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This seminar was a contact seminar with the primary objective to start school mobility and eTwinning projects in the new Erasmus+-Programme (2021-2027). The 48 participants from 13 countries started cooperating on 10 different project sketches.

Preparation and methodological approach:
In the end of November 2020, we decided the working plan for our team for the first half of the year 2021. In mid-December we were ready to call for applications in Germany and at the National Agencies for the first TCA mentioned above. After getting all applications we invited our 48 participants via e-mail. We only sent three e-mails before the seminar to not scare and load them with too much information and preparation-efforts. Find attached at page 3-10 our tech-materials.
We asked for the following 3 preparation-steps:
    1.    As we wanted to establish the use of eTwinning and offer the participants a protected room in accordance with the data security, we asked the participants to register     and enter our TwinSpace (especially made for this TCA). In the TwinSpace we included pages with content about the seminar, eTwinning and Bonn. We requested the     participants to post a profile of themselves so they could more easily get in touch with each other. Half of them did. Please see attached an extract of the TwinSpace at     page 11-12.
    2.    Aiming at thematic breakout sessions on day two we asked them to propose a topic or select a proposed topic on our padlet (2), the response was with 50% quite     poor. We are still looking for a more efficient way to shorten this procedure.
    3.    Furthermore, we asked them to download the Webex Meeting app. Two days before the seminar we offered two testing phases for webex, which were highly     frequented.
On seminar days we aimed at a mix of theory and praxis, please find our programme at page 13-15.
For the preparing and organising procedure see the page 16 with the timetable.
Our “core-Team” consists regularly three colleagues: two persons doing administrative work and tech support (preparing the seminar, answering technical questions, sharing presentations and polls, usually non-talking during the seminar, …), plus one moderator who leads through the seminar and sets up the concept. Additional there are several presenters appearing, who were partly colleagues of us and luckily also watching the chat. We recommend for seminars this size about four people.

The seminar went well, due to our diligent preparation we faced few minor technical problems. But there were many questions about the TwinSpace and eTwinning itself.
During the seminar we sent the sphinx link and tried to answer all appearing questions about eTwinning, the Erasmus+ programme and realising project ideas. Attached you find the guiding questions for the breakout-sessions at pages 19-22. After the seminar we sent a “customer satisfaction” link (see below) and uploaded every presentation, the participant list and those certificates into the TwinSpace.

Seminar participants
-    acquired the know-how to apply for a school mobility project under Key action 1 in the new Erasmus+ programme
-    learned how to carry out a virtual project on the eTwinning platform and how to use collaborative tools for project cooperation (e.g. Flipgrid, Padlet, Webex)
-    were connected to teachers in other programme countries with similar interests who could be partners in future projects
-    learned from best practice projects in the field of digital education (Erasmus+ project “P.L.A.N.S” and eTwinning project “Podcasts”)
-    learned what makes a good quality project (concepts for learning mobility and blended mobility, thematic cooperation projects on the eTwinning-platform)
-    took first concrete steps towards applications for mobility projects and started working on thematic cooperation projects on the eTwinning-platform.

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