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International eTwinning programmes' opportunities in the
project’s work
ERASMUS+ eTwinning
programmes news
Utena Dauniskis’ Gymnasium physics and astronomy teacher/methodologist
Loreta Tarvydienė
Utena
2014-10-25
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmusplus/
ERASMUS +
The new EU program for
Education and Training Youth
Sport
for 2014-2020.
7th year program has overall budget – 14,7 mlrd.
eur. It’s 40 % more than now.
Between 2014-2020 the program will provide
opportunities for over 4 million Europeans
to study, train, gain work experience ,
and volunteer abroad.
ERASMUS+
ERASMUS+
KA 1
KEY ACTION 1: LEARNING MOBILITY OF
INDIVIDUALS .
KA2
KEY ACTION 2: COOPERATION FOR
INNOVATION AND THE EXCHANGE OF GOOD
PRACTICES .
KA3
KEY ACTION 3: SUPPORT FOR POLICY REFORM
Which Actions are supported K1?
Learning Mobility of individuals
• KA101 – School Education - staff mobility
• KA102 – Vocational Education and Training - learner
and staff mobility
• KA103 - Higher Education - student and staff mobility
• KA104 - Adult Education - staff mobility
• KA105 - Youth – mobility of youth workers and young
people
• KA108 – Higher Education - Accreditation of Higher
Education Mobility Consortia
Which Actions are supported KA2?
Cooperation for innovation and the exchange
of good practices
• Strategic Partnerships in the field of
Education, Training and Youth.
• Knowledge Alliances
• Sector Skills Alliances
• Capacity Building in the field of youth
Which Actions are supported KA3?
Support for policy reform
provides grants for a wide variety of
actions aimed at stimulating innovative
policy development, policy dialogue and
implementation, and the exchange of
knowledge in the fields of education,
training and youth.
N.A. on
www.smpf.lt
ERASMUS + PROGRAMMES
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Erasmus+: Comenius
Erasmus+: Leonardo da Vinci
Erasmus+: Erasmus
Erasmus+: Grundtvig
Nordplus Junior
Nordplus Nordic Languages
Nordplus Higher Education
Nordplus Adult
Nordplus Horizontal
Europass
Euroguidance
e-TWINNING
Nacional ECVET eksperts and more…
eTwinning program
eTwinning European platform
www.eTwinning.net
eTwinning Lithuanian portal
www.eTwinning.lt
eTwinning on FB
eTwinning programme
• eTwinning programme – programme, which
supports virtual collaboration projects at least
between two schools and at least from two
different European countries.
Participating Countries
1. Ireland
2. Austria
3. Belgia
4. Bulgaria
5. Denmark
6. Estonia
7. Greece
8. Island
9. Spain
10. Italy
11. Great Britain
12. Cyprus
13. Latvia
14. Poland
15. Lithuania
16. Liuksemburg
17. Malta
18. Norway
19. Holland
20. Portugal
21. France
22. Slovakia
23. Slovenia
24. Finland
25. Hungary
26. Germany
27. Czech
Republic
28. Sweden
29. Romania
30. Turkey
31. Makedonia
32. Kroatia
33.Switzerland
Activity’s goals
• Project integration into curriculum;
• Collaboration with other EU programmes.
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Minimum number of partners– 2;
Maximum – severely unrestricted;
Collaboration language chosen freely;
Project duration: from 1 lesson to 1 school
year or more.
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Pre-primary education institutions
Schools-Kindergartens
Elementary schools
Pro-gymnasiums
Primary schools
High school
Gymnasiums
Vocational schools
Non-formal educational institutions
NOTE: pupils aged from 3 to 21 years old.
eTwinning PROGRAMMES’ SUGGESTIONS
• Organisation of national and European wide
competitions (for example: “Plant eTwinning
tree”).
• eTwinning weeks;
PROGRAMMES’ SUGGESTIONS
STUDENTS CAMPS.
Students camp“Learning Baltic Languages” (In Ryga,
Latvia) January. 2011 m.
PROGRAMMES’ SUGGESTIONS
Annual elections of “Best eTwinning School in Lithuania”
Annual European eTwinning awards
PROGRAMMES’ SUGGESTIONS
eTwinning INFORMATIONAL EVENTS
EK eTwinning project provides an opportunity to participate
in international eTwinning professional development seminars.
For example: Druskininkai PDW 2012.
Participants
In Europe:
261340Teachers
34051 Projects
125471 Schools
EK foresees more important eTwinning role in
European school collaborations' context.
Foreseen innovations:
Stregthen school's collaboration platform:
-eTwinning - external window to the world;
-schools' opportunity to be seen;
-more attention to eTwinnings' communitys'
management (community in the community)
• Greater opportunities for teachers’ professional
improvement:
• - Learning courses;
• - Online courses = Experts are talking (new);
• - Online courses development/improvement= how to work online
successfully (new);
• - Current learning courses eTwinning’s ambassador's review.;
• - Learning/improving material (Teacher will have an opportunity to
download the material of his interest) (new);
• - Professional improvement seminars;
• - Professional improvement seminars In the future class labaratory.
eTwinning Plus
eTwinning Plus participants
eTwinning Plus
• Since 2013 eTwinning programme extended, therefore
occured eTwinning Plus programme,
• It includes 6 countries from Europe neighbourhood - Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Tunisia.
• There is an opportunity to communicate and collaborate with those
countries in Russian.
• Focus group - educational institutions, where are students aged from
3 to 20 years old: pre-schools, pre-primary schools, elementary
schools, primary schools, high schools, gymnasiums, vocational
schools, non-formal schools.
• More information about eTwinning activities in Lithuania can be
found in: www.etwinning.lt.
• More information about eTwinning activities in Europe can be found
in: www.etwinning.net.
eTwinning Utena Yahoo! group
Contact us
Švietimo mainų paramos fondas
Geležinio Vilko g. 12, LT-03163
Vilnius
Tel.: (8 ~ 5) 261 05 92, 212 24 81,
212 33 64
Fax: (8 ~ 5) 249 71 37
E-mail: info@smpf.lt
Violeta Čiuplytė
eTwinning coordinator
Tel.: 8 5 249 66 04
E-mail:
violeta.ciuplyte[@]smpf.lt
Loreta Tarvydienė
Region: Utena
Utena Dauniskis’
Gymnasium physics and
astronomy
teacher/methodologist
E-mail:
tarvydiene@yahoo.com
Giedrė Sudniutė
Region: Utena
Utena Dauniskis’
Gymnasium IT
teacher/methodologist
E-mail:
gsudniute@yahoo.com
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