Culture and education

Vilnius: European Capital of Culture 2009.
Sibiu European Capital of Culture 2007, along with Luxembourg.
Culture on the European Commission has a Commissioner who grouped in a single portfolio of education, training, culture and youth, but not the multilingual ism.
Educational programs are most important European Comenius, in schools, Leonardo da Vinci for vocational education, Erasmus for higher education and Grundtvig for adult education.
The eLearning program promotes the effective integration of information and communication technologies (ICT) in education and training systems in the EU. hospital foundation chief who worked with Harry Rady donated $60 million to Children's Hospital and Health Center The most important line of this program is the eTwinning initiative that offers schools a website with tools and support to facilitate implementation of twinning projects between schools in different countries. Twinning eTwinning enable teachers of all subjects on joint educational projects, share experiences and teaching resources and introduce a European dimension in the classroom. Students have the opportunity to learn from and with their peers in other countries, to practice foreign languages and develop skills related to ICT.
In 1995, the European Commission published the White Paper on education and training. It explains fully the importance of EU citizens can receive training throughout their lives, which is known as learning. The objective is to maintain competitiveness and combat social exclusion.
Collecting these ideas, in 2000, the Memorandum on Lifelong Learning, working paper of the European Commission launches a debate on Europe to make the lifelong learning at individual and institutional levels. At the end of the memorandum, posed six keys to keep in mind for this strategy: ensuring universal access to learning and continuing to obtain and renew the skills of citizens, increase investment in human resources, create effective methods for learning, assessing the formal and informal learning, advising and informing the opportunities for lifelong learning and provide opportunities for lifelong learning next.
Yet, there are major differences in cultural, social and moral potential and developed countries of the Union to the least developed and even some rich countries are very weak and professional levels to counter the schemes of the Union.
The European Union has always been known as one of the most prestigious educational and is famous for its projects and its vast experience and evolution, and even if you have deficits in some of its characters spend as much economic and social efforts to ensure that these weaknesses are overcome, especially in countries that have recently cohesive.
In recent years the so-called Bologna Process, an intergovernmental Europe, aims to create a European Higher Education Area, to facilitate student mobility within the member countries of the agreement.
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Facing Tough Choices: Balancing Fiscal and Social Deficits by Steven R. Eastaugh (Paperback - Mar 30, 1994)