Lifelong Learning Programme within the European Union

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Lifelong Learning Programmewithin the European
Union

• AIM 2008
• Janerik Lundquist

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EHEA Pillar Stones

• Transparency
• Mutual trust
• Make diversities visible

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Lifelong Learning Programme

• The European Commission has integrated its
  various educational and training initia-tives
  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.

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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

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Comenius for schools Erasmus for higher
education Grundtvig for adult education
Leonardo da Vinci for vocationaleducation and
training

• Lifelong Learning Sub-Programmes

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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
  profes-sors 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.

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ERASMUS

• The Programme seeks to expand its mobility
  actions even further in coming years, with the
  target of 3 million Erasmus students by 2012.

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ERASMUS

• For students
• studying abroad
• working abroad (placements)
• linguistic preparation
• For university staff
• teaching abroad
• receiving training abroad

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ERASMUS

• For universities/ higher education institutes
• intensive programmes
• academic and structural networks
• multilateral projects
• For enterprises
• student placements
• teaching abroad
• university cooperation

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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

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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.

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External Relations Programmes

• Tempus
• Erasmus Mundus
• Co-operation with Industrial Countries

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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.

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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.

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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
  Masters courses and enhances the visibility and
  attractiveness of European higher education in
  third countries. It also provides EU-funded
  scholarships for third-country nationals
  participa-ting in these Masters courses, as well
  as for EU-nationals studying at partner
  universities around the world.

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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 institu-tions and a mobility scheme
  addressing student and academic exchanges.

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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 promo-ting
  intercultural understanding. The EU has set up
  joint study programmes with other industrialised
  countries, to provide financial support for
  student mobility.

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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
  trans-atlantic education co-operation.In
  addition, several initiatives operate with other
  industrialised countries, notably Australia,
  Japan, New Zealand and South Korea.

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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