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Newsletter Nr. 1
Newsletter Nr. 1
June 2015
Project and
Partneship
---Work Done Till the
In this number:
1. Presentation of the project
2. Presentation of the partners
3. Work done till the end of May 2015
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This
publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Second Meeting
The Project
We will design and develop an online course called Getting Ready for European
Citizenship on-line (GRECOL) which is inspired by a previous Grundtvig partnership
project called Digital Classroom. During the project we observed, in adult learners
across this Grundtvig partnership a notable lack of European identity and a lack of
awareness of the wide range of European resources available to facilitate their
mobility and develop their sense of shared citizenship.
Once this new partnership was created with the participation of 7 adult organizations
from ES, GE, LV, IT, TR, UK, DK countries with diverse backgrounds but with common
motivations for changing adult education in EU, we started to develop the project.
European citizenship implies a closer, more emotional relationship that is rooted in
shared values, the celebration of diversity, and respect of different identities and the
protection of national heritages.
The proposed new course, comprised of 5 modules detailed below, may be offered in
online and blended-learning formats. In addition, the 5 modules may be
independently utilized as stand-alone materials or integrated into other courses
according to the individual needs of each educational context.
The structure of the subject Getting Ready for European citizenship (GRECOL) will
be:
1. M1.Developing a European identity
2. M2. European institutions and their functions
3. M3.European mobility
4. M4. Dealing with cultural diversity
5. M5. Final Project
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This
publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
The Project
The final product will be an OER material ready for be using for any adult institution
around Europe. During the third year of the project impact and dissemination will be
the main goal by sharing GRECOL as much as possible al local, national and
international level in platforms, congress, papers. And of course, using GRECOL as a
course, curricula, module or workshop in each one of the partnership' organizations
during the following years.
At the end of the project we hope to offer some solutions for the integration of adult
citizens in Europe to become e-citizens. Getting involved in joint projects as well as
increased mobility helps to develop this feeling of belonging. (For and active European
citizenship, White Paper 2011).
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This
publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
The methodology of the course is based on a model that develops its activities through
the web and on the web. The students become the center of the model and the
process of learning. The model is aware of the nature of the potential students. The
general features of e-activities are diversity, openness and flexibility and they contain
discussions, tasks, quizzes, surveys, and a final project using a varied range of digital
tools.
The Partnership
The IOC , which is the coordinating organisation in this project, was born in 2006
from three existing initiatives on distance learning managed by the Ministry of
Education of Catalonia:
The ICESD Institut Catal dEnsenyament Secundari a Distncia ( Compulsory and
secondary education distance learning)
Palau de Mar GES ( compulsory adult distance learning)
FP oberta (vocational training distance learning)
Nowadays, IOC is the institution of reference in Catalonia which reaches anyone who
wants to learn anywhere and anytime:
integrating all kinds of learning into only one institution.
promoting the offer of new formative activities and new learning demanded by our
society
public school of reference as a new and singular e-learning project
funding by the Educational Department of Catalonia and by the public registration
fees
Most of the students are adults (over 20) with other occupations and responsibilities
A small number are teenagers in special conditions (sportsmen, musicians, physically
handicapped people, students living abroad, situations of social deprivation)
The IOC has 3% of students from Catalonia
In vocational training, the number of students from all Catalonia is higher (7%)
FORMAL EDUCATION
Compulsory education: GES Graduate of secondary education (1st and 2on cycle),
8250 students.
Non-compulsory education:Bachillerat (Upper Secondary School), 2400 students.
VET Vocationaltraining (Middle and higher degree) 12300 students.
School of languages 4900 students.
NON-FORMAL EDUCATION
Courses of preparation for entrance examinations: CFGM (Middle degree vocational
training),
CFGS (Higher degree vocational training), University
Other (Cisco)
A team of 110 teachers (full time) and 485 assistant teachers (part time) in
collaboration with more than 500 support schools attending more than 30.000
students around Catalonia.
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This
publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
The Partnership
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This
publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
The Partnership
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This
publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Italy
The Partnership
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This
publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
The Partnership
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This
publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
The Partnership
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This
publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
The Partnership
VUC Storstrm
Nykbing
Denmark
VUC Storstrm is a modern, self-governing Adult Education Center (VUC) under the Danish
Ministry of Education. Regionally we belong in the Region Zealand along with three other Adult
Education Centers. We offer general adult education to the citizens. Our mission is to improve
adult citizens general knowledge and skills from very basic level to upper secondary level with the
purpose also to give formal competences for further education.
About 5000 citizens attend our courses every year and we have a staff of 180 teachers and 50
other staff.
VUC Storstrm gives lessons in the following subjects:
Basic adult education in Danish and Mathematics (pre-courses)
General adult education equal to lower secondary school
Higher preparatory examination courses at upper secondary level
Global Classroom - Flexible Higher preparatory examination courses (videoconference)
Web-based learning at upper secondary level (Distance learning)
Special training for dyslexic people
believes in an educational milieu that builds on responsibility, cooperation and respect. We focus
on digitalization and international cooperation, and have high standards in our educational and
professional skills.
