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226518 - CP - 1-2005 - 1 FI - COMENIUS C21 EUROPEAN COMMISSION DIRECTORATE-GENERAL EDUCATION AND CULTURE SOCRATES PROGRAMME TRANSNATIONAL COOPERATION PROJECTS PROGRESS REPORT Selection 2005 Sub-programme COMENIUS 2.1 Action European cooperation projects for the training of school education staff 3 Comenius Networks 1 Curriculum Development Projects ERASMUS GRUNDTVIG 3 1 Thematic Network Projects Thematic Network Projects Dissemination European cooperation projects for Adult Education and Lifelong Learning 4 Grundtvig Networks LINGUA MINERVA 1 Promotion of Language Learning 2 Development of Tools and Materials Promotion of ODL-ICT in the Field of Education 1

General instructions 1. Overview The Progress Report for the project comprises the following parts: Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Confirmation of the basic data on the project and the partnership held in the database of the Office. A declaration of the expenditure incurred by the partnership for the performance of the project during the reporting period. A description of the project activities, products and results during the reporting period and schedule for the remaining period. Receipt Acknowledgement Annex Codes to be used. 2. General guidance Only two- and three-year projects shall submit a Progress Report by the deadline specified in the Grant Agreement. As stipulated in the Handbook the deadline for the Progress Report cannot be altered. In accordance with the Grant Agreement, a second pre-financing payment shall be made to the Beneficiary within 45 days of approval of the Progress Report by the Commission. However, payment of the second instalment may not be made until at least 70% of the pre-financing payment has been used up. If this is not the case by the set deadline, the Beneficiary shall nevertheless submit its Progress Report in due form. In this case, the Beneficiary may file a subsequent payment request accompanied by a detailed statement of the eligible costs actually incurred, once 70% of the pre-financing payment has been used up. On the other hand, the Progress Report cannot be submitted before the deadline, even if this percentage has been reached earlier, unless all the activities detailed in the workplan for the period covered by the Progress Report have been achieved. You should carefully read the Administrative and Financial Handbook (annexed to the Grant Agreement; later referred to as the Handbook) before filling in the reporting forms. The Progress Report is submitted by the Beneficiary on behalf of all the organisations participating in the project. The declaration on the following page confirms that a process of consultation and approval has been carried out throughout the partnership. It is therefore important that the required information should be collected in good time before the deadline for submission of the Progress Report. The Report must be submitted in one of the official languages of the European Union (see Annex 1 of this report). One original and two copies of the Report must be sent no later (as per postmark) than by the deadline specified in the Grant Agreement to: SOCRATES, LEONARDO and YOUTH Technical Assistance Office (TAO) Education and Training (E&T) Department rue Colonel Bourg 139 Kolonel Bourgstraat B-1140 Bruxelles You have to attach to your Report, one copy of all project products and results developed (even at a prototype stage) during the reporting period. If you refer to web sites, passwords should be given for all private areas. Each page of the Report and copies of products and results have to bear the Grant Agreement number. You are strongly advised to send your Reports by registered post to ensure a record of postage. Additionally, you are advised to keep a copy of the full Report, including any annexes. Please note that a late submission of the Report may result in penalties or even cancellation of the Grant Agreement, in accordance with the General Conditions. 3. Notice The approval of the Progress Report by the Commission is without prejudice to the Commission's right to suspend the activities of a project, terminate an agreement or take any other appropriate step should subsequent verifications reveal problems or significant divergences from the work plan, the approved budget or the conditions of the agreement as approved. The financial part of the Progress Report is intended to check if 70% of the first pre-financing payment has been used up and to assist the overall monitoring of the project. Therefore, the approval of the Progress Report and payment of the second pre-financing instalment of the grant, in accordance with the terms of the agreement, should under no circumstances be considered as indicating that the Commission has accepted the declared expenditure. Detailed examination of the budget to identify the eligible expenditure and amount of the final grant will be carried out only at the Final Report stage. Please note that in case of any major changes to the partnership, work plan or products and results, a formal request of amendment must be submitted (see Handbook, Chapter II). 2

