#ERASMUSDAYS 2024: a special event in LYCÉE RAVEL

 GREEN BORDERS, OPEN FRONTIERS?

ALSO AN OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE THE

FGC PROGRAM: EXCHANGES OF STUDENTS BETWEEN NORWAY AND FRANCE AND STUDY TRAVELS CENTERED ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: SEE THE LAST TRIP'S REPORT IN NBE+

BB19 - LEADS FOR C3 MOBILITY / EXPLORE THE FRONTIERS BETWEEN KNOWN AND UNKNOWN IN CLUJ-NAPOCA

 

BeBoP19 (Be.yond.Bo.undaries: People) 11/09/2024

Nineteenth INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION note BB19

INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION / September 2024

« Beyond Bondaries : People » partnership - Quality Control

C3 GOALS from the 4^th to the 10^th of November in Cluj-Napoca

WP 1 – Management

C4 must be definitively scheduled. At this time, we have no guarantee about the possibility to send our progress report we prepared in june, 2024 before march. In the eventuality, it means we cannot obtain the second part of the European money we are still waiting for before next summer. So all school partners must fund the C4 mobiliy with their own ressources before to be repaid later. In fact, it is the normal way of the implementation of ERASMUS+ cooperative actions. The National Agency staff is no more so optimistic it was last year: it is staying now in the belief the commission will not change her payment calendar, which is mentioned in the Be.Bo.P contract. If most of the partner schools can find a solution to involve even a little delegation in the cooperative activity located in Portugal, I do think the best is to maintain C4 as it was in the original plan; It shall be indeed possible for one of the partners to add some people more later, in the following meetings, to make a compensation if both its learners and teachers are not implicated in C4 – we sometimes did this sort of things in the past ! But anyway the travel to Montijo was only presumed to be done from the 17th to the 21st of March and the dates must absolutely be confirmed.

Note the alternative could consist of postponing C4 LTTA from the beginning to the end of 2025: it's a big risk because doing like that means we do not apply the plan – first criterion to be supported by the commission without any penalty! And in addition we will waste time and have problems to finish our documentary film (but we have already lost our expert and will have to do by ourself most of the works!). Last inconvenient in this eventuality : we have to implement 3 meetings in the same school year 2025-2026: perhaps it is too much for our headmaster and he will not accept?

Please think on it before, see with your managers how it is possible to make without any new grant.. we need to take a resolution in Cluj. And it could be keeping the original date in March or in Springtime even if we cannot be all together in the meeting.

A little symposium must be implemented at the same time we'll do the 7^th General Assembly of the ILARGIA League of Teachers created in 2018. It should be very kind if all of you agree to take part in. It will be centered on the question : why a project (or a candidacy) is bad rated by EU evaluators ? (As Genius 2022 in Cluj was focused on Good Projects, Scholar 2024 can target the problems we have with the changes in the ERASMUS+ process and present the challenges we must overcome for enhance our chances in the future selections and ensure the quality of the results of our ongpoing project. As a sample of things we must meliorate : the field trips during the LTTA must be motivated by activities : ie if we go from Cluj to Alba Iulia during C3 study travel, it is for our students (dispatched in some international teams) make some interviews of tourists, migrants, politics (I do not know if we'll do this activity it is only a sample of the necessity to present every day as a transnational educational session and not as a touristic journey!)

WP 3 – VERS L'INFINI ET AU DELÀ

A situation point is necessary about Scientific topics in the project (A7-A8) and the progress of partners. We hope the Turkish team will give during C3 the tools for each local coordinator to feed the national section in the Be.Bo.P explorer blog (A9) with art (drawings) or History (exploration and discoveries) and the productions made in Python language may have a beginning very soon.

WP 2 – SUR LES FRONTIÈRES

No deliverables to be done separately in order to be presented to other schools in Romania (this way of share was only appropriated for C1 and C2 meetings). Some of the students can make a quick comment on the international coworkings we remotely produced in the framework of the last ERASMUS MOB (in attachment) but the most useful contribution should consist each school making of a few interviews in English made at home we should perhaps put in the documentary. If you have time enough to prepare it, your students can show some presentations devoted to Science History and/or the limits between Known and Unknown as indicated in our schedule (activity 6,1). Or teachers will make a short report.

WP 4 – DANS TOUT LE ROYAUME

Producing some local video interviews and surveys on : travel, migration and borders is the priority (A10,1) in this phase and for the C3 agenda
Online courses by our cineast expert are probably forever cancelled (the reason is we cannot pay him) ; perhaps the Romanian team can find some local ressources for aworkshop with the aim of collecting some ideas from learners to prepare the documentay film's pitch ? I let Ramona and Monica take the decision about. Perhaps we can open an idea box online and/or prepare a videoconference centered on this topic (#Erasmusdays in october can be an opportunity to organize some virtual talks ?).

IN ATTACHMENT:

the debrief of the remote workshops we did in May and a lead for next year is to join the SEE.SHORE eTwinning to enhance the dissemination of the part of the job we use to do online in the framework of Be.Bo.P

Hoping these suggestions and reminders may have the Colegiul economic « Iulian Pop » to imagine the next located cooperative activity C3.

