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Mobility programme: professional stays in France

As a UK secondary school headteacher:

• you would like to host a teacher from France in your school ;
• you would like to give teachers in your school the opportunity to go to France.

General goals of the mobility program
The benefits of short professional stays for your school

• improvement of the European dimension of both French and British education systems;
• promotion of motivation for languages;
• strengthening of links and relationships between both educative communities;
• setting up exchange projects;
• exchange of good practice.

How to apply?
Commitments by the host school

• host a teacher from France for two weeks in your school;
• help her/him to find accommodation;
• make sure the teacher from France is involved in the activities of the school and those of her/his colleagues (teaching French or the same discipline as she/he does),

French schools are happy to receive British colleagues under the same conditions.

Application form

• in order to host a French teacher in your school, please download the “schools’ application form” on the website from 15 January 2010 and send it to sejours-professionnels@ciep.fr by 19 March 2010.
• in order to go to France for a short professional stay, please download the “teachers’ application form” on the website from 15 January 2010 and send it to sejours-professionnels@ciep.fr by 19 March 2010.
• agreements for professional stays will be notified by 1 June preceding the beginning of the school year 2010.

Terms of the professional stays

• the French government provides a mobility allowance for French participants: there are no additional costs for the school hosting them;
• the teacher will continue to be paid by her/his own country;
• the teacher retains his/her rights to social security in France;
• the selected French or/and British teachers are in charge of the organisation of their stay in the partner country.

For further information, please contact Mr Michel Monsauret at michel.monsauret@diplomatie.gouv.fr