Lifelong Learning - Transversal Programme

What are the aims?

Specific objectives

• To promote European cooperation in fields covering two or more sub-programmes
• To promote the quality and transparency of Member States’ education and training systems

Operational objectives

• To support policy development and cooperation at European level in lifelong learning, notably in the context of the Lisbon process ‘Education and Training 2010’ , as well as the Bologna and Copenhagen processes and their successors
• To ensure an adequate supply of comparable data, statistics and analyses to underpin lifelong learning policy development, as well as to monitor progress towards objectives and targets in lifelong learning, and to identify areas for particular attention
• To promote language learning and support linguistic diversity in Member States
• To support the development of innovative ICT-based content, services, pedagogies and practice for lifelong learning
• To ensure that the results of the Lifelong Learning Programme are appropriately recognised, demonstrated and implemented on a wide scale

There are four Key Activities:

• Policy Co-operation and Innovation in Lifelong Learning
• Languages
• Development of Innovative ICT-based Content, Services, Pedagogies and Practice for Lifelong Learning
• Dissemination and Exploitation of Results of Actions Supported under the Programme and Previous Related Programmes, and Exchange of Good Practice