Translation of "Comité d'étude sur le personnel enseignant suppléant " (French → English) :

It develops and upgrades curricula and university management practices, promotes higher education reform, supports the introduction of the “Bologna Process principles”, opens universities to the outside world and encourages mobility of academic and administrative staff.

e) Work to strengthen the quality and relevance to the labour market of primary and secondary education and training by increasing the effectiveness of the school system, promoting skills, innovation and active self-learning, providing continuous education and training for the teaching force, making appropriate use of educational materials and information technology and e-learning, and through the monitoring of quality assurance, including support for participation in international assessments (e.g. TIMSS);

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The Tempus programme, with a budget of €83m for the period 2001–2005 in the Western Balkans, has funded scholarships and mobility grants involving up to 250 students and more than 1000 teachers and education staff each year for studies or training in the EU or elsewhere in the region.

For example: a research study on the identification of indicators of child vulnerability in order to make preventive intervention by educators, teachers, and parents more prompt and effective; research and transnational data collection producing a pilot study examining the problems of deliberate self-harm among young people in Europe; exposing the situation of unaccompanied migrant minors in the EU and focusing on asylum seeking or migrant children from three Member States; Muslim girls' negotiation between parents and social professionals; how to integrate different social services; how confidentiality is perceived and interpreted ...[+++]in cases of sexual abuse; the reviewing and refining of the first draft of an international manual for staff of residential institutions to combat sexual abuse of young people; . an analysis of the prosecution of reported rape cases across Europe to identify key problem areas and a plan of action; a structural plan for a lesbian anti-violence programme at EU level; compilation of statistical data on sexual harassment in the workplace.

These "demonstration projects" are of mutual interest to the two sides, covering a very wide range of subject areas (e.g. the environment and microbiology, international marketing for small and medium-sized businesses, compilation of a programme of higher education studies, etc.). The practical outcome has been a range of activities, focusing on student mobility (including work placement schemes), mobility of teaching staff, the production of common study programmes and the development of course unit transfer schemes.