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2013 ECTS / DS Label
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Restricted Call for Intensive Programme Action under the ERASMUS Sectoral Programme
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The European Language Label Competition
The European Union Programmes Agency (EUPA) in Malta is currently accepting applications for the European Language Label and the deadline for the competition for 2013 is Thursday 28 March. Details, including the application form, are available on the website at www.llp.eupa.org.mt. The EUPA is also conducting an information meeting about this, which shall be held on Thursday 14 March 2013, 2pm at the EUPA Hall, Santa Venera. Read More »
Establishment of the Lifelong Learning Programme
The new Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013 replaces the former Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, and eLearning programmes which expired at the end of 2006. It comprises four sectoral programmes: on school education (Comenius), higher education (Erasmus), vocational training (Leonardo da Vinci) and adult education (Grundtvig), and is completed by a transversal programme focusing on policy cooperation, languages, information and communication technology and dissemination and exploitation of results.
The final element to the new programme is the Jean Monnet action, which focuses on supporting the teaching of European integration as a subject at universities, and supports certain key institutions and associations active in the field.
Overview
The aim of the new programme is to contribute, by emphasising the need for 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.
With regards to 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 have supported an overall total of three million individual participants in student mobility by 2012;
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.
