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European Commission
SOCRATES PROGRAMME
Application form for
PRE-PROPOSALS
Please tick the appropriate Action for this application:
COMENIUS 3 (Comenius Networks)
ERASMUS 3 (Thematic Network Projects)
ERASMUS 3 (Thematic Network Projects - Dissemination)
GRUNDTVIG 1 (European Co-operation Projects)
GRUNDTVIG 1.1 (Grundtvig Training Courses)
GRUNDTVIG 4 (Grundtvig Network Grants)
GRUNDTVIG 4.1 (Grundtvig Thematic Seminars)
LINGUA 1
LINGUA 2
MINERVA
CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSION: 1 NOVEMBER 2006 (as per postmark)
Applications bearing a postmark after this date will not be considered.
Applications must be sent by post. Applications solely submitted by fax or
e-mail will not be accepted.
The original and 4 copies with the word file on diskette of this
application are to be sent to:
Socrates, Leonardo and Youth Technical Assistance Office
Rue Colonel Bourg 139 Kolonel Bourgstraat
B-1140 Brussels
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Application procedure
. This form must be completed in one of the 20 official languages of the
European Union. These are the languages marked with an asterisk (*) in
the table at the foot of this page.
. Applications must be typewritten or word-processed (min. 11 points):
handwritten applications will not be considered.
. The original and 4 copies of the application must be sent in the same
envelope to the address given on the front cover by the closing date
indicated.
. A diskette containing a MS Word file of the original application must be
provided in the same envelope as the original paper version.
. In the case of pre-proposals relating to Grundtvig 1, Grundtvig 1.1,
Lingua 1 and 2, and Minerva, a copy of the application must be sent to
the appropriate National Agency in each of the countries which are
participating in the project, accompanied if possible by a translation
of the project description. Failure to provide a copy to all the
relevant National Agencies will be considered a negative element during
the selection. The National Agencies address list is available from the
following site: http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/socrates/nat-
est.html. A paper copy of this list is available from the Socrates,
Leonardo and Youth Technical Assistance Office at the address indicated
on the front cover of this form.
. The Commission will make the selection decisions on the basis of the
information provided in the form: supplementary documents will not be
considered and should not be submitted.
. All applications will be acknowledged.
. With a view to full application following this pre-selection stage,
applicants are invited to pay attention to the financial rules and
conditions mentioned in the Call for proposals 2006.
. Applicants under Grundtvig 4 and 4.1 should consult the additional
Information Note which accompanies the call.
Selection Procedure
. Pre-proposals will be judged against the eligibility and quality criteria
provided in the Guidelines for Applicants and the Call for proposals
2006. Copies of these documents can be consulted and downloaded from the
Commission's website at
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/socrates.html. Paper versions can be
obtained from the National Agencies and the Socrates, Leonardo and Youth
Technical Assistance Office.
. Following the assessment of the pre-proposals, the coordinators of the
shortlisted applications will be invited to submit a full proposal for 1
March 2006.
Further information
Any questions relating to this pre-proposal should be addressed to:
Socrates, Leonardo and Youth Technical Assistance Office
Rue Colonel Bourg 139 Kolonel Bourgstraat
B-1140 Brussels
Telephone: + 32 2 233 0111
Fax: + 32 2 233 0150
e-mail: info@socleoyouth.be
Codes to be used in the application form
|Type of Institution Codes|Country Codes |Language Codes |
1. GENERAL INFORMATION
|Project / Network title: (max. 120 characters) |
|Skolelinux |
|Acronym (if any) |
| |
| | | |
|Total cost of the |Funding requested from |Project / Network duration |
|project / network to |SOCRATES (in Euro) | |
|which the | | |
|pre-proposal refers | | |
|(in Euro) | | |
|600 000 |450 000 | 12 months[1] 24 months[2]|
| | |36 months |
| | |
|Language choice for official communications. |Language in which you |
|Please indicate a 1st and 2nd preference |intend to submit the full |
| |proposal if this |
| |pre-proposal is |
| |short-listed |
|1st preference |2nd preference | |
|DE EN FR |CZ DA DE EL EN ES EE |CZ DA DE EL EN ES EE |
| |FI FR IT LV LT HU MT |FI FR IT LV LT HU MT |
| |NL PL PO SI SK SE |NL PL PO SI SK SE |
|Number of institutions | |Number of countries | |
|expected to participate in | |expected to | |
|the project / network | |participate in the | |
| | |project / network | |
Applicant Organisation ( = Participating institution 1 ):
Any institution or body, private, public or semi-public declaring its
intention, in accordance with the set procedures, to submit a proposal for
a project / network.
