Students, particularly those in remote locations, would benefit from new exceptions that accommodate the use of technology for live or on-demand learning.

These projects should develop new models for cooperation between European Higher Education institutions, in particular addressing the provision of continuous training and professional development, and in the development of learning support services as well as for training teachers, trainers and other educational personnel in the pedagogical use of e-learning; examining quality assurance methods; the development of a better understanding of organisational change and possible risks associated with implementing e-learning in Higher Education; and the development of European models for public-private partnerships in the field of e Learnin ...[+++]g in Higher Education, as well as developing the opportunities opened by new partnerships and funding models.

Subsidies covering a maximum of 80% of the eligible costs for e Learning partnerships led by Higher Education institutions, aiming at providing an "e-learning dimension" and new models for European Higher Education (action line 2),

1) As a basis for long-term employability and further learning, all citizens should be able to have free access to the acquisition of key skills, including literacy and numeracy but also other key skills, such as maths, science and technology, foreign languages, "learning to learn" skills (i.e. the ability and the desire to continuously acquire and update knowledge and competences), cultural awareness, social/personal skills, entrepreneurship, and technological culture (including ICT skills, to be validated, for example, through tools such as the European Computer Driving Licence, and the use of ICT and e-learning to assist a wider range ...[+++] of learning).

For example, e-learning and the creative use of information and communication technologies in post-secondary education is, not only a way to foster positive learning outcomes, according to Therese Laferriere and Michael Power of Laval University's faculty of education, it is also a way to maximize the use of scarce resources by enabling outreach to students in remote rural and Aboriginal communities as well as other countries.

We are using technology — simulation, synthetic environments and networked online learning, for example — to tremendous advantage.