Official documents on the Lifelong Learning Programme

Each year, the European Commission sets out the priorities for the EU’s Lifelong Learning Programme in a call for proposals. The documents related to the call are listed below.
General Call for Proposals 2013
The legal text of the call and administrative details, including deadlines for applications and eligibility, are given in:

• Official announcement of the Call for Proposals

Priorities for each of the sub-programmes’ actions are listed in:

• Strategic priorities

Official programme guide

The guide gives detailed information on the programme.

• Lifelong Learning Programme Guide - Part I – General Provisions
  Please note that the Guide - Part I – General Provisions has been revised on 29/11/2012 in view of the new Regulation on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union and its Rules of application, which will enter into force on 01/01/2013.

• Lifelong Learning Programme Guide - Part IIa – Sub-Programmes and Actions

• Lifelong Learning Programme Guide - Part IIb – Explanations by action (Full document )
  CORRIGENDUM of the Guide - Part IIb: The fiche n°39 (GRUNDTVIG workshops) has been revised on 11/09/2012.

For additional information and applications forms please visit the following websites:

• Actions managed at national level (decentralised actions): partnerships, individual mobility and other actions; see national agencies' sites;
• Actions managed at the European level (centralised actions): multilateral projects and networks, observation and analysis, operating grants, unilateral and national projects (from the ‘transversal’ and Jean Monnet programmes) and accompanying measures; see the Executive Agency site.

2013 Guide to Comenius Individual Pupil Mobility

The Guide to Comenius Individual Pupil Mobility is available in the languages of the countries participating in the action, at the website of the relevant Comenius National Agency.
Leonardo da Vinci mobility consortia
The 2013 Lifelong Learning programme call states that "With a view to promoting the quality and increasing the volume of mobility for trainees in initial vocational training, proposals by Leonardo da Vinci Mobility Consortia will be encouraged." In some countries that participate in the Lifelong learning programme, consortia have evolved from the regular mobility actions and have become an everyday part of the mobility scene. They have helped increase the internationalisation of the providers of vocational education and training, helped smaller schools become involved in transnational mobility and fostered international activities.
Want to know more? Click the links below for some consortia success stories.

• Read more on the impact of consortia in Finland.
• The Netherlands has been using consortia for some time with promising results. Frans Van Shaik, the international coordinator of a Dutch consortium led by Horizon College in the northern Netherlands, shares his experience
• Udo Lut writes from the Netherlands about the I-CNN consortium
• Dream College, Finland – Network collaboration in vocational special education
• HyväOlo Network in Finland – success with the European credit transfer system for vocational education and training (ECVET)
• Using consortia for better apprenticeship placements

Documents from former calls for proposals

• General call for proposals 2012
• General call for proposals 2011
• General call for proposals 2010
• General call for proposals 2009
• General call for proposals 2008
• General call for proposals 2007

Legal Base (2007-2013)

Decision 1720/2006/EC of the Parliament and of the Council of November 15 2006 (OJ L 327 of 24.11.06, p.45)
Amendment: Decision No 1357/2008/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 amending Decision No 1720/2006/EC establishing an action programme in the field of lifelong learning (OJ L 350 of 30.12.08, p.56)