jeudi 27 juillet 2023

Be.Bo.P. THE END OF A TUNNEL !

Some good news for the "Beyond Boundaries'" team. Our partnership is accepted by the ERASMUS+  French agency.

Even if we are also disappointed because it is not the case for another  project  we wanted to be held by a NGO (however it was said by the ERASMUS+ staff they wanted new actors involved in the school partnerships). Perhaps we may redo the application in the future with some changes asked by the National Agency.


Concerning ALL CITIZENS project we'll try to initiate some remote works to prepare a future cooperation.


For new partners in Be.Bo.P we are supposed to apply the timeline .




dimanche 16 juillet 2023

CHECKING OF THE eVe+ MOBILITIES (Note de COORDINATION INTERNATIONALE n°19)

  IC19 note / Le 16/07/23

Le cinquième élément : connaître les Forces de la Nature et produire une énergie durable 2020-2023



Hello Friends. As I am just beginning to complete the eVe+ final report, I have first checked the mobilities done by the partners as it is reported in Mobility Tool. You can tell me if something seems wrong for you. The issue is to obtain all of the remaining funds (20% of the total the EU promised us) : some reductions will be probably applied to schools due to missing mobilities, even if I may try to explain the context was difficult enough.

BEST REGARDS AND ENJOY HAPPY HOLIDAYS ! 

Pierre-Laurent (Project Manager)





OBJECTIFS en termes de mobilités / mobilities to be implemented in the duration of eVe+

I - Réunions Transnationales - Transnational Meetings

Three external events and one local meeting were scheduled in the eVe+ Timeline: nine outing mobilities must be done eventually.





The risk is a reduction of your grants (a possible issue concerning only Cluj-Napoca and Cesme since the other teams had implemented 9 adults mobilities as said in the common application).

The lost amounts may be :

760 € for Turkish team (the cost of the funds promised to you in order go to France since you were two representatives in R3 instead of three people).

760 + 575 € for Romanian team (you were two people in Cesme instead of three, the same situation when you came to France after the cancellation of your travel to Riga for C1).

As the change of the destination (R01 for R1) made the flights and travel prices were inflated and due to the economic crisis, I shall ask to the Agency if we can avoid any sanction, but it was a rule in the old system (KA2 before 2022) to check the number of mobilities and to punish the schools if somes were missing ; probably you know you have missing mobilities and you do remember the warnings notes I sent you in relation with this problem (mainly the INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION NOTES IC 14 / IC 6 but also the W3 issues during R1 meeting – all these information putted online in both NBE+ website or blogspot). The pandemic, but also exams and reformations tried by our governments sometimes did not help us.



II – Voyages d'études / short-term exchanges of students

Two study travels were planned, theoretically for 10 pupils (5+5) and four teachers (2+2) except in the case of Cesme (15 pupils, six staffs, three outing events). Some partner schools succeeded to add mobilities more (to incresase the students crew or the number of adults). It was a challenge due to the always heavier costs. In my opinion it should be a pity if Turkish team loose a grant due to one staff mobility missing in R4 since two more were implemented in the framework of study travels C1 and C2  !


pics: C3 Study Travel's report

NOTA BENE: Final Report must be done before the end of September

jeudi 13 juillet 2023

TRAINING SESSION IN CANARIAS / GREEN FOR FUTURE June, 2023

 report by LP

« FOR GREEN CITIZENS » ERASMUS + PROJECT

FRENCH TRANSLATION AND MORE PICS 
IN NBE+WEBSITE (click on the landscape above)



TEACHER MOBILITY – « GREEN FUTURE » COURSE - IDEVELOP


In June 2023, Mrs Petoin and

Fabisch participated in a staff mobility Erasmus + project in Tenerife. They took part to the

course titled « Green Future » completely taught in English that allows them to learn more

about environmental and social issues (refering to the 17 sustainable development goals)

and pedagogical strategies to teach them to their students.

What did they do?

They were taught about different aspects of the sustainable development goals and the

way to teach them to their students : teaching sustainability in classroom, responsible

consumption and production, fast fashion, plastic pollution, greenwashing, circular

economy. For instance, they visited an hotel showing sustainable aspects of their working.

What did they learn ?

- Fluency in sustainable development specific vocabulary in English

- Tools for implementing sustainable projects of varying scale with students : challenges

using social networks, collection of invasive plants or waste on the beach and in the forest,

discovery of applications to educate on sustainable development, quizzes, debates, role-

playing.

