Students’ mobility

Lifelong Learning Programme

This section provides a brief summary of the main European Mobility Programmes 2007-13 selected depending on the EASY project target group of PH.D students.
You can find the link to EC web portal, and information about aims, actions and beneficiaries.

Select your program:

• Comenius
• Erasmus
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Grundtvig
• Transversal Program
• Jean Monnet
• People

 

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Comenius ( link )

    
Aims:
      a. to enhance the quality of school education
      b. to reinforce the European dimension of school education
      c. to promote the learning of languages
      d. to promote the intercultural awareness

Actions:

1. Comenius 1: it promotes transnational cooperation and exchanges between schools and teacher training establishment
2. Comenius 2: it encourages innovation in pedagogical methods and materials promoting the transnational dissemination of good practices and the use of information and communication technology in school education
3. Comenius 3: it enhances the development of methods for fighting educational exclusion and school failure.

Beneficiaries:

pupils and school students from pre-primary to secondary school, school teachers, non-teaching education staff, tutors, mentors or other educators working with pupils at risk of exclusion, schools, research institutes, institutions and Ngos involved in research on educational issues or working in educational area.

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Erasmus ( link )

    
Aims:
to enhance the quality and reinforce the European dimension of higher education by encouraging transnational cooperation between universities and European mobility and improving the full academic recognition of studies and qualifications throughout the Union.

Actions:
student and teacher exchanges, joint development of study programmes (Curriculum Development), international intensive programmes, thematic networks between departments and faculties across Europe, language courses (EILC), European credit transfer system (ECTS).

Beneficiaries:
higher education institutions and their students and staff in all 27 Member States of the European Union, the three countries of the European Economic Area (Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway), and in the candidate country (Turkey).

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Leonardo da Vinci ( link )

Aims:

The Leonardo da Vinci programme plays an important role in preparing European citizens for entering the labour market, thereby reducing unemployment. Taking companies' needs into consideration, the programme helps build a skilled European workforce in an increasingly competitive world. It promotes mobility, innovation, and quality of training through transnational partnership – cooperation.

Actions:

• Mobility (Work placement and trainer exchanges). The "Mobility" action is one of the main measures of this programme and provides for financial support to projects organising trans-national training placements for young people in vocational education and training as well as projects allowing the exchange of experiences of trainers or human resources managers between European countries.
  
  
• Pilot Projects (Production of vocationally-specific learning materials). Pilot projects are the vehicle for improving quality and for promoting innovation in vocational training. Both aims should be integrated in the proposal in such a way that tools, methods or concepts, and also concrete materials which are developed during the project can be used in, or adapted for, changing environments.
  
  
• Transnational Networks (Facilitating the transfer and exchange of experience and good practice). Transnational Network projects aim to assemble, pool and build on European expertise and innovatory approaches, improve the analysis and anticipation of skills requirements, and disseminate the outputs and results of networks and projects throughout the Europe.
  
  
• Language Competences (Production of training materials to develop innovation & quality in training - incl. Thematic Actions). Language Competences projects are aimed at enhancing multilingual and multicultural communication in the training and working environment. Projects must develop methods, approaches and tools which are related directly to work situations.
  
  
• Reference Materials (Research and statistics). Reference Materials projects are intended to contribute to the growth of knowledge, at Community level, on systems of vocational training in participating countries. Projects involve the comparison of data, surveys and analyses, and the observation and dissemination of good practice.
  
  
• Joint Actions (Collaborative projects with Socrates and Youth). The Joint Actions measure supports initiatives that extend beyond the scope of a single programme. It also aims to encourage the development of innovative approaches to analysing and solving problems which cut across several areas, through co-operation between different sectors at different levels, transnational networking and removing barriers between different modes of intervention.

Beneficiaries:

players in vocational training, training bodies, vocational schools, universities, businesses, and chambers of commerce

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Grundtvig ( link )

      
Aims:

to address the teaching and learning needs of institutions and individuals involved in adult education. In particular, it aims to respond to the challenge of an ageing population and to provide pathways for adults to improve their knowledge and competences. 

