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SOCRATES
 Comenius
  • European Cooperation on School Education


  • Jánosik Orsolya
  • Tempus Public Foundation/Socrates National Agency of Hungary
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Who was Comenius?
  • Born in what is today the Czech republic, Jan Amos Komensky (1592-1670) was a famous educator. He was a thinker, philosopher, writer and educator.
  • He strongly believed that the basis
  • of society should be an educated
  • citizenry. Schola ludus
  • or school through play - was the
  • main credo of his project for a new
  • type of school.
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Participating
countries
  •  31 participating countries


  • 25 EU countries
  • 3 EFTA countries
  • Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey
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Comenius – School education
  • Comenius 1
  •    School cooperations
  • Comenius 2
  •    Training of school education staff
      • Comenius 2.1 - Institutional cooperations
      • Comenius 2.2 – Individual training grants
  • Comenius 3
  •    Comenius Networks
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Comenius 1
School cooperation
  • 3 types of project


  • School projects
  • Language projects
  • School development projects


  •  Main charateristics


  • International cooperations
  • Equal partnerships
  • Jointly chosen themes
  • Continuous communication, cooperation
  • Common project product
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Comenius 2.1 projects
  • Training courses, curricula development, teaching strategies, methods, materials, promoting the mobility of student teachers


  • Projects in HU: 1998-2004
  • 100 projects with HU participation
  • Project fields: intercultural education, improving the quality of teacher education, and in-service training, language education…
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Comenius Networks
  • A new action in Socrates 2, was launched in 2000
  • Links between  other Socrates, Comenius projects
  • 15 projects in HU between 2001 and 2005
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Socrates/Comenius Projects
  • Transnational cooperation, intercultural dimension,
  • Mixed partnership,
  • Continuous communication, cooperation,
  • Endproduct,
  • Pressure of time,
  • Follow the original plan, continuous planning and revision
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Application
procedures
  • Partner search (http://partbase.programkontoret.se contact seminars, IST abroad, town twining, e-twinning…)
  • Preparatory visits (deadline: 10 weeks before the trip)
  • Joint preparation of application
  • deadline for decentralized projects: 1 February 2006, Project may be carried out bw: 1 August 2006- 31 July 2007
  • Deadline for centralized projects:
    • Pre-proposals: 1 November 2005
    • Main proposals: 1 March 2006
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Preparation of
applications
  • Preparatory visits
  • Elaboration of the jointly chosen theme
  • Workplan, budget
  • Before submitting the application always consult your own NA!
  • Submitting the application
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The good part and
the challanges
  • Projects are great:
    • New fields of work
    • Intercultural dimension
    • Increased motivation
    • Gaining insight into other teaching practices…



  • Do not become involved:
    • If you are over-stressed in your work
    • If you do not have support form collegues and head
    • Paperwork
    • Usually means extra work on top of the normal workload
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Reading
  • Guidelines of applicants (2000-2006)
  • Calls for proposal 2006
  • Comenius 1: Handbook for schools (http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/socrates/comenius/tools_en.html)
  • Centralized projects: Survival Kit for European Project Management, Advice for Coordinators of Centralized Socrates Projects (www.sokrates.at/survivalkit)


  • www.tka.hu>>Socrates>>Comenius
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Useful addresses
  • Europa website: Education and Culture DG
  • http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/socrates/socrates_en.html
  • http://www.socrates-youth.be/