Brussels (BE), November 2009 - The European Commission's new Life Long Learning Programme (LLP) supports learning opportunities from childhood to old age in every life situation. The next deadline for transversal programmes, which include Key Activity 3 ICT, is 31 March 2010.
LLP has a budget of seven billion euros for the period 2007-2013 and is the successor to the current Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, and eLearning programmes. It is composed of four sectoral sub-programmes, four transversal programmes, and the Jean Monnet programme.
The four Transversal Programmes are: KA1 (Studies and Comparative Research), KA2 (Languages), KA3 (ICT), and KA4 (Valorisation).
KEY ACTIVITY 3 - ICT Policy context
Promotion of ICT for learning is an objective of the programme as a whole and of the Comenius, Erasmus, Grundtvig, and Leonardo programmes in particular. The "ICT" Key Activity supplements these programmes by addressing ICT for learning needs across two or more of those sectors.
It focuses on the potential of ICT as a catalyst of social and educational innovation and change. It is not about technology but about how learning can be enhanced through ICT Approaches and targets include simulations, discovery learning, attracting drop-outs back to learning, enabling learning outside the school environment, and flexible lifelong learning to bridge the digital gap.
Substantial progress has been achieved in all Member States in the field of ICT for education since Lisbon. Almost all education and training institutions are equipped with and networked through ICT. However, more needs to be done to realize the full potential of ICT for supporting innovative pedagogical developments, generalized access to lifelong learning, and advanced education systems management. This will maximize the return on past investments in ICT.
A first Infoday was being held in Helsinki on 23 November and a second in Brussels is on
07 December 2009.
