Peter Birch - Presentation on the opportunities for businesses for language learning in the Lifelong Learning Programme

1. Berlin 27 October 2011
Languages for Business – Funding Opportunities in
the Lifelong Learning Programme
Peter Birch
Head of Sector: ICT, Languages and Roma
Education Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency

2. The Executive Agency
Comenius
Erasmus Jean Monnet
Grundtvig Key activities
Leonardo da Vinci Eurydice
Executive Agency for
Education, Audiovisual
and Culture € 131 million (2011)
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/
EACEA-INFO@ec.europa.eu
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3. Lifelong Learning
Erasmus Mundus
Tempus
External
cooperation
Europe for Citizens
Youth in Action
Our portfolio
Culture 2007
Media 2007
2011 Total Budget: ~614 Million €
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4. Agency’s mission:
Turning policy into action and results
•Implementing programmes
•Managing the whole life cycle of the projects
But also information and
communication with
beneficiaries: daily,
seminars, conferences,
infodays, etc
In 2010, more than 11.000
project proposals were
submitted, of which around
4000 were selected for
funding
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5. First of all...
WHO ARE YOU?
A business?
A business (multiple) service provider?
A training provider?
A language service provider?
A language school or trainer?
...
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6. Secondly...
What do you know about the
Lifelong Learning Programme?
Nothing
Something
Quite a lot
Expert!
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7.  Lifelong Learning Programme:
opportunities for businesses
 Lifelong Learning Programme:
languages and (is) (for) (with)
business
 Some examples
 What next?
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8. The Lifelong Learning programme (LLP)
What’s in it for businesses? (1)
 Looking for specific training to retrain
employees? Or for innovative ideas?
 Interested in hosting/placing trainees and
apprentices from other countries?
 Wishing to work with education institutions to
help students get the skills they and you need?
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9. The Lifelong Learning programme (LLP)
What’s in it for businesses? (2)
3 opportunities
Learn
Use
Participate
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10. The Lifelong Learning Programme (1)
What is it?
 New call for proposals EAC/27/11
 Deadlines 02/02/12 and 01/03/2012
 http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/funding/2012/index_en.php
Comenius Erasmus Leonardo da Vinci Grundtvig
School education Higher education & Vocational education Adult education
advanced training and training
o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r b u s i n e s s e s
Transversal Programme
4 key activities – KA1 Policy Cooperation; KA2 Languages; KA3 ICT
KA4 Dissemination and exploitation of results (valorisation)
Jean Monnet Programme
3 key activities – Jean Monnet Action; European Institutions; European associations
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11. LLP actions open to enterprises (1)
Decentralised actions
• Mobility actions
e.g. Erasmus and Leonardo
placements (traineeships)
• Partnerships and Project
e.g. Leonardo Partnerships or
Transfer of innovation projects
Contact point:
LLP National Agencies
http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-
learning-programme/doc1208_en.htm
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12. What are the benefits of LLP placements
(traineeships) for an enterprise?
 Testing of an international outlook (especially for
smaller locally based enterprises)
 Languages and culture
 Influx of new ideas
 Testing phase for potential future employees
 Promoting stronger links with education/training
institutions and their staff
 Temporary support at reasonable cost
 Win/win situation
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13. LLP actions open to enterprises (2)
Centralised actions
• Multilateral projects,
networks, accompanying
measures
Contact point:
Executive Agency (EACEA)
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/
EACEA-INFO@ec.europa.eu
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14. Possible benefits from LLP
centralised actions for a business
 Developing European contacts and PR
 Reinforcing the link between education/training and
employment needs
 Developing educational/training on-demand services
for enterprises
 Promoting exchanges and cooperation between
higher education institutions (HEI) and enterprises
 Test innovative approaches
 Ownership of results and products!
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15. The Lifelong Learning Programme (2)
What is it?
 New call for proposals EAC/27/11
 Deadlines 02/02/12 and 01/03/2012
 http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/funding/2012/index_en.php
Comenius Erasmus Leonardo da Vinci Grundtvig
School education Higher education & Vocational education
advanced training and training Adult education
L a n g u a g e s a n d w o r l d o f w o r k
Transversal Programme
4 key activities – KA1 Policy Cooperation; KA2 Languages; KA3 ICT
KA4 Dissemination and exploitation of results (valorisation)
Jean Monnet Programme
3 key activities – Jean Monnet Action; European Institutions; European associations
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16. Priorities (1) Call 2012
Erasmus
Cooperation between higher education institutions and
enterprises
• Promote business input into course design for curricula
modernisation
• Develop educational services for enterprises such as tailor-
made courses for upgrading knowledge and skills of
employees
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17. Priorities (2) Call 2012
Leonardo da Vinci (TOI)
Promotion of the acquisition of key competences in VET
• Vocationally oriented language learning
• Content and language integrated learning
• Approaches for adapting language learning to needs and
possibilities of pupils and trainees
