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Taith Programme Guide 2024

Version 1.0, January 2024
  1. Taith Programme Guide
  2. Overview of Taith
    1. Our purpose
    2. Our mission
    3. Our objectives
    4. Wider impacts
    5. Understanding the funding Pathways
    6. Additional support from Taith Champions 
  3. Understanding Taith’s funding rules and reciprocity
    1. Funding rules 
    2. Reciprocity
    3. Eligible destination countries and territories
  4. Eligibility – who can apply/participate in the programme
  5. Before you apply
    1. Capacity
    2. Completing the application
  6. What happens once an application is submitted
    1. Assessment procedure
    2. Funding decision
    3. Notification of outcome
  7. What happens if your application is successful
    1. Exchange of Grant Agreement letter
    2. Payment of grant funding
    3. Project management and reporting
    4. Safeguarding
    5. Checks and audits 
  8. Appeals and complaints
    1. Appeals
    2. Complaints 
  9. Annex 1 – Country / territory group categories
  10. Annex 2 – Inclusion support in Taith
  11. Annex 3- Additional information on Safeguarding procedures
  12. Glossary

Glossary
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Adult Education
Adult education is the provision of formal, non-formal and informal learning for adults, to enable them to develop knowledge, skills and competencies, to retrain, or to refresh/update their knowledge in a particular field.
Application deadline
The final date and time by which all application forms and calculation tools must be submitted to the Taith team for assessment.
Applying organisation
The organisation in Wales submitting an application for funding to Taith. An applying organisation may apply either individually or on behalf of a consortium, which includes other organisations involved in the project.
Consortium
Two or more Welsh organisations working collaboratively to develop and deliver a project or an activity within a project.
Disadvantaged participant
Any participant (learner or staff) who meets one or more of the Taith criteria for 'disadvantage’ and will be eligible for additional financial support. See Annex 2 of the Programme Guide for more details.
Eligible costs
The amount of grant related to the delivery of project activities.
Eligible organisation
An organisation that is able to apply for Taith funding.

Final report
A compulsory report that all Grant Recipients need to submit to Taith at the end of the project.
Formal learning
Any learning that takes place during an organised or structured learning programme.
Funding call
The period of time during which applications for funding can be submitted.
Further Education
Further education is general education provided to students or learners over the age of 16 who are no longer of compulsory school age. Further education includes provision which is not compulsory secondary education nor forms part of higher education and can include vocational provision.

Grant
The funding awarded by Taith to a successful applying organisation.
Grant Agreement
The written agreement between Taith and the Grant Recipient detailing the terms and conditions of the funding award in line with the application form which will have been assessed to be fundable and approved for funding by the relevant committee.
Grant Calculator
This is a tool which calculates how much funding you are eligible to apply for based on your mobility choices and participant numbers.
Grant Rates
Fixed rates that are available for different eligible costs.

Grant Recipient
When approved for project funding, the applying organisation becomes a Grant Recipient and is responsible for signing the Grant Agreement Letter.

Higher Education
Higher education is tertiary education which does not amount to further education (but can be delivered by further education providers). It generally leads to a specified qualification at level 4-8.

Informal learning
Learning that takes place outside of organised or structured learning programmes and no learning support is present. Sometimes referred to as experiential or incidental learning.
Interim report
A compulsory report that Grant Recipients need to submit to Taith at a specified point during the project’s lifetime.
International Learning Exchange Programme Ltd (ILEP)
ILEP delivers Taith as the programme executive and is a wholly owned subsidiary company of Cardiff University.

Inward mobility
Participants from eligible sending organisations who come to Wales to participate in a Taith-funded activity or programme.
International
In the context of Taith, any country outside the United Kingdom.

Month
In calculating the amount of Taith grants, a month is equal to 28 days.
Non-formal learning
Learning that takes place outside of any organised or structured learning programme, but some learning support is present.
Outward Mobility
Participants from eligible organisations in Wales participating in Taith supported activities at receiving organisations outside the UK (or in exceptional circumstances only, outside of Wales at receiving organisations in the rest of the UK).
Participant
An individual undertaking a physical/virtual or blended international mobility in a Taith funded project.
Partner organisation
A generic term for any organisation formally involved in a Taith funded project, where there is a project relationship or interaction. Can include those organisations identified as applying organisation, coordinator, receiving organisation or sending organisation, as well as others involved in the delivery of the project.

Partnership
A formal agreement between two or more organisations to participate in a Taith funded project and engage in joint activities and learning experiences.
Pre-financing
An advanced payment intended to provide the Grant Recipient with funding to be able to start project activities.

Project Agreed activities
Agreed activities organised and designed to meet clear objectives and outcomes.
Project budget
The total sum of money allocated to agreed activities within a Taith funded project.
Receiving organisation
When individuals or groups participate in a physical mobility through Taith, they will be hosted by a receiving organisation. This organisation can also often be referred to as host or international partner organisation. Eligible receiving organisations are defined in the sector specific Pathway Programme Guides.

Reciprocity
The principle of reciprocity is sharing learning for mutual benefit facilitated by international exchanges. Within Taith this means participants from eligible organisations outside the UK, participating in Taith supported activities with organisations in Wales.
Schools
For the purposes of Taith, a school is defined as a Local Authority maintained school providing general or vocational education to children and young people aged 4-19.
Sending organisation
Organisations registered and operating outside the UK who send participants to be hosted in Wales during a physical mobility. Eligible sending organisations are defined in the sector specific Pathway Programme Guides

Staff
A person employed by, or working for an applying organisation, whether on a professional or voluntary basis.
Subsistence
Funding available to cover living expenses, which can include accommodation, food and local transportation, whilst on a physical mobility.
Youth
Youth work and youth support provision enables young people to develop holistically, working with them to facilitate their personal, social and educational development, and to enable them to develop their voice, influence and place in society – helping them to reach their full potential.
Vocational Education and Training
The Vocational Education and Training sector provides a wide range of courses/skills that help students or learners to develop knowledge, skills and/or competencies which are directly relevant to specific occupations or employment. It can encompass both vocational qualifications and work-based training.