Checklist and declaration Checklist Please check the following points before submitting your Progress Report There are three complete and securely bound copies of the Progress Report. The Grant Agreement number is specified on each page of your Report and on each attached document, product or result. The Declaration by the Beneficiary below has been signed and stamped by the legal representative of the Beneficiary. One copy of the Progress Report bears an original signature Section 1 (Project Data) of the Report has been duly amended or approved. You have answered all the questions in Section 3.2 of the Report. You have completed the summary tables in Sections 3.1 and 3.3 of the Report. One copy of the prototypes / interim versions of the products and results listed in Section 3.3 is included. Declaration of Expenditure All expenditure presented in Section 2 of the Report is eligible (See Chapter III of the Administrative and Financial Handbook). The expenditure is consistent with the activities undertaken during the reporting period. All tables have been completed in. Exchange rates have been calculated following the instructions of the Grant Agreement (Article II.16.1) The Declaration of Expenditure has been checked by the accounts or finance department of your institution. In particular, the totals of the table 2.2 are equal to the totals shown in the general table (Table 2.1). Declaration by the Beneficiary Grant Agreement number: 226518 - CP - 1-2005 - 1 FI - COMENIUS C21 I, the undersigned, hereby declare that the information contained in this Report is accurate and in accordance with the facts. In particular the financial data provided in this Report corresponds to the expenditure actually incurred by the project partners for the execution of the project activities. This information has been checked and approved by the partners involved in the activities set out in this Report. (Please tick the appropriate box below) Case 1: To be used where at least 70% of the first pre-financing instalment paid by the Commission for this project has been used up. I hereby request the payment of the second pre-financing instalment, in accordance with the terms of the Grant Agreement. Case 2: To be used where less than 70% of the pre-financiang has been used up. I hereby undertake to file a subssequent payment request accompanied by a detailed statement of the eligible costs actually incurred, once 70% of the pre-financing payment has been used up. Signed in: on / / Signature of the Beneficiary's legal representative Seal/stamp of the organisation Name and function in capital letters 3

226518 - CP - 1-2005 - 1 - COMENIUS C21 Section 1: Confirmation of project data Annexed to this form you will find a print-out showing project and partnership data drawn from the database of the Office (Contract Report). Please check this information and confirm that it is correct. Please take particular care to ensure that: all partners actively involved in the project during the eligibility period are accurately described in the print-out the names of all institutions and their locations are correctly spelt and appear in the language of the institution's country (rather than translated into another language) You should indicate any corrections clearly on the Contract Report and, if necessary, provide the correct data on a separate sheet. Please note that in cases there are changes in the partnership a formal request of amendment has to be done at least 60 days before the end of the eligibility period (see Handbook, Chapter II). If applicable, please give website address(es) below, along with any login names and passwords required to access its internal sections. Website address http://www.helsinki.fi/luma/eutrain/ Login name (if applicable) Login password (if applicable) 4

Section 2: Declaration of expenditure (in ) This section sets out the financial information required by the Commission. We advise you to read carefully the Administrative and Financial Handbook before filling in this section. General instructions The expenditure should cover the entire reporting period. The expenditure should be coherent with the workplan in Section 3.1. All amounts should be provided in euros. Please adhere strictly to the format provided in the tables and check carefully the figures provided (reports containing calculation errors will be delayed in the payment process). Staff costs and Direct costs need to be reported in detail and these costs must be supported by documentary proof, such as invoices, payslips, etc. Copies of these proofs must be provided, if requested by the Commission. Please read carefully Handbook, Chapter II for rules concerning amendments to the budget. 5

