Nordplus is the Nordic Council of Ministers' most important programme in the area of lifelong learni

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Framework 1

• Nordplus is the Nordic Council of Ministers' most
  important programme in the area of lifelong
  learning. More than 10,000 people in the Nordic
  region benefit from it every year.
• The Nordplus Framework Programme 2008-2011
  consists of four sub-programmes
• Nordplus Junior
• Nordplus Higher Education
• Nordplus Adult Learning
• Nordplus Horizontal

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Framework 2

• The Nordplus Framework Programme offers financial
  support to a variety of educational cooperation
  between partners in the area of lifelong learning
  from the eight participating countries in the
  Baltic and Nordic regions.
• The Framework programme supports mobility,
  project and network activities.
• In addition to the Nordplus Framework Programme,
  the Nordplus family also comprises a programme
  for cooperation in the area of the Nordic
  languages Nordplus Sprog.
• The total budget for The Nordplus Framework
  Programme in the first programme year, 2008, is
  63,7 MDKK 8,5 M EURO.

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Framework 3
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Higher Education

• The Exchange programme of the Nordic Council of
  Ministers, Nordiska Ministerrådet (Copenhagen)
• HÖGUT, the steering committee for higher
  education of the Nordic Council of Ministers
  decides on the programme for Higher Education
• New Sub-committees for each sub-programme
  decides on the money
• CIMO, Centre for International Mobility,
  Helsinki, operates the HE programme on commission
  of the Nordic Council of Ministers
• National agencies
• DK CIRIUS
• FI CIMO
• IS Internationella kontoret, Aljóaskrifstofa
  háskólastigsins
• NO SIU
• SE Internationella programkontoret för
  utbildningsområdet
• From 2008 EE ? LV ? LT ?
• Network based (Different from Erasmus)

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ACTIONS/ACTIVITIES

• Mobility
• scholarships for students, 200 / month
• scholarships for teachers, 355 / week
• travel support, maximum levels, networks decide
• Joint study master programmes (maximum 3 years)
• Mobility as above
• All other costs 50
• Intensive projects, IPs 50
• Support for networks (planning - creating -
  development - running) 50
• Other/supplementary co-operation activities 50

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MUSIC NETWORKS

• ESPANSIVA, classical students exchange
• SIBELIUS, classical teachers exchange, Ips and
  JSPs
• Nordpuls, jazz/pop/rock
• Nordtrad, folk/traditional music
• Pedagogical/ research, teaching, NNME
• EMD - Explorations in Music and Dance

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THE NORDPLUS YEAR

• FOR THE (central) NETWORK CO-COORDINATORS
• 1 March
• Deadline for application from each network
  (central coordinator) to CIMO, for activities
  next academic year.
• June (hopefully)
• The sub-committee of the Higher Education
  Programme decides on the money to all Nordpuls
  activities the next academic year. CIMO sends a
  letter to each network with the results of the
  application and contracts. CIMO pays 80 of the
  money when contracts are signed.
• The activities take place - mainly during an
  academic year.
• 1 November (next year)
• Deadline for report to CIMO from each network
  (central coordinator) to CIMO, of activities last
  academic year.
• CIMO pays the remaining 20 of the money.

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THE NORDPLUS YEAR

• January 10th
• Each school reports the preliminary/estimated
  exchange for next year as a base for the
  application. Schools who wants an IP, Joint
  Programme or an other activity have to deliver
  detailed plans as base for the application.
• March 1st
• Deadline for application from each network
  (central coordinator) to CIMO, for activities
  next academic year.
• March 1st
• Applications for student exchange next year
  shall be received by the partner school to where
  the students want to go.
• May
• The results of the admissions have to be sent to
  the sending schools by the receiving schools. If
  possible also copies directly to the students.
• May 15th
• Each school report the real number of student
  exchanges to the (central) network coordinator
  based on the result of the student admissions.
• May 31st
• Each school reports the exchange of the soon
  ending year to the coordinator. The IPs and other
  activities have to be reported to the central
  coordinator as soon as they have taken place, as
  base for the November report.

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THE NORDPLUS YEAR

• June (hopefully)
• The sub-committee of the Higher Education
  Programme decides on the money to all Nordpuls
  activities the next academic year. CIMO sends a
  letter to each network with the results of the
  application and contracts. CIMO pays 80 of the
  money when contracts are signed. The result is
  forwarded to all schools.
• The working groups hold meetings on how to
  distribute the money. The result of the local
  network distribution of grants will be announced.
• The activities take place. 80 of the money is
  paid to the schools.
• October/November
• Annual Network Meeting
• 1 November
• Deadline for report to CIMO from each network
  (central coordinator) to CIMO, of activities last
  academic year.
• CIMO pays the remaining 20 of the money, after
  which the institutions receive to remaining 20.

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THE NORDPLUS YEAR

• And then it starts over again
• and again
• and again