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Project ideas: Education goes digital Friday 4 December 2015 Liaison agency Flanders-Europe In this document you find an overview of 12 project leaders looking for partners for an innovative European e-learning project. How do you proceed if you want to apply as a potential partner ? Step 1: Discover the details of each project proposal by clicking on the project title in the overview Step 2 : Select 1 or maximum 2 projects proposals for which you want to apply Step 3 : To apply , click on the link following the title of the project. Step 4 : A small textbox with a weblink opens automatically, click on that link to open the registration form and fill it out. Step 5: Do not forget to submit your application by clicking on the ‘Submit’-button at the bottom of the form. Overview of 12 project leaders looking for partners 1. Virtual Classes - Kent County Council 2. Tablets for classroom inclusion and differentiation (TABLIO) - PXL University College 3. Intelligent learning environment for the acquirement of 21st century research skills - KU Leuven Campus Brussels 4. Use of mobile devices for schooling of young refugees for faster language acquisition and career guidance - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports Baden-Württemberg 5. From qualification framework to online course - School Community 1 Antwerp 6. International multi-level Monitoring system for blended learning practices - KU Leuven 7. Learning for work: Relevance and quality of non-formal and informal learning acquired on social Networks as a profit tool for employability and growth of labor market - Empreend

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Project ideas: Education goes digital Friday 4 December 2015

Liaison agency Flanders-Europe

In this document you find an overview of 12 project leaders looking for partners for an innovative European e-learning project.

How do you proceed if you want to apply as a potential partner ?

Step 1: Discover the details of each project proposal by clicking on the project title in the overviewStep 2: Select 1 or maximum 2 projects proposals for which you want to apply Step 3: To apply, click on the link following the title of the project. Step 4: A small textbox with a weblink opens automatically, click on that link to open the registration form and fill it out. Step 5: Do not forget to submit your application by clicking on the ‘Submit’-button at the bottom of the form.

Overview of 12 project leaders looking for partners1. Virtual Classes - Kent County Council 2. Tablets for classroom inclusion and differentiation (TABLIO) - PXL University

College3. Intelligent learning environment for the acquirement of 21st century research

skills - KU Leuven Campus Brussels4. Use of mobile devices for schooling of young refugees for faster language

acquisition and career guidance - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports Baden-Württemberg

5. From qualification framework to online course - School Community 1 Antwerp 6. International multi-level Monitoring system for blended learning practices - KU

Leuven7. Learning for work: Relevance and quality of non-formal and informal learning

acquired on social Networks as a profit tool for employability and growth of labor market - Empreend

8. Researching alternative learning environments to help students succeed and achieve graduation - University College Ghent

9. Digidemocracy in school - University of Jyväskylä, Department of Teacher Education

10. Creative, collaborative improvisation with technology to support learning and innovation - University of Jyväskylä & Agora Center

11. The Game of Democracy - Ghent University 12. The effective use of using mobile devices in teaching and learning math, science

and foreign languages - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports Baden- Württemberg

Detailed description of each project proposal

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1. Virtual Classes - Kent County Council - Click here to apply for this project

Your Family Name KnoxYour First Name DavidYour organisation Kent County CouncilMail address [email protected] 7824305740Project title Virtual ClassesoShort summary of your project idea (10 lines)

We are looking for different training providers, colleges across the partner countries for our project, which is an e-learning platform, which will service a core of Health Needs learners, and the wider county where appropriate, to support vulnerable learners. The project will be addressing the need for Key Stage 5 provision for learners with health needs. In addition, it will be appropriate for transition phases where learners are between schools. The second focus will be raising attainment and outcomes for English Maths, Science and ICT for all. The project works alongside existing resources to synthesise an innovative central hub for online education, as well as providing original resources and lessons.The project is being moved forward by a small project group, with full staffing to be implemented on rollout. We are keen to work with our European partners who are doing similar research and work in their regions to share best practice and opportunities across the countries.

Type of partners wanted? (type of organisation and expertise)

We are keen to work with organisations who have experience of working with young people who have additional health needs from either school or further education. So this could be schools, colleges, sector skills boards, research bodies, local councils and 3rd sector bodies.

