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Léargas Annual Report 2019 forward
Erasmus+ In 2019 we awarded more than €17 million in funding to Adult Education, School Education, vocational training and education, and Youth projects across Ireland. This funding enabled people active in these fields to train, work and exchange with their peers in Europe; to work together on key issues; and to build sectoral knowledge and expertise while also developing strong international relationships.
Erasmus+ has three main project types. Key Action 1 is all about mobility, where participants travel to another country for exchange, training, job shadowing or professional development. Key Action 2 supports partnership projects, where Irish organisations work with other groups to meet common challenges in innovative ways and exchange good practice. Key Action 3 enables young people to hold dialogue with policy makers and supports policy reform.
Erasmus+ Highilghts of 2019 Our Erasmus+ Transnational Cooperation Activity “Mythbusting European Project Management for Strategic Partnerships” ran in Dublin in February 2019, and resulted in a Project Management handbook specifically designed for European project managers! You can download it from our website. Irish organisations H2 Learning and their partner City of Dublin Education and Training Board received a VET Excellence Award for their Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships project Skills4Work. The award was presented at a ceremony in Helsinki, Finland as part of Vocational Skills Week 2019. Our Schools Week campaign created visibility for schools involved in Erasmus+, encouraging them to share and promote their activities locally as well as online. More than 30 schools across the country celebrated the sense of European and global citizenship that came from their Erasmus+ projects, and some hosted special guests including Sean Kelly MEP! You can see highlights on our Schools Week microsite. Schools Weeks was also an opportune time to launch our Erasmus+ Inclusion and Diversity Project Directory, as it showcases so many schools that are using Erasmus+ to support inclusion and diversity! Léargas staff travelled to Claddagh National School in Galway for the launch, where the pupils were particularly energised by another special guest – Leitrim hurler Zak Moradi. You can download the Inclusion and Diversity Project Directory from our website.
