Tools
Education
The Lifelong Learning Programme: education and training opportunities for all
The European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme enables people at all stages of their lives to take part in stimulating learning experiences, as well as helping to develop the education and training sector across Europe.
Mobility:
Comenius "mobility" actions enable individuals to travel abroad to take part in a project:
- Individual pupil mobility: gives secondary school pupils the chance to spend a study period abroad for up to ten months;
- In-service training of staff grants: enable teachers and other education staff to undertake training abroad, for up to six weeks;
- Assistantship grants: fund student teachers to work in a school abroad for up to ten months.
Partnerships:
Organisations involved in the school education sector from different European countries can work together in various ways through the programme:
- Schools partnerships: enable school co-operation and class exchanges;
- Regio partnerships: co-operation between different regions;
- eTwinning: internet platform for teachers and schools.
Multilateral projects and networks:
These are larger-scale actions, with organisations from different countries working together to develop, promote and disseminate good practice and innovation in school education.
“Youth on the Move” aims to increase their chances of finding a job by enhancing student
and trainee mobility and improving the quality and attractiveness of education and training
in Europe. “Youth on the Move” is part of “Europe 2020”, the EU's plan for how Europe will emerge from the social and economic crisis.
Whether you are planning to enrol in an education or training programme, looking for a job, or getting experience abroad, it is important to be able to make your skills and competences clearly understood.
Europass is a new way of helping people to:
- make their skills and qualifications clearly and easily understood in Europe (European Union, EFTA/EEA and candidate countries);
- move anywhere in Europe.
Europass consists of five documents:
- two documents (Europass curriculum vitae (CV) and Europass Language Passport) you can fill in yourself; and
- three other documents (Europass Certificate Supplement, Europass Diploma Supplement and Europass Mobility) filled in and issued by competent organisations.
Europass is supported by a network of National Europass Centres.
Teaching material
These websites, brochures, books, maps and posters explain what the EU is and what it does. They address many of the questions and challenges facing society today, for example, what can we do to protect our environment? How can we live together with peace and security for all?
Whether you’re looking for inspiration for your lessons or concrete information on European history, citizenship, or something as specific as reducing individual energy consumption, you should find something useful tailored to the age-group of your students. You have just to click on the age group of your class (up to 9 years, 9-12 years, 12-15 years, 15+ years) to find the material best suited for your teaching requirements.
This site gives you:
- basic information on how the EU works
- the latest EU news and events
- links to EU information on the websites of EU institutions and agencies.
Who runs this site?
The site is run by the Communication department of the European Commission on behalf of the EU institutions.
This site is for each and every European citizen, to know his/her rights and to find practical tips to help him/her to move around the EU. The information on this site there are categorized into the following categories: Travel, Work, Vehicles, Residence, Education & Youth, Health, Family, Shopping. It must be mentioned that new content and updates are regularly added.
The portal allows young people to have their views heard - through online discussion forums, and their questions answered - through the Eurodesk Network.
Texts are divided into six sections:
About the European Union: Basic information on what the European Union is and how it works.
Europe and me: Direct impacts of the European Union on young people including citizenship, education & careers.
My environment: A range of texts on different aspects of environmental protection, from energy to agriculture.
My rights, my choices: The rights and responsibilities of European consumers, be they in a shop or on-line, at home or abroad.
My health, my safety: Addresses a range of little-known issues such as indoor air pollution, counterfeit products, product labelling and more.
Beyond our borders: International relations, development aid and international trade are all related.
The Europa Diary is accompanied by “Teacher’s Guide”, which contains a range of activities based on the Diary texts and are designed to help teachers further explore the topics addressed with their students. The activities are varied in style (worksheets, discussion, research, analysis, role play, quizzes etc…) and aim to develop a variety of skills. A broad range of topics are covered, teachers of most subjects will find activities of relevance to their curriculum. Each activity is cleary prefaced with the following information: Objectives of the activity, Keywords, Contents of the activity, Curriculum links, Skills to be developed, Related reading in the Diary.
