ACMÉ 4 international note

 

ACMÉ 4 / International coordination note IC 4 - Le 4 août 2023

Hello everybody:

As you know, our common application for a partnership made between 6 schools and the NGO called ILARGIA LEAGUE was not selected by the French National Agency

Yesterday, the reasons were given to us : according to the official note written by the authorities, the project itself is not critizised but only the organisational abilities of the ILARGIA LEAGUE. Perhaps it's because of the presentation made last year by the Erasmus+Agency, wich may have incited some project holders to prefer applicant plans supported by NGO rather than partnerships held by schools (as schools were described as "no efficient enough" to manage budgets of the KA2 cooperative actions). Or it' because our NGO's credibility as this entity is too young and not rich enough compared to the big project we wished to coordinate?

We prayed today the Agency to give us more precisions and to express an opinion about our chances to be selected if we redo another application. Not sure we'll have a significant answer but we attempt to obtain good information before a brainstorming to change the original project (we plan to implement this workshop on midaugust). Indeed I believe we should try to make a smaller version of ACMÉ in the hope to be selected in october in the framework of simplified partnerships. Even if we must have no encouragement from the Agency and if we are not sure to be successful. But it means only a few schools and the NGO should be involved in (the ILARGIA LEAGUE would stay as our "squadron leader" since the simplified partnerships are designed for newbies). You can guess a strong reduction of the project is necessary because of limits given to the duration and the grants (60 000€ as a maxima) of these sort of partnersips.

In this new context, some of you will not have their schools be incorporated in the consortium but you'll probably can be considered if you want it as a resource like teacher member of the League and be invited to take part to one mobility as an expert; a part of us may also help to the intellectual outputs with our students in a remote mode (acting as eTwinners for instance). I need to know if you think is it easy for you to accept an invitation from the LEAGUE to take part to an activity granteds by the ERASMUS+ programme, even if you have no school holidays? (In France it would be complicated for the headmaster to let us free to move instead of give our lessons). And what do you think of the leads I have listed in this letter? (and whats'about the concrete possibilies for your school and/or yourself)?

BEST REGARDS !