Grants for Comenius/Grundtvig IT courses
Author: Victoria Rios Castano January 6th, 2011
The European Commission offers grants for courses listed in their Comenius/Grundtvig course database, covering course fee, travel & subsistence. With the application deadline of 14 January approaching rapidly, we would like to draw your attention to some courses the non-profit organization Let’s Learn IT has to offer.
Course overview
1. Moodle at School: Installing & Deploying a Course Management System for Language Teachers (BE-2010-128-003 http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/index.cfm?fuseaction=DisplayCourse&cid=13957)
This one week course, which takes place in Athens, Greece, from 10 – 17 July 2011, will give you everything you need to know in order to not only install but also configure and manage your own Moodle Course Management System. Additionally, you will also learn how to effectively implement all of its features in your daily teaching practice.
2. Tools for teachers: New Media & Web 2.0 Applications (BE-2010-130-003 http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/index.cfm?fuseaction=DisplayCourse&cid=22303)
This one week course, which takes place in Ghent, Belgium, from 24 July – 31 July 2011, will give you an overview of many New Media applications (such as Blogs, Wikis, social networks, etc), and show you how you can effectively implement all of their features in your daily teaching practice. Having completed this course, you will be able to create improved learning materials that will appeal to young & IT-savvy students.
3. Training for the Future – Improving Education with Blogs & Wikis (BE-2010-131-003 http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/index.cfm?fuseaction=DisplayCourse&cid=22290)
This course takes place in Ghent, Belgium, from 21 – 28 August 2011. As blogs and wikis abound on the web, it is essential teachers as well as students learn how to work with them, and how they can implement them in their daily teaching practice. Creating a blog or wiki can easily happen in a matter of minutes it does take more than that to turn your blog or wiki into a successful learning experience.
For more specific information, contact info@letslearnit.org or check the Let’s Learn IT website http://letslearnit.org/en/workshops-international
Preregistration & information
People who are interested should preregister for our courses as soon as possible via our Preregistration Form http://letslearnit.org/en/register . Full details regarding the courses are also available via the Let’s Learn IT website http://letslearnit.org/en/workshops-international
Application Deadline
The application deadline for Comenius – Grundtvig courses comes very early this year (14 January 2011). It is therefore very important that you submit your application for funding before 13 January 2011. For country-specific deadlines, please inquire with your own National Agency at http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/llp/national_en.html
2 Comments to “Grants for Comenius/Grundtvig IT courses”
It is very beautiful initiative but why for Europe only. I am polish who is 25 years in the Philippines I studied 9 languages in my life. Six of them use extensively 3 classical once I use every now and then. With my wife Mely Sarach graduate of La Salle University in educational management we run 2 schools one in Makati City, one in the province of Cagayan Valley 650 km north of Manila Philippines. How can we avail help in coordinating our programs with you. Our system is called SMILE Sanchez Mira Institute for Lifelong Education. Regards
Jozef Sarach
President
Polish Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines
Thank you ! We very much appreciate your comment and understand that opportunities of this kind should be provided to all colleagues in our teaching field. Unfortunately the Grundtvig grants are funded by the European Union and target only Member States. I don’t know, however, whether initiatives to open the scope of participants is being revised. For the moment I’d suggest that you send us further information on your programme SMILE Sanchez Mira Institute for Lifelong Education so that we publish it for colleagues.