Actions:

• Grundtvig 1

1. Co-operation activities between organisations working in the field of adult education.
2. Training courses for teachers, managers and other players of adult education

• Grundtvig 2

Learning partnerships, small co-operation projects between adult education organizations of almost three different countries.

• Grundtvig 3

In service training grants: are awarded for the training of people working in adult education institutions to undertake training of up to six weeks in a country other than that in which the participant normally works. They should be: structured courses for adult education staff, placement or observation period in an adult education organization, participation in a european conference or seminar organised by a Grundtvig Network.

• Grundtvig 4

Thematic Networks to strengthen the link between the various players involved in adult education.

 

Beneficiaries:

all kinds of institutes and organization working in formal, non formal and informal adult education

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Transversal Program     ( link )

Aims:

• To promote European cooperation in fields covering two or more sub-programmes
• To promote the quality and transparency of Member States’ education and training systems

Actions:

• Policy Co-operation and Innovation in Lifelong Learning.
  1. Individual mobility including study visits for experts and officials designated by national, regional and local authorities, for directors of education and training establishments and guidance and experience in accreditation services, and for social partners
  2. Multilateral cooperation networks of experts and/or institutions working together on policy issues.
• Languages
  • Multilateral projects aimed at: promotion of language awareness and access to language learning resources; developing new language learning materials, including online courses, and instruments for language testing
  • Networks in the field of language learning and linguistic diversity
• Development of Innovative ICT-based Content, Services, Pedagogies and Practice for Lifelong Learning
  1. Multilateral projects aimed at the promotion of ICT enabled learning embedded into long-term educational strategies and the development and distribution of innovative methods, contents, services and environments
  2. Networks aimed at sharing and exchanging knowledge, experience and good practice
  3. Other actions aimed at improving lifelong learning policy and practice, which may include mechanisms for evaluation, observation, benchmarking, quality improvement and the analysis of trends with respect to technology and pedagogy
• Dissemination and Exploitation of Results of Actions Supported under the Programme and Previous Related Programmes, and Exchange of Good Practice
  • The prime objective is to help create a framework for the effective exploitation of the results of the Lifelong Learning Programme and previous related programmes at sectoral, regional, national and European levels.

Beneficiaries:

this is the coordination program of above-mentioned programmes; the beneficiaries are the ones of the respective programs.

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Jean Monnet ( link )

Aims:

• To stimulate teaching, research and reflection activities in the field of European integration studies
• To support the existence of an appropriate range of institutions and associations focusing on issues relating to European integration and on education and training in a European perspective      

Actions:

Support to unilateral and multilateral project which may include:

1. Jean Monnet Chairs, centres of excellence and teaching modules
2. Associations of professors, other teachers in higher education, and researchers specialising in European integration
3. Support for researchers deepening their research at a host university in another country
4. Information and research activities relating to the Community with the aim of promoting discussion, reflection and knowledge about the process of European integration

Operating grants to support specified institutions dealing with issues relating to European integration are awarded to support certain operational and administrative costs of the following institutions pursuing an aim of European interest:

1. The College of Europe (Bruges and Natolin campuses)
2. The European University Institute (Florence)
3. The European Institute of Public Administration (Maastricht)
4. The Academy of European Law (Trier)
5. The European Agency for Development in Special Needs Education (Middelfart)
6. The International Centre for European Training – CIFE (Nice)

Beneficiaries:

Operating grants are awarded to support the functioning of certain institutions and associations active in the field of lifelong learning.

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People ( link )

Aims:

it works together with the other 3 categories of FP7 (the Seventh Framework Programme), cooperation, ideas and capacities, to promote and encourage the creation of European poles of scientific excellence. People aims to improve the quality of the human potential in European R&D and increase the number of researchers and others working in the R&D sector by stimulating people to enter into research professions, encouraging European researchers to stay in Europe and making Europe more attractive for the best researchers from around the world.

Actions:

Its activities are based on the successful experience of the Marie Curie actions, covering all stages of a researcher’s professional life, from initial research training (via Marie Curie Networks) to life long learning and career development. Moreover, it wants to support industry-academia pathways and partnerships, an international dimension and  specific actions to sustain the creation of a genuine European labour market for researchers.

Beneficiaries:

Researchers and others working in the R&D sector.

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