Embrace inclusion and diversity in your Erasmus+ projects!

Main Info
TCA Description
One central event, a TCA seminar with panel discussions, experts’ presentations, trainings and workshops for KA1 and KA2 beneficiaries (SE, VET, AE, HE) is to be organized at 15 - 18 November 2022. It is planned for up to 60 participants and the places will be offered to all NAs. The event is planned as hybrid.
Expected objectives
and outputs – transversal:
·
Increase the capacities of LTA
participants to improve the inclusion and diversity dimension in their current
and future Erasmus+ projects
·
Establish a common understanding of those
who may be considered people with fewer opportunities and set up a coherent
framework for including them in the programme
·
Developing educational activities and
materials for beneficiaries in order to convey ways of involving participants
with fewer opportunities in programme activities
·
Promoting good
practice examples and maintaining the good practice collection related to
projects fostering inclusion and diversity through direct involvement of
participants with fewer opportunities and/or focusing on inclusion and diversity
topic
·
Providing a communication channel
(platform) for exchange of ideas and networking opportunities
·
Providing NAs` and
experts` additional support in identifying various areas for improvement and
enable valuable sharing of ideas among participants
Maximum number of places for on site participants is 60. 20 additional participants are planned to participate online. The seminar programme starts on 15 November in the afternoon and ends on 17 November in the late afternoon. Therefore, HR01 covers accomodation for participants until 18 November. The seminar will be open for all countries. Travel costs are not covered by the organising NA, they will be covered by sending NAs.
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Long-term Activity Info
The main aim of the LTA is to increase the
capacities of Erasmus+ beneficiaries in the topic of inclusion and diversity.
It would be organised for KA1 and KA2 beneficiaries in the fields of SE, VET,
HE and AE, focusing on Erasmus+ beneficiaries, i.e., organisations with at
least some experience in E+. The main expected outputs are for participants to
gain theoretical and practical knowledge on how to raise the awareness of the
I&D priority, increase the inclusive aspect of their project activities and
results as well as identify and include more participants with fewer
opportunities in their projects.
In
some Erasmus+ projects in VET, increasing accessibility of the existing project
results would result in inclusion & diversity project impact.
In AE
KA1, a new format is introduced with learners with fewer opportunities as eligible
participants, therefore the LTA is expected to provide additional needed
support to organisations to increase their participation.
In SE, pupil mobility was introduced in the new
programme as eligible activity in mobility projects along with broader
definition of fewer opportunities. Therefore, LTA is expected to provide
support to beneficiaries in integrating these changes while planning their
project activities, both in KA1 and KA2, subsequently increasing participation
of participants with fewer opportunities.
In
HE, an unofficial survey for National Agencies from November 2021 on National
criteria for the top up amount for participants with fewer opportunities has
shown that quite different criteria have been used across the programme
countries, both in quantitative and qualitative manner. There is also a large
difference between countries when it comes to the estimation of the percentage
of mobile students entitled to the top up under call 2021. One of the possible
reasons could be the fact that there are some countries that comprise a large
share of the mobile student population by using a broad list of defined
criteria and others have only one or two criteria listed. These are only a few reasons why it would be
very important to explore how these different approaches influence the increase
or decrease of inclusion, what is the best way to define the fewer
opportunities national criteria, how it could be done for the best in terms of not
overburdening HEIs in the process of the implementation of those criteria etc. By
involving more people with fewer opportunities in all programme activities,
there is a need for exchanges between LTA participants to further expand
categories and make the programme as accessible as possible. In this context,
it will be particularly useful to exchange practices on how to increase the number
of participants with fewer opportunities in the international dimension of the
programme, especially bearing in mind possible administrative barriers, such as
supporting documents for different criteria.
The LTA will consist of: a transnational
TCA, networking events, study visits and the Howspace platform. Networking
events and study visits would focus on different E&T sectors. Study visits
would provide opportunities for visiting organisations that are successful with
regards to implementing inclusive projects and for being inclusive and diverse regarding
participants. It is to be decided if the participating NAs will rotate the central
events in the next years or whether each NA would organise one type of the above-mentioned
activities. Also, the partner NAs are yet to
decide on the activities to follow from 2023 and their frequency, i.e., which
events are to be organised on yearly basis and how many times. Since the LTA
will be offered to Erasmus+ beneficiaries across Europe and from different
sectors within the E&T field, it will be important to organise various
activities across participating NAs in order to provide as many opportunities for
participation as possible to Erasmus+ beneficiaries.
Back-to-back national event will be organized in Q4 2022 and the
diversification of target groups will be ensured during planning and selection
of participants for both activities. For the national event, the NA will select
KA1 and KA2 beneficiaries (same starting point as for the LTA) but emphasis
will be put on national needs in relation to the I&D priority. The design
of the LTA content will be more transversal, addressing the needs of
beneficiaries on a broader scope, but also taking into account sectorial
differences.
Regarding the content, NAs
that are participating in this LTA will decide in the coming period whether
yearly TCAs would focus on the participants with fewer possibilities in general
or each event would focus on particular categories within each E&T sector. In
case LTA participants attend several events (for instance, a TCA, a study visit
and participate in Howspace portal in order to get deeper knowledge of and
tools for inclusive Erasmus+).
Expected objectives
and outputs – transversal:
·
Increase the capacities of LTA
participants to improve the inclusion and diversity dimension in their current
and future Erasmus+ projects
·
Establish a common understanding of those
who may be considered people with fewer opportunities and set up a coherent
framework for including them in the programme
·
Developing educational activities and
materials for beneficiaries in order to convey ways of involving participants
with fewer opportunities in programme activities
·
Promoting good
practice examples and maintaining the good practice collection related to
projects fostering inclusion and diversity through direct involvement of
participants with fewer opportunities and/or focusing on inclusion and diversity
topic
·
Providing a communication channel
(platform) for exchange of ideas and networking opportunities
·
Providing NAs` and
experts` additional support in identifying various areas for improvement and
enable valuable sharing of ideas among participants
Expected objectives and outputs – sector - specific:
In addition to the above-mentioned objectives, in all
E&T fields the participants are expected to raise awareness about inclusion
and diversity programme priority, as well as promote and increase participation
of persons with fewer opportunities within their organisations, consequently improving
the inclusion and diversity dimension in their projects.