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Lifelong Learning -
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
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:
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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
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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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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
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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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