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TRANSNATIONAL COOPERATION TO PROMOTE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE IN SCHOOL EDUCATION

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Chapter 2: European Commission’s Funding Opportunities
2.3 Erasmus + - Strategic Partnership
Strategic Partnerships aim to support the development, transfer and/or implementation of innovative practices as well as the implementation of joint initiatives promoting cooperation, peer learning and exchanges of experience at European level.

There are 2 types of Strategic Partnership projects:
  • Strategic Partnerships supporting exchange of good practices: The primary goal is to allow organisations to develop and reinforce networks, increase their capacity to operate at transnational level, share and confront ideas, practices and methods.
  • Strategic Partnerships supporting innovation: Projects are expected to develop innovative outputs, and/or engage into intensive dissemination and exploitation activities of existing and newly produced products or innovative ideas. Applicants have the possibility to request a dedicated budget for Intellectual Outputs and Multiplier Events in order to directly answer to the innovation aspect of the Action.
Strategic Partnership action addresses 5 fields: school education, vocational education and training, adult education, higher education and youth. The most relevant in this context are the first 2 fields and a specific priority for the school education filed is to address underachievement in math and science.

The funding covers, among the others, the following costs:
  • Project management and implementation: it covers costs related to planning, finances, coordination and communication between partners, small scale learning/teaching/training materials, information, promotion and dissemination
  • Transnational project meetings: it covers participation in meetings between project partners; the amount is fixed and pre-calculated on the basis of the distance
  • Intellectual outputs: it covers the cost for staff days for the production of such as curricula, pedagogical and youth work materials, open educational resources (OER), IT tools, analyses, studies, peer-learning methods, etc.)
  • Multiplier events: contribution to the costs linked to national and transnational conferences, seminars, events sharing and disseminating the intellectual outputs realised by the project
  • All other costs indicated in the Learning Mobility of Individuals section
An example of a Strategic Partnwership Supporting Innovation project is the Learning for Life project. The core subjects of the projects are Maths, Science and Literacy and it aims to promote new education methodology, such as Problem Based Learning (PBL) and Multiple Intelligences (MI) and develop skills required in the present and future society.
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