- Knowledge, challenges and solutions on the different themes of responsible consumption

and production, fast fashion, plastic pollution, greenwashing, circular economy.


What did they get ? An Europass

dimanche 2 juillet 2023

6th general assembly of the ILARGIA LEAGUE of European Teachers - reports and game changers

 


L'Assemblée Générale ordinaire du 23 juin 2023 s'est réunie à Getaria. 40 adhérents se trouvaient à jour de leur cotisation et étaient donc suceptibles de prendre part aux travaux et de s'exprimer, en direct ou à distance. 27 membres ont participé aux votes (11 ayant donné procuration à cette fin).

   

L'AG a confirmé toutes les adaptations déjà discutées dans le cadre du CA pour rendre la LIGUE ILARGIA capable de porter un projet ERASMUS+  voire faciliter son intervention en tant qu'intermédiaire chargé de gérer les subventions forfaitaires payées par le Lycée Ravel (ou toute école secondaire qui en ferait la demande et dont le Bureau jugerait que celle-ci est recevable).

Le rapport moral a été approuvé à l'unanimité et l'on a discuté par ailleurs de l'avenir (un colloque moins improvisé que celui mis en place en juin est prévu l'an prochain: ce pourrait être l'occasion de retourner en Catalogne si l'ACESC le souhaite)


The Ordinary General Meeting of June 23, 2023 met in Getaria. 40 members were up to date with their dues and were therefore likely to take part in the work and express themselves, live or remotely. 27 members took part in the votes (11 having given power of attorney for this purpose).

     

 

The GA confirmed all the adaptations already discussed within the framework of the CA to make the ILARGIA LEAGUE capable of carrying out an ERASMUS+ project or even facilitating its intervention as an intermediary responsible for managing the lump sum grants paid by the Lycée Ravel (or any school secondary school which requests it and which the Bureau seems to be admissible).


   
     
     


The moral report was unanimously approved and we also discussed the future (a less improvised symposium than the one set up in June is planned for next year: this could be an opportunity to return to Catalonia if the ACESC wishes)


FIND ON LINE:

MORE ABOUT THE 6th GA and the GETARIA GENIUS 2023 IN THE ILARGIA BLOGSPOT

THE REPORT ON THE LECTURES AND ACTIVITIES IN THE ILARGIA WEBSITE

The 4th international symposium organized by the league was centered on the following question

FROM INTERSECTORAL TO INTERCULTURAL  APPROACHES: WHAT EVOLUTIONS IN THE NEW INNOVATIVE EUROPEAN SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP?







INTERNATIONAL NOTE IC18 / IMPACTS AND INDICATORS: FINAL REPORT TO WRITE FOR THE eVe+ TEAM

 

Note de COORDINATION INTERNATIONALE n°18 IC18 note / Le 02/07/23

Le cinquième élément : connaître les Forces de la Nature et produire une énergie durable 2020-2023


Hello my dear friends.

First I am praying you to accept the expression of all my gratitude for your help in the implementation of this partnership, that the Pandemic and other sad events made more complicated to implement than we first did hope. « Super Beetle » is now requested in order to write our final report and permit us to obtain as sooon as possible the total amount of the grants promised by the EU (let's cross fingers).

I think the French Erasmus+ Agency shall let us three months to complete the report and agents can wait for three months more before to pay the schools. But our common interest is to do it as quick as possible so I am begging your pardon by now, in the case I should be boring once again and send to you some questionaires during this summer so before you'll go back to school (?)

Anyway, if you have both drawings or graphic novels in your local stocks, please share its in order to enrich the collection published on our public website names Quintessence. I hope to see you again very soon, in some genial future cooperations (both the projects ACMÉ and Be.Bo.P are KA2 partnershipswich may concern you,and we'll keep in touch by eTwinning in the worst case. ILARGIA LEAGUE was also done to overcome some white periods in our relationships !).

You know how the intersectoral approach promoted by the EU and its demand for a break down of the collaborative works (fragmented in packages) in the same time an opening to different entities (not schools) was also claimed seemed me very pertubating. But we may be also optimistic and, for example, I consider the new opportunities created by the changing framework of KA2 goals will perhaps permit to do not so short meetings then the 3 days long seminars like R4 we just finished to implement, in wich it's really difficult to talk with everybody and to have enough of collective chilling moments.


