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Lifelong Learning -
Guide for applicants
Sectoral programmes : 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
Who can participate?
- 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:
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Mobility of individuals which may include
(in arranging for or supporting the organisation of such mobility,
the necessary preparatory measures have to be adopted and care has
to be taken to ensure that adequate supervision, advice and support
is available for people in mobility) :
- Exchanges of pupils and staff
- Mobilty to schools for pupils 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
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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")
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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
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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
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Other initiatives aimed at promoting
the objectives of the Comenius Programme, including e-Twinning (‘Accompanying
Measures’)
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What are Comenius actions?
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