Youth and Education
The opportunities which the EU offers its citizens for living, studying and working in other countries make a major contribution to cross-cultural understanding, personal development and the realisation of the EU’s full economic potential. Each year, well over one million EU citizens of all ages benefit from EU-funded educational, vocational and citizenship-building programmes.
The Union’s Education and Training 2010 work programme sets the framework for national and EU policy cooperation. An integrated action plan is the basis for EU-funded programmes for the 2007-2013 period. Both recognise the central role of higher and vocational education and training in providing jobs and growth, and the important social dimension of equal opportunities for all.