COLLABORATE WITH M.E.P. EUROPROJECTS GRANADA IN THE NEXT CALL FOR PROPOSALS!

M.E.P. Europrojects Granada has the pleasure to invite you to collaborate with us in the framework of the LLP (Life-Long Learning Programme), especially within Leonardo da Vinci Mobility projects (IVT, PLM and VETPRO) and Erasmus projects: Students Mobility for placements (including the Erasmus consortium placement certificate) and Staff Mobility (teaching assignments and staff training).

If you are member of a Promoter/ Sending organisation interested in taking part in the Leonardo da Vinci Mobility programme please take into account that according to usual practice, the deadline for submitting proposals is during the first days of February each year (therefore, the next deadline is expected to be at the begining of February 2012). If your organisation is interested in preparing and submitting LdV Mobility projects and to implement those projects in Granada, Andalusia (Southern Spain), please do not hesitate to contact us, M.E.P. Europrojects Granada would be really glad to act as your Host organisation in Granada.

On the other hand, if you are interested in taking part in the Erasmus Mobility programme either for University students or staff, or for Upper level Vocational Training students or staff and if you have already submitted your application asking for the Erasmus University Charter, please do not hesitate to contact us for collaborating together. If your organisation is interested in preparing other kind of LLP Programmes, or other programmes, or even a private exchange, please contact us and explain us your proposal. We would be delighted to listen to your ideas.


From our organisation, M.E.P. Europrojects Granada, we think that if you have not still started to prepare your new Mobility projects to be submitted in the next call for proposals, this is the right moment for starting to prepare them. From our experience we know that a project that is prepared with time enough has more possibilities to get the final approval from its relevant National Agency. For that reason, please do not hesitate to contact us and let us know your project idea so that we can help you to prepare your proposal in order to achieve a successful project proposal together. We would be really glad to prepare our Letter(s) of Intent for your project(s) and also to help you to achieve Letter(s) of Intent from other organisations too.

On the other hand, if you have any already approved project in any previous call and you would like to collaborate with us for those approved projects, even if they have a very tight deadline, please send us the relevant information and we will start working on them immediately in order to study its viability and inform you a.s.a.p. if we are able to collaborate together on it.


In case that you would like to obtain some more information about our organisation, please read the following information in which you will find an introduction about our organisation as well as some further information about the beautiful place where our organisation is based: Granada.


For any further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.


We hope that this would be the beginning of a successful cooperation.

M.E.P. Europrojects Granada Introductory Letter

M.E.P. Europrojects Granada is a private training organisation mainly aimed at participating to collaborate within Mobility projects (i.e. Leonardo da Vinci Mobility projects for IVT (People undergoing Initial Vocational Training), PLM (People in the Labour Market), VETPro (Professionals in Vocational Education and Training) and Erasmus Mobility projects (organising training placements for University and Upper Vocational Training students and Staff) as well as developing different training activities (supportive training courses for primary and secondary school students and foreign language courses).

M.E.P. Europrojects Granada will organise together with your organiation all aspects related to the preparation, submission and implementation of your European projects. M.E.P. Europrojects Granada will organise a complete programme of Study visits for VETPro projects or Erasmus Mobility for Staff of any field and/or a programme of training placements for all kind of students (Initial or Upper Vocational Training or University students) from a very wide range of specialities. We offer a comprehensive service including: accommodation, meals, transport, Spanish language lessons, cultural programme, cultural activities, etc.

Regarding accreditation and certification, M.E.P. Europrojects Granada will provide all project participants with:

1. Certificates accrediting their acquired knowledge and competences issued by M.E.P. Europrojects Granada (IVT, PLM, VETPRO and Erasmus)

2. Certificates accrediting their acquired knowledge and competences issued by the organisations where trainees develop their internships (IVT, PLM and Erasmus)

3. Certificates accrediting the Spanish language lessons undergone and the level achieved (for those projects including language course) and,

4. Europass Mobility certificates (for all those projects requesting it)

5. A final monitoring and evaluation report (for all those projects requesting it)

We are also used to collaborate with disabled and handicapped people.

If you are interested in collaborating with us, please do not hesitate to contact us and let us know your project ideas.

M.E.P. Europrojects Granada is an organisation made up of a highly qualified and experienced team of professionals with a large experience in training activities and in participating in Leonardo da Vinci Mobility projects which will provide you with the best support during the preparatory stages of the project and the project participants with a continuous help and monitoring. Additionally, we also keep our help and support in the completion of all the necessary documents until the project end.

