Lifelong learning Programme (2007-2013)
The Decision n. 1720/2006/CE establishing a new Lifelong Learning Programme (2007-2013), was signed on November 15th 2006 by the European Parliament and of the Council and was published in the Official Journal of the European Union L 327/45 on 24 November 2006.
The Lifelong Learning Programme comprises four sectoral programmes on school education (Comenius), higher education (Erasmus), vocational training (Leonardo da Vinci) and adult education (Grundtvig), is completed by a transversal programme focusing on policy cooperation, languages, information and communication technology and dissemination and exploitation of results, and a Jean Monnet programme focuses on European integration and support for certain key institutions and associations active in the field.
BUDGET
The programme budget will be € 6,970 million for the total period 2007-2013.
OBJECTIVES
The aim of the new programme is to contribute through lifelong learning to the development of the Community as an advanced knowledge society, with sustainable economic development, more and better jobs and greater social cohesion. It aims to foster interaction, cooperation and mobility between education and training systems within the Community, so that they become a world quality reference.
As regards the four sectoral programmes, quantified targets have been set in order to ensure a significant, identifiable and measurable impact for the programme. These targets are as follows:
- for Comenius: to involve at least three million pupils in joint educational activities, over the period of the programme;
- for Erasmus: to contribute to the achievement by 2012 of three million individual participants in student mobility under the present programme and its predecessors;
- for Leonardo da Vinci: to increase placements in enterprises to 80,000 per year by the end of the programme;
- for Grundtvig: to support the mobility of 7,000 individuals involved in adult education per year, by 2013.
The Lifelong Learning Programme shall be open to the participation of:
- EFTA countries which are members of the EEA, in accordance with the conditions laid down in the EEA Agreement;
- the candidate countries benefiting from a pre-accession strategy, in accordance with the general principles and general terms and conditions laid down in the framework agreements concluded with these countries for their participation in Community programmes;
- the countries of the Western Balkans, in accordance with the provisions to be determined with these countries following the establishment of framework agreements providing for their participation in Community programmes;
- the Swiss Confederation, on the basis of a bilateral agreement to be concluded with that country.
Further information:
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/static/en/llp/index_en.htm and http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/index.htm
Correlative links.
Call for Proposals 2010
Call for proposals — EACEA/29/09 for the implementation of Erasmus Mundus II
Erasmus Mundus Programme call
Previous invites
Guide for applicants
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
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