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Culture
Villa Empain celebrates EU Prize for Cultural Heritage/ Europa Nostra award
30/09/2011
BRUSSELS, 30 September 2011. Androulla Vassiliou, will take part in a ceremony at the Villa Empain in Brussels on 3 October (11:00) to celebrate its recent prize at the 2011 EU Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Awards.
Vassiliou and Barnier urge Ministers to back drive for digitisation of Europe's heritage
08/09/2011
The challenge of making Europe's cultural heritage more accessible on-line and ensuring copyright rules are respected will be among the issues addressed when Androulla Vassiliou and Michel Barnier, Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, join Ministers for Culture and Audiovisual Policy at their informal meeting in Wroclaw, Poland, on 9 September.
Education
Literacy Week: Commissioner joins forces with Dutch Minister and Princess to highlight campaign
05/09/2011
Androulla Vassiliou will join Dutch Minister for Education, Culture and Science Marja Van Bijsterveldt and Princess Laurentien of The Netherlands, who chairs the Commission's high-level expert group on literacy (IP/11/115), for a reading event with young pupils at the International School of The Hague on 6 September.
Youth
Youth on the Move at WorldSkills London
23/09/2011
The programme for Youth on the Move's presence at WorldSkills London, the world's largest skills competition taking place on 5-8 October, is now finalised and includes presentations by young people who did traineeships in Malta, Germany and Spain, as well as a multitude of other international projects. We are happy to announce that Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou, responsible for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth will attend WorldSkills on Friday, 7 October and will lead a discussion with young people at the Youth on the Move stand. For all details, please consult the full programme.
