1. The experience of the Lifelong
Learning Programme in support
of Regional and Minority
Languages
Peter Birch
Head of Sector ICT, Languages, Roma
Education Audiovisual and Culture
Executive Agency
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2. Contents
• The Executive Agency
• The Lifelong Learning Programme
• The new call for proposals
• The Future: Policy context and initiatives
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3. Education, Audiovisual and
Culture
Executive Agency
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/
EACEA-INFO@ec.europa.eu
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4. Executive Agencies
• Institutional public bodies
• Implementing and managing EU funding programmes
• Ensuring financial transparency, efficiency and high
quality service to beneficiaries
• International staff
• 6 Executive Agencies

5. Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency
(EACEA)
• operational since January
2006
• currently the largest
Executive Agency, with
around ~440 staff in 2012
• total Budget 2012 = €
767,7 million

6. Lifelong Learning
Comenius, Erasmus, Eurydice
Leonardo da
Vinci, Grundtvig, Transversal
, Jean Monnet
€ 136
million
Erasmus Mundus € 291,9
million

7. External Cooperation
Agreements in the field
of Higher Education
Tempus
€ 2,3
million
ACP Mobility Scheme € 2,3 million € 94,8
million

8. Culture
Citizens
Europe for
€ 26,8 million € 55,2 million
Media
Youth in Action
€ 118,3 million € 30,3 million

10. • Access
• Guidance
• Assistance
• Tools and services

11. The lifelong
learning
programme
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12.  New call for proposals EAC/S07/12
 Deadlines 31/01/13 and 28/02/2013 (centralised actions)
 http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/funding/2013/call_lifelong_learning_2013.php
Comenius Erasmus Leonardo da Vinci Grundtvig
Higher education & Vocational education
School education Adult education
advanced training and training
o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r l e a r n i n g l a n g u a g e s
Transversal Programme
4 key activities
KA1 Policy Cooperation; KA2 Languages; KA3 ICT
KA4 Dissemination and exploitation of results (valorisation)
s
Jean Monnet
3 key activities – Jean Monnet Action; European Institutions; European association
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13. Decentralised actions
• Mobility actions
e.g. Comenius Assistantships and
Individual pupil mobility
Erasmus student mobility
Leonardo training placements
Grundtvig Assistantships
• Partnerships
e.g. Comenius Partnerships
Contact point:
LLP National Agencies
http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-
learning-programme/doc1208_en.htm
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14. Comenius Individual Pupil mobility
• Secondary school pupils
• Spend between 3 to 10
months abroad (host
school/family)
• Financial support for
travel, subsistence, orga
nisation, linguistic
preparation, etc.
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15. Leonardo training placements
• Mobility of apprentices
initial vocational training
...and of course Erasmus
• Between 2 and 39 weeks
• Financial support for
travel, subsistence, organ
isation, linguistic
preparation, etc.
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16. Centralised actions
• Multilateral projects, networks,
accompanying measures
Contact point:
Executive Agency (EACEA)
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/
EACEA-INFO@ec.europa.eu
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17. Languages meet sport
International conference
Debate on synergies between sports and language learning
Exchange of good practice
http://www.languagesmeetsport.eu/
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18. Network to Promote
Linguistic Diversity
Protection and Promotion
Business, migration, mobility
Sharing of existing good
http://www.npld.eu/ practices
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19. The Mercator Network Research Agenda
of Language Diversity Use of media and
Centres information technology
Legal provisions with
respect to minority
language learning
Developments in language
teaching and learning
http://www.mercator-network.eu/home/
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20. Learning Regional Languages through Volunteers
Frisian and Galician
Tandem approach
http://www.volangteer.info/
Methodology
Learning materials
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21. The new call for proposals
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22. KA2 Languages
All languages are eligible for support under the
programme
Develop learning materials
Awareness raising
Networks
Accompanying measures
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23. Priorities for 2013 (for regional and minority languages)
• Promotion and reinforcement of the acquisition of less used
European languages (MP/NW)
– Projects will aim at sustaining and increasing the vitality of less used
European languages, such as the languages of smaller countries, regional
and less widely spoken languages
