Translation of "éducation ouverte " (French → English) :

Educational disadvantage should be addressed by providing high quality early childhood education and targeted support, and by promoting inclusive education.

Promote inclusive education and personalised learning through timely support, the early identification of special needs and well-coordinated services.

Features: The education programme comprises three areas of Community action, namely higher education, school education and adult education as well as horizontal activities in the areas of language learning, open and distance education and learning, and exchanges of information and experience.

Open and distance learning The Commission has completed the second round of selection under the Socrates programmes which concerns the introduction of the European dimension into Open and Distance Learning (ODL).

The projects cover a wide range of organisations and activities, including the development of: - models of good practice, with a view to inter-university, inter-schools or inter-regions cooperation; - pedagogical frameworks for the use of networks in education; - pedagogical frameworks and organisational models for the development of open and flexible distance learning; - multimedia materials for the training of teachers; - networking activities in fields such as special education and the assessment of quality; - innovative methodologies in the pedagogical use of technology by pupils, students or adult educators; - data bases to gi ...[+++]ve access to information and knowledge about good examples and best practice; - seminars, workshops, visits and the drafting of inventories and guidelines with a view to the pooling and transfer of experience at European level.

Nevertheless, these 31 ECPs include themes as diverse as the use of new technologies in the classroom, the early learning of foreign languages, delivering in-service training through open and distance learning, and bilingual education.