Angel Erasmus Project

Project Title

Angel

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

How can we make our education systems more open, more innovative, more anchored in the digital age ? In such a context, how can we encourage the training and development of the professional skills of those involved (school heads, teachers, trainers, researchers, etc.) ?
Such is the questioning of the ERASMUS+ ANGE project for Anchoring the Digital in the Governance of Institutions and the transformations it induces.

ANGE has 3 priorities :
o The development of innovation in digitally-anchored institutions
o Initial and in-service training for all those involved in education, in particular headteachers
o Preventing school drop-out through digital use

ANGE has 4 specific objectives : to create a network of classlabs (support laboratories) and training tools ; to create a research-action network; to promote effective school leadership ; to enable the development of the professional skills of all those involved in education.

ANGE is the project of 9 partner institutions : AECG (Association enseignement catholique de Gironde), ICP (Institut Catholique de Paris), the University of Craïova (Romania), Paul Claudel d’Hulst high school (Paris), Rakovski of Bourgas high school (Bulgaria), University of Salamanca (Spain), Zawm St. Vith (Belgium), the University of Salamanca (Spain), Novida Loïmaa High School (Finland), CEGEP de la Pocatière (Quebec), recognised for its quality, excellence and sense of innovation.

ANGE is to share the progress of the 9 partner institutions of the project : universities, high schools, training center, network of institutions that have experienced, implemented, piloted or accompanied transformations related to digital technology in 4 institutions in Finland, Belgium, France and Bulgaria, launched in pedagogical, organisational and managerial experiments, in which digital technology plays a central role.
They all ask themselves the same questions about governance, steering, leadership and skills development !

The reflection that we have been sharing for the last 3 years and the analysis of the projects implemented, are gathered around 3 questions :
o Does the deployment of innovative projects linked to digital technology have an impact on the governance of institutions by making it more participative ?
o Does the Classlab Ange approach promote the development and success of innovation projects ?
o Does the Classlab Ange approach allow all the actors involved to gain in skills and thus participate in their professional development ?

ANGE is the accompaniment of the experimenters by a pan-European and international team where everyone was an actor alongside directors, teachers, researchers and trainers who allowed the analysis of the changes induced by digital technology and the implementation of recommendations in the governance of institutions.

But ANGE is also about human encounters, exchanges, discoveries, shared work, training, meetings, to question each other, to learn together, from others to advance reflection and common productions.
Classlab Ange’s approach in this way has enabled everyone, managers, teachers, researchers, trainers and students to discover new work situations and new learning in an action-research approach.

The creation, based on this project and its conclusions, of Classlabs has allowed a continuous training of the teams, teachers and headmasters, in an action-research approach and the acquisition of new competences now listed in a common repository of competences progressively co-built by the actors of the project.

ANGE now offers a wide range of resources, based on research results, expert presentations at think tank seminars, analyses of pedagogical or managerial practices (outputs, study reports).

The ANGE project, finally, is to share as widely as possible our experiences, our analyses, our resources, through the ANGE website http://classlab-ange.eu/ and the MOOC ANGE open on FUN since January 13th https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/course-v1:UVSQ+113002+self_paced/about

But ANGE is above all the will to learn from others and to grow together, in a multicultural and multilingual environment; it is the will to open up to a world without borders to enable everyone to find the path of educational transformation they wish to implement in their own environment.

Although e-education is a strategic tool for our schools of tomorrow, it will only be able to respond to the educational challenges if it is anchored in the governance of the schools and accompanied by the indispensable training in the pedagogical uses of digital technology for school heads and teams.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 359915 Eur

Project Coordinator

AECG & Country: FR

Project Partners

• ASSOCIATION DES EVEQUES FONDATEURS DE L’INSTITUT CATHOLIQUE
• UNIVERSITATEA DIN CRAIOVA
• Zentrum für Aus- und Weiterbildung des Mittelstandes
• Lycée profilé de langues romanes ” G.S.Rakovski”
• Cegep de La Pocatière
• UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA
• Novida- ammattiopisto ja lukio