EU POLICIES GUIDING COOPERATION WITH THIRD COUNTRIES

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EU POLICIES GUIDING COOPERATION WITH THIRD
COUNTRIES

• Helsinki, November 2007
• Aurora iglesias Ortego

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NEW CHALLENGES

• The EU today faces major challenges and
  responsibilities.
• This requires a strong EU able to protect its
  interest and promote prosperity, democracy and
  human rights around the world.

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EU an active and proactive player

• EuropeAid
• tackles universal issues
• Promotes
• Good governance
• Social and human development
• Security and migration
• Natural resources
• And more

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Aims in the field of Education

• (a) improving access to education
• i.e. contributing to building schools and
  training centres,
• improving transport)
• (b) improving quality
• i.e. training teachers, improving teaching
  methods, providing educational materials,
  exchanging good practice, student-centred and
  skill-based learning
• and pertinence and coherence with economic needs
• in particular vocational training, upper-
  secondary and higher education
• (c) increasing equity
• i.e. supporting measures for gender balance, for
  populations at risk both in urban and rural
  areas
• (d) improving the capacity of education/training
  system managers at central and decentralised
  levels.

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Commission activities

• Bilateral cooperation with various countries and
  regions
• Fast Track Initiative (FTI) Partnership
  Education for all
• Regional cooperation programmes
• Tempus Programme
• Asia-Link,
• Alfa
• Alban
• Cooperation with Industrialised countries
• Edulink
• Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Windows

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New external cooperation instruments

• Based on the Eu treaties
• Three main policies Enlargement, neighbourhood,
  development
• Financial instruments
• Pre-accession (IPA)
• Neighbourhood (ENPI)
• !0th EDF
• Development (DCI)
• Industrialised countries (ICI)
• Human Rights (EIDHR)
• Stability (IfS)
• Nuclear Safety
• EDF separate from instruments available from
  start 2008

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Policy activities

• Education for All Fast Track Initiative
• a partnership of developing countries and
  donors to help low- income countries achieve the
  Millenium Development Goal of universal
  completion of primary education by 2015
• EC co-chair until last July
• Importance of strengthening the quality of
  country-level processes
• It promotes more effective use of resources
  through
• Strong sector strategies
• Improved harmonisation and alignment of external
  financing
• Increased predictability and longer-term nature
  of financing (internal and external)

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Policy activities (cont.)

• Asia-Link
• Promote regional and multilateral networking
  between higher education institutions
• Partnership projects
• Programme support activities
• European Higher Education Fairs
• Asia-Link Forum
• Information and Communication
• EDULINK
• Harmonised approach for implementation of EC
  funded programmes to assist ACP countries
• Strengthen the capacity of ACP Higher Education
  institutions at administrative/institutional,
  academic and research levels

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Policy activities (cont.)

• AlBan
• High level scholarships in Europe for Latin
  America
• Postgraduate scholarships leading to a master or
  a PhD degree
• Specialisation scholarships for experienced
  professionals occupying leading positions.
• ALFA
• Cooperation programme between Higher Education
  Institutions of the EU and Latin America to
  develop systematic and lasting partnerships
  including mobility
• Academic and institutional management
• Scientific and Technical training

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Policy activities (cont.)

• Other programmes to be presented separately
• Erasmus Mundus
• ?Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window
• Tempus
• Cooperation with industrialised countries

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Further information

• External Aid and Co-operation Office Website
• http//ec.europa.eu/europeaid/index_en.htm
• DG Education and Culture Website
• http//www.ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/progr
  ammes_en.html
• EACEA Website
• http//eacea.ec.europa.eu/extcoop/call/index.htm

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• THANKS!