Scholarships and grants:
If you need financial support for going abroad, you might want
to read some information about scholarship programmes. Here you
will find an overview of scholarship programmes and a link to a
scholarship search engine.
Socrates has developed three lifelong learning programs.
Comenius:
What are the aims?
Specific objectives
- To develop knowledge and understanding among young people
and educational staff of the diversity of European cultures and
languages and its value
- To help young people acquire the basic life
- skills and competences necessary for their personal
development, for future employment and for active European
citizenship Operational objectives
- To improve the quality and to increase the volume of
mobility involving pupils and educational staff in different
Member States
- To improve the quality and to increase the volume of
partnerships between schools in different Member States, so as
to involve at least 3 million pupils in joint educational
activities during the period of the programme
- To encourage the learning of modern foreign languages
- To support the development of innovative ICT-based content,
services, pedagogies and practice in lifelong learning
- To enhance the quality and European dimension of teacher
training
- To support improvements in pedagogical approaches and
school management
What target public?
- Pupils in school education up to the end of upper secondary
education
- Schools, as specified by Member States
- Teachers and other staff within those schools
- Associations, not-for-profit organisations, NGOs and
representatives of those involved in school education
- Persons and bodies responsible for the organisation and
delivery of education at local, regional and national
levels
- Research centres and bodies concerned with lifelong
learning issues
- Higher education institutions
- Bodies providing guidance, counselling and information
services
What types of activity?
The following actions are supported by the Comenius Programme:
Mobility of individuals which may include:
- Exchanges of pupils and staff
- Mobilty to schools for pupils (aged of 12 as a minimum) and
placements in schools or enterprises for educational staff
- Participation in training courses for teachers and other
educational staff
- Study and preparatory visits for mobility, partnership,
project or network activities
- Assistantships for teachers and potential teachers
Development of partnerships between:
- Schools, with a view to developing joint learning projects
for pupils and their teachers ("Comenius school
partnerships")
- Organisations responsible for any aspect of school
education, with a view to fostering inter-regional cooperation,
including border region cooperation ("Comenius-Regio
partnerships") Multilateral projects aimed at:
- Developing, promoting and disseminating educational
best practices, including new teaching methods or
materials
- Developing or exchanging experience on systems of
providing information or guidance particularly adapted to
the learners, teachers and other staff concerned by the
Comenius programme
- Developing, promoting and disseminating new teacher
training courses or course content Multilateral Networks
aimed at:
- Developing education in the discipline or subject area
in which they operate, for their own benefit and for that
of education more widely
- Acquiring and disseminating relevant good practice and
innovation
- Providing content support to projects and partnership
set up by others
- Promoting the development of needs analysis and its
practical applications within school education Other
initiatives aimed at promoting the objectives of the
Comenius Programme, including e-Twinning
(‘Accompanying Measures’)
What are Comenius actions?
Erasmus:
Have you ever wished to live and study abroad? Have you ever
wanted to get to know a different culture, study at a foreign
university, meet new friends, learn another language, all at the
same time? Then ERASMUS may be what you are looking for!
The ERASMUS programme offers the possibility of studying
abroad in another European country for a period of between 3 and
12 months. You may receive a study grant! And you won't have to
pay university fees abroad! In addition, your studies abroad will
be recognised at your home university.
What are the aims?
Specific objectives To support the realisation of a European Higher Education Area
- To reinforce the contribution of higher education and
advanced vocational education to process of innovation
Operational objectives
- To improve the quality and to increase the volume of
students and teaching staff mobility throughout Europe, so as
to contribute to the achievement by 2012 of at least 3 million
individual participants in student mobility under the Erasmus
and its predecessor programmes
- To improve the quality and to increase the volume of
multilateral cooperation between higher education institutions
in Europe
- To increase the degree of transparency and compatibility
between higher education and advanced vocational education
qualifications gained in Europe
- To improve the quality and to increase the volume of
cooperation between higher education institutions and
enterprises -To facilitate the development of innovative
practices in education and training at tertiary level, and
their transfer, including from one participating country to
others
- To support the development of innovative ICT-based content,
services, pedagogies and practice for lifelong learning
What target public?
