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#ErasmusDays 2018 in Europe

CONTACT +33 5 56 00 94 70 erasmusdays@agence-erasmus.fr

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HIGH PATRONAGES AND SUPPORT

The #ErasmusDays benefit from the European Commission’s high patronage and the support of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics who will take part in this year’s edition. At the same time, the #UEandME campaign is informing the youth on their mobility, training, rights, environnemental and digital

• pportunities.

With the high patronage of Mr Antonio Tajani, President of the European Parliament, the #ErasmusDays are considered to be a way of mobilisation for European Youth in the 2019 elections and to involve the 571 Members of the European Parliament. In the frame of the upcoming elections, the European Parliament has started building a community of supporters for the cause of voting, for which the dedicated platform is www.thistimeimvoting.eu. Mr Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic had granted its high patronage to the #ErasmusDays in France for the 2017 edition and has renewed it for this year’s edition. 23 countries, 32 national agencies and EPALE National Support Services are involved:

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#ERASMUSDAYS 2018

2018 is an important year for the mobilisation of civil society and those involved in education and training in Europe. The success of the first edition of the #ErasmusDays in 2017 (655 events, 11 countries, 324 cities and 52 million people reached through social media) has led to reschedule this European festival based on the Erasmus brand on Friday 12th of October and Saturday 13th of October 2018. The very simple idea is to communicate on the Erasmus brand and to disseminate Erasmus + projects results over two specific days in order to be visible by citizens, professionals, the media and policy makers and in accordance with two possible ways:

• all the Erasmus + programme players (educational and training institutions, companies, research centres,

chambers of trade, employment agencies, organisations and NGOs, etc.) are invited to showcase the impact

• f their projects. Each institution is free to organise any kind of event, including seminars, partner

meetings, photo exhibitions, concerts, radio shows, conferences, hackathons, digital activities… The events will be registered and visible on www.erasmusdays.eu;

• the nine million former beneficiaries and the current citizen beneficiaries (school children and teenagers,

students, apprentices, teachers and instructors, youth actors) are invited to share their Erasmus + stories

• n social networks with the hashtag #ErasmusDays along with civil society representatives (European
• rganizations, parents associations, etc.) that will be demonstrating their pride in being European and their

commitment to Europe. 2018 is the European Year of Cultural Heritage. It is the perfect opportunity to specifically involve cultural players. With 26 countries involved in the citizens’ consultations on Europe, the #ErasmusDays represent a high point for the organisation of debates on Europe. Ahead of the European elections of May 2019, these public consultations can be organized on 12th and 13th of October for a stronger impact. The Time to Move campaign encourages Eurodesk centres to organise information events on European mobility towards young people throughout the whole month of October. These events can thus benefit from a double visibility and a double impact when organized on the #ErasmusDays dates. We hope #ErasmusDays will expand throughout the whole of Europe and beyond, to the 201 countries eligible for the Erasmus+ programme. While the next Erasmus + programme is debated, the #ErasmusDays will showcase the

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European impact in the territories thanks to success stories and testimonies. Let’s tell the world how proud we are to be European, united in diversity.

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FRENCH NATIONAL AGENCY SUPPORT

Universities, schools, associations or any stakeholder organising an #ErasmusDays event can register their event on www.erasmusdays.eu. As the French Erasmus + Agency, we provide a very simple support to our stakeholders:

• 1. A digital kit which can be downloaded on www.erasmusdays.eu ;

containing a communication guide, logos, examples of press releases, etc.

• 2. A Physical communication kit containing light documents (stickers,

Erasmus + leaflets, balloons, European flags) that will be sent at the end of September.

NATIONAL ERASMUS + AGENCIES IN EUROPE

The #ErasmusDays is a flexible event, tailored to each national agency and each Erasmus + player. The national Erasmus + agencies can contribute to this bottom-up event, according to:

• their specific priorities, as each agency may prioritise an issue or a sector (for example, employability or

the school sector)

• the issues of their Erasmus + project players, as each organisation is free to organise an event which will

best showcase its project. Several actions linked with Erasmus + will showcase European competences in the field of guidance (EUROGUIDANCE), recognition of qualifications (EUROPASS, ECVET), adult education (EPALE) during the #ErasmusDays. A common digital exhibition is launched with all EPALE‘s NSS1. So far, the EPALE’s NSS of United Kingdom, Germany, the Czech Republic, France, Malta, Latvia, Cyprus, Finland, Malta, Croatia, Poland and Slovenia are taking part in this exhibition. The website www.erasmusdays.eu enables #ErasmusDays organisers in every country to register their event. The registration process on the website is available in French and in English. Project players are able to register their event in the European language(s) of their choice. Inter-agencies work and coordination will be conducted during two dates:

• from the 14th until 22th of June, our French agency will meet the national agencies of Croatia, the Czech

Republic, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Romania and Turkey in order to engage a close collaboration on this event and on the European Year of Cultural Heritage ;

• a TCA impact event in Palermo from 26th and 28th September will establish a second moment of

coordination on the #ErasmusDays 2018.

