00 (CET) – to be confirmed

1. eTwinning Featured Group: Bringing eSafety into eTwinning projects (you need to be a member of eTwinning to join the group)
2. Better Internet for Kids
3. Web We Want
4. eSafety Label
5. Safer Internet Day

1. Find out about the Erasmus+ Programme Key Action 1 and Key Action 2;
2. Learn 'who is who' in the Erasmus+ Programme
3. Understand what the European Commission’s policy priorities are for the programme;
4. Reflect on your school’s development and internationalisation needs through a whole-school approach.

• Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2018
• How to obtain PIC number: Register an Organisation
• Erasmus+ - Documents for applicants
• Erasmus+ Guide for Experts on Quality Assessment, 2017 (the 2018 guide will be published in due course)
• List of the Erasmus+ National Agencies

• How to prepare a competitive proposal (Higher Education)
• Erasmus+: A practical guide for school leaders

• Communication from the Commission on "School development and excellent teaching for a great start in life"
• European Toolkit for Schools

• Duration of the project: 12-24 months (starting on 1 June 2018 at the earliest and 31 December 2018 at the latest)
• Duration of the mobility periods (courses, job shadowing or teaching assignments): 2 days – 2 months
• The application is made by a school or a consortium leader established in one of the Programme countries
• A PIC number (Participant Identification Code) is obligatory when applying 

1. Get tips for selecting a training course abroad, and consider how to do so
2. Become familiar with the Course Catalogue
3. Get practical advice for the KA1 application

• The on-site courses in the catalogue are not pre-approved or authenticated by the European Commission, National Agencies or the School Education Gateway administrators.
• The on-site courses are offered by independent course providers, for example NGOs, universities, private academies, companies, etc. The European Commission does not accredit, certify, endorse, register, promote or in any other way discriminate in favour of any course provider or specific training course over others.
• The schools need to communicate directly with the course providers for any details about the courses (programme, dates, registration, payment, etc.). This course doesn't cover questions regarding any individual course.
• You are advised to use critical judgment when selecting courses or planning other activities.
• You can select a course for your KA1 project that is NOT mentioned in the Course Catalogue.
• Choosing a course from the Course Catalogue does not guarantee that your school will be awarded an Erasmus+ grant.

• Actively use the search filters. They will allow you to narrow down the search results.
• If you receive a large number of results, you can apply more filters from the menus on the right-hand side of the page to narrow down the search results.
• Use the free text field for specific keywords, such as “robotics” or “CLIL”. Very common terms, such as “English” or “ICT”, will yield too many results.
• The search results are listed in chronological order by default (i.e. the courses coming up first appear first). You can change the display order to see which courses have been reviewed most frequently.

• If you are interested in a specific type of courses, save your search and you can easily rerun it as often as you like.
• You can also sign up to receive an alert when new courses matching your saved search criteria are added to the Catalogue.
• If you attended a course that is listed in the Catalogue, rate and review it!
• If you see anything unsuitable or irrelevant in the Catalogue, please report it.

• Job shadowing is for students, recent graduates, teachers and other members of the school staff. It offers participants the chance to work at a host school/organisation abroad, alongside professionals who have specific knowledge about an occupation or career in which the participants may be interested.
• Long-term teaching assignments are suitable for students, recent graduates, and teachers. They offer participants the chance to undertake teaching assignments focused on their area of expertise or interest at a host school/organisation abroad, for a period of 5 months or longer.
• Short-term teaching assignments correspond to a period of 5 or fewer months.
• Placement and assistantship for students is aimed at students and recent graduates. This type of opportunity offers participants the chance to undertake a placement or assistantship.
• Teaching/classroom assistant is a position for teachers and other members of the school staff, allowing the participants to undertake a teaching/classroom assistantship.
• Other mobility opportunities contain miscellaneous offers, e.g. observation visits or seminars.

1. Understand the benefits of international mobility for schools, teachers and indirectly for pupils
2. Be able to use the Mobility Opportunities tool
3. Get tips on how to use eTwinning in a staff mobility project
4. Learn about the European Development Plan

• Teachers who participated in job shadowing or made the combination of job shadowing and teaching activities were more satisfied (than the ones who took part in only courses).
• Intercultural competence is successfully developed through job shadowing, and relatively less successfully developed through courses.
• A higher level of didactical competence is gained by combining courses and job shadowing.
• The most notable changes in teachers’ competences after the Erasmus+ KA1 mobility, as reported by themselves, were:
  • Deepened my understanding of other cultures: 94%
  • Expanded my knowledge and understanding of the education system in other countries: 92,2%
  • Made me more open to changes and innovations: 89,8%
  • Improved my practical use of foreign languages: 87,2%
  • Helped me acquire new teaching methods: 85,6%

• Presentation of the results: Research report (PDF)
• The report summary: Highlights and conclusions. Report in brief (PDF)
• The full study report: Research report (PDF)
• Recommendations for schools: Recommendations for schools on how to participate in the Erasmus+ Programme KA1 Learning mobility of individuals, Mobility projects for school education staff in the most effective way (PDF)

• The directory includes two types of announcements:
  • Mobility opportunity offers posted by organisations
  • Requests posted by individuals looking for mobility opportunities
• To get started, first select which type you want to see: in the search field, use filters to get precise search results. 

