Preparatory visits
As soon as you have established a potential
partner or partners for your Comenius Partnership, you can apply
for funding to visit them.
Visits usually last three or four days and must involve
teachers from all the participating schools.
This is a great opportunity for planning and a chance to work
together on your application.
A preparatory visit helps you to:
- start building the personal relationships on
which a successful partnership is built
- start filling in the funding application
- get to know your partner institutions, their
systems and culture
- discuss your work plan, the roles and tasks of
the co-ordinating institution and the partner institutions, the
language/s to be used, and the visits you intend to plan.
These visits take place before the application is
submitted and so you apply separately. You will need to submit
your preparatory visit application six weeks before your planned
visit.
The preparatory visit must take place at the institution of
one of the participating countries, who acts as the host for
planning and discussing their partnership topic. It cannot be held
in a conference centre in that host country.
If you have already attended a contact
seminar, Comenius will not fund a preparatory visit in that
year.
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