Identification
|Full legal name of |Maison de formation des compagnons d' Emmaüs France |
|the institution in | |
|the national | |
|language | |
|Acronym of the | |
|institution, if | |
|applicable | |
|Type of institution |EDU5 |Erasmus ID | |
| | |code, for | |
| | |Higher | |
| | |Education | |
| | |Institutions | |
| | |only | |
|Website |http://ww.emmaus-france.org |
Legal representative[3] and legal address of the organisation
The person legally authorised to enter into legal and financial commitments
on behalf of the organisation to which he/she belongs.
|Title (optional)(e.g. Mr, |Mr |
|Mrs, Prof., Dr, etc.) | |
|Family |FERSTLER |First |Jean Luc |
|name : | |name : | |
|Department/Unit | |
|Official function within |Director |
|the institution | |
|Legal Address of the institution |
|Street |du rempart |street | |
| | |number | |
|Full legal name of | |
|the coordinator's | |
|institution in the | |
|national language | |
|Acronym of the | |
|institution, if | |
|applicable | |
|Type of institution | |Erasmus ID | |
| | |code, for | |
| | |Higher | |
| | |Education | |
| | |Institutions | |
| | |only | |
|Website |http:// |
Name and Contact Address of the coordinator (this section must be completed
in all cases)
|Title (optional) |Mr |
|(e.g. Mr, Mrs, | |
|Prof., Dr, etc.) | |
|Family |Ferstler |First |Jean Luc |
|name : | |name : | |
|Department/Unit | |
|Official function |Director |
|within the | |
|institution | |
|Street |rue du rempart |street | |
| | |number | |
|Fax (including |( +0033)387873449 |
|country and area | |
|code) | |
|E-mail |emmaus-forbach@wanadoo.fr |
Other participating institutions
Please provide below and in the following page (to be copied as many times
as necessary), a list of the other institutions, apart from the applicant
institution, participating in the project / network to which this pre-
proposal refers. When submitting this form, the group of participating
institutions presented must fulfil the minimum eligibility criteria
relating to the number, participating countries and, where relevant, the
types of participating institutions for the Action concerned within
Socrates. In the case of Comenius Networks, at least the core partnership
of 6 participating institutions from a minimum of 6 eligible countries
should be presented.In the case of Grundtvig Networks the core partnership
of organisations from a minimum of 10 countries should be presented.
Partnerships under all actions must include at least one institution in an
EU Member State.
Participating institution 2
|Full legal name of |MOUNT TEMPLE COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL |
|the institution in | |
|the national | |
|language | |
| |Family |EVANS |First |JOHN |
| |name : | |name : | |
|Telephone (including|++ 353 1 8336984 / ++ 353 1 8336985 |
|country and area | |
|code) | |
|E-mail |jevans@eircom.net |
Participating institution 3
|Full legal name of | |
|the institution in | |
|the national | |
|language | |
| |Family | |First | |
| |name : | |name : | |
|Telephone (including|( +) |
|country and area | |
|code) | |
|E-mail |@ |
Participating institution n° _______
|Full legal name of | |
|the institution in | |
|the national | |
|language | |
| |Family | |First | |
| |name: | |name | |
|Telephone (including|( +) |
|country and area | |
|code) | |
|E-mail |@ |
Participating institution n° _______
|Full legal name of | |
|the institution in | |
|the national | |
|language | |
| |Family | |First | |
| |name : | |name : | |
|Telephone (including|( +) |
|country and area | |
|code) | |
Participating institution n°_____
|Full legal name of | |
|the institution in | |
|the national | |
|language | |
| |Family | |First | |
| |name : | |name : | |
|Telephone (including|( +) |
|country and area | |
|code) | |
|E-mail |@ |
|In addition to the participating organisations presented above, will there be |
|additional partner institutions which you hope to recruit before submitting a |
|full proposal? If so, please provide brief details of these3 |
| |
2. DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT / NETWORK ACTIVITIES
Describe all the following aspects of your proposal. Answers to the
questions should be provided on numbered sheets by using the reference
number of each question and limited to the maximum length of text
indicated. Do not forget to complete your application with the declaration
and signature box below. Unsigned applications will not be accepted.
