Infoday Erasmus+: Knowledge Alliances Sector Skills Alliances

Erasmus+:
Knowledge Alliances
and
Sector Skills Alliances
Infoday
12 November 2014
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Sector Skills Alliances
Project Description and Award Criteria
Tips and Discussion
Vytaute Ezerskiene, Oscar Casamian Marco, Natalia
Riesgo Figuerola-Ferretti, Pavol Krempasky
Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency
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Relevance (Max 25 points)
Award
criteria
TIPS (Project description)
Policy
Visit web pages of DG EAC's and CEDEFOP; European Sector Skills
Councils
Purpose
objectives of SSA (skills needs, co-operation training +world of work,
mobility=recognition of qualifications); work-based learning (when
relevant)
Consistency
Need analysis; realistic needs of partners and sector; ESCO
(European Skills, Competences, Occupations and Qualifications), EU
Skills Panorama
Innovation
Innovation for target groups/sectors/methods/techniques/ approaches;
added value to tools that exist already (e.g. ADAM portal;
national/European initiatives)
European
added value
Transnational benefits/needs;why a project should be done on European
level (and not at national);results rerlevant for many countries
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Quality of the project design and
implementation (Max 30 points)
Award
criteria
TIPS (Project description)
Methodology
Coherence; milestones; measurable indicators; corrective measures
Overall project
management
3 different types of organisations; different approaches to management;
management plan; realistic work programme; steering committees;
regular meetings; adequate partnership communication channels
Quality
assurance,
evaluation and
monitoring
Specific measures; quality indicators; internal and/or external evaluation;
continuous evaluation; corrective measures; apply sector knowledge;
testing materials
Recognition and
validation
Embedded in the partnership (bodies with regulatory function); use of
networks; clear sustainability strategy from the beginning of the project
Budget and
costseffectiveness
Individual mobility only when duly justified; mobility linked to the travel
of staff is embedded in the unit costs
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Quality of the project team and cooperation
arrangements (Max 25 points)
Award
criteria
TIPS (Project description)
Configuration
Includes sector oriented organisations; covers all possible aspects of the
project
implementation;
uses
existing
networks;
national
and
transnational; has clear specific objectives
Commitment,
tasks
General aims of the organisation and specific project objectives; clear
definition of tasks; coherence in the allocation of tasks; role and share of
workload; operational and technical capacity: clearly described and
measurable.
Collaboration
Partnership agreements signed from the start; transfer of funds:
conditions; deadlines for deliverables; mechanisms for cooperation; ways
to share workload, responsibilities, difficult circumstances
Partner
country
participation
If any, clear EU added value
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Impact and dissemination (Max 20 points)
Award
criteria
TIPS – (Project description)
Exploitation
Mainstreaming (e.g. decision makers); Multiplication (e.g. trainers); IPR;
transferable/flexible results; using results after end of a project; testing
results; e.g. delivering EU sector-specific curricula
Disseminatio
n
Spreading information; from beginning; Local, regional, national, European
levels; clear plan (what, why, when, how, to whom);
Networks/Associations/ European Sector Skills Councils; target groups
(quantitative/qualitative indicators)/stakeholders (involvment and ways to
reach them); local authorities/career guidance = facilitators; occupation of
high labour market demand/new business creation potential
Impact
Expected (e.g. impact study); on partners, stakehloders, sector,
occupations, policy, practice;beyond partners; short/long term; changes a
project will bring
Open access
Opening Up Education; open access to results (limitations to access possible)
Sustainability
Continuation of partnership/activities/results after end of a project;
recognition/accreditation of results; commercialisation/for free; update of
results
Dissemination and exploitation (p297-303,Programme Guide)
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