Which EU funding programme are you aiming for?

Erasmus+ Key Action 2: Strategic partnership, Horizon 2020: ICT4.11 – 2016: Learning and skills (draft work programme)

In which education field do you expect your project to have the biggest impact?

School education (primary, secondary, incl. initial and in service teachers education)

Your region and country

Kent, England

Past experience as a Project Leader in EU funded

Kent County Council has a long established track record of successfully participating and leading a number of EU funded projects. These projects have been across a number

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projects? of themes, and not just education. Such projects have ranged from relatively small Comenius Regio projects to larger Interreg projects across various strands and themes, including leading on a large Interreg Europe project looking at telehealth across Europe. The Project Manager for this project, the Strategic Projects and Partnerships Manager within the Education and Young Peoples Directorate, has over 16 years experience of managing and delivering projects of various sizes including European funded programmes as well as more domestic funding streams. He therefore has experience of managing as well as participating in transnational partnership projects. He also has a Masters in Public Administration and is currently studying for a number of UK recognised project management systems including PRINCE2.

2. Tablets for classroom inclusion and differentiation (TABLIO) - PXL University College Click here to apply for this project

Your Family Name HustinxYour First Name WouterYour organisation PXL University CollegeMail address [email protected] +32(0)488355328Project title Tablets for classroom inclusion and differentiation (TABLIO)Short summary of your project idea (10 lines)

This project aims to broaden and deepen the knowledge of the possibilities of tablets for classroom differentiation and inclusion. In an exploratory study we finished in spring 2015, we analysed 19 Flemish good practices. A remarkable conclusion was that all good practices were similar, mainly focusing on differentiation on the content- and process-level. We hardly found any examples of differentiating on the interest-level nor on the product-level. We also have particular interest in using the tablet for the inclusion-purpose for pupils with specific educational needs.This project aims to explore good practices in different EU-countries. We also want to ‘fill the gaps’, and create new educational designs in international teacher-design-teams following the design-based-research-methodology. This will also broaden and deepen the expertise of participants and school-teams in order to realize educational innovation.

Type of partners wanted? (type of organisation and expertise)

Institutes of teacher education with an interest for and expertise in the integration of tablets in classrooms.Primary and secondary schools using tablets in their classroom practice.

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Which EU funding programme are you aiming for?

Erasmus+ Key Action 2: Strategic partnership

In which education field do you expect your project to have the biggest impact?

School education (primary, secondary, incl. initial and in service teachers education)

Your region and country

Hasselt - Belgium

Past experience as a Project Leader in EU funded projects?

None.

3. Intelligent learning environment for the acquirement of 21st century research skills - KU Leuven Campus Brussels - Click here to apply for this project

Your Family Name GoemanYour First Name KatieYour organisation KU Leuven Campus BrusselsMail address [email protected] +32 (0)2 608 14 29Project title Intelligent learning environment for the acquirement of 21st

century research skillsShort summary of your project idea (10 lines)

More information about the project proposal is available via https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gnQW8uFZwzFEIV-5RZTiD2zLPTVBO80ggF3KeoaF18U/edit?usp=sharing

In this project, partners from academia, training providers and developers of high-level open source software solutions work together in order to create, deliver, test and disseminate an intelligent learning environment. This environment targets last-year secondary school pupils and higher education freshmen, typically learners who are expected to master a series of basic and applied research skills. Its design and development is accomplished via co-creation based upon a partnership between the intended users, content experts, instructional designers and technology developers. The final environment and its contents, along with the accessory documentation will be made available as open source materials. The learning environment is set up to be integrated in a fully online or a blended instructional approach, and it encompasses five

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main components. These components are identified as being facilitators for effective, self-regulated learning in an online or blended environment:(1) adaptive multimedia learning contents,(2) an adaptive assessment and feedback system,(3) a series of communication, interaction and community building tools,(4) learning analytics tools, and(5) a toolbox for (pre-)training of self-regulated learning skills and e-skills.

