Comenius

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What are the aims?

• To develop knowledge and understanding among young people and educational staff of the diversity of European cultures and languages and its value
• To help young people acquire the basic life-skills and competences necessary for their personal development, for future employment and for active European citizenship

What target public?

• Pupils in school education up to the end of upper secondary education
• Schools, as specified by Member States
• Teachers and other staff within those schools
• Associations, not-for-profit organisations, NGOs and representatives of those involved in school education
• Persons and bodies responsible for the organisation and delivery of education at local, regional and national levels
• Research centres and bodies concerned with lifelong learning issues
• Higher education institutions
• Bodies providing guidance, counselling and information services

What types of activity?

• Mobility of individuals which may include:
  • Exchanges of pupils and staff
  • Mobilty to schools for pupils (aged of 12 as a minimum) and placements in schools or enterprises for educational staff
  • Participation in training courses for teachers and other educational staff
  • Study and preparatory visits for mobility, partnership, project or network activities
  • Assistantships for teachers and potential teachers

• Development of partnerships between:
  • Schools, with a view to developing joint learning projects for pupils and their teachers ("Comenius school partnerships")
  • Organisations responsible for any aspect of school education, with a view to fostering inter-regional cooperation, including border region cooperation ("Comenius-Regio partnerships")

• Multilateral projects aimed at:
  • Developing, promoting and disseminating educational best practices, including new teaching methods or materials
  • Developing or exchanging experience on systems of providing information or guidance particularly adapted to the learners, teachers and other staff concerned by the Comenius programme
  • Developing, promoting and disseminating new teacher training courses or course content

• Multilateral Networks aimed at:
  • Developing education in the discipline or subject area in which they operate, for their own benefit and for that of education more widely
  • Acquiring and disseminating relevant good practice and innovation
  • Providing content support to projects and partnership set up by others
  • Promoting the development of needs analysis and its practical applications within school education