School Education Gateway,

Erasmus+ Tools & Teacher Academy

www.schooleducationgateway.eu
11 December 2019 | Elina Jokisalo
Articles, interviews, Free online courses, Webinars,
surveys, publications Teaching materials
➢ STAY INFORMED ➢ PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

Tools for Erasmus+ Key Action 1 & 2

• Course catalogue
Promoting inclusive education and • Mobility opportunities
tackling early school leaving • Strategic Partnership
➢ WHOLE-SCHOOL APPROACH ➢ FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Some developments…
• Refreshed home page:
• Easier, quicker access to SEG services
• Newsletter subscription
• Theme pages button (instead of the
full list)
• Erasmus+ for schools section
(including eTwinning)

• Improved language menu

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STAY INFORMED!
STAY INFORMED

News, Events, Opinions,

Practices Interviews,
Surveys
Theme pages
Publications,
Tutorials
Monthly topics
Theme pages www.schooleducationgateway.eu/en/pub/theme_pages.htm

• Citizenship
• Cultural awareness and expression
• Digital competence
• Entrepreneurship
• Literacy
• Multilingualism
• Personal, social and learning competence
• Science and mathematics (STEM)

• Teachers and school leaders

• Inclusive education and tackling early school leaving
• Classroom culture
• Early childhood education and care
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Monthly topics 2019
January Active citizenship
February Tackling bullying
March Personalised learning
April Special Educational Needs
May Games in schools
June Environment and our world
July Parents November: Researching school education
August Beginning teaching E.g. Expert article “Mark less, research more, teach
better” by Victoria Elliott, University of Oxford
September Multilingual classrooms
October Learning spaces December: Rural and cross-border schools
E.g. Practice article Cross-border schools:
November Researching school education
transcending borders in education
December Rural and cross-border schools
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Monthly topics 2020
January Tackling early school leaving
February Artificial Intelligence
March Teacher careers and mobility
April Formative assessment
May Education for Sustainable Development
June Vocational Education and Training
July Early Childhood Education and Care
August Quality assurance
September Language learning, multilingualism
October Creativity and project-based learning
November Intercultural learning
December Student mobility

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registered user can submit
suggestions):
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Events Videos (YT) Publications News Practice Experts

EASY DIFFICULT
 Promoting inclusive education and
tackling early school leaving
www.schooleducationgateway.eu/en/pub/resources/toolkitsforschools.htm

• About 200 examples,

good practices
• Self-assessment
questionnaire
ERASMUS+ OPPORTUNITIES
PROJECT FUNDING
 ERASMUS+ OPPORTUNITIES
Key Action 1 – Learning Mobility of Individuals
Types:
• Professional development structured courses
• Job shadowing or teaching assignments

• Application to be made by a school (or a consortium leader)

• Call for applications: deadline 5 February 2020

Key Action 2 – Strategic Partnerships

Types:
• Strategic Partnerships supporting innovation
• Strategic Partnerships supporting exchange of good
practices
• School Exchange Partnerships
• Certain rules apply to funding and the number of
partners
• Proposal to be made by the coordinating organisation
• Call for proposals: deadline 24 March 2020
ERASMUS+ OPPORTUNITIES
Key Action 1 – Learning Mobility of Individuals
➢ Course Catalogue: Search for on-site teacher
training courses abroad (part of the Teacher
Academy)
➢ Mobility Opportunities: Post and / or search for
offers of teaching assignments and job shadowing
abroad
Key Action 2 – Strategic Partnerships
➢ Strategic Partnerships: Post requests and search for
partners for collaborative school-related projects
https://www.schooleducationgateway.eu/en/pub/opportunities.htm
Support materials
Erasmus+ Tools:
• Frequently Asked Questions (in 23 languages)
• Terms and conditions (in 23 languages)
• Tutorial: How to Select a Teacher Training Course Abroad (in
23 languages)
• Video tutorials to use the tools

Erasmus+ Programme:
• Erasmus+ Programme website (see the Programme Guide)
• Publication: A practical guide for school leaders (in 6
languages)
• Online course: Erasmus+ funding opportunities for schools at
the Teacher Academy (free of charge)
TEACHER ACADEMY
 Teacher Academy
www.schooleducationgateway.eu/teacheracademy
Online courses in practice
Over

30,000
unique users on online course
Teacher Academy:
Online course topics 2020

Formative assessment Teaching about climate Project-based learning

change & key competence
March development
April
September

The course enrolment opens about 1 month before each course

Self-paced course (anytime):

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Background
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programme for Education, Training, Youth
and Sport

Supervised by the Directorate General for

Education and Culture (Unit B.2 – Schools
and Educators; Multilingualism)

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schools in Europe

Run by European Schoolnet, an

international partnership of 34 European
Ministries of Education
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