SOCIAL WORKVIRTUAL CAMPUS

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SOCIAL WORK-VIRTUAL CAMPUS

• International specialisation in comparative
  social work. A presentation of the SW-VirCamp
  project.

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Presentation by

• XX
• XX
• At the XXX V

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Agenda (each presenter pick what he/she want to
use)

• About SW-VirCamp
• Backdrop for the project
• From VIRCLASS to VirCamp
• Aims and objectives
• International specialisation in Social Work
• Target groups
• Funding
• Organisation
• Workpackages and deliverables

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About the SW-VirCamp

• SOCIAL WORK VIRTUAL CAMPUS (SW-VirCamp)
• An international collaboration between 12 HE
  institutions from 9 countries
• Bergen University College (HiB) is the leader of
  the project
• Support from the European Community under the
  LifeLong Learning Programme (Virtual Campus
  programme)
• Duration October 2008 September 2010
• A continuation of the VIRCLASS project

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Partners in SW-VirCamp

• P1- HiB Bergen University College, Norway
  (coordinator)
• P2- INH Inholland University of Applied
  Sciences, the Netherlands
• P3- UCM University of Complutense, Madrid, Spain
  
• P4- HHJ School of Health Sciences, Jönköping
  University, Sweden
• P5- ISMT Miguel Torga University College,
  Coimbra, Portugal
• P6- HSM Mannheim University of Applied
  Sciences, Germany
• P7- Swansea Swansea University, Wales, UK
• P8- HSM Mittweida University of Applied
  Sciences, Germany
• P9- LPA Liepaja University, Latvia
• P10-HIBO Bodø University College, Norway
• P11-ULHT Lusofona University, Lisbon, Portugal
• P12-KHKempen KHKempen University College, Geel,
  Belgium

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SOCIAL WORK-VIRTUAL CAMPUS

• Backdrop for the SW-VirCamp project.

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Continuing the collaboration in VIRCLASS

• The Virtual Classroom for social work in Europe
  -The VIRCLASS project started in 2004
• An e-learning course in comparative social work,
• credited with 15 ECTS
• 5th cohort will start autumn 2009
• More than 200 students from 15 countries have
  participated in the course
• 15 teachers from 10 land have been teachers and
  assessors in the course
• 10 teachers have taken the course e-pedagogy for
  teachers in higher education

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Why did we wish to undertake the new project?

• The situation in Europe affect the professional
  social work and should be met by new educational
  programmes. Because
• Labour migration
• Immigration to EU
• Cultural Diversity
• Poverty
• Alcohol- drug abuse
• Child and family problems
• Common challenges all over Europe demand
  intercultural co-operations and development of
  methods to strengthen social cohesion and reduce
  ethnocentrism and social exclusion

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Objectives for the SW-VirCamp

• Campus without borders
• The overall aim of VirCamp is that social work
  students will be more competent to meet the need
  of a knowledge based, intercultural, socially
  cohesive Europeans society, by means of an
  international specialisation on Bachelor level in
  social work realised via a Virtual Campus

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Aims objectives for the SW-VirCamp

• Develop a shared/ tuned framework for an
  international BA specialisation in Social Work
• Make a e-learning module in Community Work in an
  international perspective credited with 15 ECTS
  Bologna aligned and within relevant Quality
  Standard
• Create digital learning material for this module
• - screen-lectures, triggers, a case
• Pilot an execution of the new CW Module in the
  VIRCLASS setting for 55 students spring 2010
• Disseminate knowledge and information about the
  project to all user groups
• Quality assurance

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An international BA specialisation in Social
Work

• Optional Curriculum to BA students in Social Work
  including
• Intake at the national University
• From the 2nd or 3rd year of study
• 30 ECTS credits international comparative
  e-learning courses
• 30 ECTS credits study abroad and or practice
  abroad
• Writing the BA thesis about social work in an
  international comparative perspective in English
  or with an English summary

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Target groups

• Students
• Teaching staff
• Technical /Media staff
• Social University network and other university
  net-work
• Social work professionals

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Budget project period

• 2 years project starting in October
  2008-September 2010
• Total Cost 405 788 Euro
• EU Community Grant 300 000 Euro
• Member funding 105 788

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Project Organisation
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Work Packages (WP) development and management
(partners in charge in brackets)

• WP 1 Virtual Campus for international Social
  Work (P2)
• WP2 A new e-learning module in comparative
  Community Work (P4)
• WP 3 Virtual learning material (P1)
• WP4 Project management (P1)

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WP Exploitation- Quality Planning- Dissemination
(partners in charge in brackets)

• WP5 Exploitation of results towards decision
  makers and students (P6)
• WP 6 Quality Assurance of the Virtual Campus for
  Social Work (P3)
• WP7 Dissemination of Virtual Campus for Social
  Work (P3)

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22 deliverables altogether

• Deliverables are task that have to be done in
  order to reach the realisation of the work
  packages.
• All partners have different roles in fulfilling
  the deliverables

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References

• SW-VirCamp www.vircamp.net
• VIRCLASS www.virclass.net
• Publications based upon the experiences from the
  VIRCLASS project are available at
• http//virclass.net/index.php?actionstaticid6