This brochure explores what learning a language can do for you, its joys and challenges, how you can improve your language skills, and what the EU is doing to support language learning.

brochure - 2010 - 36 pages

Language skills are crucial for growth and jobs. Each year, thousands of European companies lose business and miss out on contracts as a result of their lack of language skills and intercultural competence.

leaflet - 2009 - 2 pages

Today European society is changing at an unprecedented rate as a result of globalisation, technological advance and an ageing population. Europeans are also becoming increasingly mobile. There is more interaction among counterparts from different countries and a growing number of people live and work outside their home country.

brochure - 2009 - 16 pages

brochure - 2008 - 20 pages

Multilingualism helps build bridges between peoples and cultures. It contributes to the legitimacy, transparency and democracy of the European integration process. It promotes labour mobility, enhances employability and competitiveness. It fosters tolerance and social inclusion.

brochure - 2008 - 20 pages

Motivation is at the heart of successful language learning, and many Europeans are already motivated by the numerous personal and professional advantages to be gained from knowing another language.

brochure - 2007 - 60 pages

The Magazine No 31

in this issue

• Informal learning, a territory to be discovered Interview with Commissioner Ján Figel’
• Creativity and innovation at the heart of the struggle for the future of Europe.
• New Skills for New Jobs: need for a revolution
• Good practices in creative & innovative projects
• European year 2009: Ambassadors and agenda.
• The EIT : taking the next step
• Design as a tool for innovation Beyond The myths about design.
• Creativity is innovation’s prime source Interview with Günter Verheugen
• Regional aspects of creativity and innovation: European cohesion policy’s role in Strengthening Innovation
• Innovation in Farming
• Creativity and innovation in education
• Together in Diversity 2008 European Year of Intercultural Dialogue
• ...

magazine - 2009 - 64 pages

The Magazine No 30

in this issue

• Europe in gear for more mobility
• Conference on mobility: new opportunities and wider horizons
• Study visits let’s talk
• Migration in EU schools: turning challenges into opportunities
• Erasmus Mundus sets sail towards new horizons of academic excellence
• Artists on the move
• Boosting cross-border volunteering in Europe
• Taking your training qualifications abroad with you
• Languages and mobility turning a dilemma into a virtuous circle
• Tempus flies to phase 4 of higher education cooperation
• Hands across the sea Europe’s pivotal role in international education
• Adult education a growing need
• European regions exchange good practice in school education
• ...

magazine - 2008 - 56 pages

The Magazine No 29

in this issue

• Bringing innovation to the innovation process
• Piloting new governance for integrated knowledge partnerships?
• 2008 – the trigger year for a framework for European qualifi cations
• Delivering lifelong learning for knowledge, creativity and innovation
• Amin Malouf Identity, diversity and multilingualism
• LANGUAGES MEAN BUSINESS Multilingualism can make Europe more competitive
• Erasmus Mundus European higher education aims even wider in 2008
• It’s offi cial: "Culture matters for the European Project"
• Together in diversity towards a new intercultural perspective in Europe
• Golden Stars for top European performers
• The White Paper on Sport time for teamwork
• Another 50th anniversary the Commission Library

magazine - 2008 - 40 pages

The Magazine No 28

in this issue

• European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008 - Together in diversity
• Setting the stage for a dialogue of cultures
• A promising investment in intercultural dialogue
• European culture on the global stage
• Promoting intercultural dialogue – some bright ideas
• Talking to the world
• Ethical journalism to bridge intercultural divides
• Weaving intercultural dialogue into the EU’s policy fabric
• A sporting chance at success
• EIT: the new flagship for European innovation
• A future for Europe’s youth
• Erasmus – F rom strength to strength
• Erasmus Mundus – Making a world of difference

magazine - 2007 - 36 pages

The Magazine No 27

in this issue

• Equipping Europe for the future
• A lasting commitment to learning
• Youth in Action
• Feeding the roots of European culture
• Building a citizens’ Europe
• How to apply
• Finding your calling 17

