Bloomberg has produced its latest rankings of the world’s top fifty counties ranked according to six indicators that contribute to innovation. The indicators are Research and Development, Manufacturing, High-tech Companies, Postsecondary Education, Research Personnel and Patents. Altogether more than 200 countries and sovereigns were evaluated. More...

Russian universities have never done very well in the global rankings. In the QS World University Rankings of 2014 Lomonosov Moscow State University missed the top 100 and could only reach 114th place. Performance in the other well-known rankings is even worse. Both the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the US News Best Global Universities put the university in 196th place last year. More...

Times Higher Education (THE) has produced a list of the world’s most international universities. This is based on the International Outlook group of indicators in the World University Rankings, published last October, which assigns equal weightings to the percentage of students who are international, the percentage of faculty who are international, and the percentage of papers with at least one international collaborator. More...

Erasmus+ is the new EU programme for education, training, youth and sport for the period 2014-2020. Erasmus+ offers opportunities to study, train, gain work experience or volunteer abroad and one of its strategic objectives is to strengthen linguistic skills and support language learning.
More information on Erasmus+The Online Linguistic Support (OLS) supports language learning for Erasmus+ mobility participants. The OLS offers participants in Erasmus+ long-term mobility activities (Key Action 1) the opportunity to assess their skills in the foreign language(s) they will use to study, work or volunteer abroad. In addition, selected participants may follow an online language course to improve their competence.
More information on language assessmentsMore information on language coursesThe OLS is available for the following languages: DE German EN English ES Spanish FR French IT Italian NL Dutch.

The Erasmus+ Programme stands for people to people contacts, intercultural dialogue and the free exchange of ideas - core European values which came under brutal attack in Paris yesterday. In extending our sympathies to the bereaved families and the people of France, we pledge to honour the victims by continuing to promote these values. More...

European-level initiatives for schools can too easily remain unknown, inaccessible or uninteresting for teachers and other education professionals. A new website, the School Education Gateway , shall provide clear information on education initiatives across Europe. The website is aimed primarily at teachers and school staff, as well as education sector experts and organisations. More...

The 2015 Calls for Proposals of the European Language Label now published in Belgium. Deadline for applications: 13 March 2015.
The European Language Label (ELL), co-organized by the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, FOREM, Bruxelles-Formation and the Belgian National Agency AEF-Europe on the initiative and with the support of the European Union, aims to help stimulate interest in language learning by promoting innovative projects at all levels of education and training and also in the field of Sport. More...

By taking the Online Linguistic Support (OLS) language assessment, Erasmus+ participants will determine in an easy and simple way their proficiency in the language that they will use whilst studying, working or volunteering abroad.
The OLS is available for Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, which are the main languages for about 90% of all Erasmus+ exchanges.
To ensure that participants make the most out of their period abroad, the OLS language assessment is compulsory for Erasmus+ higher education students and European Voluntary Service (EVS) volunteers going abroad for more than two months.
Based on their assessment results, participants may also be offered an online language course to help them improve their skills, as well as tutoring, forums, and tips from former Erasmus+ participants.
For further information, visit the Erasmus+ official website and the OLS website . More...