6-Jan-2009

National and International Links

Líonra | Socrates | Erasmus | Comenius | IFHE

As a College of the National University of Ireland, Galway, St Angela's College has a range of formal and informal links with other institutions in Ireland and overseas.

Líonra
The College is a member of the Regional Higher Education Network which is a partnership of all Higher Education Institutions in the Objective 1 Region (Border-Midlands-Western area of Ireland).

Socrates
Socrates is a European Union action programme for co-operation in the field of education. Socrates aims to help improve the quality and relevance of education, by enhancing European co-operation and increasing access to the range of learning opportunities available across the Union and to provide insight into the European dimension of the subjects being studied.

Erasmus
Under the Erasmus initiative the College has established bilateral agreements with partner third-level institutions.
St. Angela's College has bilateral agreements with:

• Berufspadagogische Akademie Des Bundes, Graz, Austria
• Berufspadagogische Akademie Des Bundes, Vienna, Austria
• Technisahe Universitat Munchen, Germany
• Ankerhus Seminarium, Soro, Denmark
• Hogskolen I Akershus, Bekkestua, Norway

The Socrates Programme allows students to spend a period of from three months to one academic year studying in one of the partner colleges and St. Angela's hosts students from European partners for similar periods.

St. Angela's College also participates in Teaching Staff Mobility Action under the Erasmus initiative, which allows for reciprocal visits of lecturing staff from participating colleges, from one to eight weeks, during which they are fully integrated into the department or faculty of the host institution.

Comenius
The College is involved under the Comenius initiative, in a project entitled EDIPED: The Development of an European Digital Portfolio for the Evaluation of Educators, which commenced in October 2002.
The aim of this project is to develop a new, dynamic, digital appraisal tool for the collection and presentation of portfolio evidence of an educator’s experiences and competencies, which can be used in the various educational and appraisal systems throughout Europe. The project intends to address the self-improvement/self-evaluation of educators (such as teachers, educational administrators, inspectors, teacher trainers and trainees) and their objective and transparent evaluation with the help of new technologies, thus enabling greater mobility of recognised educators.
The outcomes of the project are:

1. The development of an European Digital Portfolio in which personal documents of different types (texts, films/videos, tapes) can be stored and presented in a purposeful order.
2. The development of a training course on how to use the European Digital Portfolio to be run between 2005-2008 under the action Comenius 2.2.

The final product will be initially produced in five European languages including Greek, English, German, Dutch and Spanish.

The ten partners involved in this project are:
· Cyprus
Intercollege University of Cyprus
· Austria
Educational Authority of the
· Province of Upper Austria Pedagogisches Institut Des Bundes
· Netherlands
Amsterdam Faculty of Education
· Spain
Teacher Training and Resource Centre in Cehegín
Teacher Training and Resource Centre of Molina De Segura, Murcia
· Great Britain
Birkbeck College, University of London
· Ireland
St. Angela’s College
· Germany
Studienseminar Neuss

IFHE
The College is a member of the International Federation for Home Economics (IFHE) and is an active participant in international conferences and symposia. The International Federation has representation in 74 countries on all continents of the world and has NGO consultative status with the United Nations. The College hosted the European Conference of the International Federation of Home Economics titled “Home Economics Education: European Perspectives and Future Directions” in August 2001.

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