1 The #ErasmusDays in 2017 had experimented such collaboration between NSS :

https://ec.europa.eu/epale/en/blog/these-organisations-work-adult-education-france-and-poland-part-2

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2018 EVENTS ALREADY REGISTERED

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

The French Chamber of Commerce and Industry has invited the 250 Apprenticeship Training Company (ATC) of its network to organise an event on 12th and 13th of October. The ATC of Le Mans organises a celebration day with a Europass deliverance, a photo exhibition, a collective game on Europe and a European lunch. The Istituto Tecnico Giordani-Striano of Napoli will display their Erasmus + projects through testimonies of students who took part in Leonardo or Comenius projects, videos and photos about all the mobility projects will be shown and all the final products from projects will be shared. In Vannes, the European Movement of Morbihan is setting up a citizens’ consultation (debate) on apprenticeship in collaboration with various stakeholders (ATC, regional council, Chamber of Commerce and Industry) in presence

• f the MEP Jean Arthuis.

ADULT EDUCATION

In Bordeaux, the Urban Vibrations School association sets up an information point on Europe in the Priority Neighbourhood of Les Aubiers. Their European village will propose various activities such as intergenerational cooking workshops, a concert and a conference on the pattern of citizens’ consultations (rights, employment, integration, planning…). In Toulouse, the Samba Résille association is conducting an Erasmus + project on adult education around music and

• carnival. The association has scheduled a colloquium on the city’s cultural policies, as well as on the matters of

integration and diversity, aimed at associations that work on the ground through artistic actions.

SCHOOL EDUCATION

From June to October, the Henri Bergson high school (Paris), will be creating a work of art illustrating their Erasmus + project « Intercultural Creative Art Bridge » along with high schools in Turkey, Hungary, Estonia, Slovenia, Finland and Lithuania. The secondary school Jean Mounès of Pornic (France) will organize a book exhibition in its school library presenting classic literary works from its partner countries (Germany, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Iceland). The secondary school Hector Berlioz (Paris) has scheduled a day for European activities related to its project “European inclusive citizenship: No One Offside » with schools in Edinburgh and Madrid.

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HIGHER EDUCATION

The University of Strasbourg organises an information day on international mobility and on Jean Monnet actions (dedicated to promoting excellence in EU studies in higher education around the world). An international village will be organised, involving alumni students coming back from a stay abroad and professionals. The École Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique pour l’Industrie et l’Entreprise organises a festive event in Dakar where a concert will be given and a balloon release will be held. The European University of Cyprus will present their “Bright!” project through an interactive competition and presentation. The Nangui Abrogoua University of Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire) is scheduling an #ErasmusDays event to showcase its students and teachers mobility projects in Europe.

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PARTNERS IN France

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REMINDER : #ERASMUSDAYS IN 2017

On the 13th and 14th of October last year, 625 events were held in 11 European countries during the #ErasmusDays, in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Spain, France, Italy, Malta, Norway, Poland and Romania. In over 320 towns and cities across Europe, Erasmus + project leaders organised events to promote mobility and highlight their initiatives and their impact in the territories and sectors. Every sector benefiting from the Erasmus + programme was represented, youth and sport, school sector, vocational and education training, higher education, adult education, trans-sectorial projects, KA1, KA2 and KA3 projects. AUSTRIA The House of the European Union in Vienna organised a photo exhibition on the theme of mobility students’ university rooms, their first independent living space in a foreign city. BELGIUM In Brussels, the European Regions Foundation for Research, Education and Training (FREREF) organised a “Freref Day” to reflect on the territorial impact of Erasmus + projects on training-employment pathways. CYPRUS The French Embassy in Cyprus made a film about the overlapping profiles of Erasmus + students. This film was posted online during the #ErasmusDays. GERMANY The Info Café Berlin-Paris in Berlin set the table for a “disco soup” evening on the 13th of October to raise young people’s awareness of food wastage. In Dresden, the French Institute provided students and apprentices with information about study and traineeship mobilities. ITALY Over seventy events were organised in Italy including some big Italian cities from the north down to Sicily. In Naples, the Federazione Nazionale Insegnanti Centro di iniziativa per l’Europa (FENICE) organised meetings on the 13th and 14th of October on MOOCS, language learning and mobility. The Nocera Superiore School organised a festival on “Music at school, a tool for inclusion”. MALTA Pupils from a vocational college and the Marco Polo youth hostel organised a beach clean-up on Saturday 14th of

• October. The aim was to collect 30 kilos of litter on Malta beaches following the tourist season.

NORWAY Erasmus+ Norway Agency (SIU) organised a photo competition on social networks. POLAND The foundation in charge of the EPALE platform (adult education) in Poland organised a photo exhibition based on an inter-generational project on the inclusion of the visually impaired. ROMANIA In Bucharest, the French Institute of Romania organised an online photo competition on “My Erasmus + experience in France”. The winners were announced on the 13th of October, as part of the #ErasmusDays. SPAIN In Valencia, the Salvador Gadea School organised virtual meetings and a “laboratorios de humanidad” with its 5 European partners.

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Annexe 1 : European Commission high patronage agreement from Isabelle Jégouzo

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Annexe 2 : President of the French Republic high patronage agreement