Description:
Aces offers opportunities for young people from Central and South Eastern Europe to develop friendship across borders and to take part actively in international school projects.
The programme supports the establishment of a Central European network of schools. The aim is to foster dialogue and cooperation of young people and to create a sustainable network of shared knowledge, mutual learning and innovation.
With a yearly contest for school partnership projects aces encourages pupils and teachers to engage in intercultural exchange. The participants of the fifteen partner countries work jointly on topics of common interest and can develop new perspectives on the regional and European level. The topic of the aces cycle 2012/13 is "Reality Check - How we perceive and contstruct the world through media".
Therefore the following options are welcome when dealing with the topic within the framework of the aces call:
- Media analysis (e.g. television news, magazines, films, music videos, web environments, radio, advertisements, promotional leaflets,
school books …)
- Production and distribution of own media products (student papers, film, blog…), accompanied by its analysis (why was this medium
chosen, who is my target group, what are the represented interests, what is included, what isn’t and why…?)
- Media analysis of existing material, followed by own media production based on the findings
Eligibility Criteria
- The call addresses schools (primary/secondary/vocational schools) in the eligible countries with a target group of pupils/students aged
12 – 17 years.
- The eligible countries are: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia,
Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic and Slovenia.
- A school partnership project is a partnership of all the schools taking part in the project. Every aces project is made up of one
coordinating school (=lead applicant) and one or two partner school/s which jointly develop and implement the proposed project. In
selected projects, the coordinating school takes the responsibility for overall project coordination, including the partner schools, and
acts as the main contact person for the aces team. Further, the coordinating school is responsible for the reporting of the whole project
(short narrative report and financial report). Even though these tasks are the responsibility of the coordinating school, ALL contact
teachers of ALL partner schools MUST be able to communicate in English.
School partnerships can be:
- Bilateral – consisting of 2 schools from 2 different eligible countries
- Trilateral – consisting of 3 schools from 3 different eligible countries
Possible combinations for trilateral partnerships are:
a) 3 schools from three different eligible countries
b) At least 2 schools from different eligible countries and an additional partner school from a noneligible European country (e.g. partner
from a Comenius school partnership or another partner school from a non-eligible country).
Award and Eligible Use
aces awards the grant to the “project partnership”, but in terms of administration each partner school receives its share of the award money directly. Therefore, all the partner schools (preferably their school boards or parent’s council, etc.) need to have a bank account that accepts bank transfers in Euro.
The amount of the award for a partnership project is composed as follows:
- Coordinating school: 1800 Euros (including a coordinating bonus of 200 Euros: this bonus adds up to the grant money of the coordinating
partner school of 1600 and is understood as additional allowance which shall also be used for direct project expenses in the same way as
the rest of the grant. The coordinating school benefits from the bonus, e.g. by being able to take one student more to the project exchange
visit or the like. Thus, the amount of the bonus and related expenses also have to be documented in the final financial project report.)
- Partner schools from eligible countries: 1600 Euros each
So, for a bilateral partnership the overall sum will be 1800 + 1600 = 3400 Euros. For a trilateral partnership involving only
eligible countries the overall sum will be 1800 + 1600 + 1600 = 5000 Euros.
The awarded money has to be used for expenses arising from the realisation of the partnership project (costs incurred during the
implementation period) and must be justified at the end of the project in the financial report.
Deadline: 30 April 2012
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