Leonardo da Vinci Partership Action: a new opportunity

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Leonardo da VinciPartership Action a new
opportunity
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Definition

• A Leonardo da Vinci Partnership is a framework
  for small scale cooperation activities between
  organisations working in the field of vocational
  education and training (VET), which will be
  cooperating on themes of mutual interest to the
  participating organisations.

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Characteristics

• Projects can focus more on the active
  participation of trainees, while others will
  concentrate on the cooperation between teachers,
  trainers or VET professionals.
• The cooperation may not only include VET schools
  or institutions but also enterprises, social
  partners or other VET stakeholders.
• They can cooperate at national, regional or local
  level, but also at sectoral level, such as within
  VET-fields or economic sectors.

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Who can benefit

• Partnerships are open for all organisations
  working in the field of VET
• Institutions or organisations providing learning
  opportunities in the fields covered by the
  Leonardo da Vinci sectoral programme
• Associations and representatives of those
  involved in vocational education and training,
  including trainees, parents and teachers
  associations
• Enterprises, social partners and other
  representatives of working life, including
  chambers of commerce and other trade
  organisations
• Bodies providing guidance, counselling and
  information services relating to any aspect of
  lifelong learning
• Bodies responsible for systems and policies
  concerning any aspect of lifelong learning
  vocational education and training at local,
  regional and national level
• Research centres and bodies concerned with
  lifelong learning issues
• Higher education institutions
• Non-profit organisations, voluntary bodies, NGOs
• The content of the partnership activities
• has to be clearly VET related.

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Activities supported

• Exchange of experiences and good practice
• Cooperation on specific subjects / sectors
• Producing something in common
• Exchange- of staff- of trainers and trainees
  (LdV)

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Topics for cooperation

• In principle all topics in the VET field are
  suitable for a Leonardo daVinci Partnership. Some
  examples
• Development of guidance and advice on VET
• Opening VET to flexible pathways and create
  better conditions for transition to working life
• Reinforce or create closer links of VET with
  working life
• Promoting the recognition of non-formal and
  informal learning
• Responding to the needs of the labour market,
  particularly of SMEs, anticipation of skills
  needed in labour market
• Improve the qualification of teachers and
  trainers
• Support the implementation of Quality assurance
  in VET
• Cooperate in the area of transparency of VET
  systems (i.e. ECVET, EQF, Europass)
• Support the development of national
  qualifications frameworks in relation to EQF
• Cooperate to test and apply common concepts
  developed at European level with the aim to
  achieve a spreading at the level of the actors
  on the ground.

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Duration

• 2 years
• No possibility to postpone the deadline

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Eligible partnership

• Cooperation between at least 3 partners from 3
  different countries participating in the
  lifelong learning programme
• (at least one EU Member State)

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Selecting procedure 1

• Eligibility
• each member of the partnership send the
  application to its NA common application for
  all the partners
• each NA assess the eligibility of any
  applications received
• not eligible application will be excluded this
  may reduce the eligible number of partners
  causing the exclusion of the application from the
  quality assessment

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Eligibility criteria (see the cheklist in the
Application form)

• Respect of the deadline
• Use of the correct application form
• Not hand written
• Application completed in full
• Application completed in the language of the
  Partnership
• Cooperation between at least 3 partners from 3
  different countries (at least one EU Member
  State)
• Eligible institution according tot he guidelines
• Partnership type and grant amout are included
• Signe of the legal representative of the
  applicant institution or a person duly authorised
• Respect of the national priorities/eligible
  criteria

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Selecting procedure 2

• Quality assessment
• NA of Coordinating organisation assess the
  quality of the application
• Two evaluator will assess the application (at
  least one internal to the AN and one external)
• The assessment is based on the European quality
  assessment criteria which may include European
  and national priorities
• The list of selected project is based of the
  quality assessment score and the financial
  capacity of the NA

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Award criteria

• Quality of the workplan
• Quality of the partnership
• European added value
• Relevance
• Impact
• Quality of the valorisation plan

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Quality of the workplan

• Clear, realistic and relevant project aims
• Coherence among workplan, project aims and
  partnership
• Project tasks are well identified and distributed
  among partners
• Project tasks are distributed in order to
  guarating the achievement of the project outcomes

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Quality of the partnership

• Partners involvement is adeguate and well
  balanced
• Adeguate and coherent actions have been
  identified guaranting the necessary communication
  and cooperation among partners

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European added value

• Impact and benefits coming from the european
  cooperation to the project partners are clear and
  well identified

Relevance

• Application contains clear references to the
  priorities of the Call and the Leonardo da Vinci
  programme objectives

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Impact

• Expected impact on participating institutions is
  clear and well identified
• Partners agreed on the adoption of a common and
  adeguate monitoring system in order to check the
  achievement of the project aims and the expected
  impact

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Quality of the valorisation plan

• Planned dissemination and valorisation actions
  are relevant and well identified
• Planned dissemination and valorisation actions
  guaranting the correct involvement of the
  participating institution as well as the
  stakeholders

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In summary

• A Partnership proposal has to contains
• Clarity of aims and expected impact
• Realistic and concrete workplan
• Coherence of aims, activities and budget
• Balanced partnership and distribution of tasks
• Adeguate evaluation and dissemination actions

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Budget issues

• The grant is given as a lump sum
• The amount depends on the number of mobilities
  (Partnership type 4, 8, 12 or 24 mobilities in
  two years)
• The amount given is different from country to
  country,
• Example for Italy
• 4 mobilities - 6000
• 8 mobilities - 12000
• 12 mobilities - 18000
• 24 mobilities - 24.000
• contact your own NA

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Definition of transnational mobility

• A mobility is a trip abroad carried out in the
  framework of the Partnership either to a partner
  institution or to an event organised by a LLP (or
  predecessor programme) project or network.
• One trip by one person is counted as one
  mobility.
• The same person may carry out several mobilities
  during the Partnership duration.
• There is no minimum or maximum requirement for
  the length of mobility.
• Only transnational mobility (i.e. travel abroad)
  counts for the calculation of the minimum
  mobility numbers.

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Report

• Progress Report
• Beneficiary is requested to send a progress
  report to the NA using the model provided by the
  EC services
• Final Report
• Within 60 calendar days after the final end date
  of the action the beneficiary must send a final
  report to the NA, using the model provided by the
  EC services. This report will be considered as
  the beneficiary's request for payment of the
  balance of the grant

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Payment arrangements

• Pre-financing
• Within 45 calendar days of the entry into force
  of the agreement, the beneficiary shall receive a
  pre-financing payment representing 80 of the
  total maximum grant amount
• Payment of the Balance
• Within 45 calendar days of approval of the final
  report the NA shall issue the balance payment

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EST Database- European Shared Treasure -

• WHAT IS EST?
• European on-line documentary system for
  cooperation experiences within Comenius,
  Grundtvig and Leonardo da Vinci subprogramme
• An interacting and distributed database of
  projects and products
• A dissemination tool aiming at tranferring
  projects results
• WHAT ARE THE EST AIMS?
• EST will allow, new project applicants, project
  coordinators, teachers and trainers, decision
  makers, researchers, to have access to the
  experiences carried out by beneficiaries all over
  Europe
• It will also provides visibility to the projects
  results

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Deadline for submission of applications
February 20th 2009
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Thanks for your attention!