Teacher colleagues across Europe, be alert!
Erasmus+, the brand-new EU programme for Education, Training, Youth, and Sport (2014-2020) has a special focus on teachers’ professional development! Up to last year, the Comenius Training grants offered some good opportunities for individual teachers to attend training courses, such as our 2013 summer school in Crete. From now on, Erasmus+, which has just replaced the old Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP), really multiplies these opportunities. Never before has there been so much EU support for teachers' professional development through mobility in...
On Friday 7th February 2014, our project participated in EC's Concertation Meeting on FP7/CIP projects in the field of learning, which was held in Luxembourg. The meeting gathered representatives from 30+ ongoing projects. It was a valuable experience, as it revealed the wider landscape of ongoing EU-funded learning-related research of which C2Learn is a part.
The meeting was not too formal. The organisers enabled considerable interaction and knowledge sharing between the projects and the Commission, and among projects themselves. It was an intensive and productive meeting, with loads of...