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ERASMUS+

Erasmus+ is the EU Programme in the fields of education, training, youth and sport for the period 2021-2027. Education, training, youth and sport are key areas that support citizens in their personal and professional development. High quality, inclusive education and training, as well as informal and non-formal learning, ultimately equip young people and participants of all ages with the qualifications and skills needed for their meaningful participation in democratic society, intercultural understanding and successful transition in the labour market. Building on the success of the programme in the period 2014-2020, Erasmus+ strengthens its efforts to increase the opportunities offered to more participants and to a wider range of organisations, focusing on its qualitative impact and contributing to more inclusive and cohesive, greener and digitally fit societies.

 

KEY ACTION 2 – COOPERATION AMONG ORGANISATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS

This Key Action supports:

Partnerships for Cooperation:

  • Cooperation Partnerships. Areas: Higher Education, School Education, Vocational Training, Adult Education, Youth, Sport and European Education.
  • Small-scale Partnerships. Areas: All mentioned in the previous action, except Higher Education.

Agencies that handle applications:

More information: Erasmus+ Guide

Partnerships for Excellence:

Partnerships for Innovation:

  • Alliances for Innovation: With the call for alliances for innovation, projects are encouraged that contribute to designing a new, more active role for higher education and vocational training institutions in their socioeconomic environment, by developing innovation ecosystems together with companies.
    • Alliances for Education and Business
    • Alliances for sectoral cooperation on capabilities
  • Forward-looking Projects: This action will aim to foster innovation, creativity and e-participation, as well as social entrepreneurship in different fields of education, training, youth and sport. It will support forwardlooking ideas based around key European priorities, and that have the potential of becoming mainstreamed and giving input for improving education and training, youth and sport systems, as well as to bring a substantial innovative effect in terms of methods and practices to all types of learning and active participation settings for Europe's social cohesion.
  • Capacity Building projects in the field of youth: this action supports cooperation and exchange in the field of youth between Programme and Partner Country organisations and covers non-formal learning activities, with a focus on raising the capacity of organisations working with young people outside formal learning, while ensuring the active participation of young people. 
  • Not-for-profit sport events: This action will support the preparation, organisation and follow up of not-for-profit sport events, organised either in one single country or in several countries by not-for-profit organisations or public bodies active in the field of sport. These events will aim at increasing the visibility of the Erasmus+ sport actions as well as raise awareness on the role of sport in promoting social inclusion, equal opportunities and health-enhancing physical activities.

 

KEY ACTION 3 – SUPPORT TO POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND COOPERATION

This Key Action supports:

European Youth Together

European Youth Tigether funds projects to foster connections between organizations that are active in the field of youth and work at the local level (rural areas, cities, regions, and countries) within Program countries. 

Jean Monnet Actions

The aim here is to promote excellence in teaching and research in the field of European Union (EU) studies. They allow the development of new teaching modules, the establishment of Chairs or the creation of centres of excellence in studies on the European Union, as understood in a broad sense.

 

 

ERASMUS + Projects

AAC@school for social inclusion

Specific programme: Erasmus+ KA2 “Capacity Building”
UPV/EHU Partner Status: Beneficiary
UPV/EHU PI: Argia Langarika Rocafort
UPV/EHU CO-PI: Gorka Roman Etxebarrieta
Project start: 01/09/2017
Project end: 31/12/2019

Web: http://www.aac-school.eu/

Brief description:  The goal of this project consists on strengthening the profile of teaching profession, especially for those working closely with individuals with communication difficulties, ie classroom assistants, teachers, therapists. AAC@school focuses on supporting inclusion of disadvantaged learners in school educational paths through a specific methodology - Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and the most recent ICT applications and devices connected to that. The main need addressed is the gap in communication and literacy abilities of students with significant communication difficulties - such as persons with different cultural and/or language background, people with disabilities - for many people, in fact, the ability to communicate is such an integral part of life that they take it for granted and do not realize its value in connecting them to others, enabling them to conduct an independent life. For those people who have severe communication impairments an AAC method may mean the answer to silence, isolation and dependence. Every student with a communication difficulty is entitled to education within the least restrictive environment, that is, he/she should be given the opportunity to be educated with same age peers and have access to the general education curricula to the greatest extent possible, with supplementary aids provided as necessary. The goal of AAC intervention for school-age children is in fact to increase the potential of success of these students in a learning environment that relies heavily on oral and written communication. This methodology aim to provide equal opportunities for all to let children acquire, use and develop their language and communication skills across subjects, people and situations throughout, outside and beyond school life.