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Lifelong Learning Programme The new Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013 replaces the existing
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. The programme budget is
EUR 6,970 million for the period 2007-2013. 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. 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:
To
involve at least three million pupils in joint educational activities, over
the period of the programme;
To
have supported an overall total of three million individual participants in
student mobility by 2012;
To
increase placements in enterprises to 80,000 per year by the end of the
programme;
To
support the mobility of 7,000 individuals involved in adult education per
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The Council Decision establishing a new Lifelong
Learning Programme was signed by the Presidents of the European Parliament
and of the Council on 15 November 2006 and was published in the Official
Journal of the European Union on 24 November. It came into force on 14
December 2006. The following website provides a link to the Council: Decision
and other important information relating to the new LLP.
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