Table 2.1 : Overview of expenditure 31.12.2006 Original approved budget (1) SECTION 2 DECLARATION OF EXPENDITURE Community Grant (2) First prefinancing instalment of Community Grant Declared expenditure (3) % use of first prefinancing instalment Future expenditure (4) Expected total expenditure at the end of the eligibility period (5) Type of cost Costs ( ) ( ) Costs ( ) Costs ( ) Costs ( ) 1. Staff costs 180 422 56 351,80 124 070,20 180 422 2. Direct costs 2.1 - Travel and subsistence 2.2 - Equipment and materials 2.3 - Sub-contracting, consultancy and other external services 2.4 Other costs Subtotal for Direct costs 52 000 18 438,56 33 561,44 52 000 6 700 4 492,15 2 207,85 6 700 21 020 1 682,67 19 337,33 21 020 8 470 652,65 7 817,35 8 470 88 190 25 266,03 62 923,97 88 190 3. General costs 20 218 6 143,28 14 074,72 20 218 TOTAL 288 830 216 622 86 649 87 761,11 101 % 201 068,89 288 830 (1) As in Annex II of the Grant Agreement (taking into account any approved amendments) (2) As in Annex II of the Grant Agreement (3) Expenditure incurred during the reporting period. The figures must be equal to the totals in table 2.2. (4) Estimated expenditure to be incurred during the remainder of the eligibility period (5) Columns (3) + column (4) 6

Table 2.2. Breakdown of expenses incurred by partner (euro) 31.12.2006 Total P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Total grant for cost category 1. Staff costs 56 351,80 46 184,66 6 277,34 846,80 1 091,00 1 952,00 128 432 2. Direct costs 2.1 Travel & subsistence 18 438,56 5 332,23 2 448,00 3 064,07 4 211,58 3 382,68 52 000 2.2 Equipment & materials 4 492,15 74,06 2 904,11 1 425,40 88,58 6 700 2.3 Subcontracting, consultancy & other external services 1 682,67 647,90 216,56 678,21 140 21 020 2.4 Other costs 652,65 490,40 42,62 119,63 8 470 3. General costs 6 143,28 3 968,87 656,75 532,46 557,46 427,74 0 TOTAL 87 761,11 56 698,12 9 382,08 7 606,62 7 963,65 6110,63 216 622 Please add as many columns as necessary 7

Section 3: Description of project activities, products and results This section describes the activities of the project. It is divided in three sections. Please remember that the Progress Report covers all the activities and results for the reporting period of the project. Please ensure that your replies refer to the specific criteria, priorities and educational frameworks relating to the Action and project involved. 8

3.1 Summary of activities SECTION 3 DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT ACTIVITIES, PRODUCTS & RESULTS Using the original approved Workplan for the project, please describe clearly and briefly by using the two tables below the main activities or workpackages undertaken / to be undertaken in the different project s stages. Please include partnership meetings as distinct activities. Project Activities undertaken during the reporting period: Initialisation Stage of the project (start-end dates) Stage 1 (20/11/05-30/09/06 ) Stage 2 (01/02/06-30/09/06) Stage 3 (19/11/05-21/11/06) Stage 4 (25/03/05-30/09/07) Stage 5 (24/03/06-27/03/06) Stage 6 (01/02/06-11/12/06) Stage 7 (01/04/06-15/06/06) Stage 8 (01/04/06-15/06/06) Stage 9 (12/06/06-25/01/07) Stage 10 (01/10/06-31/09/06) Stage 11 (15/09/06-18/09/06) Activities undertaken. Indicate also any major divergence from the original workplan Design, arrangements, administrating Collecting, translating, analysing, comparing curricula Partnership meeting in Jyväskylä, Finland Writing of the first draft curriculum for the practice training period Partnership meeting in Plovdiv, Bulgaria Applications to NAs for mobility. Information to student teachers Lead partner, other partners involved in the activities undertaken Helsinki University, all partners Helsinki University, all partners Jyväskylä University, all partners Helsinki University, all partners Web page Products and results National resources of student teachers training in science on web page Partner agreements, allocation of tasks First draft curriculum for training period Plovdiv University, all partners Mobility action plan Comparison of science teacher education All partners Grant for first mobility First mobility action plan Hosts are ready to take foreign trainees Applications Preparing the draft of the Torun University Draft of dissemination plan on the web page dissemination plan Preparing the draft of the Tartu University Draft of the evaluation plan on the web page evaluation plan Preparing the progress report Helsinki University, all partners Progress report Presentations in pedagogical conferences Partnership meeting in Torun, Poland Helsinki University, Plovdiv University Torun University, all partners Dissemination Material for first mobility Draft of the progress report 9

