Implementation of the Socrates/Erasmus Program in the Case Study of the Cooperation between the University of Silesia (Poland) and Centre de Formation Pédagogique (France)

Abstract

The present text with minor alterations was presented during my stay in El Camino College, California, USA, where I visited from October 4th to October 31st 2006 within the frameworks of the Fullbright Institutional Partnership Grant It presents areas and ways of the realisation of and benefits resulting from participation in the international Socrates/Erasmus program realised by two educational institutions –Polish and French. It is illustrated with authentic examples from my experience gained over a number of years, when I held the function of the program coordinator. When presented to the French students and lecturers this text was supplemented with a multi-media presentation – photographs of a number of international projects carried out in Cieszyn and Cambrai. It commanded great interest of the American students and lecturers, which found prompt expression in establishing new contacts between the lecturers of El Camino College, USA and the Centre de Formation Pédagogique, France.