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Friday, May 4, 2007

Berlin plays host to the European launch of the Lifelong Learning Programme

The European launch of the Lifelong Learning Programme, the flagship EU funding programme in the area of education and training, will take place at a two-day conference under the German Presidency of the European Union on 6 and 7 May 2007 in Berlin. The conference is organised by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research with support from the European Commission. The Programme will cover the period 2007-2013, and is the first European funding programme to cover the full range of learning opportunities from childhood to old age.

The Lifelong Learning Programme is the successor to the earlier Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci and eLearning programmes, and its legal base was adopted on 15 November 2006 by the European Parliament and the European Council. The Programme has a budget of EUR 6 970 million for the period of the 7 years from 1 January 2007 to end December 2013. This will be used to fund projects and activities that support millions of individuals to study, train and teach abroad, and that foster interchange, cooperation and mobility between education and training institutions and systems within the EU, helping them become a world quality reference.

The two-day launch conference aims to inform people about the opportunities available under the new Lifelong Learning Programme and to discuss its contribution to European policy in the field of education and training. It also provides a platform to highlight the successes of the previous education and training programmes and to honour excellent projects.

During the conference, Lifelong Learning Awards will be offered to the three best projects in each of the former programmes Comenius, Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Grundtvig, Jean Monnet and Lingua.

The Lifelong Learning Programme is a framework programme built on four thematic sub-programmes and two supporting cross-cutting programmes. Grants and subsidies will be awarded to individuals and to projects under each of these to support the trans-national mobility of individuals, to promote bilateral and multilateral partnerships, or to improve quality in education and training institutions and systems.

The four sub-programmes are:
- The Comenius programme (at least 13% of the budget; 906 million EUR) addresses the teaching and learning needs of all those in pre-school and school education up to the level of the end of upper secondary education, and the institutions and organisations providing such education
- The Erasmus programme (at least 40 % of the budget; 2,788 million EUR) addresses the teaching and learning needs of all those in formal higher education, including trans-national student placements in enterprise, and the institutions and organisations providing or facilitating such education and training
- The Leonardo da Vinci programme (at least 25% of the budget; 1,743 million EUR) addresses the teaching and learning needs of all those in vocational education and training, including placement in enterprise of persons other than students, as well as the institutions and organisations providing or facilitating such education and training
- The Grundtvig programme (at least 4% of the budget; 279 million EUR) addresses the teaching and learning needs of those in all forms of adult education, as well as the institutions and organisations providing or facilitating such education.

These four pillars are supported by a ‘transversal programme’, which consists of the following four key activities:

- Policy cooperation and innovation in lifelong learning
- Promotion of language learning
- Development of innovative ICT-based content, services , pedagogies and practice for lifelong learning
- Dissemination and exploitation of results of actions supported under the Lifelong Learning Programme and previous related programmes

Finally, these actions are complemented by the new Jean Monnet programme, which supports university teaching and research in the field of European integration worldwide.

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