For any further information, please do not hesitate to contact us, we would be very glad to reply to your questions.

INFORMATION ABOUT GRANADA

M.E.P. Europrojects Granada is based in Granada, one of the most beautiful Andalusian cities and provinces, with an amazing history and a World well-known quality in Education awarded by its famous University of Granada, which receives thousands of students from all around Spain and all around the World each academic year. Granada also counts on the most varied Tourist attractions as you will discover below in the list of the 10 things you cannot miss in Granada. Come to discover Granada with M.E.P. Europrojects Granada and we will provide you the services which will allow you to discover every marvelous misteries of Granada:

1. To visit the Alhambra. World Heritage Site, the complex of the Alhambra and the Generalife is the most emblematic, known and visited monument of Granada and Spain and the second most visited monument in Europe.

2. To visit the Park of the Sciences of Granada. Visiting the Park of the Sciences is to enter a different world. A world where the visitor wil have the knowledge of the science history on the tip of the fingers.

3. To visit the Albaicín quarter. The Albaicín (World Heritage Site) is one of the districts with more enchantment and history of the city of Granada, where you can enjoy probably the best and more romantic views of the Alhambra from Granada.

4. To go to a Flamenco Show in a house-cave in the Sacromonte quarter. The Sacromonte quarter is one of the most colourful and different quarters of the city of Granada, which mostly represent Andalusian traditions in nowadays: hot-blooded dances, guitar plays, beautiful songs, where singers represent all that Andalusian people felt during the centuries, etc.

5. To Ski in Sierra Nevada. In the South of Spain, in an earth blessed by the Sun, there are two important peaks of Spain: the highest peak of the Iberian Peninsula (Mulhacén with 3,478 metres) and the third highest peak in the Iberian Peninsula (Veleta with 3.395,68 metres) of the highest summits of the Sierra Nevada Massif guarantee the abundance of quality snow in the most Southern Ski resort of Europe.

6. To Swim in the beaches of the Tropical Coast of Granada or to just to have a walk in the seaside and enjoy the benefits of the sea breeze. There are tenths of beaches and small inlets of crystal-clear water, 320 sunny days a year and an average temperature of 20º C.

7. To Know the Architecture of the Alpujarra and make rural tourism in this mountain area full of white villages. To know the architecture of the Alpujarra region is to make a trip in the time until finding its origins in the Berbers tribes who inhabited this area many centuries ago.

8. To Travel to any other point in Andalusia. Granada has a strategic position wich allows to travel to ather beautiful andalusian cities such as Cordoba, Malaga and Siviglia.

9. To go shopping. Granada is an ideal place to go shopping. To let you take and cross its streets visiting stores and markets is an attractive and colourful form to make contact with its culture and its people. Granada counts on the biggest Open Commercial Centre in Andalusia, which means that the concentration of shops in Granada city centre is so big that it looks like a commercial centre but in the open-air.

10. To Enjoy the Tapas and the Cuisine from Granada. Granada is famous by the small portions of food that are served with your drink at most of bars for free! This is the best way to get to know the local cuisine and tasting many different specialities of the area: patatas a lo pobre (fried potatoes mixed with eggs and vegetables), fried assorted fish, pinchitos (grilled meat served on a stick), etc.

If you would like to discover this wonderful city, please do not hesitate to collaborate with us and please let us know your project idea. M.E.P. Europrojects Granada and its team are looking forward to cooperate with you in order to achieve the project approval of your new projects and a successful project implementation in Granada of your approved projects.

                                      

M.E.P. Europrojects Granada

 It is a private training organisation mainly aimed at training activities and to collaborate within Mobility projects (i.e. Leonardo da Vinci Mobility projects for IVT, PLM, VETPro and ERASMUS projects)

M.E.P. Europrojects Granada organises:

-Study visits of any fields
-Training placements

-Offers a comprehensive service including:
-Accommodation
-Meals
-Transport (Local transport and airport transport)
-Spanish language and culture course
-Cultural activities (Discovering Granada in Depth, cultural

  programme, etc.)
-Cultural visits
-Certificates for the projects participants (for training placement,

 study visit and pedagogical, linguistic and cultural training)
-Europass certificates (upon request)
-It is made up of a team of professionals
-Continuous help and monitoring                                                               
-and much more...

