With the intention of defining new guidelines in the sector of formal and informal learning, the Commission recently adopted a communication with the title “The new generation of education and training programmes 2007-2013”. The document of the EU Executive is aimed at providing guidelines for the reform of EU programmes currently in force (Socrates – education; Leonardo – training; Tempus foreign cooperation), while at the same time defining a series of general objectives as part of the Lisbon Strategy. Beginning in 2007, Brussels will aim to realise “a single integrated programme on education and training throughout life, extending all the way from primary school to adult further education. The final objective consists in tripling, by 2013, the number of beneficiaries of EU measures, including the Erasmus programme of university mobility and training abroad for adults. (For further information: http://europa.eu.int).
