Tag: lifelong learning

In an attempt to respond to growing demands to raise people's employability, European universities have committed themselves to broadening access to higher education accross the EU, but highlighted the need to find the best and farest way to fund lifelong learning.

The Parliament has adopted a Lifelong Learning Programme, bringing together the current Comenius, Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci and Grundtvig schemes.

Europe’s education and training systems are not doing enough to encourage young people to start their own businesses, says Education Commissioner Ján Figel.

A European Area of Knowledge, national programmes to boost knowledge and a Charter of Life Long Learning are some of the main ideas of an opinion adopted by the European Economic and Social Committee (ECOSOC).

The Commission says it has earmarked €6 million to promote European co-operation in the use of information and communication technologies in education. The money will be used to support 27 new projects in 28 countries starting in 2005.

According to recent Eurostat data, 89% of Austrians participate in formal, non-formal or informal learning activities while only 12% of Hungarians do.

The EP's Education and Culture Committee Chairman Nikolaos Sifunakis tells EurActiv about the EU's new lifelong learning programme and gives his views on EU sports policy.

Ján Figel, the EU's education commissioner as well as the commissioner responsible for multilingualism (the first ever) and sport, tells EurActiv how he intends to build a more 'citizen-friendly' Europe.

A Eurobarometer survey carried out at the beginning of the year with more than 18,000 respondents shows that the majority of Europeans feel the lack of ICT and language skills.