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of the course - the participants prepare themselves before the course using the website resources - open dialogue with the participants - a real case for identifying the key problems in designing and carrying out a transnational project - how do we work with the different problems and how do we work with the complex interaction between the problems? - where can we get knowledge and information? - CASE: from idea to final proposal - CASE from grant to final evaluation - participants design the key elements in a transnational project based on their own ideas - evaluation: what is difficult, what is not? - final open and free dialogue - how to get started after the course? - the participants can go on using the website resources after the course. NB! The most important material is marked by: !! Please see the updated Course Guide (above) for exact information about the scedules of the working days... Day to day course workflow 1. day - OPEN DIALOGUE AND IDENTIFICATION OF KEY PROBLEMS key subject a: what is a european educational project? needed competences and resources? description: introducing the world of lifelong learning projects, focuses and themes and also introducing knowledge about basic skills and competences needed in deveoping educational projects on a european level. key subject b: identification and understanding of the key elements in european cooperation projects. description: giving the participants a first an overall understanding of the elements of a european educational project: concept, partners, submitting procedures, budget and work plans. key subject c: how to work with the problems, how to find knowledge? description: first empowerment of the participants: how do we identify a problem in the project? how can we solve the problems? where do we find the resources and where can we find the knowledge, that will support the problem solving? Material 2. day - THE PHASES OF EUROPEAN PROJECTS key subject a: the timelines of the project development and the project from idea to proposal – from grant to final evaluation. description: empowering the participants to understand the concepts of phase based project development and project management. empowering the participants to be able to break down complex problems and descriptions into logical phases, thus building a basic understanding of the logic of time and flow in european project development. the breaking down in phases is the most important tool in project develpment and management: why do the other elements (plans, activities, budgets etc.) depend on the ability to break down the project into phases in time? key subject b: the complexity of the project. the interrelations between the different project elements – the coherence of the project. description: giving the participants simple tools to understand the complexity of a european educational project and to understand how one element is deeply related to another (example: how will work plan decissions affect the budget?). several graphical illustrations will be used to develop this understand of complexity and interrelation. this work will also provide the participants with an understanding of the good project: the different project elements forming a coherent and realistic structure. Material
3. day - CASE STUDY key subject a: discussions of a grundtvig 1 project proposal – the watertower project. description: the participants will work with a real case – a proposal submitting to the commission in 2004 by a european grundtvig 1 partnership. the participants will use their basic understanding of the development of european projects to analyze and discuss the quality of this grundtvig 1 project. they will identify the problems discussed on day 1 and 2 in the proposal and they will thus develop an understanding of, how the different project elements work in practice. key subject b: content, partnership – dialogue. description: then we will focus on the elements of content and partnership in the grundtvig 1 project. how was the content developed and how does the project correspond to the general and specific priorites of the grundtvig programme? how was the partnership developed? why is this partnership strong or weak? how can we establish good and effectice partnerships? key subject c: workflow, budget – dialogue. description: finally we will focus on the workflow and budget elements of the grundtvig 1 project: we will analyze how the project descriptions are broken down into workplans and activities and we will discuss, how the budget supports and corresponds to the workplans. for many participants the budget element is the most difficult one, but our dialogues will develop a positive and constructive approach to the functions of the budget within the project. we will also work with some simple ways of using the excel programme as a tool for constructing a basic budget. the dialogues will provide the participants wtih an understanding of the crucial relations between activities and budget. Material 4. day -
FOCUS ON THE PARTICIPANTS
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MANAGING A EUROPEAN PROJECT
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