EUCIS - LLL
EUCIS-LLL, based in Brussels, Belgium, is a structure that promotes European-wide cooperation among civil society organisations. It gathers 20 European networks active in education and training in order to build a citizen voice on lifelong learning issues and to propose concrete solutions based on the expertise, the competencies and the experience of its networks’ experts and practitioners. EUROCLIO Executive Director Joke van der Leeuw-Roord is member of the EUCIS-LLL Steering Committee.
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Due to a long and heavy agenda the EUCIS-LLL Steering Committee planned to meet for two days, on 25-26 January in the EUCIS office in Brussels. The Steering Committee Members discussed the draft programme of Annual Conference on 14 May on Activating Solidarities, and the agenda of the next General Assembly on 15 May both in Leuven, Belgium. This is an important General Assembly, as the growing platform requires a revision of the Statutes, the Internal Rules and the membership fee system. The Steering Committee took ample time to prepare the required documents.
Very significant at this moment is the opportunity to comment on the draft future EU Education programme Erasmus for All. The Steering Committee had therefore a Meeting with Mr Michael Teutsch, Head of Unit, and other representatives of the Lifelong Learning Department within DG EAC. They stressed the good opportunities of this new programme (a much larger budget) but also the challenges (a much larger emphasis on systemic and policy impact than on the needs of individual learners). The present operational grants, obtained by EUCIS and many of its members, like EUROCLIO, are not longer guaranteed in the present planning. All grants would be available in the format via call for proposals. Joke van der Leeuw-Roord, EUROCLIO Executive Director and EUCIS Vice-President, stressed during the meeting with the administrators, that such decision would have far reaching consequences for the organizations involved. All Organizations work to support the European integration project, and are able due to the operational grants to develop sustainable policies. Project grants do not offer such opportunities, and these International Associations also hardly qualify for national funding systems. The Steering Committee continues to follow the new education pogramme and will meet again in the beginning of March, among others also to develop the EUCIS-LLL workplan for 2012-2013. See for the first reaction of EUROCLIO on Erasmus for All here
On 13th of December EUCIS-LLL Stakeholders were meeting with Isabelle Albertone, Head of sector, DG EAC B1 - Coordination of the Lifelong Learning Programme. In her presentation Mrs Albertone presented the European Commission proposal on the “Erasmus for All” programme. The goal of this programme is to make the proposal simple and understandable. The programme focus on three actions; learning mobility of individuals, co-operation for innovation and good practices and support for policy reform.More Articles...
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