EUPHRA Conference Opening address By Maria Luisa Garcia Minguez Acting Head of unit EACEA Unit Erasmus+ Higher education "Knowledge Alliances, Bologna tools, Jean Monnet" 1
Commission and EACEA Partners with complementary roles Policy Programme implementation - DG EAC - DG COMM - DG ECHO Policy documents Programme definition Call Priorities Committees Impact analysis Management of centralised actions Whole project life cycle Results & feedback ~400 staff Based in Brussels Management: EC officials Management of decentralised actions via National Agencies 2
Programmes 2014-2020 3 Erasmus + Creative Europe Europe for Citizens EU Aid Volunteers 2014: 337 M 160 M 20 M 11M 2020: 623 M 195 M 27 M 25 M
Actions managed by EACEA 4
Key Action 1 - Learning Mobility of individuals Joint Master Degrees Online Linguistic Support Youth: European Voluntary Service Insurance (EVS) and Large Scale EVS Events 5
Key Action 2 - Cooperation for innovation and good practices Knowledge Alliances Sector Skills Alliances IT Support Platforms : EPALE & etwinning International dimension with 3 rd countries : Capacity Building Youth & HE, Network National E+ Offices 6
Key Action 3 - Support for policy reform Prospective Initiatives Labels & Accreditation: Erasmus Charter Higher Education Networks & HE Tools:HEREs, ECVET, Bologna experts, NARICs, Europass, Euroguidance, EQF, Eurodesk Brusselslink, Agenda for Adult learning, Call to National authorities on apprenticeship Surveys: Eurydice, ICCS, ICILS Dialogue & Cooperation: Civil Society Cooperation Education & Training and Youth, Structured dialogue Youth 7
Jean Monnet Jean Monnet Chairs, Centre of Excellence and Modules Policy debate with Academic world Support to academic institutions or associations activities 6 Designated Institutions:College of Europe; Bruges & Natolin; European University Institute, Florence, Academic of European Law, Trier; Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht; Special Needs Agency, Odense; CIFE, Nice 8
Sport Support to transnational collaborative projects Support to non-commercial EU sport events Support for strengthening of the evidence base for policy making (tender) 9
Eurydice The Eurydice network supports policy and decision- making at national and European Level, in particular the new strategic framework for E&T 2020 Under Agency s responsibility since 2008 Eurydice products: Overviews of national education systems Comparative thematic studies Indicators and statistics Reference material and tools A dynamic network: coordinating unit, 40 national units and collaboration with others. Biennial work programme 2014/2015
Erasmus Networks background 260 selected since the Socrates programme Large partnership (60 organisations on average) from 25 or more European countries for a period of 3 years 11
Added value of Erasmus Networks Connecting academic community in different disciplines Impact on policy reform at institution level Produce and promote creativity and innovation in current and emerging academic disciplines Act as an interface between political, educational and economic actors, fostering progressive change in the higher education sector Helping to implement Bologna reforms Important role on defining disciple based Quality Assurance 12
EU Aid Volunteers 13
Why an EU Aid Volunteers Initiative? The majority of the existing volunteer schemes in Europe have a national focus The EU Aid Volunteers initiative will bring volunteers and organisations from different countries to work together in common projects, establishing European standards in this field. Humanitarian organisations need more well-prepared and trained people to carry out projects helping communities struck by disasters The EU Aid Volunteers' initiative intends to provide Europeans interested to help with the opportunity to provide their support in the countries where help is needed. 14
Facts & Figures 2014-2020 Targets:- 4 800 volunteers trained 2 000 humanitarian apprenticeships offered within the EU 3 950 deployments of EU citizens worldwide 4 400 people from non-eu, disaster affected countries trained 10 000 online volunteering opportunities Budget:- 147.9 million of EU funding Approximately 90% of the budget is to be managed by EACEA 15