Erasmus for All Creative Europe

The Commission’s proposals for 2014-2020Directorate-General for Education, Culture,

Multilingualism and Youth

Highlights to date

400,000 young people a year on average receive

EU grants to spend part of their education or training

abroad; fastest growth is in work placements

Over 2 million have taken part in Erasmus

EU-funded films won 5 Oscars in 2011 and

12 Palme d’Or out of 20 awarded since 1991

20 000 artists participate in cross-border projects every

year

Meeting new challenges

Europe 2020 – investing in education, knowledge and innovation and creativity for jobs and growth

Need for more strategic approach to target our investment where we expect the greatest impact

Erasmus for All

Two key objectives: individual mobility Modernising the education sector

Budget increase of approximately 70%. Total spend over 7 years: €19 billions.

Two thirds of budget will target learning mobility

5 million people could study or work abroad; big increases will be in work placements and in mobility of academics, teachers, trainers

Beyond Europe: Erasmus Mundus to be fully integrated

Individual opportunity

Students: nearly 3 million higher education and vocational students will get support

Master’s students: a new loan guarantee scheme

Youth: 500 000 to benefit from international volunteering opportunities and youth exchanges

Staff: 1 million teachers, trainers, school leaders and youth workers to teach and learn abroad

Modernsing the education sector

Aim: Support Member States and non-EU partners in modernising their education

and training systems

How? Strategic partnerships between education institutions, youth organisations,

training institutions and business

E-Twinning extended.

Capacity building in third countries, focus on neighbourhood countries

Support for policy reform

Funding opportunities will increase in all educational sectors and for links between them

Youth in Erasmus for All

• The primary focus will be on non-formal learning for young people to enhance competences.

• Learning mobility includes non-formal learning.

• The focus on civic participation remains.

• Scope to boost youth exchanges, European Voluntary Service. Big boost for learning exchanges of youth workers.

Sport in Erasmus for All

Aims:• Good governance; knowledge base (statistics); sport for

health, social inclusion and against racism, match fixing, doping, violence.

• Dual careers.What will it fund?• Transnational collaboration.• Some major events.• Gathering evidence.• Dialogue.Who can benefit?• Public bodies or civil society organisations active in

“grassroots sport”.

A budget increase of 37% €1.8 billions will provide:

more opportunities for cultural and audiovisual professionals to develop skills abroad

more opportunities for international distribution of works

more opportunities for international policy cooperation

New focus on the creative economy

Creative Europe

Three strands: Culture, MEDIA and a new cross-sectoral loan fund

will provide support for

Artists, cultural and audiovisual professionals

Literary translations

Capacity building and networking

Audience building

Development of films, TV production and video games

A new financial instrument giving access to bank loans, open to all operators

Priorities and Actions

Irish Participation:Education

Erasmus• participation is somewhat static, but growth in

placements.• High interest as a destination (especially for

placements).Leonardo• Flat?Comenius• Fast growing.Grundtvig• Irish partners are quite prominent.

Irish participation: Youth, Sport

Youth• |Quite strong in exchanges; less so in EVS.

Sport (small-scale preparatory actions)• Surprisingly strong.

Irish participation: Culture, Media

Culture Programme• Applications are “lowest per head in EU” (but

success rate is high).

Media• Very strong participation.

For more informationhttp://ec.europa.eu/education/erasmus-for-all/index_en.htm

http://ec.europa.eu/culture/creative-europe/index_en.htm