Type of partners wanted? (type of organisation and expertise)

* Experts in research and development of learning analytics’ systems incl. visualisation (e.g., Cerego, university research centres involved in educational data mining)* Developers of ICT solutions for e-integration (e.g., Cronos)* Experts in quality assurance of online and blended learning (e.g., European Association of Distance Teaching Universities)* Experts in design-based research, user studies and/or living labs (e.g., Centre for Instructional Psychology and Technology, KU Leuven; Research Group for Media & ICT, Ghent University; Centre for User Experience Research, KU Leuven; University of Twente, NL)* Experts in research and development of services based on big data analyses (e.g., Business Intelligence & Smart Services Institute, NL)* Designers and developers of (adaptive) online learning environments and video-based learning materials (e.g., Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies, OU Netherlands, NL; Media Centre at the University of Burgundy, NL)* Developers of customized solutions for multiple platforms (stand-alone and mobile)

Which EU funding programme are you aiming for?

Horizon 2020: ICT4.11 – 2016: Learning and skills (draft work programme)

In which education field do you expect your project to have the biggest impact?

School education (primary, secondary, incl. initial and in service teachers education), Higher education

Your region and country

Brussels Capital Region, Belgium

Past experience as a Project Leader in EU funded projects?

None

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4. Use of mobile devices for schooling of young refugees for faster language acquisition and career guidance - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports Baden-Württemberg - Click here to apply for this project

Your Family Name ZieherYour First Name MichaelYour organisation Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports Baden-

WürttembergMail address [email protected] +497112792903Project title Use of mobile devices for schooling of young refugees with

the objective of a faster language acquisition and career guidance.

Short summary of your project idea (10 lines)

Refugees at the age of 16 to 21 attend special classes at VET schools in Baden-Württemberg with no or very few knowledge of the German language. Very often refugees have own digital devices (e.g. mobile phones) which can be used for language learning in a quick and simple way by providing special apps (translation programs, language teaching software). On the other hand, it is very important to guide newly arrived young refugees for possible career options.The aim of the project would be to ease the integration of refugees by supporting them with user friendly apps in two fields: language learning and career guidance.

Type of partners wanted? (type of organisation and expertise)

for example: Institute of school development, Institutions for intital and continous teacher training, any kind of schools hosting refugees aged around 16 and 21 years.

Which EU funding programme are you aiming for?

Erasmus+ Key Action 2: Strategic partnership

In which education field do you expect your project to have the biggest impact?

School education (primary, secondary, incl. initial and in service teachers education), Vocational Education and Training (VET)

Your region and country

Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Past experience as a Project Leader in EU funded projects?

One of the Baden-Württemberg project partner will be the Initial VET teacher training Institute in Karlsruhe which has experiences with EU funded projects.

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5. From qualification framework to online course - School Community 1 Antwerp - Click here to apply for this project

Your Family Name CoxYour First Name AnnYour organisation Scholengroep 1 AntwerpenMail address [email protected] +32 3 502 19 63Project title From qualification framework to online courseShort summary of your project idea (10 lines)

The project would look at the role ICT Departments and Teachers play in the development of online courses and learning environments through a combination of action research, reflection reports and qualitative research.

Part of the project would be devoted at looking at the outcomes of PISA 2012 (using the existing data and replicating/adapting the research at different levels of education).

Cooperation with non-EU countries (eg. Kenya, Korea, Namibia, Suriname, Tanzania,..) would broaden the perspective and allow for an exchange of ideas, staff and researchers beyond the established intra-European cross-pollination. Whereas the focus of the project would of course be on European partnerships - in terms of implementation, dissemination and exploitation of the results - the non-EU countries suggested are added (as H2020 projects are one to a wide range of countries) to broaden the perspective of the project in terms of exchange of good practices, experiences and possible future applications from areas in the world where online learning is often a necessity (e.g. in terms of distance or infrastructure or even costs) to lower the barriers to education and to allow self-paced learning and because of the developmental benefits of such initiatives.The countries listed in our summary proposal have already taken steps towards inclusive online or blended learning (for less-advantaged) groups of learners and can provide added perspectives. In our final proposal we will limit ourselves to one country outside the EU that best fits the overall and elaborated proposal.

Tentative list of activities:

1) Looking in innovative ways at assessing the EFFICIENCY and EFFECTIVENESS of ICT-supported learning within the boundaries of (national) qualification frameworks.

