educational exchange [ pupil exchange visits | student exchange visits | teacher exchange visits ]

foreign student | international student | visiting student

financial aid to students | financial assistance to students | student aid | student finance | student grants and loans | student support

student hostel | students' club | students' union

student card | student identity card | student ID card | student identification card

visiting scholar | visiting professor | visiting fellow

The Commission will: ensure, through an internal network, that all departments apply its multilingualism policy in a coherent way; continue to foster multilingualism on its Internet portal (Europa) and in its publications; launch a Languages portal on Europa providing information about multilingualism in the European Union and accommodating new portals dedicated to language learners and language teachers; give a greater role to its translation field offices in the Member States in promoting multilingualism, particularly through the customisation of the Commission’s messages for local target audiences; organise high-level seminars on multilingualism in the Member States, targeted at journalists and other opinion multipliers; continue to ...[+++] offer universities grants and teaching assistance in the field of conference interpreting, help develop distance learning tools and fund student bursaries and training visits; continue to develop cost-effective multilingual conferencing and communication tools under the Commission’s project on the interoperable delivery of pan-European e-government services to public administrations, businesses and citizens; [38] support the European Master’s in Conference Interpreting and the European Master’s in Conference Management, thereby enhancing co-operation, pooling expertise and disseminating best practice in these fields; continue to play a full part in the International Annual Meeting on Language Arrangements, Documentation and Publication, a body which discusses new job and skills requirements; continue to provide universities with a model curriculum of a Master’s degree in translation and supply visiting translators to help train students in translation; and organise an international translation competition between schools in Member States, to promote language knowledge and the language professions. |

Beyond the close link with migration, development also fosters and relies on mobility (short-term visits of business people, workers, students, tourists, people visiting their families, etc.).

Awareness of the quality standards varies between countries and constituencies, but considerable experience with their application has been gained: thousands of people (university staff, experts, students, representatives of business and society) have participated in self-evaluation procedures, served on evaluation panels or been interviewed during evaluation visits.

The studies were carried out by external experts (both from the EU and the partner countries) who visited all partner countries in May-July, and held individual and group interviews of university management and staff, teachers, students, employers, NGOs, regional and national education authorities.