Project Activities to be undertaken during the rest of the project duration. Realisation Stage 12 (08/06-01/07) Stage 13 (01/07-02/07) Stage 14 (01/07-03/07) Stage 15 (02/07-03/07) Stage of the project (start-end dates) Stage 16 (02/07-09/07) Stage 17 (04/05/07-07/05/07) Stage 18 (05/07-10/07) Stage 19 (10/06-09/07) Stage 20 (06/07-12/07) Stage 21 (21/09/07-24/09/07) Stage 22 (08/07-01/08) Stage 23 (01/08-02/08) Stage 24 (01/08-03/08) Stage 25 (01/08-03/08) Stage 26 (02/08-08/08) Stage 27 (05/08) Activities to be undertaken. Indicate also any foreseen major divergence from the original workplan Selection of student teacher applicants, information meetings Hosts, mentors, tutors, accommodation, preparing of language- and culture courses. Lead partner, other partners to be involved in the activities undertaken All partners 10 Foreseen products and results Group ready for the first student change Intensive course in English Plovdiv University Trainees know English well enough Training of foreign students in host schools All partners First mobility Applications to NAs for mobility All partners Grant for second mobility Language and culture courses in Trainees get acquainted with their host host countries culture Collecting, analysing, evaluating, All partners Results of the first mobility action disseminating Partnership meeting in Estonia Tartu University, all partners Results of the first mobility action on the web page Implementation of results of first Helsinki University, all partners Second draft curriculum for training period mobility into curriculum Presentations in pedagogical All partners Dissemination conferences, meetings with national authorities Preparing the second interim Helsinki University, all partners Interim of the second year Partnership meeting in Bulgaria Plovdiv University, all partners Report of the second year of the project Information to student teachers All partners Group ready for the second student change Selection of applicants Intensive course in English Plovdiv University Trainees know English well enough Training of foreign students in host schools All partners Second mobility Language and culture courses in All partners Trainees get acquainted with their host host countries culture Collecting, analysing, evaluating, All partners Results of the second mobility action disseminating Partnership meeting in Poland Torun University, all partners Results of the second mobility action on the web page. Draft of book, plans for CD, DVD

Stage 28 (01/08-10/08) Finalisation Stage 29 (05/08-09/08) Stage 30 (10/05-09/08) Stage 31 (10/05-09/08) Stage 32 (09/08) Stage 33 (09/08-12/08) Stage 34 (09/08-) Writing, editing, printing All partners Book, CD s, DVD s Analysis of the results All partners Recommendations for European curriculum of science teacher training Internal and external evaluation Tartu University Evaluation Papers published in journals of science education, Presentations in pedagogical conferences Meetings with national authorities Dissemination of CD s and DVD s All partners Dissemination Partnership meeting in Finland Helsinki University, all partners Draft of the final report Evaluation Preparation of the final report Helsinki University, all partners Final report Long-term exploitation of the results All partners Dissemination Grant Agreement number: 11

