The Comenius programme focuses on school education from pre-school up to secondary level and has the following objectives:

• 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

• To improve the quality and to increase the volume of mobility involving pupils and educational staff in different Member States

• To improve the quality and to increase the volume of partnerships between schools in different Member States

• To encourage the learning of modern foreign languages

• To enhance the quality of European dimension of teacher training

 

 

Who can participate?

 

Basically everyone involved in school education:

 

• Schools providing special, general, vocational or technical education

• pupils in pre-school and school education up to the end of upper secondary level

• teachers, support staff and administrative staff of school education

• future teachers

• educational authorities at local, regional and national level

• higher educational institutions/organisations that provide teacher training or are involved in the school education sector

 

 

Which are the Comenius decentralised actions?

 

• School Partnerships - Multilateral or Bilateral

• Regio Partnerships

• Preparatory Visits

• In-Service Training for Teachers and other Educational Staff

• Assistantships (ASSISTANTS)

• Assistantships (HOST SCHOOLS)

• eTwinning

 

 

CENTRALISED ACTIONS

 

Apart from the above-mentioned decentralized Comenius actions, the European Commission funds the following centralised actions:

• Multilateral Projects

• Multilateral Networks

• Accompanying Measures

More information on the Centralised Actions is published on the websitehttp://eacea.ec.europa.eu. Applications for these actions are submitted directly to the Executive Agency of the EU.