Author: Gražina Kaklauskienė, Deputy director of The Education Exchanges Support Foundation

1. Lithuania needs highly skilled professionals.
How Erasmus+ could contribute?
2015-11-05
Gražina Kaklauskienė

2. Outline of presentation
• Achievements and challenges in education sector
• Erasmus+ as a tool for achieving strategic goals and
fostering innovation

4. Number of population in the three Baltic countries and
selected Nordic, 1910-2011 (millions and changes in %)
*1913, **1914,***1919, ****1911.Source: Official publications of the Statistical Bureaus
1910 2011 2011/1910 (%)
Lithuania 2,83* 3,05 +8
Latvia 2,55** 2,07 -19
Estonia 1,07*** 1,29 +20
Denmark 2,76**** 5,56 +101
Finland 2,94 5,40 +84
Norway 2,36 4,89 +107

5. Proportion of the population aged 30 to 34 having a tertiary educational
attainment, 2014 (¹) (%) YB15.png

6. Source: Innovation Union Scoreboard 2015

8. Erasmus+
3 main types of actions
Learning mobility
of individuals
Staff mobility, in particular
for teachers, trainers, school
leaders and youth workers
Mobility for higher
education student, vocational
education and training
students
Master's degree scheme
Mobility for higher
education for EU and non-EU
beneficiaries
Volunteering and youth
exchanges
Cooperation for innovation and
exchange of good practices
Strategic partnerships between
education/training or youth
organisations and other relevant
actors
Large scale partnerships between
education and training
establishments and business:
Knowledge Alliances & Sector Skills
alliances
 IT-Platforms including e-
Twinning and EPALE
 Cooperation with third countries
and focus on neighbourhood
countries
Support for
policy reform
Open method of
Coordination
EU tools:
valorisation and
implementation
Policy dialogue with
stakeholders, third
countries and
international
Organisations

9. Erasmus+ 2016 CALL FOR PROPOSALS
www.erasmus-plius.lt

11. “When planning for a year, plant corn.
When planning for a decade, plant
trees. When planning for life, train
and educate people”.
a Chinese proverb

12. Švietimo mainų paramos fondas
Rožių alėja 2, 03106 Vilnius
Tel.: (8 ~ 5) 261 0592
E.p.: grazina.kaklauskiene@smpf.lt
www.smpf.lt
www.erasmus-plius.lt