Educational policies of the European Union
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In the European Union education is the responsibility of member states, and European Union institutions play only a minor role in this field. According to Art. 149 of the Treaty of Amsterdam, the Community «shall contribute to the development of quality education by encouraging cooperation between Member States», through actions such as promoting the mobility of citizens, designing joint study programmes, establishing networks, exchanging information or teaching languages of the European Union. The Treaty also contains a commitment to promote life-long learning for all citizens of the Union.
The EU funds educational, vocational and citizenship-building programmes which encourage EU citizens to take advantage of opportunities which the EU offers its citizens to live, study and work in other countries.
The European Union has recently worked on various harmonisation projects including the Bologna Process. The purpose of the Bologna process is to create the European higher education area by harmonising academic degree standards and quality assurance standards throughout EU member states.
See also
- Bologna process
- Lisbon 2000
- European credit transfer system
- European School
- European higher education area
- Eurydice
- Socrates programme
- The Comenius programme - relating to primary and secondary education.
- The Erasmus programme - relating to higher education.
- The Grundtvig programme - relating to adult education.
- The Lingua programme - relating to education in European languages.
- The Minerva programme - relating to information and communication technology in education.
- Integrated programme - related to lifelong learning
- TEMPUS
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