3.2 Overall description of the project (maximum 3 pages) The main objective of this project is to present guidelines for the unified initial training of science teachers in the participating countries. The main activity in the first year was to compare the initial teachers training programme in partner institutions. The second objective for the first year was to organize the student mobility. All the partners has succeeded to make the departments of physics, chemistry, teacher education and teacher training schools to work together already during the first year. The expected outputs 1) the informative web pages have been developed and 2) draft version of the book of training programme for science teachers has been developed: the content of the book, the format of the book and the authors of the book has been selected. External evaluator has taken part in coordinating meeting and the dissemination has begun and the aims and objectives of the project have been presented in international conferences. 3.2.1 Organisational aspects Each country has a national coordinator and an institutional coordinator who steer the work in the particular country. Institutional coordinator is the contact person of the partner. The five partners in cooperation are University of Helsinki (FI), University of Jyväskylä (FI), University of Plovdiv (BG), University of Tartu (EE) and Nicolaus Copernicus University (PL). Other partners in cooperation are the following secondary schools: Helsinki University s Training School #1 (FI), Jyväskylä University s Training School (FI), Mathematics Gymnasium and Language School in Plovdiv (BG), Miina Härma Gümnasium in Tartu (EE) and The IVth Lyceum in Torun (PL). The external evaluator belongs to the staff of the Tartu University, but is not a member of the working group. University of Helsinki (FI) responsibilities are coordinating, web-mastering, financial administrating and monitoring of the project. Dr. Jarkko Lampiselkä from University of Helsinki is the project leader and M. Sc. Seija Valtonen from University of Helsinki is the project coordinator. University of Jyväskylä (FI) have specialist in teaching and learning of chemistry. University of Plovdiv (BG) is responsible for the editing and printing of the book. University of Tartu (EE) is responsible for project evaluation. Nicolaus Copernicus University (PL) have specialist in teaching and learning of physics. University of Jyväskylä (FI) organized the first project meeting on November, 19 21, 2005 in Jyväskylä, University of Plovdiv (BG) organized the second project meeting on March, 25 28, 2006 in Plovdiv and Nicolaus Copernicus University (PL) organized the third coordinative meeting on September, 15 19, 2006 in Torun. All together 15 persons from the participating institutions in the project took part to the first coordinative meeting in Jyväskylä, 17 persons to the second meeting in Plovdiv and 11 persons to the third meeting in Torun, respectively. First organizational change happened in the beginning of the year 2006, when the legal representative of the University of Helsinki was changed: the signatory rights related to EU educational cooperation projects were changed from Rector of the University (professor Ilkka Niiniluoto) to Dean of the Faculty (professor Jarkko Hautamäki). This will take place, again, in the beginning the year 2007 because the new Dean (professor Patrik Scheinin) has been nominated. Two minor changes took also place during the first year. Partner school in Estonia was changed because the contact person in the school changed the employee. Hence, a new contact person and partner school need to be found. The institutional coordinator in the University of Jyväskylä was changed because Faculty of Education nominated a new office holder to the current position in the Department of Teacher Education. The major organizational change took place during the first project term when the University of Piteşti was withdrawn from the project. Modification application was made and it was accepted. The amendment was valid from 02.03.2006. 12

