Education Minister Underlines Importance of Mobility

Ljubljana, 13 June

Education Minister Milan Zver emphasised on Friday the importance of mobility in education. "The greater the mobility in education, the more there is of quality," Zver said at the sidelines of the "Quality in Mobility within the Lifelong Learning Programme" conference.

The conference highlighted the expectations of the European Commission to bring several million of students and lecturers into numerous lifelong learning activities within the framework of the 2007-2013 EU budget.
"This is a mega project that can also greatly contribute to developing the European conscience in the field of education," said Zver.
Education, Training, Culture and Multilingualism Commissioner Jan Figel labelled today's event a positive signal that mobility was becoming an important factor of cooperation among EU member states.
Figel, who believes the EU should set improving the quality of mobility and education as a strategic goal, called on the public and private sectors to contribute to boosting mobility.
He said the lifelong learning programme would earmark EUR 7bn in the current EU budget, 40% more than in the previous financial perspective.
Figel also handed out the European Awards for Quality in Mobility. Latvian and Czech secondary school students were awarded for getting to know each other's culture through translating songs as part of the Comenius programme for exchange and co-operation between schools in different countries.
A polytechnic in Portugal's Tomar was meanwhile given the award within the Erasmus programme for its wide spectrum of courses.
Institutions from Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Denmark, France and the UK were awarded within the Gruntvig adult education programme for a project that dealt with training to prevent discrimination.
The award in the Leonardo da Vinci training programme was meanwhile given to a project of exchange between firemen and rescue personnel in Denmark and the UK.

Education Minister Underlines Importance of Mobility

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