The DG Education and Culture has announced the Lifelong Learning Programme call for proposals 2012. This year's strategic priorities are:
- Develop strategies for lifelong learning and mobility
- Encourage cooperation between the worlds of education, training and work
- Support initial and continuous training of teachers, trainers and education and training institutions' managers
- Promote the acquisition of key competences throughout the education and training system
- Promote social inclusion and gender equality in education and training, including the integration of migrants and Roma
The deadlines to keep in mind are:
| Comenius Individual Pupil Mobility | 01/12/2011 |
| Comenius, Grundtvig: in-service training | 16/01/2012, 30/04/2012 and 17/09/2012 |
| Comenius Assistantships | 31/01/2012 |
| Comenius, Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Grundtvig: multilateral projects, networks and accompanying measures | 02/02/2012 |
| Leonardo da Vinci: multilateral projects for the Transfer of Innovation | 02/02/2012 |
| Leonardo da Vinci: Mobility (including the Leonardo da Vinci mobility certificate); Erasmus: Intensive Language Courses (EILC) | 03/02/2012 |
| Jean Monnet programme | 15/02/2012 |
| Comenius, Leonardo da Vinci, Grundtvig: partnerships; Comenius: Comenius Regio partnerships; Grundtvig: workshops | 21/02/2012 |
| Erasmus: intensive programmes (IP), students mobility for studies and placements (including the Erasmus consortium placement certificate) and staff mobility (teaching assignments and staff training) | 09/03/2012 |
| Grundtvig: Assistantships, Senior Volunteering Projects | 30/03/2012 |
| Transversal programme: Key activity 1 — Study visits | 30/03/2012 and 12/10/2012 |
| Transversal programme: all other activities | 01/03/2012 |