• Support for partially or fully bilingual education (MP/NW)
• Promotion of learning of languages of neighbouring
countries (MP)
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24. Multilateral Networks Accompanying measures
projects
Indicative budget 7,3 M€ 2,15 M€ 0,36 M€
(21) (5) (3)
Maximum Grant (75%) 200.000/year 150.000/year
Max. Community
contribution:
400.000
Max. duration 3 years 3 years 1 year
Min partnerships 3 countries 5 countries 1 country
Deadline 28 February 2013 at noon (CET)
Notification of results July
Projects’ starting date 1 November, 1 December, 1 January
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25. The Future: Policy context and initiatives
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26. EU to become a EU2020
Smart
Sustainable
Inclusive
Economy
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27. 7 flagship initiatives
• Smart growth
– Digital agenda for
Europe
– Innovation Union
– Youth on the move • Inclusive growth
– An agenda for new
skills and jobs
• Sustainable growth
– European platform
– Resource efficient against poverty
Europe
– An industrial policy
for the globalisation
era
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28. Smart growth objectives
1- R&D and Innovation: investment levels to reach
3% of EU's GDP
2- Employment rate 75% for women and men aged
20-64
3- Educational attainment
– reducing school drop-out
rates below 10%
– at least 40% of 30-34–year-
olds with third level education
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29. Youth on the Move
students and trainees study abroad
equipping young people better for the job market
performance/international
attractiveness of Europe's
universities
improving all levels of
education and training
(academic excellence,
equal opportunities)
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30. • Learning mobility
– Youth on the Move website
– Council recommendations on promoting learning mobility (Mobility
Scoreboard)
– Youth on the Move card
– Publish guidance on the rights of mobile students
– European Skills Passport
• Employability mobility
– European Vacancy Monitor
– Monitor the application of EU legislation on freedom of workers
– Your first EURES job
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31. Council recommendations on promoting learning
mobility (15 September 2010)
• Information and guidance
• Motivation
• Support in preparing mobility (especially foreign
language skills)
• Remove legal and institutional barriers
• Quality of mobility
• Recognition of learning outcomes
• Inclusive mobility
• Monitor progress
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32. Council conclusions on language competences to
enhance mobility (28-29 November 2011)
• Broaden the choice of languages promoting the teaching of less
widely used languages
• Include a cultural dimension in language curricula
• Continue to provide support via the EU programmes in the fields of
education, training and youth cooperation
• Support the development of teaching and learning materials for less
widely taught languages
• Consider making language learning a priority area in the next
generation of EU programmes
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33. New EU programme for education, training, youth and
sport
> 70 % increase in the budget (19 Billion €)
Up to 5 million people to study or train abroad
20 000 'strategic partnerships' to implement joint
initiatives and promote exchange of experience and
know-how (115.000 organisations)
400 'knowledge alliances' and 'sector skills alliances'
to boost employability, innovation and
entrepreneurship (4.000 education institutions and
enterprises)
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34. Sport chapter
• Support for transnational collaborative projects
• Support for non-commercial European sport
events
• Support for capacity building in sport
• Dialogue with relevant stakeholders
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35. Sport chapter
• Annual budget of 34 M €
• Involvement of grassroots and amateur sport
• Objectives
– Tackle transnational threats: e.g. doping, match
fixing, violence, racism, intolerance
– Good governance and dual careers of athletes
– Participation: Social inclusion, equal
opportunities, health-enhancing physical activity
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36. LLP on Commission web site
http://ec.europa.eu/education/index_fr.htm
National agencies contact points
http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme/doc1208_en.htm
Detailed information on the LLP projects funded
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/index_en.php
Compendia of LLP funded projects
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/results_projects/project_compendia_en.php
Results of LLP funded projects
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/project_reports/project_reports_en.php

37. KA2 – Languages Helpdesk
EACEA-LANGUAGES@ec.europa.eu
Details on Key Activity 2
http://ec.europa.eu/education/llp/doc1943_en.htm
This presentation
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