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2) Looking in innovative ways at assessing LEARNING OUTCOMES of ICT-supported learning as an integral part of (national) qualification frameworks3) School ICT-staff and Teaching Staff Mobility to exchange experiences with colleagues in (non-) EU partner countries (non-EU only under H2020)4) Support the research with scholarship / internship funding for university researchers5) Establishing best-practices based on the above6) Develop guidelines for online course design that is effective and efficient in regards to learning outcomes7) Pilot project in several (non-) EU countries8) Series of workshops "From qualification framework to online course"

Type of partners wanted? (type of organisation and expertise)

- (Adult) Education providers with ICT Supported Learning- Educational Research Institutes (e.g. VUB Dept. of Psychology & Education or the University of Gent - PISA Group)- Organisations specialised in developing online courses- Non-EU based education institutions (eg. Suriname, Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia..) if funded under Horizon2020

Which EU funding programme are you aiming for?

Erasmus+ Key Action 2: Strategic partnership, Erasmus+ Key Action 3: Forward-looking cooperation projects and EU policy reforms, Horizon 2020: ICT4.11 – 2016: Learning and skills (draft work programme)

In which education field do you expect your project to have the biggest impact?

School education (primary, secondary, incl. initial and in service teachers education), Vocational Education and Training (VET), Adult education

Your region and country

Antwerp, Belgium

Past experience as a Project Leader in EU funded projects?

Yes:- LAI - Life All-In (2013-2015)- Ontotech (2013-2016)- SG4Adults - Serious Game for Adults (2014-2015)- KA1 (2015-2017)- SEE - Social Entrepeneurship (2012-2014)- BeE - Becoming European (2012-2014)

6. International multi-level Monitoring system for blended learning practices - KU Leuven - Click here to apply for this project

Your Family Name PoelmansYour First Name StephanYour organisation KU Leuven

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Mail address [email protected] +32 486683828Project title International multi-level Monitoring system for blended

learning practicesShort summary of your project idea (10 lines)

To achieve optimal comparability and actionable progress indicators of e-learning and blended learning practices across the European Union, this project aims at conceptualizing and operationalizing a long-term monitoring system. It gathers an international expert panel from academia and educational practitioners to produce a survey-based system to be deployed by field workers in higher and secondary education. The system aims at monitoring blended learning activities and gauging related self-assessments on a regular basis, in different educational programs, targeting both the teacher and learner’s experiences and views on various facets of blended learning (such as course persistence, motivational and performance factors, technology evaluations, ..). Using multiple standardized dimensions and indicators, a considerable amount of concrete data stemming from several countries can recurrently be gathered and analysed to support educational policy-making and schools’ instructional efforts, and to stimulate cross-country progress and exchange of best-practices.

Type of partners wanted? (type of organisation and expertise)

● European Association of Distance Teaching Universities: Quality assurance in online and blended learning

● KU Leuven: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (Centre for Instructional Psychology and Technology), Faculty of Social Sciences: survey-based research and user studies

● Open University in the Netherlands (Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies): design and development of learning environments

Which EU funding programme are you aiming for?

Erasmus+ Key Action 3: Forward-looking cooperation projects and EU policy reforms

In which education field do you expect your project to have the biggest impact?

School education (primary, secondary, incl. initial and in service teachers education), Higher education

Your region and country

Belgium

Past experience as a Project Leader in EU funded projects?

None

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7. Learning for work: Relevance and quality of non-formal and informal learning acquired on social Networks as a profit tool for employability and growth of labor market - Empreend - Click here to apply for this project

Your Family Name SousaYour First Name Maria JoséYour organisation EmpreendMail address [email protected] +351914311032Project title Learning for work: Relevance and quality of non-formal and

informal learning acquired on social Networks as a profit tool for employability and growth of labor market

Short summary of your project idea (10 lines)

