EST presentation

What’s in EST for me?

presentation made by

National Agency Italia

What is EST?

EST is a distributed database: data are owned by each LLP National Agency & stored in national servers that form part of a network

Thanks to a multilingual interface and a common metadata model, the whole database is searchable through a centralised search.

For years, schools, adult education institutions and training organisations have been cooperating on a European level, but unfortunately the results of their engagement and their innovation capacity have been dispersed, wasted.

IMPROVING VISIBILITY AND ACCESS TO PROJECT RESULTS!

2004

Pilot project with four partner countries:

AT, GR, IT, PL

DESIGNING the common metadata model

2008

EST is officially adopted as the database for partnerships and results in the Lifelong Learning Programme

A collaborative tool EST remains a collaborative system developed by a network of 35 Lifelong Learning Programme National Agencies who consider it as a common tool and go on improving and developing it through common decisions >> e.g. see 2011 new features

What is it for?

Sharing, Disseminating, Valorising, Streamlining, Mainframing

Get in Touch Share Disseminate

Targeted to: > Beneficiaries of the LLP > Potential Beneficiaries > Teachers, Trainers, Educators > Pupils, Parents > National Agencies & European Commission > Stakeholders, Politicians

Moreover‌ Not a statistical tool, but gives the size and numbers of Eu cooperation Not a partner finding tool, but one can see who is doing what and find contacts Not a repository, but contains tons of reday to use materials Not a geographical tool, but shows the centres and vectors of Eu cooperation

What is in EST ?

All European Partnerships in Comenius, Leonardo da Vinci and Grundtvig from 2007* onwards

+ their outcomes and results! (* 2007 pilot year)

Partnerships Compendium The complete collection of partnerships active in Europe is published as soon as they are approved, so it is possible to know “who is doing what�

Data are extracted from LLP Link by each NA using a tool provided by the Italian NA

Outcomes and results The Coordinator of the partnership updates the description and other data taken from LLP Link and adds a logo and results Partners translate title and description in their national language and add more results Normally the work is done in June September, parallel to intermediate and final reporting, but this may change from country to country

Where are we now?

5.943 Partnerships 3.271 896 895 532 248 101

Comenius multilateral Comenius bilateral Grundtvig Leonardo da Vinci Comenius Regio Grundtvig SVP

Where are we now?

78.086 results Printed material

Audiovisival material

Craftwork Pedagogial and Methodological Studies

Sound

Educational software Didactic material

Image set Forum/Blog/SN group Website

What’s new in EST in 2011?

New Interface New, completely redeveloped, Search Comenius Regio Partnerships & Grundtvig Senior Volunteeering Projects Joint product

Comenius Regio and Senior Volunteering Projects In 2009, two new actions started in LLP, namely Comenius Regio and Grundtvig Senior Volunteering partnership.

The first partnerships ended in 2011.

Comenius Regio: are input by the local or regional authority coordinating the consortium

Senior Volunteering Projects: are input on a voluntary basis

Joint Result Results can be tagged as joint, if they are a common outcome of the partnerships, or as national, if they are local activities by one partner

New guidelines for input Published in Circa, they contain the new features illustrated until now, plus some suggestions to beneficiaries e.g. reference material on how to communicate a project > Next Year: a video tutorial on how to input data and on the best way to document activities & results

New guidelines for input STAR PROJECT SHOWCASE: the best projects in EST receive a star and are shown in the homepage, 3 at a time in random rotation

WHAT IS EST?: short description, with launch and insight in EST 1) SEARCH: free text search, in specific fields: > Search experience: performs the search in all fields of the partnership, including title and description, in all languages > Search an organisation, an institution, a school etc. > Search one city

2) EXPLORE: equivalent to a search with no selected criteria

Output order of search results 1) Star projects 2) Prize winners 3) Partnerships with all fields filled up 4) Partnerships with results, in order of availability: a) Directly downloadable b) Link to c) To be ordered to 5) Completed partnerships 6) More recent partnerships 7) Partnerships with description in the interface language chosen by the user

Partnership metal Information area

> Partnership Code; Title; Sectoral Programme > Star project and prize winner icons (to be implemented)

Partners + Description area

Details concerning the partnerships, organised by country Descriptions are available in all the languages of the partnership.

Result Area

All the results, presented in one screen

Aggregation Area (to be implemented)

The system suggests the user other partnerhips indexed with the same topics and educational field

Social Area

The first integration in the social widget… facebook’s “like”

Go for Quality!

EST contains the totality of LLP partnerships, but‌ it also aims at promoting quality

so‌ Each year NAs select, among those coordinated by their country, about 20 Star Projects:

10 Comenius 5 Leonardo 5 Grundtvig

Evaluation guidelines LLP National Agencies evaluate the totality of the partnerships managed (thorugh final reports, etc.), then they select Star projects using:

Promotion On promotion of EST: with the logo I’m in EST, which beneficiaries can use to link from their website to EST, and the logo I’m in EST STAR Project for selected projects (to be implemented)

Star project receive a certificate I’m a Star Project (to be implemented)

Comenius Maps

EST & more

http://www.comeniusmaps.eu

EVE http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/eve

Facebook Fan page opened 17/10/2011

https://www.facebook.com/europeansharedtreasure