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EUROPEAN LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAM 2007-2013

3rd km, Old National Road of
Lamia -Athens,
Postal Code: 35100

From 1/1/2007 started the new European Lifelong Learning Program that offers to foreign students education and vocational training. Τhe program goes on and upgrades "Socrates ΙΙ" and "Leonardo da Vinci ΙΙ".

Lifelong program begun at January 1st of 2007 untill December 31th of 2013.

Countries that can participate are:

The 27 countries members of E.U.

Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway.

Turkey (from April 2004).

ERASMUS

Erasmus is the EU's flagship education and training program, enabling two hundred thousand students to study and work abroad each year, as well as supporting co-operation actions between higher education institutions across Europe. It caters not only for students, but also for professors and business staff who want to teach abroad and for university staff who want to be trained abroad.

Objectives and actions

The general aim of the Program is to create a European Higher Education Area and foster innovation throughout Europe.

Erasmus became part of the EU's Lifelong Learning Program in 2007 and expanded to cover new areas such as student placements in enterprises (transferred from the Leonardo da Vinci program), university staff training and teaching for enterprise staff. The Program seeks to expand its mobility actions even further in coming years, with the target of 3 million Erasmus students by 2012.