• Save your search by clicking the “Save search” button
• Contact the organisation that has published an announcement, by clicking the “Contact” button available on the announcement page under the organisation’s logo. Please do not use the “Review and rate” function to contact the organisation
• Use the “report a problem” function to flag up any problems or inconsistencies you may spot there.

• First, please read the relevant instructions (available in 23 languages). A PIC number is required to do this.
• In the Add Mobility Opportunity form:
  • If you want to announce an OFFER, please choose the option “Organisation: I would like to offer a mobility opportunity”
  • If you want to post a REQUEST, please choose the option “Individual: I would like to find a mobility opportunity for myself”
• How much information should you provide? The more accurate information you provide, the better matches you'll get. Try to keep your text simple but effective, between 150-300 words. Include only relevant information, and avoid long background explanations.
• Plan how you will handle the feedback generated by your announcement in advance, in case you get a lot of it. For example, should you have a list of points to be answered, so you can gather more information on their counterparts?

• to contribute to the linguistic and cultural preparation via virtual discussions on the forums
• to identify one or more European schools with a view to preparing an Erasmus+ school partnership with pupil exchanges, etc.
• to communicate with the host school for shadowing placements, using the video conferencing facility provided free of charge
• as a ‘reporting’ tool, whereby one or all of the teachers keep a personal diary during the mobilities
• for exchanges among European teachers on the same training programme after the mobility
• for dissemination of practices/methods/resources to other teachers in your country and Europe
• for development/application of the knowledge acquired in a virtual eTwinning project

• Broaden the school’s European outreach.
• Improve  the  teachers’  language  skills  and  teaching  practices  in  non-language  disciplines.
• (Re)-motivate pupils thanks to innovative learning methods (project mode) to prevent early school leaving.

• What are the needs of the consortium (school) in terms of quality development and internationalisation? Please specify for each consortium member, identifying the main areas for improvement (for example management competences, staff competences, new teaching methods or tools, European dimension, language competences, curriculum, the organisation of teaching and learning).
• Please outline the consortium’s (school’s) plans for European mobility and cooperation activities, and explain how these activities will contribute to meeting the identified needs of each consortium member.
• Please explain how the competences and experiences acquired by staff participating in the project will be integrated into the strategic development of each consortium member and of the consortium as a whole.
• Will your organisation use one of the following tools in connection with your mobility project?

1. eTwinning (www.etwinning.net)
2. The School Education Gateway (www.schooleducationgateway.eu)
3. EPALE (e-Platform for Adult Learning in Europe) (http://ec.europa.eu/epale/)

• Have a look at the template prepared by Leargas, the Irish National Agency, as it gives you an indication which points to include in the plan.
  
  
• Avoid using general information originating e.g. from course providers. This could make your application too generic and too similar to those of other applicants using the same source. The EDP has to be based on the school’s needs and plans, and external people rarely have this sort of information.
  
  
• One common misconception is that the requested budget has to be substantial so that the project can have impact. However, the size of the project budget does not matter, and even a project with a small budget can achieve its desired objectives.
  
  

• Bilingual education beyond borders (The Netherlands)
• Teachers for Quality Education (Hungary)
• Learning from other cultures with a focus on creativity (UK)
• Learning teachers (Latvia)
• Learning More To Teach Better (Portugal)
• European Staff Development Project (Ireland)
• Beni Ben Yapan Farkliliklarim, Yaratici Dramayla Ben de Varim (Turkey)

• Towards a Real International School
  • Project website
  • Erasmus+ Projects Results
• Digitális tanulás - digitális tanítás (Hungary)
  • Project website
  • Erasmus+ Projects Results
• Razvoj internacionalizacije i kvalitetnih programa u djecjem vrticu
  • Project website
  • Erasmus+ Projects Results
• Robotik (a challenge)
  • Project website
  • Erasmus+ Projects Results
• Improving Leadership, Teaching Methods and Learning Opportunities for our Children
  • Project website
  • Erasmus+ Projects Results

 Module 4: KA2 Strategic Partnership Projects 

1. Understand what a Key Action 2, i.e. Strategic Partnership project is
2. Learn about the new type of KA2 project “School Exchange Partnership”
3. Be able to use the Strategic Partnership Tool to search and to post
4. Understand how eTwinning can support Key Action 2 projects
5. Summarise the key points of a Key Action 2 application

• Key features: Specific funding for Intellectual outputs and Multiplier events
• Who can take part: Any education, training or youth organisation
• Project size: Minimum 3 organisations, no maximum
• Duration: 1 to 3 years
• Budget: Maximum EUR 450 000

• Key features: Cooperation with different organisations & Larger budget
• Who can take part: Any organisation active in education, training and youth
• Project size: Minimum 3 organisations, no maximum
• Duration: 1 to 3 years
• Budget: Maximum EUR 450 000

• Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils (3 days to 2 months)
• Long-term study mobility of pupils (2 to 12 months)
• Short-term joint staff training events (3 days to 2 months)
• Long-term teaching or training assignments (2 to 12 months)