3.2.2 Methodology, tools and technology used The educational and teaching approaches The overall aim is to synthesise theoretical, pedagogical knowledge and teaching practice in classrooms into a new programme (curriculum) of science teacher training resulting in reflective science teachers. Teacher training is important that pupils would not lose interest to physics and chemistry, on the contrary, would develop positive attitudes to sciences and resulting in inclining enrolment in tertiary studies. The project started November 2005 in coordinative meeting at Jyväskylä Finland. During the first project term, the main activity has been the information gathering and analyzing of the teacher training programmes, especially the teacher training practice. Comparing the practical part of the training requires observing lessons and reflective group discussions of the lessons, preparative discussion before a lesson and reflective discussion after the lesson, as well as, group discussions concerning teacher s profession. Tools and technology The mobility is a tool to find the best European practice used for teacher training. The second objectivity for the whole project was to launch informative web pages for the partners cooperating in the project. The information in the web pages was aimed to serve both the institutional partners in the project, as well as, the students in the mobility. Therefore, the following information was decided to place in the web-pages: 1. Introduction. The general information about the project serves as short introduction to the project, describing the aims and the means of the project. The most essential aspect is that the introduction is written in all partner countries own languages as well as in English. 2. The overview of the project describes the need for the project in more detailed way than is done in the introduction. Above all, the overall aim of the project is described. 3. The schedule of the project presents the timetable of the project in a compact way. This sub page offers up-todate information about the progress of the project in the light of the memorandums of the meetings. The work plan of the project is placed here also, because by this way, we believed that everyone interested about the project could evaluate how well the objectives have been reached. 4. The section partners in cooperation was rather self-evident information sub page for the project. All partner institutions are introduced here. The participating schools will be introduced similarly. 5. National recourses of student teachers training. Our aim is to collect short descriptions of the available resources concerning the initial training of the teachers of physics and chemistry in each of the participating country here so that they could be easy to compare. 6. The curriculum of the teacher training program in all participating countries is placed on the site for analysis and comparison. 7. The student mobility sub page is the place where the students will find information about student mobility and all the important documents starting from application forms. 8. Outputs and documents sub page serves up-to-date information of the progression of the project. Various documents and outputs are collected here during the project. 3.2.3. Products and results and their dissemination In the beginning of the project, three main products were named: 1) the web-pages, 2) the book with the common science teachers training programme and 3) report of recommendations for educational authorities with the purpose of unifying the European teacher training. The web-pages have been launch already and partners have found them very useful. The material gathering and its analysis for the production of the common science training programme has started determinedly. It is clear that the third product will see its light later, closer to the project end. The project co-ordinator and national co-ordinators are responsible for the dissemination of the project results. The dissemination strategy is that the participating partners have to take part to this activity and presented papers whether at a local or international conference, as well as, in international journals of teacher training. This way, we suppose, we will bring the project to the attention of a wider audience of science teacher educators. In summary, three international meetings (project meetings) have been organized and two presentations held at international conferences: 1. Raykova, Z., Mitrikova, R., Nikolov, S., Dimova, Y., Valtonen, S., Lampiselkä, J., Kyyronen, L., Krikmann, O., Susi, J., Przegietka, K., & Turlo, J. 2006. European Project on Comenius 2.1. Program for a Better Teaching Practice of Students in Physics and Chemistry. Presentation held in The 6th General International Conference of the Balkan Physical Union, 22-26 August 2006, Istanbul, Turkey 2. Lampiselkä, J. 2006. EU TRAIN European Training for Student Teachers in Science. Presentation held at the 19 th International Conference on Chemical Education, 12 17 August, Seoul, Korea. 13

3.2.4. Transversal issues The project will contribute to following transversal issues: Equality between women and men Fight against racism and xenophobia Promotion of economic and social cohesion ICT in education the elearning Action Plan Language teaching and learning Preparing the enlargement of the Union Sustainable development Stability and security The future challenges to education and training systems Lifelong learning 3.2.5. Evaluation This project will be evaluated by an external expert and by internal self-evaluation methods. The success of the program is mainly determined by the following criteria: 1) There are found out common basic points of teacher training in partner countries and a common working plan for visiting teacher students has been worked out on the basis of obtained information; 2) The visiting teacher students have been active observers and motivated learners in the visited institution/country and they have obtained new knowledge about the teacher training in the visited country; 3) The program has given new information to the partners of the project for further development of a standardized teacher training curriculum for EU. External evaluation The external evaluator is an expert, not being a member of the project. The external evaluator writes the evaluation according to his own plan. The project leader will have to give the external evaluator any information that is necessary to evaluate the project. It will be carried out and published after every year of the project. Methods of internal evaluation All national project plans and activities are evaluated by co-ordination meetings where national plans or new teacher training curricula, preliminary findings and results will be presented and evaluated. Before, during and after each mobility are used the following self-evaluation methods: 1) Teacher student s selfevaluation, 2) Mentor s evaluation of a visiting student; and 3) Research questionnaire for teacher students, mentors, tutors and other active members of the project. 3.2.6. Feedback on the project Cooperation among the partners has gone without any friction. Language and cultural barrels have been overcome easily. The contacts between the coordinator and the partners have happened on weekly base or even more frequently. Some divergences and difficulties happened are reported already at the section 3.2.1. 3.3 Products and results In this part you are required to present an overview of the products and results of your project. Depending on the Socrates Action concerned and the type of project involved, this may include conferences, training modules, materials, publications, courses, course books, CD-ROMs, guidelines, reports and studies. Please list in the summary table below all foreseen products and results of the project. Please indicate the degree of finalisation of the product (100% - finalised; 0% - not yet started). You have to attach to your Progress Report one copy of the prototypes / interim versions of the products and results (book, CD-ROMs, conference programme, etc.). 14

