Press Releases
Education
EIT team reaches finals of anti-poverty business competition
25/04/2012
Brussels, 25 April - A team representing the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) will compete in the final of one of the world's leading business competitions in New York City on 26 April. The five-strong team, who will present a project aimed at boosting the use of solar power in Africa, received a "good luck" message from EU Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth Commissioner, Androulla Vassiliou, on the eve of their participation in the anti-poverty HULT Global Case Challenge.
Higher education reform key for jobs and growth, Bologna Process Ministers are told
25/04/2012
Brussels, 25 April 2012 – European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth Androulla Vassiliou has told Member States that they need to urgently modernise their higher education systems and remove barriers to a fully functioning European Higher Education Area (EHEA) in response to the crisis and rising youth unemployment. Speaking ahead of the two-yearly meeting of higher education ministers in Bucharest (Romania), in the framework of the Bologna Process, Commissioner Vassiliou underlined that action is essential to help drive jobs and growth in Europe.
'We Mean Business': Commission launches campaign to boost work placements
17/04/2012
Brussels, 17 April 2012 - The European Commission today launches the “We Mean Business” campaign, which aims to encourage companies to create more trainee placements to boost young people's skills and employability. At the same time, traineeships can help young people make a smooth transition from education and training to a first good job.
Entrepreneurship education on the increase
13/04/2012
"Entrepreneurship education is a driver for future growth and will help us to inspire the entrepreneurs of tomorrow. If Europe wants to stay competitive, it must invest in its people, in their skills and their ability to adapt and innovate. This means we need to encourage a real change of mind-set in Europe towards entrepreneurial attitudes and this starts by instilling a spirit of entrepreneurship from early education onwards."
Culture
La Commissaire Vassiliou visite la maison de Robert Schuman à Scy-Chazelles (France)
19/04/2012
Androulla Vassiliou, Commissaire européen en charge de l'éducation, de la culture, du multilinguisme et de la jeunesse se rend ce 20 avril à la maison de Robert Schuman à Scy-Chazelles. Elle visitera la maison historique et le nouveau musée attenant et déposera ensuite une gerbe sur sa tombe dans l'église St Quentin.
Education & culture: EU and China launch people-to-people dialogue
18/04/2012
Brussels, 18 April - The European Union and China are taking their co-operation to a new level with the launch of a "people-to-people" dialogue covering education, culture, youth, research and multilingualism. Androulla Vassiliou and Liu Yandong, Chinese State Councillor, today signed a joint declaration in which the EU and China commit to strengthening contacts and exchanges between their peoples in order to deepen understanding and trust.
Arts and culture can build bridges with Roma, says Commissioner Vassiliou
17/04/2012
The role of arts and culture in encouraging Roma inclusion will be the focus of a conference organised by the European Commission in Brussels on 18 April. A concert organised by the Yehudi Menuhin International Foundation, featuring acclaimed Roma singer Ida Kelarova and Roma children, will take place in the evening.
Winners of EU Prize for Literature at the London Book Fair
17/04/2012
Three of the winners of last year's prize will be at the London Book Fair on 18 April. Andrej Nikolaidis (Montenegro) and Inga Zolude (Latvia) will visit the Pen Literary Café and UK winner Adam Foulds will later join them to take part in a debate organised with 'Literature across Frontiers', an initiative promoting literary exchange, translation and policy debate around the topic of literature.
MEDIA
Tribute to Claude Miller, Président d'Europa Cinémas
05/04/2012
Androulla Vassiliou has paid tribute to French film director Claude Miller who died in Paris last night, aged 70.
Asghar Farhadi – first winner of the EU MEDIA prize, 65th Cannes Film Festival
04/04/2012
Brussels, 4 April 2012 - Androulla Vassiliou will award the first EU MEDIA prize to the Iranian director Asghar Farhadi on Sunday, 20 May 2012 at the Cannes Film Festival.