Address the issue of the benefits and impacts of ICT, more precisely, of Web 2.0 (social networks) in the non-formal and informal learning skills of individuals as factor of employability in organizations, and arises from the perception of the current situation that the society of the twenty-first century has experienced. Unemployment rates have increased, and individuals who cannot afford courses offered by formal learning institutes, tend by themselves, or with their peers, acquire skills required from a labor market in constant change. Therefore, in Portugal, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics, the population Unemployed estimated at 712,000 people, of which 286,000 are part young aged between 15 and 34 years. In response to this situation, this project pretends to identify and explore digital 2.0 tools which will potentiate learning skills required for the labor market. It will also identify and make a proposal of sets of competencies to develop by adult learners answering the needs of the labor market.The Project will define and implement in a pilot action a reference guide of the skills that can ensure the employability of working-age adults, through the development of non-formal and informal learning throughout life in order to certify people with the skills required by the labour market and their relevance for the economy and contribution to a cohesive society.

Type of partners wanted? (type of organisation and expertise)

National Europass centersEuropean Quality Assurance Reference FrameworkSmall and large EnterprisesPolicy Makers organizationsGovernmental instituitions for lifelong learning

Which EU funding programme are

Erasmus+ Key Action 2: Strategic partnership

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you aiming for?In which education field do you expect your project to have the biggest impact?

Vocational Education and Training (VET), Adult education

Your region and country

Lisboa

Past experience as a Project Leader in EU funded projects?

Great (APG)Cinet (UAb)

8. Researching alternative learning environments to help students succeed and achieve graduation - University College Ghent - Click here to apply for this project

Your Family Name De SmetYour First Name CindyYour organisation University College Ghent

Faculty of Education, Health & Social WorkLedeganckstraat 89000 Gent

Mail address [email protected] M +32 485 03 34 47Project title Researching alternative learning environments to help

students succeed and achieve graduationShort summary of your project idea (10 lines)

Over the last years, the student inflow in teacher education in Flanders became more diverse, resulting in a student cohort with decreased content-specific knowledge and essential general (study) competences. Consequently, it is becoming increasingly difficult for these pre-service teachers to pass the first year of their study, let alone to obtain a diploma. Therefore the University College Ghent decided to rethink the curriculum of the bachelor teacher training of (pre-)primary education and to engage more in teaching methods such as problem-directed assignments or working in peer groups; and to enhance self-regulated learning strategies. In this context, we would like to conduct a remediation project by designing an online learning environment which is adapted to the needs of our incoming students. In particular, we want to offer our students a set of digital learning tools that matches their learning needs and is congruent with their learning phase.

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Type of partners wanted? (type of organisation and expertise)

We would like to partner with other teacher educators who are facing the same challenges or who already have extensive experience in this domain. Together, we can research and create sustainable solutions that will help us make further progress in our goal to provide adapted instruction to all individual needs. We see opportunities for partners who want to work in parallel with us, or partners who prefer to instruct in an alternative way in order to compare experiences and outcomes.

Which EU funding programme are you aiming for?

Erasmus+ Key Action 2: Strategic PartnershipHorizon 2020 ICT-22-2016: Technologies for Learning and Skills

In which education field do you expect your project to have the biggest impact?

higher education

Your region and country

Flanders-Belgium

Past experience as a Project Leader in EU funded projects?

none

9. Digidemocracy in school - University of Jyväskylä, Department of Teacher Education Click here to apply for this project

Your Family Name RautiainenYour First Name MattiYour organisation University of Jyväskylä, Department of Teacher EducationMail address [email protected] +358 40 805 3368Project title Digidemocracy in schoolShort summary of your project idea (10 lines)

Thin participating culture in school and passive learning culture has been characteristic for Finnish schools, but also for many other European schools (see e.g. ICCS-studies). Nevertheless, democratic culture and its values are the strongest basis for both structures and everyday life in EU. However, schools has changed very slowly towards more active culture even if there has been lot of different projects at local, national and European level.

This project stresses new learning environments and technology-based tools in the learning processes and especially in the life of a school community. Where developing the active citizenship in school has been based on forms of representativeness, technology gives

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possibilities to develop bottom-up activities of democracy in school. Different kind of “on line” applications (voting systems, open discussion, open decision-making processes, voice for pupil) could be reality in schools from technological viewpoints.

Technology also makes possible students’ ownership towards their own learning when they have more influence in their own learning process, like discussing with other students and teachers on the contents and methods of learning. Technology makes possible the voice of students in the school, if teachers and head teachers are willing for it. It also makes possible not only participate for the school’s culture, but also for the developing of their own neighborhood (democracy as a way of life).