Most of the teaching takes place in normal classes of 25-30 participants, but we also offer flexible
courses as e-learning, or as so called parallel-teaching where two or more classes are connected
via a real presence video conference system. During the last 3 years a new video conference
platform has been developed giving possibility for student to participate active in live teaching also
from their homes. The platform supports individual video conference and contains also recording
features. This development including not least the training of the teachers has been supported by
the European Social Fund. To support the skills of the teachers on innovation of the use of video
and other ICT in teaching VUC Storstrm has formed a partnership with The research lab: IT &
LearningDesign (ILD), Department of Learning and Philosophy at Aalborg University, Copenhagen.
More than 40 teachers are working with video and video conferencing in their teaching on a daily
basis.
VUC Storstrm has developed and heads the regionally supported Knowledge Center for Applied
ICT in Education. The other partners are regional universities, vocational educational center and
the school sector of municipalities. Here developers and dedicated teachers meet and they
develop and share on ICT supported teaching. What is developed is shared to colleagues and to all
interested schools in the region and to the network of the partners. Among other the themes are
Video conferencing in teaching, Video casts in teaching and guidance, creative use of Learning
Management Systems and use of devises like phones and tablets in the classroom.
VUC Storstrm has a strategy for investment in technology. All classroom are equipped with
interactive boards and free wifi, and in the each of the 6 localities (department schools) there are
1 - 3 classrooms with Global Classroom (real presence video conference). The school has its own
video conference server, capture station and streaming server and skilled staff on both design of
classrooms, management of video conference for teaching and implementation of these servers in
the ordinary school ICT network.
VUC Storstrm believes in an educational milieu who builds on responsibility, cooperation and
respect. We focus on development and international cooperation, and have high standards in our
educational and professional skills.
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This
publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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Work Done
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This
publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
First Workshop
Meeting in Barcelona
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Work Done
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This
publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Second Workshop
Meeting in Freiburg
12
Work Done
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This
publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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Work Done
Beneficiaries responsible of IO must manage the IO and create 40% of the contents according
to the following table:
IO
ES
UK
GE
DK
TK
LV
IT
M1
40%
10%
10%
10%
10%
10%
10%
M2
10%
10%
40%
10%
10%
10%
10%
M3
10%
10%
10%
40%
10%
10%
10%
M4
10%
10%
10%
10%
40%
10%
10%
M5
10%
40%
10%
10%
10%
10%
10%
UG
10%
10%
10%
10%
10%
40%
10%
Assessment
40%
10%
10%
10%
10%
10%
10%
Dissemination
10%
10%
10%
10%
10%
10%
40%
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This
publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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Work Done
The activities carried out using the budget allocated for the administration and
implementation of the project, besides the development of the phase GRECOL1, are for
the dissemination of the project in each organization, in their webs, and in the creation
of accounts of twitter and facebook starting from the initial phase the project.
Activities are disseminated by each one of the organizations.
Activities of dissemination of the project outside the organizations:
IOC participated at the Sal de l'Ensenyament
(annual sessions lasting 3 days with the participation of the whole educational community
of Catalunya) offering the flyer and data on the project.
Equally, the support and collaboration centers of IOC in all Catalan territory give access to
the data of the project. The European Commission in Barcelona venue was also visited for
promoting the knowledge of the project and its future diffusion.
EUROPOLE-IT participated at Free Time University of the third Age of Isola della ScalaVerona, where the project was presented, as well as in other meetings of the organization
Europole at regional level.
In a Board of Directors meeting of Cercogem (member of Polo Europeo) Ivo Zambello and
Salvatore Filella talked and discussed about the Grecol project.
At the central office of a Bank (BCC Rovigobanca) Presentation of opportunities offered to
young people in Erasmus+ programme and illustration with examples on how the bank could
help participation in such sector programme.
PhFr-GE disseminated the project through the web of the University, among the staff, the
students and in scientific conferences.
AC-UK proposed the creation of an area in Google Sites for spreading data about the
project. This will contain data on the members of the project and more data related with the
project.
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This
publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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Work Done
The intention of carried out activities up to now seeks to develop the feeling of European
identity, based on common values, history and culture, as well as to improve tolerance and
mutual understanding among European citizens and to contribute to the intercultural
dialogue.
Everything that the project has designed in its initial phase and the activities established in
the phase GRECOL1 were fulfilled: general outline of the project, plan of work, distribution
of tasks, development of modules M1 and M2. Creation of contents on European identity
and European institutions. Creation of learning activities in line with the contents. Analysis
and selection of the on-line tools for the implementation of the course.
IOC that is responsible for M1 has started to introduce in high school classes some of the
activities that have been designed for testing them to assure that the work done can be
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This
publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This
publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.