Summary table of materials, products, publications, modules, courses, conferences, reports, studies and other concrete outcomes of the project. Please use the appropriate codes as listed in Annex N Type of outcome (A codes) Title of the outcome % of realisation Comments 1 A 1 Jyväskylä conference 2 A 1 Plovdiv conference 3 A 1 Torun conference 4 A 2 Jyväskylä conference memorandum 5 A 2 Plovdiv conference memorandum 6 A 2 Torun conference memorandum 7 A 2 Translations of the summary of the EU TRAIN project in local languages 8 A 2 Descriptions of the institutions in co-operation 9 A 2 Dissemination plan 10 A 2 Evaluation plan 11 A2 National Resources of student teachers' training (Finland, Poland, Bulgaria) 12 A 2 Survival information for student mobility in participating countries 13 A 2 Translation of the Curriculum of Science Teacher Training (Poland) 14 A 2 Fact sheet on subject teacher s pedagogical studies 15 A 2 16 A 2 Translation of the Curriculum of Physics and Chemistry Teacher Training (Finland, Helsinki University, Helsingin normaalilyseo) Translation of the curriculum of the upper secondary school in physics for foreign trainees in Helsingin normaalilyseo 17 A 2 Fact sheet on student exchange to and from Helsinki 18 A 2 Fact sheet on student exchange to and from Jyväskylä 100 Partner agreements, allocation of tasks Schedule in the web page 100 Curriculum comparison, mobility planning Schedule in the web page 100 Mobility organising, preparing progress report Schedule in the web page 100 For the web pages of the training school www.norssi.helsinki.fi/english/general/index.html of the training school http://www.norssi.helsinki.fi/english/physics.html 100 For the web pages 15

19 A 2 Progress report of the project 20 A 3 Report on Russian school system 21 A 3 Report on Scandinavian school system 22 A 4 Printed conference material 23 A7 Certification forms 24 A 10 Mobility guide for Comenius practical teacher training modified from Guide to good practice for Comenius language Assistantships, the former action Lingua C 25 A 10 Translation of Mobility Guide in Bulgarian 26 A 11 Web pages for the EU TRAIN project 27 A 12 Observation form for lesson observations 28 A 12 Internal evaluation forms 29 A 12 Application forms for student mobility of partner universities 100 For the web page 100 For the web page 100 Copied by organisers for the conferences 75 Drafts annexed 100 Adopted for public use in Comenius 2.2 A 100 For the web page 75 http://www.helsinki.fi/luma/eutrain/ 100 For the web page Grant Agreement number: 16

Annex 1. Country and language codes Annexes - Codes to be used in the Report Code Country Code Country Code Language Code Language BE Belgium IS Iceland DA Danish IS Icelandic DK Denmark LI Liechtenstein DE German NO Norwegian DE Germany NO Norway EL Greek BG Bulgarian GR Greece BG Bulgaria EN English CZ Czech ES Spain CZ Czech Republic ES Spanish EE Estonian FR France EE Estonia FI Finnish LV Latvian IE Ireland CY Cyprus FR French LT Lithuanian IT Italy LV Latvia IT Italian HU Hungarian LU Luxembourg LT Lithuania NL Dutch MT Maltese NL Netherlands HU Hungary PO Portuguese PL Polish AT Austria MT Malta SE Swedish RO Romanian PT Portugal PL Poland GA Irish SI Slovene FI Finland RO Romania LE Letzeburgesch SK Slovak SE Sweden SI Slovenia TR Turkish UK United Kingdom SK TR Slovak Republic Turkey The Progress Report may not be submitted in languages marked in italics Annex 2. Codes for products and results Code A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 A10 A11 A12 Type of product Course / module Report Study Learning materials Teaching materials Curricula Certification system Database / directory Network Guidelines WWW page Other (specify) 17