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.

2004Pilot project with four partner countries:

AT, GR, IT, PL

IMPROVING VISIBILITY AND ACCESS TO PROJECT RESULTS!

DESIGNINGthe common metadata model

2008EST is officially adopted as the database for partnerships and results in the Lifelong Learning Programme

A collaborative toolEST 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

Targeted to:

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

Get in TouchShare

Disseminate

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 CompendiumThe 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 resultsThe 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

3.271896895532248101

Comenius multilateralComenius bilateralGrundtvigLeonardo da VinciComenius RegioGrundtvig SVP

Where are we now?78.086 results

Methodological Studies Pedagogial and

Audiovisival material

Educational software

Didactic material

Website

Forum/Blog/SN group

Image set

Sound

Printed material

Craftwork

What’s new in EST in 2011?

New Interface

Comenius Regio Partnerships & Grundtvig Senior Volunteeering Projects

Joint product

New, completely redeveloped, Search

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 ResultResults 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 inputPublished 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 inputSTAR 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 results1) 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 metalInformation 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 guidelinesLLP National Agencies evaluate the totality of the partnerships managed (thorugh final reports, etc.), then they select Star projects using:

PromotionOn 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)

EST & more

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)

Comenius Mapshttp://www.comeniusmaps.eu

EVEhttp://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/eve

Facebook Fan pageopened 17/10/2011

https://www.facebook.com/europeansharedtreasure