Traduction de «Office Français des Techniques Modernes d'Éducation » (Français → Anglais) :

7. Stresses that, in accordance with the aims of eEurope, schools and training institutions, constituting as they do an important preliminary phase of, and the precondition for, the development and use of modern technologies, should be incorporated in the themes of the guidelines, since the number of young people using computers is particularly high; calls for the educational establishments with the most gifted students and apprentices to be incorporated into the programmes at an early date, ...[+++]in close cooperation with the other financial instruments;

147. Underlines the key role of education in deepening mutual understanding and respect for different religions; calls, therefore, on the Commission, by means of a constructive but impartial attitude towards religions, to foster mutual acceptance among citizens of differing faiths; takes the view that incitement to hatred should be a criminal offence, including when it occurs in the sphere of education; calls on the Commission, Council and Member States to ensure that they do not fund school books and other material which promotes ...[+++]religious or other hatred; considers that access to modern communications technologies and language courses can facilitate inter-cultural exchanges, tolerance and understanding for other religions within and outside the European Union;

CONSUMER EDUCATION AND INFORMATION - COUNCIL RESOLUTION [1] "THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community; Having regard to the Council Resolution of 9 June 1986 on "Consumer Education in primary and secondary schools"; Having regard to the Council Resolution of 23 June 1986 on "Future orientations of the policy of the European Economic Community for the protection and the promotion of the consumers' interests"; Whereas Article 3(s) of the Treaty stipulates that the activities of the Community shall include a contribution to the strengthening of consumer protection; Whereas, pursuant to Article 129a (1 ...[+++])(b) of the Treaty, the Community is to contribute to the attainment of a high level of consumer protection through specific action which supports and supplements the policy pursued by the Member States to protect the health, safety and economic interests of consumers and to provide adequate information to consumers; Whereas the Second Commission Three Year Action Plan "Placing the single market at the service of the European consumers" (1993-1995) emphasized that it is essential that the advent and the deepening of the large European market make itself felt in consumers' everyday life in the shape of tangible benefits; Whereas the Commission's Strategic Programme and its Communication on "Making the most of the Internal Market" emphasizes that the consumer has a critical role to play in the successful implementation of the Internal Market Programme since it will not operate properly without strong and effective consumer participation, and also that well-informed consumers exercising market choices can accelerate the positive economic effects of an integrated market; Whereas information measures designed to assist consumers to make soundly-based market choices will be more effective if consumers have the background knowledge and appropriate skills necessary to understand such information and to incorporate it ...

Given the existence of modern techniques for assimilating rapidly a large amount of information, the emphasis in education should be not on quantity but on quality, not on the accumulation of knowledge but on the acquisition of methods.

By encouraging not only physical mobility, but also language learning and the use of modern open and distance teaching methods, it will enable a larger number of young people to benefit from the advantages of a true open European area in education.

Improving the quality of education features strongly in the White Paper on growth, competitiveness and employment in Europe. SOCRATES is designed to make a significant contribution in this area via a set of measures based on transnational cooperation. These include physical mobility in the form of exchange schemes, improving knowledge of languages, and modern techniques for open and distance learning.