SOCRATES : exchange of information and experience on education systems and policy

Abstract

Socrates is the European Union action programme for cooperation in the field of education which aims to develop the European dimension in education, to promote cooperation in the field of education and to improve linguistic competence. SOCRATES is actually a collection of programmes, each one treating a specific sector of education. Such programmes are ERASMUS for Higher education and COMENIUS for schools. Other programmes, which draw together a range of measures to support schools and language learning, are LINGUA and ODL, open and distance learning. Taken together, these programmes have the aim of increasing the European dimension of education, the exchange of information and to improve quantity and quality of European cooperation in Education.