Development and transfer of mobility strategies in VET
• Support the participation of SMEs and placements in enterprises
(business can also send apprentices)
• Transfer models for reciprocal exchanges of trainees, particularly
apprentices in enterprises
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18. Priorities (3) Call 2012
KA2 Languages
Cooperation between the worlds of education,
training and work
• Projects aiming at reinforcing language competences relevant
to the workplace in order to improve employability and
enhance European competitiveness
• E.g.
 highlight the importance of languages for companies and
training institutions;
 develop innovative language learning materials adapted to
the needs of companies
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19. KA2 Languages -2012 call – Some data
Multilateral Networks Accompanying
projects measures
Indicative budget 7,3 M€ 2,15 M€ 0,36 M€
(21) (5) (3)
Maximum Grant (75%) 200.000/year 150.000/year
Max. Community
contribution:
400.000
Max. duration 3 years 3 years 1 year
Min partnerships 3 countries 5 countries 1 country
Deadline 1 March 2012 at noon (CET)
Notification of results July
Projects’ starting date 1 November, 1 December, 1 January
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20. KA2 Languages -2012 call – What can you do?
KA2 Multilateral projects
– Awareness raising
– Development and spreading of language learning
materials
KA2 Accompanying measures
–communication activities
–thematic monitoring of projects and
–dissemination and exploitation of project results
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21. KA2 Languages – More data
140
120
100
80
Submitted
Approved
60
Success Rate
25.77 34.09 38.16 26.73 22.50
40
20
0
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
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22. Some examples (1)
Eurocatos: European Catering &
Hospitality Language Training
Course (KA2)
• Training course for use in the
professional hospitality sectors
of reception, kitchen and
restaurant service
• Online courses in 11
languages, EN, FR, ES, NL, European Language Label Awards and
CALICO award in USA
NO, GL, DE, FI, IT, PL, GA. www.eurocatering.org
• Levels A1-A2 http://www.eurocathos.eu
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23. Some examples (2)
PELLIC: Practice Enterprise for • PE context into an open
Language Learning & Intercultural source virtual language
Communication (KA2) learning environment (VLE)
• student groups employed by
companies studying English
• e.g. of activities: planning
company web pages, sending
electronic newsletters, e-mails,
making phone calls, sending
business letters, arranging
virtual meetings
http://www.pellic.eu/
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24. Some examples (3)
• A portal providing services to
overcome mobility barriers:
– Work placements agents
– Vocational language
profiles
– Intercultural aspects
– E-learning modules for
language learning and
intercultural communication
EU-Move: the European Mobility portal for vocational education and
training (LdV)
http://www.evta.net/eumoveportal/index.html
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25. What Next
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26. Some advice
• Clarify your objective
• Assess your needs (or those of your clients)
• Contact stakeholders (chamber of commerce, national
agencies, networks, associations, service providers,
training organisations, linguists, etc.)
• Look for experiences (websites, compendia, databases,
expertise...)
• Refine your needs analysis
• Assess opportunities
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27. Some advice
• Transform your needs into an action plan
– Know-how = partners = network
– Delegate?
– Timing
– Homework
• Fix milestones
• Evaluate as you go along
• Think of the future
• Enjoy the journey!
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28. Want to try? more advice… (1)
1. Skilled project manager (and team)
2. Read support materials carefully
3. Choose the right part of the programme for your
proposal
4. If it’s not written in the application, it doesn’t exist
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29. Want to try? more advice… (2)
5. All skills needed in the consortium: identify new partners
to cover “missing skills”(e.g.
Languages, pedagogy, IT, dissemination..):
- your networks and those of your other partners
- previous projects
- national agencies
-Partner Search Database
http://llp.teamwork.fr/partner_search/home.php
6. Co-operate with your partners on the application form
7. Decide: this year or next?
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30. Some useful links
Infodays 2012
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/events/infodays_2012/i
nfoday_llp_2012_en.php
Call for proposals 2012
http://ec.europa.eu/education/llp/doc848_en.htm
Application procedure (centralised actions)
http://ec.europa.eu/education/llp/doc848_en.htm

31. Other useful links
LLP on Commission web site
http://ec.europa.eu/education/index_fr.htm
National agencies contact points
http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-
programme/doc1208_en.htm
Detailed information on the LLP projects funded
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/index_en.php
Compendia of LLP funded projects
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/results_projects/project_compendia_en.php
Results of LLP funded projects
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/project_reports/project_reports_en.php

32. More useful links
Project data bases
Leonardo da Vinci
http://www.adam-europe.eu/
http://ec.europa.eu/education/leonardo-da-vinci/doc1204_en.htm
Grundtvig
http://ec.europa.eu/education/grundtvig/doc872_fr.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/publ/pdf/grundtvig/su
ccess-stories_fr.pdf

33. KA2 info and contact
KA2 – Languages Helpdesk
EACEA-LANGUAGES@ec.europa.eu
Details on Key Activity 2
http://ec.europa.eu/education/llp/doc1943_en.htm
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