Keywords: Cursuri & Conferinte Finantari

Tags: pedagogy personal development education

The objective of this Action is to help improve the quality of school education by enabling staff to undertake training in a country other than that in which they normally work or live.

 In this way, participants are encouraged to improve their practical teaching/coaching/counselling/management skills and knowledge, and to gain a broader understanding of school education in Europe. The training activity must have a strong European focus in terms of subject matter and the profile of trainers and participants.

The training must in all cases take place in another country participating in the Lifelong Learning Programme and it must take the form of:
• a professional development structured course for school education staff with a strong European focus in terms of subject matter and profile of trainers and participants, lasting at least 5 full working days, or
• a placement or observation period (eg. "job shadowing") in a school, in industry or in a relevant organisation involved in school education (e.g. NGO, public authority), or
• a participation in a European conference or seminar organised by a Comenius Network, Comenius Multilateral Project, a National Agency or a representative European association active in the field of school education, where this is considered conducive to achieving the objectives mentioned above.

The training for which grants are awarded must relate to the candidate’s professional activities in any aspect of school education, for example:
- Practical teaching skills, techniques and methodologies
- The content and delivery of school education
- The management of school education
- The system/policy level of school education

The training should provide teachers with learning and teaching methodologies. For foreign language teachers, the training normally takes place in a country where the target language is spoken and taught. Participants in “pure language” courses are eligible for a Comenius grant only in the cases specified in the section 'Specific eligibility rules' below.

Grants are only awarded for participation in training which is suitable for achieving the applicant’s demonstrated in-service training objectives and which complies with the necessary quality criteria (e.g. appropriate to general Comenius objectives, European dimension and added value compared to training in the applicant’s home country).

An on-line database of training activities, known as the Comenius-Grundtvig Training Database, is available to help applicants identify training which is eligible for funding under this action and which best meets their training needs: http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/ However, applicants may also choose a training course which is not listed in the database, provided that it meets the necessary criteria. This will be determined by the relevant NationalAgency.

http://ec.europa.eu/education/llp/doc/call09/fiches_en.pdf

Deadline: 2009/01/16