Pierre-Laurent Vanderplancke / the International Coordinator



DISSEMINATION AND R4 OVERVIEWS IN THE INTERNET


QUINTESSENCE WEBSITE IS FOR PUBLIC PROPAGANDA AND PROMOTION OF OUR RESULTS (DRAWINGS CONTEST AND SO ON).

R4 meeting's report is available on

http://quintessence.franceserv.eu/eve-partnership-2020-2023/reports/test/74-r4-sustainability-meeting

Please give me a copy if your participation in eVe+ was shown in local medias as newspapers, TV.. in order to esit it in the NEWS part of the site.



NBE+ IS THE COORDINATION WEBSITE FOR PARTICIPANTS (both you project holders and students) AND EDITED AS A PART OF Cité Scolaire Ravel's SPOT ON LINE

R4 meeting's pics and outcomes are available on

http://nbeplus.franceserv.eu/eVeR4.html


ILARGIA LEAGUE SHOWCASE IS AVAILABLE FROM http://ilargia.franceserv.eu/



IMPACTS AND INDICATORS


As we have seen during WORKSHOP 3, we must explain in the final report how we are doing now to check if these impacts are or not realized ; then to describe the reasons why we changed some of the goals and/or we were not able to target the goals. It is also a good point if we can show the Quality Control was made gradually and we were reactive and flexible in order to stay relient.You can find in NBE+ the list of all the objective and subjective indicators we planned to use before the implementation of energyplusQUINTESSENCE erasmus+ partnership (available on this page http://nbeplus.franceserv.eu/EVEprefig2.html); it can be interesting to compare with the analysis made on june 24 by people taking part in R4 meeting.


-the most EXPECTED IMPACTS were, at the beginnings :
1. Progress in academic performance and “well-being” for learners
2. Disciplinary decompartmentalization and better teamwork by teachers and learners
(re-legitimizing the assessment process, if necessary)
3. Debates on artistic expression or civics issues
4. Incentive for the material upgrading of the establishment
5. Reinforced integration into the network of local establishments
6. Better understanding of Sustainable Development through the prism of the unity of matter and living things
7. Sustainability of international and European openness by maintaining established personal relationships over time, implementing other projects and / or individual mobility beyond the partnership


-the results of the completion of questionaires made the 24th: all the impacts seems to be felt thanks to the following indicators :

1. students school performance and motivation in getting better results in exams and contests / Upgraded intercultural comunication skills, foreign language, digital and soft skills. Students updated and complimented their natural sciences knowledge / better school performance and motivation

2. They made new friends, and adapted a possitive attitude towards enviremental issues / Higher tolerance, new friendships (networking) / Better teamwork, social skills

3. Sense of empathy, responsibility and cooperation / Students are able to use different methods to create artistic works (AI, drawing, canva.com etc) / Artistic output through values of empathy and responsibility

4. Changes integration in the school curriculum / School upgraded and included some new learning methods and approaches / Integration in the school curriculum

5. Support from local authorities / Cooperation with the local NGO and schools / Support and collaboration with local authoration

6. Students became more aware of the pollutions and global warming / Students got better understanding and wider perspective of the proceses of Sustainable Development / Increased awareness as to global warming, climate change / Personal relationships and continuation of upcoming projects

7. The continuation of the projects and relationships / New friendships with future plans for further cooperation / impeccable experience


and...

STRONGEST IMPACTS ACCORDING TO THE PROJECT HOLDERS:

Students developed social, linguistic and I.T.C skills / Awkward communication / People made a bridge across the « credibility gap » appeared beween school and learners as a consequence of the COVID

ABOUT THE MEETINGS MADE REMOTELY IN THE FUTURE KA2 PARTNERSHIPS : A big challenge for everybody, with some particular risks ; « Sometimes some technical inconveniences ( voice quality ) / remote meetings are less productive with lack of personal interaction » but « it could be solution in crisis times »

MAKING OFF A BRIDGE BETWEEN SCIENCES, HULANITIES AND ARTS TO APPLY THE Noah METHOD'S GOALS : aim was targeted for 100% of answering people ; « It is for sure because of the harmonization of values between cultures and partners / Yes, it was a unique experience!


SATISFACTION OF PUPILS AND TEACHERS : Great! (bad weather's effects on several ground activities is a challenge notified only by the Latvian team). Financial problems due to inflation are mainly : the increasing prices of accomodation and transportation.


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