1. Project / network content (maximum 3 pages)
1. Why is the project / network / thematic seminar needed? Explain the
rationale and the background of the project / network / thematic seminar.
Training home of fellow companions from Emmaüs France started a project
which wants to recycle computer and humans beings. In partner ship with the
French education institution they took part in the European project
SkoleLinux.
SkoleLinux is a project started few years ago. His goal is to produce a
computerized, open-source and free teaching tool. Several teams are working
on this project at the moment in Europe. Few problems still prevent today
this project to access the success he is worthy of. First, there're too few
people involved in the development. Second, there's no study made which
could show the profit offered by this project. Last, there's for the moment
no tool to translate and share the resources on the international side.
2. In case of networks / thematic seminars, what is the main targeted
thematic area?
New methods and educational resources using the SkoleLinux open source
solution as a tool to produce and diffuse teaching resource.
3. What are the objectives of the project / network / thematic seminar?
What is the expected impact of the project / network / thematic seminar
on the situation described under point 1.1?
This project has 3 main goals:
- Development of the computerized teaching tool: produce a system easy
to install and easy to use
- Experimentation and evaluation: install the system in various
environments to evaluate the solution on pedagogical side, but also on
the economical one.
- Pooling of teaching resources: an evolutionary tool to translate and
share teaching resources existing in the country of the partners.
4. What are the main outputs / products (e.g. training courses and modules,
guides, directories, common tools, Web-based services, multimedia
products, syntheses, needs analyses, reports, comparative analyses,
conferences, seminars etc.) to be developed by the project / network?
- One (or more) cdrom to install easily a computer network which offers
a Numeric working Environment
- A study made in each country of the partners, in schools and also
adults teaching institutes. A synthesis of this work will be done by a
Trading school and a team of teaching professionals.
- A web site to share and translate teaching resources: this tool should
permit to obtain, for example, a software which exist only in English
translated to French, German .
5. What are the main activities of the project / network in order to
achieve the outputs / products? If possible please provide the
approximate timetable foreseen.
- Year 1:
o Starting seminar and installation of the web site
o Development seminar
o Publication of the first Cdroms
- Year 2:
o Translating seminar
o Installation of tests sites
o Development seminar
- Year 3:
o Translating seminar
o Data collect, analysis
o Evaluation seminar, analysis publication
6. What are the precise targets groups which will benefit directly and
indirectly from the outputs / products and activities of the project /
network / thematic seminar?
Our targets groups will be all the groups who will be able to test
SkoleLinux as teaching toll, notably:
- Childs and young people in learning situations (secondary schools,
high schools..)
- Adults in difficulties (Emmaüs network)
- Adults who encounter difficulties with integration and illiteracy
(Emmaüs, adults teaching institutes)
7. What are the main pedagogical concepts and methodological / didactical
approaches underlying the project / network / thematic seminar?
- An education strategy for each one: the computerized tool offers an
evolution to each one on his own rhythm and own capacities. Thence the
software solution brings a monitoring tool for each student.
- The benefit of open source software: (a new mode of teaching with help
of computers). All teaching resources are free and can be diffused
without any problem of licence.
- Social constructivist mode of teaching: the student makes progress as
much with his instruction as with the interactions with other peoples
on the network.
8. What do you consider to be innovative about the project / network /
thematic seminar? What is the European dimension of the project / network
/ thematic seminar?
This project takes place in a non typical partnership. I could be seen as
preposterous to associate Emmaüs with open source software development.
But, if you look nearer, you will discover that the goals of this to worlds
are very similar. Thence there's a love wedding to celebrate between open
source software and social economy.
9. What is the dissemination potential of the outputs / products you have
described above, beyond the institutions (and, if possible, countries)
participating in the partnership?
- Existing networks: Emmaüs France, Emmaüs Europe, Emmaüs international.
- Pôle de compétences des logiciels libres, Espace 1er Degré
- International network of Linux and open source software users
- « fing » et du Ministère ( DT) Services infrastructures
- .
2. Partnership composition and contribution (maximum 1 page; for networks
maximum 2 pages)
1. Provide for each participating institution an approximate translation of
its title into English, French or German and a brief description of its
main types of activity.
Training home for fellow companions - Emmaüs Forbach : reception center for
people encountering integration and insertion problems. Emmaüs Forbach is a
part of the national training home for follow companions which develops
training programmes and development plans for all Emmaüs Groups (over 230)
in France.