• Key features: Focus on mobility activities & An easier application process
• Who can take part: Only schools
• Project size: 2-6 schools from at least two different Programme Countries
• Duration: 1 to 2 years (or 1 to 3 years for projects organising long-term pupil mobility)
• Budget: Maximum EUR 99 000 per year in total (maximum of EUR 16 500 per year and per participating school)

• Project duration: 12-36 months
• Project starting date: 1 September – 31 December 2018
• Partners: Minimum three organisations from three different Programme Countries. All participating organisations must be identified at the time of applying for a grant. Organisations from Partner Countries can be involved in a Strategic Partnership, as partners (not as applicants), if their participation brings an essential added value to the project. Exception: School Exchange Partnerships must involve a minimum of two and a maximum of six schools from at least two different Programme countries.
• Funding can cover: 
  • Project Management
  • Transnational project meeting (not for School Exchange Partnerships)
  • Learning, Teaching & Training activities
  • Intellectual outputs (Cooperation for Innovation only)
  • Multiplier events (Cooperation for Innovation only)
  • Special needs support
  • Exceptional costs
• Priorities: The Strategic Partnership project must address at least one horizontal priority or at least one specific priority relevant to school education (see Programme Guide page 105-107).
• Award criteria: Projects will be assessed against the following criteria: 
  • Relevance of the project (maximum 30 points)
  • Quality of the project design and implementation (maximum 20 points)
  • Quality of the project team and the cooperation arrangements (maximum 20 points)
  • Impact and dissemination (maximum 30 points)

• developing, testing and implementing innovative approaches and practices for pupils, staff and organisations;
• cross-sectoral co-operation between schools and other organisations leading to curricular development, reinforcing basic skills, and combating violence in schools, to name a few examples;
• local consortia between local/regional authorities and schools to improve the educational offer for young people;
• facilitating the recognition and certification of skills and competences;
• short-term exchanges of groups of pupils in study/training periods within a project, aiming to promote linguistic skills and intercultural awareness, as two examples;
• the encouragement of active citizenship and entrepreneurship;
• the use of eTwinning for online collaboration between partners and/or students and for teacher, student teacher and teacher educator professional development.

• Look for reliable partners on the eTwinning platform.
• For an initial experience via a short-term project with the partners, get acquainted and develop ways of working remotely.
• Maintain regular contact among the teachers to steer the project and share key documents in the TwinSpace. Publish the stages, productions and activities of the project in the TwinSpace.
• Participate in exchanges between European pupils, including those who are not taking part in a mobility: 
  • from becoming acquainted to sharing knowledge of both culture and language, undertaking remote collaborative activities, etc.
  • sharing activities undertaken by pupils during the mobilities with the pupils who stayed in their own school.

• Use eTwinning as a free digital showcase by publishing the project.
• Use the free digital tools to add value to your project, such as the blog tool, document sharing, video production, creation of digital magazines, etc.
• Apply for a national quality label. It is a guarantee of quality and provides access to the national eTwinning competition, the European quality label and the European eTwinning competition.

• Analyse the labour market situation before and after the economic crisis in the different countries represented in the project.
• Consider whether academic preparation is in line with the labour market.
• Compare the hopes and desires of young European pupils with the reality of the labour market.
• Encourage careers guidance work and develop pupil confidence with regard to the future

• The pupils introduced themselves on a virtual wall and looked at the presentations of other European pupils.
• They answered a quiz following the partner pupil presentations.
• They met each other virtually and were able to forge relationships throughout the project.

• share data
• participate in forums
• prepare documents for sharing during the mobility.

• Share the documents presented by each delegation during the mobility on eTwinning – available to all.
• Create quizzes, enable the appropriation of information even when pupils have not physically taken part in mobility (constant pupil involvement).
• Make use of the documents in lessons.

• Create a joint questionnaire (all project pupils).
• Use the questionnaire in each country before the mobility (all project pupils).
• Use and analyse the results together during the mobility.
• Write together a section of the end product to which all the participants will have contributed. In the case of this project, it involved writing “The Manifesto of the Young European”.

• Look for announcements published by other organisations using the search functionality available on the Strategic Partnerships landing page.
• Use as many search filters as possible to get a more accurate and specific list of search results.
• If you are logged in, you can: 
  • Save your search by clicking the “Save search” button. This way you can rerun the search quickly, anytime you like.
  • Contact the organisation that has made the announcement; use the Contact button under the organisation’s logo on the detail page.
  • Use the “Report a problem” function available on announcements’ detail pages in order to flag up any problems or inconsistencies you have spotted there.

• First, please read the relevant instructions (available in 23 languages).
• You need a PIC number to add a listing.
• Go to the Create Strategic Partnership request form and fill in the relevant information.
• The form has two text fields to fill in: 
  • Project/Partnership proposal: Briefly describe what your KA2 project will be about (i.e. the topic, suggested methodology, etc.). About 100 words is a good length.
  • Expected partners and their tasks in the project: Briefly describe what kind of partners you are looking for and what you expect them to do in the project.