EACEA 30/2014 - ERASMUS +/ KEY ACTION 3 - PROSPECTIVE INITIATIVES - POLICY EXPERIMENTATION IN SCHOOL EDUCATION SECTOR

Description                                                                             Max. grant amount: 2.500.000 EUR

This call has as its primary purpose to encourage the responsible public authorities to submit proposals for testing innovative policy ideas and reforms in the area of recruitment, selection and induction of new teachers  coming to the profession through alternative pathways. Such new entrants could be graduates, mid-career  professionals or unemployed people with no formal training in teaching who demonstrate a concrete interest to become teachers.


Objectives

The objectives of this call can be summarised as follows:

   - Promote trans-national cooperation and mutual learning between competent authorities at the highest level, in order to test and improve
     policy design and implementation systems, structures and processes, with a potentially significant impact on recruiting, selecting and
     inducting to the teaching profession new entrants with no formal training in teaching;
   - Facilitate the collection and analysis of substantive empirical evidence from the field, allowing the responsible public authorities to
     monitor and assess the implementation of innovative policies in the area of recruitment, selection and induction for such new entrants;
   - Identify key criteria and conditions for effective policy implementation and monitoring, as well as the assessment of the quality of
     outcomes (i.e. teachers qualified through alternative pathways);
   - Foster and facilitate transferability and scalability of the tested policy initiatives and reforms


Budget

The total budget available for the co-financing of projects under the present call is EUR 5.000.000.

The maximum grant per project will be EUR 2.500.000


Deadline: 20 March 2015

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