- Pupils in school education up to the end of upper secondary education
- Schools, as specified by Member States
- Teachers and other staff within those schools
- Associations, not-for-profit organisations, NGOs and representatives of those involved in school education
- Persons and bodies responsible for the organisation and delivery of education at local, regional and national levels
- Research centres and bodies concerned with lifelong learning issues
- Higher education institutions
- Bodies providing guidance, counselling and information services
What types of activity?
The following actions are supported by the Erasmus Programme:
- Mobility of individuals which may include:
- Mobility of students for the purposes of studying or training in Member States in higher education institutions, as well as placements in enterprises, training centres, research centres or other organisations ('Erasmus Students')
- Mobility of teaching staff in higher education institutions in order to teach or receive training in a partner institution abroad
- Mobility of other staff in higher education institutions and staff of enterprises for purposes of training or teaching
- Erasmus intensive programmes organised on a multilateral basis
- Multilateral projects focusing inter alia on innovation, experimentation and the exchange of good practice in the areas mentioned in the specific and operational objectives.
- Networks run by consortia of higher education institutions and representing a discipline or a cross-disciplinary field ('Erasmus Thematic Networks') which aim to develop new learning concepts and competencies. Such networks may also include representatives from other public bodies of from enterprises or associations
- Other initiatives aimed at promoting the objectives of the Erasmus Programme ('Accompanying Measures')
What are Erasmus actions?
Leonardo da Vinci:
What are the aims?
Specific objectives
- To support participants in training and further training
activities in the acquisition and the use of knowledge, skills
and qualifications to facilitate personal development
- To support improvements in quality and innovation in
vocational education and training systems, institutions and
practices
- To enhance the attractiveness of vocational education and
training and mobility for employers and individuals and to
facilitate the mobility of working trainees Operational
objectives
- To improve the quality and to increase the volume of
mobility throughout Europe of people involved in initial
vocational education and training and in continuing training,
so as to increase placements in enterprises to at least 80.000
per year by the end of the LLP
- To improve the quality and to increase the volume of
co-operation between institutions or organisations providing
learning opportunities, enterprises, social partners and other
relevant bodies throughout Europe
- To facilitate the development of innovative practices in
the field of vocational education and training other than at
tertiary level, and their transfer, including from one
participating country to others
- To improve the transparency and recognition of
qualifications and competences, including those acquired
through non-formal and informal learning
- To encourage the learning of modern foreign languages
- To support the development of innovative ICT-based content,
services, pedagogies and practice for lifelong learning.
What target public?
- People learning in all forms of vocational education and
training except at tertiary level
- People in the labour market
- Institutions and organisations providing learning
opportunities in the fields covered by the Leonardo da Vinci
Programme
- Teachers, trainers and other staff within those
institutions or organisations
- Associations and representatives of those involved in
vocational education and training, including trainees',
parents' and teachers' associations
- Enterprises, social partners and other representatives of
working life, including chambers of commerce and other trade
organisations
- Bodies providing guidance, counselling and information
services relating to any aspect of lifelong learning
- Persons and bodies responsible for systems and policies
concerning any aspect of vocational education and training at
local, regional and national level
- Research centres and bodies concerned with lifelong
learning issues
- Not-for-profit organisations, voluntary bodies, and
NGOs
What types of activity?
The following actions are supported by the Leonardo da Vinci
Programme:
Mobility of individuals which may include:
- Transnational placements in enterprises or in training
institutions
- Placements and exchanges aimed at the further professional
development of trainers and guidance counsellors, and at those
responsible for training establishments and for training
planning and career guidance within enterprises
Partnerships focusing on themes of mutual interest to the
participating organisations Multilateral projects in particular
those aimed at improving training systems by focusing on the
transfer of innovation involving the linguistic, cultural and
legal adaptation to national needs of innovative products and
processes developed in different contexts of innovation
Multilateral projects aimed at improving training systems by
focusing on the development of innovation and good practice
Thematic networks of experts and organisations working on
specific issues related to vocational education and training
Study and preparatory visits for mobility, partnership, project
or network activities Other initiatives aimed at promoting the
objectives of the Leonardo da Vinci Programme
(‘Accompanying Measures’)
What are Leonardo da Vinci actions?
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