PRACTICE TRAINING AND STUDY VISITS

                            

Regarding study visits, they depend on the field of the project and on the field of specialisation of project participants. Study visits will be organised according to this field. For example, if you are a vocational training teacher and your project field is about studying Vocational Training System in Spain, your study visits, will be to educational institutions like yours in Spain. It is useful to have this kind of activities, so that you can compare your home country to Spain, learn about similarities, differences, best practices, etc. and use it in your future career.

SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE COURSE

 

 Spanish language course includes learning basic of Spanish language, which will be very useful to make conversations with local population, for example, with your colleagues in project; it helps to improve language skills, to learn basic Spanish vocabulary, to set the basis for future learning.
Spanish culture course is especially interesting for those, who don’t prefer just sitting aside, but like to participate in different activities. It can include different local cultural activities like walking around historical quarters of Granada, a tapas evening, etc.

                 

DISCOVERING GRANADA IN DEPTH (SPECIALLY RECOMMENDED!)

Granada is one of the most beautiful Andalusian cities, where ancient Arab and Catholic art and civilizations melt together. Amazing history, which shows a reflection to its buildings, street construction, parks and so on, and which makes Granada attractive not only for tourists, but for artists and culture staff too. The most visited cultural places in Granada are the complex of the Alhambra, ancient Arab city made up of Alcazaba, Nasrid Palaces and Generalife. These are monuments, which mainly represent Arab art in Spain, and inwardly include past umbrage and absolutely are must see locus.

Interesting place for tourists also is the Park of the Science Museum (Parque de las Ciencias); where every visitor can have the knowledge of the science history on the tip of the fingers and it includes to enjoy not only passive activities, but also activities where visitors can participate at and taking action themselves.
The Albaicin and the Sacromonte are the most colorful, different and enchantment quarters of the city of Granada, which mostly represent Andalusian traditions in nowadays: hot-blooded dances, guitar plays, beautiful songs, where singers represent all that Andalusian people felt during the centuries, etc.
Granada is like a secret, which needs to be discovered by each individual personally. It’s a city where to come back for a while, to revise memories of this unimaginable place on the world.
This is a service to be carried out in 3

to 5 consecutive days and it includes:                     
-Entrance ticket to the most important
monuments  of Granada:

-Alhambra (Nasrid Palaces, Alcazaba and

  Generalife)

- Park of Science Museum                                                            
-Cathedral             

-Royal Chapel

-Monastery of La Cartuja

-Monastery of San Jeronimo
-Travel in the Granada Sightseeing bus      



                                                            
-Transport necessary for the different 
 monuments in city and intercity buses (up to 9 trips)
-Accompaniment by one representative
of our organisation to every activity
-Presentation in Power Point about the most important historical remarks about Alhambra

 (upon request).

               

AIRPORT TRANSPORT

-Including transport for both ways: transport from the Spanish airport to the accommodation place on the day of arrival and
from the accommodation place to the Spanish airport on the day of departure.
Airports are:
-Granada (17 Km)
-Málaga (129 Km)
-Sevilla (256 Km)
-Madrid (434 Km)

CULTURAL VISITS

Cities are:
-Tropical Coast (Motril or Salobreña beaches) (77 Km)
-Jaén (99 Km)
-Baeza World Heritage City (122 Km)
   -Málaga (129 Km)
   -Úbeda World Heritage City (155 Km)
    -Córdoba (166 Km)
-Sevilla (256 Km)
    -Gibraltar (291 Km)
  -Madrid (434 Km)

  

-Including return transport: transport from the accommodation to the city of tourist interest to be visited and back at the end of

the visit.
-Including accompaniment by a member of our staff.



CULTURAL PROGRAMME

 

 

This service includes:
-Two local cultural activities weekly (it will also take into account the preferences of the group and it can include sport and leisure activities, trekking activities, local cultural activities for visiting some of the most important monuments of the city, tapas evening, flamenco show, cinema sessions, games, swimming pool, etc.)

              

CULTURAL PROGRAMME + VISIT

 This service includes:
-Two local cultural activities weekly (it will also take into account the preferences of the group and it can include sport and leisure activities, trekking activities, local cultural activities for visiting some of the most important monuments of the city, tapas evening, flamenco show, cinema sessions, games, swimming pool, etc)
-One-day trip to an Andalusian city of tourist interest.