Comenius Multilateral Project

What are the aims?

Specific objectives

• To develop knowledge and understanding among young people and educational staff of the diversity of European cultures and languages and its values
• To help young people acquire the basic life-skills and competences necessary for their personal development, for futur emplyments and for active European citizenship

Operational objectives

• To improve the quality and to increase the volume of mobility involving pupils and educational staff in diffenerent Member States
• To improve the quality and to increase the volume of partnerships between schools in defferent Member States, so as to involve at least 3 million pupils in joint educational activities during the period of the programme
• To encourage the learning of modern foreign languages
• To support the development of innovative ICT-based content, services, pedagogies and practice in lifelong learning
• To enhance the quality and European dimension of teacher training
• To support improvements in pedagogical approaches and school management

What target public?

• Pupils in school education up to the end of upper secondary education
• Schools, as specified by Member States
• Teachers and other staff within those schools
• Associations, not-for-profit organisations, NGOs and representatives of those involved in school education
• Persons and bodies responsible for the organisation and delivery of education at local, regional and national levels
• Research centres and bodies concerned with lifelong learning issues
• Higher education institutions
• Bodies providing guidance, counselling and information services

What types of activity?

The following actions are supported by the Comenius Programme:

1. Mobility of individuals which may include:

• Exchange of pupils and staff
• Mobility to schools for pupils (aged 12 as a minimum) and placements in schools or enterprises for educational staff
• Participation in training courses for teachers and other educational staff
• Study and preparatory visity for mobility, partnership, project or network activities
• Assistantship for teachers and potetial teachers

2. Development of partnerships between:

• Schools, with a view to developing joint learning projects for pupils and their teachers (”Comenius school partnerships”)
• Organisations responsible for any aspect of school education, with a view to fostering inter-regional cooperation, including border region cooperation (”Comeni-Regio partnerships”)

3. Multilateral projects aimed at:

• Developing, promoting and disseminating educational best practices, including new teaching methods or materials
• Developing or exchanging experiences on systems of providing information or guidance particulaly adapted to learners, teachers and other stadd concerned by the Comenius programme
• Developing, promoting and disseminating new teacher training courses or course content

4. Multilateral Networks aimed at:

• Developing education in the discipline or subject area which they operate, for their own benefit and for that or education more widely
• Avquiring and disseminating relevant good practice and innovation
• Providing content support to projects and partnership set up by others
• Promoting the development of needs analysis and its practical applications within school education

5. Other initiatives aimed at promoting the objectives of the Comenius Programme, including                  e-Twinning (”Accompanying Measures”)