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Title: OVERVIEW


1
GRUNDTVIG PROJECTS Overview of Application
Procedure and Selection Criteria.
Grundtvig Contact Seminar Malta 10th-13th
October 2002
2
Overview
GRUNDTVIG 1 Transnational Cooperation Projects
GRUNDTVIG 2 Learning Partnerships
  • Whats the Difference?
  • Application Procedure
  • Application dates
  • Financial Agreement
  • Project orientation
  • Project Life Cycle
  • Whats the Similarity?
  • Action Priorities
  • Priority Target Group
  • Project Management Elements
  • Eligibility Criteria

3
The Difference between the two Measures
  • GRUNDTVIG 1
  • Centralised
  • 2 phase application procedure
  • Deadlines - 1st November 1st March
  • Financial Agreement between the Coordinator and
    the Commission.
  • Product based projects.
  • GRUNDTVIG 2
  • Decentralised
  • 1 phase application procedure
  • 1 Deadline 1st March
  • Financial Agreement between every partner and the
    National Agency.
  • Process based projects.

4
Differences in the Project Life Cycle
Grundtvig 1
  • Pre-proposal application
  • Selection of pre-proposals (with external
    experts)
  • Full proposal
  • Selection of full proposals (with external
    experts)
  • Contract with the Commission
  • First instalment of grant
  • Interim report ? Second instalment of grant
  • Final report
  • text outputs (assessment by external experts)
  • financial
  • Final instalment of grant

5
Differences in the Project Life Cycle
Grundtvig 2
  • One-stage application to be sent to the National
    Agency.
  • Selection taken on a decentralized level in an
    inter-agency consultation.
  • 3 countries/ organisations involved need to be
    evaluated positively to receive a contract.
  • Renewal Application each year.
  • Some parts of the application e.g BUDGET, will be
    filled in by the coordinator ONLY and a copy
    given to the partners to include in their
    application to their National Agency, while other
    parts will be filled in separately by each
    participating organisation.

6
The Similarities
  • The Grundtvig ACTION PRIORITIES are similar for
    Grundtvig 1 and 2.
  • To encourage the European dimension of life-long
    learning through enhanced transnational
    co-operation and partnerships.
  • To improve and facilitate access to learning
    provisions for people who, at whatever stage of
    their life, want to acquire new knowledge and
    skills.
  • Put the adult learner in the center of the
    learning process

7
Grundtvig Themes Priorities ( cont)
  • Promoting equality between women and men
  • Integration of disabled people
  • Contributing to the fight against racism and
    xenophobia
  • Helping to offset the effects of socio-economic
    disadvantage
  • Exploiting the full educational potential of ICT
  • Language teaching and learning
  • Promoting the less widely used and less taught EU
    languages (for language projects)

8
Grundtvig Priorities (cont)
  • Learning for Active Citizenship
  • Social Inclusion
  • Employability
  • Teaching and Learning Methods
  • Information and Guidance Services
  • Supply and Demand

9
Priorities target groups
  • Adult learners with special educational needs
  • Adults lacking basic education and
    qualifications
  • Adults living in rural or disadvantaged areas,
    or who are disadvantaged for socio-economic
    reasons
  • Other hard to reach groups who are not prone
    to take part in adult learning or lifelong
    learning initiatives.

10
Project Management Elements
  • Formation and Maintenance of effective Project
    teams.
  • Initiation, launch or kick-off meetings.
  • Evaluation and Appraisal of Impact
  • Dissemination strategies
  • Methods of monitoring progress
  • European Dimension
  • Experience exchange enabling mutual reflection
    and learning.
  • Outputs and products which can be used at a
    transnational level.

11
Eligibility Criteria (principles)
  • Are defined in the Guidelines for Applicants, in
    the Calls for proposals and in the application
    forms and Constitute the minimal and absolute
    requirements for acceptance of a grant
    application.
  • Submission by the specified closing date
    (postmark)
  • Using the correct Application Forms, Typed or
    word processed
  • Signed by duly authorised person
  • Written in one of the 11 official languages
  • The institutions which are co-ordinators or
    partners in projects must
  • belong to one of the types of eligible
    institutions for each Socrates Action
  • be sufficient in number and comprise at least one
    EU Member State for each partnership
  • be located within one of the EU, EEA or
    associated countries

12
Top 10 Barriers to Success
  • From an analysis of 175 project Adult Education
    Projects , these are the most common barriers
    which coordinators and partners need to guard
    against or overcome.
  • The project is complex and over-ambitious.
  • The topic is not suitable for transnational work
  • There is a lacking of shared understanding and
    commitment amongst the partners.
  • There are cultural and linguistic barriers to
    working together which the partners fail to
    overcome.
  • The project is not based on a needs analysis -
    or at least a proper rationale.
  • The work plan is vague and does not allocate
    tasks sensibly.
  • The project budget is badly constructed with
    insufficient allowance in it for the costs of
    producing materials and of dissemination.
  • Commission notified decisions, e.g budget cuts.
  • There are problems with IT, including inadequate
    hardware and lack of technical expertise.
  • Senior managers in the partner institutions do
    not back the project.
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