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Comenius: how to participate

Contact the national agency in your country if you are interested in any of the following actions:

• Individual pupil mobility;

• In-service training of school education staff;

• Assistantships for student teachers;

• School partnerships; and

• Regio partnerships.

Most of these activities focus on providing learning experiences for individual people or schools.

Contact the EU’s Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency if you are interested in:

• Comenius Multilateral Projects;

• Multilateral Networks; and

• Accompanying Measures.

In general, these are large-scale projects involving organisations from different countries that are focusing on developing innovative practices in school education.

More information

Frequently Asked Questions

• Comenius School Partnerships
• Comenius In-service Training
• Comenius Assistantships
• Comenius Regio

Official documents

• An annual call for proposals for projects is made for each of the sub-programmes of the EU’s Lifelong Learning Programme, including Comenius. Read more about the 2012 call and find official documents and a guide to programme funding.

• List of schools eligible to receive funding under Comenius School Partnerships.

• 2012 National priorities for Comenius School Partnerships

• 2012 National priorities for Comenius Regio Partnerships

• List of institutions eligible to apply for funding under Comenius Regio Partnerships.

• In-Service Training course database for school and adult educators (funded under multilateral projects).

In depth

• How to participate
• What does Comenius offer?
• Comenius Success Stories
• Comenius Regio conference 2011
• Comenius Week 2011