In this project new ICT tools will be developed for the use of education for democracy (primary and secondary schools). These tools will be also tested in school(s).

Type of partners wanted? (type of organisation and expertise)

All who are interested in developing schools towards more democratic culture.

Which EU funding programme are you aiming for?

Anyone of those three choices could be perfect for this project, but maybe mostly KA3: Policy reforms

In which education field do you expect your project to have the biggest impact?

Results can be exploited in schools (and other communities too) when developing schools participatory culture and active citizenship.

Your region and country

Jyväskylä, Finland

Past experience as a Project Leader in EU funded projects?

Personally I don’t have any experience in project leading in EU funded projects, but our organization has a lot.

10. Creative, collaborative improvisation with technology to support learning and innovation - University of Jyväskylä & Agora Center - Click here to apply for this project

Your Family Name VesisenahoYour First Name MikkoYour organisation University of Jyväskylä, Department of Teacher Education &

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Agora CenterMail address P.O. Box 35, 40014 University of Jyväskylä

[email protected] 358400247686Project title Creative, collaborative improvisation with technology to

support learning and innovationShort summary of your project idea (10 lines)

The project idea focuses on research, development and experimentation with smart learning environments, especially based on networked mobile technologies, to filter, consolidate and transfer improvisations between different user groups: learners, teachers, educators, workplace professionals and practitioners.

The aim is to use networked mobile technology-based improvisational tools and materials to support:a. the learning of improvisation techniques and recognising creative or commercial potential in spin-off activities;b. consolidating and transferring improvisations and spin-off outcomes from one learning/workplace situation to another where creative or commercial potential might be realised;c. developing new innovative learning avenues or business ideas.

The project will:- Research and develop ICT, namely networked mobile technologies (e.g., smartphones, tablets, apps, websites, social media; note! including applying the opportunities and combinations of existing tools) for teachers, learners, educationalists, workplace professionals, trainers, and other personnel, that target and facilitate improvisation in developing the creative potential of underutilized learning and workplace practices;- Undertake research interventions with networked mobile technology-based improvisational tools while simultaneously refining their use in a diversity of learning situations and workplaces (i.e., schools, teacher education, museum education, vocational education, science centers, companies);Through research interventions we will:- Investigate combinations of various learning situations (formal, non-formal, informal, learning in the workplace) with networked mobile technologies to establish generalized characteristics of learning through improvisation that might be incorporated into tools;- Develop networked mobile technology-based tools to ‘open-up’ learning and workplace practice by provoking, capturing, filtering and consolidating improvisations and transferring them to different situations where their under-utilised potential might be developed.- Disseminate the research findings and the networked

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mobile technology-based improvisational tools with support material through professional and academic networks, workshops, conference presentations, and publications.

Type of partners wanted? (type of organisation and expertise)

Enthusiastic, e.g. technology and piloting partners, but other actors from the field as well

Which EU funding programme are you aiming for?

Either- Erasmus+ Key Action 2: Strategic Partnershipor- Horizon 2020 ICT-22-2016: Technologies for Learning and Skills (draft work programme)

In which education field do you expect your project to have the biggest impact?

Technology and learning

Your region and country

Central Finland, Finland

Past experience as a Project Leader in EU funded projects?

I have been leader of the application, but not led a H2020 project so far, but lead e.g. Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation, Academy of Finland and ESF projectsOther main actors behind the idea:Dr. Tuula Nousiainen, University of Jyväskylä;Professor (emeritus) Patrick Dillon, University of Exeter, UK / University of Eastern Finland;RuoLan Wang University of Liverpool, UK / France

Earlier collaborators in the topic area:Open University (OU), UKUniversity of Tartu (UT), EstoniaRR & CO. Knowledge Centre Ltd (RR), SloveniaColour Urban Design Ltd (Colour), UKEstonian National Museum (ERM), EstoniaFormater (Formater), ItalyHeureka - the Finnish Science Centre (Heureka), FinlandLusto - Finnish Forest Museum, FinlandArcusys, FinlandHumap Software Ltd. (Humap), Finland

