Conference

1st Conference on IPM & Recognition of its learning outcomes in Mechelen, Belgium during the EU Belgian Presidency of the EU, within the framework of the Construct Europe Festival! The Conference was organized by the European Federation for Intercultural Learning and the partners of the ETAR- Empowering Teachers for Automatic Recognition project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme.

Within the process of evaluation of the European Education Area implementation, and during the negotiations on the Council recommendation on a learning mobility framework, it was the perfect moment to bring together stakeholders of individual pupil mobility to ensure coordination of actions at national and European level to advance the promotion of this specific programme together with the recognition of its unique learning outcomes!

You can find an overview of the conference sessions, as well as speaker’s and workshop presentations below!

Session 1

The European Education Area and Europe on the Move: progress made so far in individual pupil mobility (IPM)

• Elisa Briga, Secretary General of EFIL – An Introduction to Individual Pupil Mobility
• Jacqueline Pacaud, Head of Sector, Erasmus+ for school education, VET and adult learning, European Commission, DGEAC School and Multilingualism Unit
• Elisa Briga, Secretary General EFIL; Arja Krauchenberg, Vice President of LLLP/ Projects Coordinator at European Parents Association; Panagiotis Chatzimichail, Head of External Affairs at OBESSU –  Civil society organisations perspective on IPM within the European Education Area

Session 2

The experience of training teachers at local level on internationalisation through IPM and recognition of its learning outcomes

• Mattia Baiutti, Research and Teacher Training Coordinator at Fondazione Intercultura – The experience of training teachers at local level on internationationalisation through IPM and recognition of its learning outcomes
• Marta Kowalczuk-Waldeziak, Vice Dean for International Cooperation, Faculty of Education, University of Bialystok –  The impact of the Training Model on teachers’ professional development: preliminary findings from the pilot trial
• Margit Timakov, Board Member of the Estonian Association of Teachers – Piloting and sustainability of the training model – Estonian example

Session 3

• Rina Rabou – Address by the Alderman of Education of Mechelen
  

Session 4

The voice of pupils, teachers, and school heads

• Ludmila Demeterova, Slovak exchange pupil in Belgium 
• Noa Stoffels, Belgian pupil of SMIKS in Keerbergen
• Anneliese Boeckaerts, teacher of GITHO Nijlen
• Helen Brown, School principal of Ecole Internationale Le Verseau – Improving the Quantity and Quality of Individual Pupil Mobilities in a Belgian (French Community) Secondary School

Session 5

How can EU policy and programmes foster the promotion of IPM?

• Christian Kiefer and Eldrid Gaukstad, Erasmus+ Programme Officers European Commission, DG EAC School and Multilingualism Unit – How can EU policy and programmes foster the promotion of mobility of pupils?
• Melanie Mignot Erasmus+ National agency, Belgium French speaking community AEF Europe – Erasmus+ & Individual Pupil Mobility (IPM) : experience from the Belgian-FR (BE01) National Agency

Session 6

Stakeholder & Knowledge Hubs on IPM and Recognition of its learning outcomes – Building a national hub: facilitated workshops in country groups

• Elisa Briga, EFIL – IPM Knowledge and Stakeholder Hubs
• Nina Corinna Handing – Senior Advisor, Directorate for Higher Education and Skills, Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research – Monitoring of individual pupil mobility in Norway
• AJA, the umbrella organisation of non-profit, educational youth exchange organisations in Germany – An advocate of long-term individual youth exchange programs in Germany
• Mattia Baiutti, Fondazione Intercultura – National Observatory on the Internationalisation of Italian Schools and Pupil Mobility
• Kadri Eensalu, YFU Estonia – Stakeholder & Knowledge Hub on IPM and Recognition of its learning outcomes in Estonia