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Grundtvig course in Rome on Personalization in Adult Learning
Improve your skills attending a Grundtvig course in Rome. Apply for a Grundtvig grant to attend the course on Personalization in Adult Learning; the deadline for application is september 17, 2012.
If you are a teacher, a trainer, or part of non-teaching staff involved in adult education, you can improve and upgrade your professional skills attending a Grundtvig course in Rome.
Association educommunity promotes an in-service course to develop skills in the field of Personalization in Adult Education.
The course aims to spread and improve personalization culture, to show a model of intervention shared at European level and to introduce the guidelines to design and produce learning personalized experiences for adult and elderly people.
Course sessions: session 1: 11-15 march, 2013; session 2: 02-06 april, 2013.
The deadline for grant application is september 17, 2012.
The course is registered in Comenius-Grundtvig Training Database.
Detailed information about the programme and next steps to take in applying for Grundtvig grant is available in our educommunity blog.
If you are interested, write to mobilty@educommunity.it for the pre-registration and further information about the course.
EU granted training courses in Greece
Develop new skills even as you share intercultural experiences in an enjoyable setting like Greece. Funding is available through the LLL Programme, and the deadline for applications is September 17, 2012.
Service training grants are now available for participation in lifelong learning programs offered in Piraeus or at the summer resort Loutra Oraias Elenis, in Korinthos, Greece. Courses are organized by IDEC and aimed at those working at schools and training organizations registered in the Grundtvig - Comenius database.
Projected courses for 2012 - 2013 include:
- International Development Officer (Grundtvig, Comenius)
- Stress Prevention in Training Organisations (Grundtvig)
- Stress Prevention in Schools (Comenius)
- Evaluation and Quality Assurance (Comenius)
- Software Assisted Skills Assessment Methodology (Comenius)
Learning new skills, or sharpening old ones, is an essential component of professional and personal development, and an affordable endeavour thanks to scholarships from your National Agency. The deadline for grant applications is September 17, 2012.
If you are interested in participating, register on-line or fill in the registration form and return it by e-mail (natassa@idec.gr) or fax: +30 210 4286228. The number of participants in each training course is 16 and applications will be treated in priority order.
EU Grants for Course on Technology and oral communication
Gruntvig/Comenius grants available for International course ‘Methodologies and Technologies to promote oral communication in Language Education ' offered by the Utrecht SummerSchool.
The Universities of Utrecht and Valencia, in cooperation with TELLConsult and the Utrecht
SummerSchool, offer a 5-day, international course in which (student) language teachers can explore the educational possibilities of a number of Web 2.0 applications to support the development of L2 speaking and intercultural skills.
Participants will be trained in developing, supervising and assessing learning activities that can be realised with the selected applications, possibly in collaboration with international colleagues.
In 2012 the course will be run twice: in Utrecht, The Netherlands in early July (week 27) and in Valencia, Spain, the second week of October (week 42)
For this course, practising (student) teachers in EU (aspiring) member states can apply for a Comenius grant (Ref. nr. NL-2012-276-002) covering the costs of participation + travel and accommodation.
http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/index.cfm?fuseaction=DisplayCourse&cid=31738
For more details and registration please consult the course page at the Utrecht Summer School site: http://www.utrechtsummerschool.nl/index.php?type=courses&code=S26
Infodays 2012
- What are the European funding possibilities in the field of Lifelong Learning?
- What is the latest news on the Lifelong Leaning Programme?
- How to increase your chances of having your project selected?
- How to find European partners?
Online, 21 October 2011: Participate remotely using the "Live" transmission of all sessions and chat directly with the Lifelong Learning Programme teams on 21 October.
These Infodays are brought to you by the European Commission (Direction General Education and Culture) and the Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency, which is responsible for the day to day management of most centralised parts of the Lifelong Learning Programme.
The objective? To give useful information on the priorities of the 2012 call and what's new to the programme, as well as practical advice on the preparation and submission of proposals, and on the management of grants. And of course, to offer you the possibility to speak to the key players from the Lifelong Learning programme, and with other participants organising projects.
Main features of the Infodays
- Coordinators of projects receiving funding, share their experiences on the preparations and submission of proposals
- Interactive Infoday: advanced live web transmission in 5 languages and chat, and online partner search tool
The business community and the Lifelong Learning Programme: interactive workshop
€40 million start-up fund for junior researchers in Europe in 2011
€40 million, to cover over 400 grants, will be offered to researchers starting their first full-time research job in a European research institute in 2011. The €100 000 'career integration' grants are funded through the EU's Marie Curie programme and aim to encourage European scientists to return to Europe, as well as to attract the best junior researchers of other nationalities to work at European universities, companies and other institutions.
If we want to advance science and underpin innovation in Europe, we must ensure that Europe is an attractive place to work for European researchers – and we need to attract the best talent from abroad as well," said Androulla Vassiliou, the European Commissioner responsible for education and the Marie Curie programme.
According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 2010 working paper on employment and mobility among doctorate holders, up to 30% of European doctorate holders have worked outside Europe in the past ten years, with significant flows towards the United States. Among the reasons cited for this "brain drain" are better financial support for research and a better climate for innovation.
Other countries offer similar incentives, such as the Faculty Early Career Development Program of the National Science Foundation in the United States.
Who can apply?
In order to achieve an innovative Union, Europe needs world-class researchers who can tackle current and future challenges. The European Union is committed to inspiring, motivating, training and retaining highly-skilled researchers.
The EU career integration grants are available to researchers of any nationality. The funding is targeted at the post-doctoral level and there is no restriction on the area of research. The deadline for applications is 8 March 2011. An independent panel of top-level European and international experts evaluate and select the best researchers to receive the grants.
7000 new jobs forecast
The Marie Curie Actions are part of the People programme within the EU's 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. In 2011, the Marie Curie Actions will have a budget of €772 million and are expected to create 7 000 new jobs.
In addition to individual fellowships, the Marie Curie Actions also support doctoral candidates, partnerships between academia and industry and short-term exchanges.
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