Work package and deliverables

From the SUPPORT project proposal

WP 1 Management of the consortium

Activities:
4 steering group meetings
3 partner meetings
Project management and planning
Annual reviews and reports of progress
Democractic decision-making through the steering group and partner consortium
SUPPORT website

Deliverables:
That the 7 events take place with the anticipated number of participants

WP 2 Exchange of best practice collaboration with schools

Activities:
Comenius parternership contact seminar Reichenau (school-community)
Comenius partnership contact Greece (school-research)
Comenius teacher mobility seminar Austria (teachers)
FORM-IT workshop Austria (school-research)
Collaboration teachers-community workshop Spain (school-community)
Biodiversity workshop Germany (school-research)
ARION seminar How to promote research education cooperation Austria (school-research)
Thematic conference Future-workers Netherlands (school-community-entrepreneurship)

Deliverables:
That the 8 events take place, with the anticipated number of participants
Report from each event

WP 3 Development of ICT platform

Activities:
Develop www.sustain.no both technical and content (Norway)
Develop ecological footprint calculator, software and other preparation for campaign (Germany, UK)
Workshop on ICT for collaboration and action-oriented learning, 21-25 january 2008 (UK)
Thematic conference on ICT for ESD (Finland)
Develop quality criteria for use of ICT for ESD (Germany)

Deliverables:
The ICT tools (www.sustain.no, calculator, campaign, software)
That the 2 events take place, with the expected number of participants
Reports from the two events
Report from the campaign

WP 4 Conclusions and recommendations from SUPPORT

Activities:
Edit book on school-community collaboration, best practices
Edit book on school-research collaboration, best practices
Summarize and report on findings from the SUPPORT network

Deliverables:
Book on school-community collaboration
Book on school-research collaboration
Interim report from SUPPORT
Final report from SUPPORT

WP 5 Awareness of sustainability issues and capacity building

Activities:
Promotion of network and network activities
Cooperation with national agencies to promote SUPPORT activities
Mobilization of schools and school networks including eco-schools to participate
ARION seminar: Learning for a change (UK)
Arion seminar: Education for sustainability in traditional as well as modern society in central Europe (HU)
Thematic conference: continuing the decade for ESD (Norway)

Deliverables:
That the 2 ARION seminars take place with the expected number of participants
2 reports from the ARION seminars
That the Thematic conference takes places with the expected number of participants
Report from the Thematic conference

WP 6 Evaluation of the SUPPORT network and activities

Activities:
Continual qualitative and quantitative self-evaluation of the project and use of the results to improve the project
Develop an external evaluation perspective using a stakeholder group of key informants and a portfolio of evidence

Deliverables:
Annual internal evaluation report summarizing the self-evaluations
Final internal evaluation report
Annual external evaluation report
Final external evaluation report

WP 7 Dissemination of SUPPORT outcomes

Activities:
Development of SUPPORT webside
Information sharing and recruitment, including creating links to the SUPPORT site from national education authorities and national agencies for LLL in all countries

Deliverables:
SUPPORT website with given features

WP 8 Exploitation of SUPPORT outcomes

Activities:
Spreading of results through national contacts and in international networks

Deliverables:
No concrete deliverables identified in the proposal. Possible outcomes would be wide use of the ICT tools, use of the website and publications, competence building and policy development.