11. The Game of Democracy - Ghent University - Click here to apply for this project

Your Family Name RuttenYour First Name KrisYour organisation Ghent UniversityMail address [email protected]

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Phone +329 264 62 53Project title The Game of DemocracyShort summary of your project idea (10 lines)

“Active citizenship” is a key competence in the European knowledge economy (cfr. European Commission). Yet, international research has shown that young people do not show interest in traditional politics and lack the knowledge and skills to participate in the public mediatized debate (ICCS, 2009) in which they are confronted with many different – often conflicting – perspectives. To prepare teachers for dealing with this new reality, rhetoric is often proposed as an important topic in teacher training. Specifically argumentation theory and the accompanying communication skills can help people to understand, analyze and frame messages and opinions. The main goal of this research project is to develop research about and create a prototype for a game or interactional tool that can improve citizenship education, by helping young people to grasp and practice the basic principles of rhetoric and argumentation theory.

Type of partners wanted? (type of organisation and expertise)

- Researchers (Rhetorical studies, computational linguistics, educational studies, political sciences, sociology);- Communication experts;- Teacher trainers;- Computer scientists;- Game developers

Which EU funding programme are you aiming for?

Erasmus+ Key Action 2: Strategic partnership, Erasmus+ Key Action 3: Forward-looking cooperation projects and EU policy reforms, Horizon 2020: ICT4.11 – 2016: Learning and skills (draft work programme)

In which education field do you expect your project to have the biggest impact?

School education (primary, secondary, incl. initial and in service teachers education), Vocational Education and Training (VET), Adult education, Higher education

Your region and country

Ghent (Belgium)

Past experience as a Project Leader in EU funded projects?

I am postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Educational Studies in Ghent University, specifically working within the research group Culture & Education. I am submitting this proposal together with Dr. Jeroen Bourgonjon, member of the research group and chair of DiGRA Flanders, and Prof. Dr. Tony Valcke of the Department of Political Sciences.

I have experience as principal investigator in writing and submitting a Horizon 2020-proposal (Call Reflective 2 - deadline 28/05/2015, decision forthcoming).

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12. The effective use of using mobile devices in teaching and learning math, science and foreign languages - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports Baden-Württemberg Click here to apply for this project

Your Family Name JurkeYour First Name ThomasYour organisation Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports Baden-

WürttembergMail address [email protected] 497112792587Project title The effective use of using mobile devices in teaching and

learning math, science and foreign languagesShort summary of your project idea (10 lines)

The intention of the proposed project is to design and test appropriate modules for a teacher-training course, which enables teachers to judge the quality of mobile device aided learning environments e.g. in science teaching, to adapt best-practice examples of those environments to their own teaching, and to evaluate their own teaching afterwards. For this purpose, it will use already existing experiences of the different project partners. This project wants to establish a new and flexible teacher-training course that is useful in all participating but also in other countries. It will show that discussing and judging the quality of mobile teaching and learning is an actual question in all European countries.

A huge amount of excellent computer aided teaching and learning material already exists in Europe, but there is far less experience (and also competence) at using these materials effectively within regular classroom activities and outside. This is especially true with respect to getting girls and boys interested to study science, and motivated to get acceptable learning results. Recent research results from science education show, that there are good chances for improving the classroom practice if the materials are appropriately used and adapted to the specific needs within the schools. A transfer of those results into teaching practice within Europe would be useful and should be organised by this project. Since teaching practice differs within the different European countries, it will be developed as a concept of culture oriented support activities. International scientists and teachers, experienced within this field, could work together and adapt their nationally oriented ideas and research results to other needs.

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Type of partners wanted? (type of organisation and expertise)

e.g. University of Education, Teacher Training SeminarInstitute for School Development Stuttgart, Schools

Which EU funding programme are you aiming for?

Erasmus+ KA 2

In which education field do you expect your project to have the biggest impact?

School education (secondary, incl. initial and in service teachers education)

Your region and country

Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Past experience as a Project Leader in EU funded projects?

State Seminar for Didactics and Teacher Training Karlsruhe, State Institute for School Development Stuttgart, both have experiences with Erasmus+ funded projects