Upcoming trainings in 2024
Teacher Training: Individual Pupil Mobility and recognition of its learning outcomes – focus on intercultural competence
Are you a teacher from a secondary school, school counsellor, career advisor, or an educational staff member working within intercultural learning, learning mobility and learning recognition? This is for you!
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
Dates: 31/10/2024 – 3/11/2024
Duration: 3 days of training course + 1 travel day
Language: English
Deadline for applications: Sunday 9 June 2024
Participation Fee: 700€
This training course complies with the Quality standards for courses which can be funded through Erasmus+ Key Action 1 (learning mobility of individuals). Institutions in possession of such Erasmus+ grants may use their funding to cover the participation fee for the training course.
What is the training about?
More than 60.000 secondary school students enrol in a long-term Individual Pupil Mobility (IPM) every year through different programmes and providers, and since 2021 the EU has made this activity one of its flagship actions within the new Erasmus+ programme.
However, the majority of secondary education institutions miss the opportunity to foster IPM as transformative experience for the pupil, and a key driver of internationalisation of schools. One of the main causes is the lack of recognition of learning outcomes of IPM in the majority of EU countries and lack of assessment of the intercultural and other transversal competences by pupils during their period abroad.
In November 2018, EU Member states adopted the Council recommendation on promoting automatic mutual recognition of higher education and upper secondary education and training qualifications and the outcomes of learning periods abroad, in view of the creation of an European Education Area by 2025.
Automatic recognition is centred around the principle that curricula of the sending and host countries are ‘broadly in line’, and acknowledges that the learning outcomes of mobility include not only subject-based but also transversal competences. More so, since subject-based competences may be seen as specific to each country’s context, the development of transversal competences in learning mobility can be assessed despite differences between national curricula.
To better promote IPM and apply the Council recommendation in the field of recognition of the outcomes of learning periods abroad during upper secondary education, the European Commission entrusted a consortium composed by the European Federation for Intercultural Learning (EFIL – organiser of this training), the European Institute of Education and Social Policy (EIESP) and the European Centre of Studies and Initiatives (CESIE) to coordinate the work of an Expert Network on this topic. This Expert Network has developed concrete tools that will eventually lead to a real automatic recognition Europe-wide. One of the tools is the Training Model for education professionals on Assessment of Transversal Competences developed in long-term individual pupil mobility on which this training is based, and the Intercultura Assessment Protocol. Both tools are now being piloted within the project ‘Empowering Teachers for Automatic Recognition’. Learn more at pupilmobility.eu .
The aim of the training is to prepare and support schools in promoting Individual Pupil Mobility – through Erasmus+ and other programmes – and in designing learning agreements which foster automatic recognition of pupils’ learning outcomes. Teachers and relevant staff will learn how to capitalise on IPM experiences for internationalisation in a whole school approach and improve their ability to formulate and assess intended learning outcomes in terms of competences, which will support them in finding alignments between curricula. On top of that, teachers will also discover ways to apply non-formal education methods within individual pupil mobility programmes to foster the development of transversal competences, notably intercultural learning.
Find all the information about the training here and register at the EFIL website
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EFIL teacher training: Individual Pupil Mobility and recognition of its learning outcomes – focus on intercultural competence
If you’re a teacher, school counsellor or educational staff with an interest in pupil mobility and internationalisation of schools and want to learn how to better support the automatic recognition of pupils’ learning outcomes after a mobility programme, this training is for you!
Location: Lyon (TBC), France
Dates: 28-31/10/2023
- Arrivals : 28/10 am, start of the training at 2pm (lunch is not provided)
- Departures : 31/10 pm, end of the training at noon (lunch provided)
Duration: 3 days of training course + 1 travel day
Language: English
Deadline for applications: Sunday 24 September 2023
Participation Fee: 700€
This training course complies with the Quality standards for courses which can be funded through Erasmus+ Key Action 1 (learning mobility of individuals). Institutions in possession of such Erasmus+ grants may use their funding to cover the participation fee for the training course.
The aim of the training is to prepare and support schools in promoting Individual Pupil Mobility – through Erasmus+ and other programmes – and in designing learning agreements which foster automatic recognition of pupils’ learning outcomes. Teachers and relevant staff will learn how to capitalise on IPM experiences for internationalisation in a whole school approach and improve their ability to formulate and assess intended learning outcomes in terms of competences, which will support them in finding alignments between curricula. On top of that, teachers will also discover ways to apply non-formal education methods within individual pupil mobility programmes to foster the development of transversal competences, notably intercultural learning.
Find all the information about the training and register at the EFIL website