Five different and complementary tools:
- life and work community: 40 people
- Social housing: 16 people
- Insertions programme: 25 people
- Guardian of waste sites: 13 people
- Relaying home: 12 people
And an association which can boast of having 140 voluntary workers who
totalize 19.55 full-time jobs to provide the management
National Education sector: composed of a series of schools led by the
education inspector.
Administrative and educational management of the schools; assessment of
educational practice, especially concerning the use of TICE (computer
helped working). The apprenticeships provided within the programmes the
follow-through of schools projects including TICE, teacher's professional
trainings.
The LUGs (Linux Users Groups): These groups shared out in several cities
work in the field of open source software. They develop which they share
with the world community of users.
Mount Temple Comprehensive School (Ireland): Providing academic and
vocational education to school students aged 12 to 18 years old. The school
has 850 full-time students.
2. What is the specific expertise provided by each participating
institution?
Training home of fellow companions: a computer network which reuses men and
goods! Besides the implementation of a solution for the kind of people
taken in by Emmaüs, SkoleLinux could enable the setting up of a reusing
network for obsolete computer equipment (To start a network you need one
single high performance computer , the others can be "recycled" machines)
Education inspector:
- Abilities in the field for evaluation and of the steady work of
teaching teams.
- Definition of the use of school intranet for the network work of
pupils and teachers, taking-in of solutions in the school project
which enable to work in networks and better apprenticeships.
- Responsibilities within all the abilities linked to the use of open
source software.
The LUGs (Linux users Groups): insure the software creations engineering.
Mount Temple Comprehensive School (Ireland): The school appears to be one
of the few schools in the english-speaking world to have implemented the
skolelinux thin-client server system throughout the school. We offer the
possibility of dissemination of experiences to other schools.
3. Monitoring and evaluation (maximum ¼ page)
1. What methods will be used within the project / network / thematic
seminar to monitor its progress towards the stated objectives?
There're two or three seminar planed each year of the project. These
meeting will be used to monitor the progress of the project. Moreover, we
will build a managing and monitoring interface on the web site, which will
offer to each partner a global vision of the progress of the project.
2. What methods will be used within the project / network / thematic
seminar to evaluate its success in attaining the stated objectives?
This evaluation will be led on two different but complementary levels
- Follow-up of the teaching teams using SkoleLinux:
o Evaluation of the SkoleLinux solution within the school scheme:
contributions and problems brought in by the solution for
apprenticeships.
o Quizz
o Technical evaluation of the solution: numbers do servicing
operations, easy access to the solution for teachers, demand of
software development.
o Training evaluation
- Economic study of the solution within its environment
o Cost of the installation, of servicing assistance
o Comparison of other software solutions given.
o Viability: evolution, updating.
4. Other aspects (maximum ¼ page)
Are there any other aspects of the proposed project / network activities /
thematic seminar which you feel the Commission should take into account
when assessing your pre-proposal? If so, please provide brief details.
- Ethics of free software: copying non free software should not be
accepted nor encouraged. SkoleLinux proposes a free and non-paying
alternative which enables a large amount of people to get access to a
quality tool.
- Welcome of populations travelling throughout Europe and often native
of countries from Eastern Europe: these are often the people welcomed
by social working organisations, people for who a multi language tool
like SkoleLinux would constitute an undeniable social profit.
- This project is in line with sustainable development.
3. DECLARATION
Declaration: This application is being submitted in the full knowledge of
the appropriate authorities in the applicant institution and in each of the
other participating institutions.
_______________________________ Date:
Signature of the Project / Network Coordinator or Legal Representative
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[1] Please note that projects submitted under action Grundtvig 4 .1-
Grundtvig Thematic Seminars can have a maximum duration of 12 months.
[2] Please note that projects submitted under action Grundtvig 1.1 -
Grundtvig Training Courses can have a maximum duration of 24 months.
[3] This is the person entitled to sign the grant agreement if the
Commission decides to fund the project at the end of the selection process.
1 Please use 'type of institution' codes listed on page 2 of this form.
2 Please use 'country codes' listed on page 2 of this form.
1 Please use 'type of institution' codes listed on page 2 of this form.
2 Please use 'country codes' listed on page 2 of this form.
3 Please note that institutions listed in this box will not be counted
towards fulfilling the minimum eligibility criterion relating to the
number of participating institutions.
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