EU programme for education, training, youth and sport 2014 - 2020

1. EU programme for education, training, youth and sport 2014 - 2020

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3. Its budget of €14.7 billion will provide opportunities for over 4 million Europeans to study, train and volunteer abroad.

4. AIMS • Reducing unemployment, especially among young people • Promoting adult learning, especially for new skills and skills required by the labour market • Encouraging young people to take part in European democracy • Supporting innovation, cooperation and reform • Reducing early school leaving • Reinforcing quality in early childhood education and care • Promoting cooperation and mobility with the EU's partner countries • More synergies and interaction between formal, informal and non-formallearning BENEFITS

5. 3 main types of Key Action

6. ERASMUS+isfor

7. OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDIVIDUALS • 2 million higher education students will study and trainabroad • 650 000 vocational students will spend part of their educationand training abroad • 200 000 Master’s students will benefit from a new loanguarantee scheme and more than 25 000 scholarships forJoint Master Degrees • 500 000 young people to volunteer abroad and take part inyouthexchanges • 800 000 lecturers, teachers, trainers, education staff andyouth workers to teach or train abroad FOR INNOVATION PROJECTS AND EXCHANGE OF GOOD PRACTICES • 25 000 Strategic Partnerships, involving 125 000institutions/organisations, to implement joint initiatives andpromote exchange of experience and know-how and links with theworld of work • Nearly 300 Knowledge Alliances and Sector Skills Alliances,involving 3500 education institutions and enterprises workingtogether • More than 200 000 teachers collaborating on line and involving more than 100,000 schoolsthrougheTwinning (On-line community offering services to teachers, pupils and school leaders, teacher educators and student teachers)

8. YOUTH (young people 13-30 yearsold and youthworkers) Mobilityforyoung people and youth workers (Key Action 1) StrategicPartnerships (Key Action 2) StructuredDialogue(Key Action 3)

17. Strategic Partnerships(Key Action 2) A Strategic Partnership is all about enabling organisations to work together to improve theirprovision for learners and share innovative practices. Informal groups of young people canalso apply to undertake transnational youth initiatives. This brings together two or moregroups of young people from different countries, for activities that make a difference to local communities, as well as building employability and entrepreneurship skills. This typeof project can last between 6 months and 3 years, and it should involve a minimum of twoyouth partners from two different Programme Countries. There is also the opportunity to work with other sectors in a cross-sector partnershipthrough collaborative projects, which are aimed at improving provision across morethan one sector. This type of project has a minimum requirement of at least threeorganisations from three different Programme Countries. Partner organisations from anyPartner Country in the world may participate in Strategic Partnerships.

18. Types of Strategic Partnership activities include: • new methods, tools or materials to build key competences, basic skills, language, orIT skills; • ideas to build capacity and professionalise or modernise youth work, including theuse of ICT; • building links with other sectors to tackle social exclusion and early school leaving,combining non-formal youth work with formal education and training; • transnational initiatives for groups of young people that encourage entrepreneurship and social commitment.

19. Structured Dialogue –meetings between young peopleand decision-makers (Key Action 3) The aim of Structured Dialogue is to put young people at the heart of policy-making. Young people get to debate the issues that matter to them with the people who make thedecisions. Young people should be involved at all stages of the project from preparationto follow-up. Projects can last between 3 and 24 months, and involve a minimum of 30participants.

20. Types of Structured Dialogue activities include: • Meetings, events, seminars, debates, or discussions - linking to the StructuredDialogue process at EU level, the EU Youth Strategy or overall participation indemocratic life. • Meetings and seminars linked to official EU Presidency youth conferences. • Events and debates linked to European Youth Week. • Consultations including online opinions polls and surveys. • Events simulating the functioning democratic institutions at local and national levels,and the roles of decision makers within these institutions.

21. YOUTHPASS Youthpassis a recognition tool for non-formal and informal learning in youth work, helping Erasmus+ participants to present what they have accomplished, the skills gained and knowledge acquired.

22. FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT: ec.europa.eu/erasmus-plus OR CONTACT: National Agencywww.erasmusplus.org.pl