magazine - 2007 - 20 pages

The Magazine 26

in this issue

• Allowing cultures to flourish
• Learning and sharing’ in cyberspac
• Talking through time’: watching history in the making
• European scholars take centre stage
• On the move with Erasmus Mundus
• Touring different schools of thought
• Staying the course for rural development
• Europass does the job
• Lightening the load for asylum seeker
• A fabled project
• Gaelic games for Belgian kids
• Active and involved citizens
• Many tongues, one voice
• The new executive agency opens for business

magazine - 2006 - 20 pages

The Magazine No 25

in this issue

• Towards a more egalitarian society as regards gender
• What the new Constitution could offer women and men in Europe
• The school of equality
• Gender equality, a subject of study and research
• The words to say it
• Migrant father, missing father?
• Women as senior executives: the right vocational training
• Technical training courses – case studies
• @lfa-bet@ or how to teach migrant women the numerical approach
• Soccerlingua: scoring goals
• The voice of women
• WWW — Women Writers’ Words
• Meetings without borders
• New Europe, new equality, new citizenship
• Girls in the scrum

magazine - 2005 - 24 pages

The Magazine No 24

in this issue

• Education and culture: Europe, a partner for the world
• Higher education: an international vocation
  Interview: Marc Bourdier
• Helping cinema to thrive all over the world
  Interview: Claude-Éric Poiroux
• Shared cultures
  Interview: Ray Thomas
• Education, culture, youth: the ABC of dialogue between peoples
  Interview: Bichara Khader

magazine - 2004 - 28 pages

The Magazine No 23

in this issue

• The changing face of European sport
• Europeans and sport p Opinions and facts
• Legal basis for EU action
• The Bosman case, a turning point for European sport
• Some key dates — A review of the past decade
• 2004: The European Year of Education through Sport
• EYES 2004 projects
• Learning to move and moving to learn
• Olympic spark for schools
• Physical and mental well-being
• Doping threatens the level playing field
• How television keeps the ball rolling
• The industrialisation of sport
• The king and his court
• Sport: fun and open to all
• Give racism the red card
• Amersfoort: using sport to communicate

magazine - 2004 - 24 pages

The Magazine No 22

in this issue

• Multilingual Europeans
• Mother tongue plus two foreign languages
• The day-to-day linguistic diversity of European institutions
• Milestones in European Union action in support of languages
• Who speaks what in Europe?
• An ambitious plan for languages
• Dovetailing national and European policies
• Seven language aficionados
• Languages and youngsters: A vehicle for citizenship
• A project awarded the European Label
• Senior managers bank on intercultural communication
• Leonardo da Vinci at a glance
• Killing two birds with one stone
• More than a million Erasmus students
• Combining content and language learning
• Promoting lesser used languages
• Regional and minority languages: landmarks
• A fundamental right
• ...

magazine - 2004 - 22 pages

The Magazine No 21

in this issue

• Europe at the crossroad of cultures
• Cultural cooperation: a reality on a continental scale
• Being an artist and European
• The culture industries: an asset for Europe
• Education, a gateway to culture
• Do Europeans like culture?
• Cultural Europe and the world
• Culture news

magazine - 2003 - 24 pages

The Magazine No 20

in this issue

• Town twinning, a simple but effective concept
• A spontaneous movement with a thousand faces
• Twinning in figures
• An old phenomenon expanding fast
• The Golden Stars Award
• And the winners of 2002 are…
• Man plays the most vital role': interview of the Mayor of Pozna´n
• Comenius Week 2003
• Art – a mirror of our feelings
• The man – and woman – on the street have their say
• The Convention: an open process for drawing up a constitution
• With a little help from the Directorate-General for Education and Culture
• Civil society from two viewpoints: parallel interview

magazine - 2003 - 20 pages