Lifelong Learning Programme

The European Commission has integrated its various educational and training initiatives under a single umbrella, the Lifelong Learning Programme. With a significant budget of nearly €7 billion for 2007 to 2013, the new programme replaces previous education, vocational training and e-Learning programmes, which ended in 2006.

The programme enables individuals at all stages of their lives to pursue stimulating learning opportunities across Europe. There are four sub-programmes focusing on different stages of education and training and continuing previous programmes:

• Comenius for schools
• Erasmus for higher education
• Leonardo da Vinci for vocational education and training
• Grundtvig for adult education

A Transversal Programme aims to ensure that they achieve the best results possible. Four key activities focus on policy co-operation, languages, information and communication technologies, effective dissemination and exploitation of project results.

Aiming for a geographical reach beyond Europe's borders, the Jean Monnet programme stimulates teaching, reflection and debate on the European integration process at higher education institutions worldwide.

Targets

Quantified targets have been set for the four sub programmes:

• Comenius should involve at least three million pupils in joint educational activities, over the period of the programme
• Erasmus should reach the total of three million individual participants in student mobility actions since the programme began.
• Leonardo da Vinci should increase placements in enterprises to 80,000 per year by the end of the programme
• Grundtvig should support the mobility of 7,000 individuals involved in adult education per year by 2013

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Our projects

• The Re.ViCa project is one of the projects that are funded by the Erasmus sub-programme of the Lifelong Learning Programme.
• The VISCED project is one of the projects that are funded by the Transversal Programme (KA3) of the Lifelong Learning Programme.
• The POERUP project is another of the projects that are funded by the Transversal Programme (KA3) of the Lifelong Learning Programme.

Eligible countries

The following countries and territories are eligible:

• the 27 EU Member States

1. including Canary Islands, Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Réunion, Azores, and Madeira

• Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland (the "EFTA-EEA countries")
• Turkey, Croatia
• "Overseas countries and territories" defined by Council Decision 2001/822/EC (amended by Council Decision 2007/249/EC):

1. Greenland
2. New Caledonia and Dependencies
3. French Polynesia
4. French Southern and Antarctic Territories
5. Wallis and Futuna Islands
6. Mayotte
7. St Pierre and Miquelon
8. Aruba
9. Netherlands Antilles
10. Anguilla
11. Cayman Islands
12. Falkland Islands
13. South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
14. Montserrat
15. Pitcairn
16. Saint Helena, Ascension Island, and Tristan da Cunha
17. British Antarctic Territory
18. British Indian Ocean Territory
19. Turks and Caicos Islands
20. British Virgin Islands

Third country partners

Applicants are encouraged to consider including third country partners from:

• countries identified in Article 7 as being eligible to participate in the LLP in the future under certain circumstances, but for which the relevant agreements have not yet been concluded

1. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia

• countries addressed by the European Union's Neighbourhood Policy, and Russia:

1. Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, the Occupied Palestine Territory, Syria, Tunisia and Ukraine

• countries identified by the EU as being of particular priority in the context of developing a strategic policy dialogue in education and training or multilingualism:

1. Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, South Korea, USA

The General Call for Proposals 2012 notes that:

The following countries may become eligible to participate, as of 2012, in the Lifelong Learning Programme, provided that the formal steps for participation for each country are completed in due time: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia