Transcript Life Long Learning Programmes within the European Union

Lifelong Learning Programme
within the European Union
AIM 2008
Janerik Lundquist
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Lifelong Learning Programme
The European Commission has integrated
its various educational and training initiatives under a single umbrella, the
Lifelong Learning Programme
with a budget of nearly €7 billion for 2007
to 2013. The new programme replaces
previous education, vocational training and
e-Learning programmes, which ended in
2006.
Lifelong Learning Programme
The programme enables individuals at all
stages of their lives to pursue stimulating
learning opportunities across Europe.
There are four sub-programmes focusing
on different stages of education and training
and continuing previous programmes:
Lifelong Learning SubProgrammes
Comenius for schools
Erasmus for higher education
Grundtvig for adult education
Leonardo da Vinci for vocational
education and training
ERASMUS
Erasmus is the EU's flagship education and
training programme, enabling 200 000 thousand
students to study and work abroad each year, as
well as supporting co-operation actions between
higher education institutions across Europe. It
caters not only for students, but also for professors who want to teach abroad and for university
staff who want to be trained abroad. In addition
to mobility actions, the Programme supports
higher education institutions to work together
through intensive programmes, networks and
multilateral projects.
ERASMUS
The Programme seeks to expand its
mobility actions even further in coming
years, with the target of 3 million Erasmus
students by 2012.
ERASMUS
For students:
• studying abroad
• working abroad (placements)
• linguistic preparation
For university staff:
• teaching abroad
• receiving training abroad
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For universities/ higher education institutes:
intensive programmes
academic and structural networks
multilateral projects
For enterprises:
• student placements
• teaching abroad
• university cooperation
Transversal Programme
• In order to ensure that the four sub-programmes of the
Lifelong Learning Programme reach the best results, a
transversal programme with four key activities
complements them.
• Policy co-operation - Innovating and sharing good
policy practices
• Languages - Breaking the language barriers
• Information and communication technologies Innovative learning
• Dissemination and exploitation of project results Spreading and implementing the results
Information and Communications Technologies
(ICT)
Effective integration of ICT into education must
go beyond simply replacing, streamlining or
accelerating current practices. It must also find
new and more effective ways of operating,
supporting pedagogical and organisational
innovation. ICT has become embedded in our
social and economic fabric and it should be
similarly embedded in education and training
systems.
External Relations Programmes
• Tempus
• Erasmus Mundus
• Co-operation with Industrial
Countries
Tempus: Modernising higher education
Tempus (The Trans-European Mobility
Scheme for University Studies) supports
the modernisation of higher education and
creates an area of co-operation in countries
surrounding the EU. Established in 1990,
after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the scheme
now covers 27 countries in the Western
Balkans, Eastern Europe and Central Asia,
North Africa and the Middle East.
Tempus: Modernising higher education
Tempus finances two types of actions:
• Joint Projects are based on multilateral partnerships
between higher education institutions in the EU and the
partner countries. They can develop, modernise and
disseminate new curricula, teaching methods or
materials, boost a quality assurance culture, and
modernise the management and governance of higher
education institutions.
• Structural Measures contribute to the development and
reform of higher education institutions and systems in
partner countries, to enhance their quality and relevance,
and increase their convergence with EU developments.
Erasmus Mundus
• Erasmus Mundus is a co-operation and mobility
programme in the field of higher education which
promotes the European Union as a worldwide
centre of excellence in learning.
• The programme supports European top-quality
Master’s courses and enhances the visibility and
attractiveness of European higher education in
third countries. It also provides EU-funded
scholarships for third-country nationals participating in these Master’s courses, as well as for
EU-nationals studying at partner universities
around the world.
Erasmus Mundus –
External Cooperation Window
The Erasmus Mundus External Co-operation Window
(EM ECW) objective is to achieve better understanding
and mutual enrichment between the European Union
and third countries co-operation in the field of higher
education through promoting the exchange of persons,
knowledge and skills at higher education level. This will
be achieved through the promotion of partnerships and
institutional co-operation exchanges between European
Higher Education Institutions and Third Country institutions and a mobility scheme addressing student and
academic exchanges.
Co-operation with industrialised countries –
a win-win situation
Co-operation with industrialised countries
enhances the quality of higher education
and vocational training, as well as promoting intercultural understanding. The EU
has set up joint study programmes with
other industrialised countries, to provide
financial support for student mobility.
Co-operation with industrialised countries –
a win-win situation
In 1995, the Commission made first formal agreements
with the U.S. and Canada on balanced co-operation in
higher education and vocational training, which were
renewed in 2006 to provide a legal framework until 2013.
Compared to previous agreements, funds have been
considerably increased to consolidate and expand transatlantic education co-operation.
In addition, several initiatives operate with other
industrialised countries, notably Australia, Japan, New
Zealand and South Korea.
Co-operation with industrialised countries –
a win-win situation
The main activities are:
• Joint/ double degree projects
• Joint mobility projects
• Policy oriented dialogue and projects