A core component of the
Knowledge Based Economy is the one regarding the networking activities
in schools, which will create and develop opportunities to learn about
and using information technology and communications in a useful,
non-formal manner. The subcontractor of this component, “Centrul
Educatia 2000+” (CEDU) will offer assistance to the MCTI and MECT in
order to increase the organizational capacity of 495 schools from 255
communities so that they integrate IT&C in the process of
creation and development of some practice communities by the use of
networking activities.
The
development of projects in partnership between schools involved in the
program
This is the first activity is meant to facilitate the transfer of
positive model to integrate IT&C in the educational activities
and the encouragement of knowledge exchange and also the support of the
development of schools in partnership and collaborative projects, both
inside the network and with external actors.
Schools
that are part of the project will be invited to apply for partnership
projects. There will be at least 9 such projects having a budget of
45000 USD. The selected projects will contribute to the development of
contacts, relationships in order to support the use of IT&C in
schools, will promote constant communication within the network through
different events (conferences, workshops, sessions, work visits,
knowledge exchange, camps) and will help identify common interest
topics for both teachers and students.
School Twinning Program
The program facilitates networking between the approximatively 495
schools assisted in the KBE project and foreign schools. Schools are
encouraged to identify partners with which they twin and with which
they can, later on, develop enduring relationships, such as the
collaboration between schools and between teachers, funding research
projects, initation and running common projects, career development
paths for teachers. Within this activity practice communities will be
developed in order to promote and share information and resources,
there will be offered support for knowledge transfer (especially when
it comes to the European expertise), the best practices will be
promoted at regional and national level. Knowledge learnt in previous
projects will be shared in order to improve other projects through the
educational portal of the KBE project.
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