Division V DEFINITIONS

For the purposes of this Decision:

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   ‘company’ means all companies in the public or private sector whatever their size, legal status or the economic sector in which they operate, and all types of economic activities, including the social economy;

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   ‘decision-makers’ means any category of staff with managerial, assessment, training, guidance and inspection duties in the field of education and persons responsible for this area at local, regional and national level and within ministries;

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   ‘guidance and counselling’ means a range of activities such as information, assessment, orientation and advice to assist learners to make choices relating to education and training programmes or employment opportunities;

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   ‘life-long learning’ means the education and training opportunities offered to individuals throughout their lives to enable them continually to acquire, update and adapt their knowledge, skills and competences;

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   ‘open and distance learning’ means any form of flexible education, whether or not involving the use of information and communication technologies;

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   ‘project’ means transnational cooperation activity developed jointly by a formal or informal grouping of organisations or institutions;

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   ‘pupil’ means persons enrolled in that capacity at a ‘school’ as defined in this Annex;

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   ‘resource centre’ means a body engaged in the production, collection or dissemination of documentation, materials or methodologies relating to a sector of activity addressed by this programme, such as languages or information and communication technologies related to education;

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   ‘school’ means all types of institutions providing general (nursery, primary or secondary), vocational or technical education and, exceptionally, in the case of measures to promote language learning, non-school institutions providing apprenticeship training;

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    ‘social partners’ means, at national level, employers' and workers' organisations in conformity with national laws and/or practices and, at Community level, employers' and workers' organisations taking part in the social dialogue at Community level;

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    ‘student’ means persons registered in ‘universities’ as defined by this Annex, whatever their field of study, in order to follow higher education studies leading to a degree or diploma, up to and including the level of doctorate;

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    ‘teacher/educational staff’ means persons who, through their duties, are involved directly in the educational process in the Member States, in accordance with the organisation of their respective education system;

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    ‘university’ means any type of higher education institution, according to national legislation or practice, which offers qualifications or diplomas at that level, whatever such establishments may be called in the Member States;

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    ‘university teacher’ means any category of personnel employed in that capacity at a ‘university’ as defined in this Annex.