BEST REGARDS / Pierre-Laurent VANDERPLANCKE

BB18 / THE SECOND SCHOOL YEAR PROGRAM FOR Be.Bo.P

 

BeBoP18 (Be.yond.Bo.undaries: People) 20/08/2024

Eighteenth INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION note BB18

INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION / August 2024

« Beyond Bondaries : People » partnership - Quality Control

REMINDERS

1 – Educational context

C3 cooperative activity was definitively fixed (as written after the remote seminar R2 in +IC17 note) and it will be implemented in Cluj-Napoca from the 4th to the 8th of november (5 days / plus 2 travel days you can add if necessary). French partners will come as a little squad (2 teachers and only 2 students) to avoid to waste money as costs are increasing... Learners will have first, in Cluj, to produce some interviews of migrants or foreigners, refugees, tourists.. or people acting as experts in frontiers' reality or witnesses (expats, minority members, and so on) and we hope the Romanian teachers will find selected people ready to answer to questions asked by our students. My aim is to be more efficient in the number of videos we'll manage to edit in english and to share.

The second phase is now opening : one question will be: the frontier between Science and Unknown (specially in the framework of the mobility in Transylvania) and another subject will interest us: exploration of limits and the History of Frontiers (mainly studied in Montijo) but the first transversal goal in this school year is beginning to develop « Be.Bo.P explorer » especially thanks to Maths and Science teachers. A training by Turkish team should be useful to be implemented in Cluj to show to users how they can fill the website (i.e. publishing some drawings/contents).

Concerning methodology : cross presentations made in the past in the context of Module 2 (SUR LES FRONTIÈRES) and sometimes presented during the travels were a way to begin the cooperative process during the first school year but are no more very strategic. The priority must be : make students of different schools work together (and no more separately). That is the reason why productions in the WP2 may be, from now, remotely done together (and no more separately). My plan as LegendE+ webmaster is concretely to publish as samples of C3 deliverables in november the results of the remote workshops we have made in may (but no more any output made alone by one of the partner schools).

2 – Financial aspects

TOTAL SPENDS : DURING THE FIRST PHASE BY EACH PARTNER SCHOOL

Only fourty percent of the European Grants were paid to our schools but we did declare some very different levels of spends (French school used 70% of the total amount of promised funds and Portugal 44% but all the other partners spent less than the first payment they already obtained). Adding C3 must make the 40% of the total grants to be targeted by most of us...

CHALLENGES

1 – Our Periodic Report (and the « Euro Gap » situation)

It is presumed to be sent only in March, 2025 - and it's after the acceptation of our results that the National Agency eventually will pay the second part (40%) of the European Grants the commission did promise to give in order to support Be.Bo.P No way for me to write in advance the report progress (former name of this step in the Follow Up) except if a test tool is experimented. But it is not still the case even of BENEFICIARY MODULE tool is open : the managers of the French Agency have some talks with the UE technicians in Brussels but only the commission can make the test tool available or not. I did hope it should be done during the summer but actually nobody knows... National Agency seems now in doubt of any imminent solution.

According to our Financial Convention, we are supposed to wait for the second part of our money till June or July 2025 : it is up to us to make some advances or to find cofunding systems before the EU give us a remboursment.

It is theoretically the business of each school to deal with the problem but I am afraid a postponement of our activities may affect our partnerhip due to this lack of funds. Organize C4 in March in Portugal as it is in our scheduling table must be our common goal : this cooperative study travel shall not be efficient if some of the partners are not present ! But a delayment (hoping for all the schools joining the mobility implemented later) should be very difficult : three last travels will in this case stay be done in 2026, before the end of june ? A final decision must be taken during C3.

2 – Vers l'Infini...

Due to the same weakness of our financial support, we lost our expert Louis Fabriès. It means we have no more way to pay him for supporting in the future the documentary project. Perhaps he will accept to help us a little, freely... But it is not sure. I believe the work of writing and editing the film, entrusted to amateurs (in addition to the shooting) risks presenting many difficulties that have not yet been noticed until now. After C3 meeting we can implement a remote brainstorming to treat the question of the documentary scenario (after some first real debates made in Romania and perhaps the opening of an idea box as soon as we come back to school?) ; writing is to be finished in C4 according to the plan (reason why we selected two students for this job in our school who were already implicated at the beginnings of the Be.Bo.P partnership – present in C1). Each partner can identify human ressources in its area and film them to add the rushes to the final edit or contact them to introduce them to the European team as part of a localized "inbound" cooperation.

POST SCRIPTUM : my intention is to address you early in september the debrief of the remote workshops we did in May and a lead for next year is to join the SEE.SHORE eTwinning to enhance the dissemination of the part of the job we use to do online in the framework of Be.Bo.P

BEST REGARDS / Pierre-Laurent VANDERPLANCKE

DISSEMINATION OF THE ONGOING LYCÉE RAVEL'S EUROPEAN PROJECTS BY THE ILARGIA LEAGUE IN 2024

Deux numéros de la revue ILARGIA ont permis en 2024 de communiquer autour des projets portés par la Ligue du même nom et ses adhérent.e.s, dont les profeseur.e.s du Lycée Ravel. N°7 paru en janvier 2024 / hors-série n°8 sorti en juin.

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AN OVERVIEW ON THE E+L.o.L RESULTS AND ON THE BEGINNINGS OF BOTH Be.Bo.p (KA2 PARTNERSHIP) AND"Green across borders" (KA1 MOBILITY PROJECT) WERE VALORIZED IN THE 7TH FALL OF THE MAGAZINE, EDITED IN JANUARY 

THE 8th FALL (PUBLISHED IN JUNE) WAS CENTERED ON SOME TRANSNATIONAL COOPERATIVE ACTIVITIES REMOTELY IMPLEMENTED, IN THE FRAMEWOK OF eTwinnings AND THANKS TO "ERASMUS MOB" EVENT AND "ACMÉ 2024" COOPERATION

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