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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2000-253/article-3",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2000/253",
  "legislation_title": "Decision No 253/2000/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 January 2000 establishing the second phase of the Community action programme in the field of education ‘Socrates’",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2000-253",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Community actions",
  "text": "1. The objectives of this programme as set out in Article 2 shall be pursued by means of the following actions, the operational content and the application procedures of which are described in the Annex:\nAction 1\nSchool education (Comenius);\nAction 2\nHigher education (Erasmus);\nAction 3\nAdult education and other educational pathways (Grundtvig);\nAction 4\nTeaching and learning of languages (Lingua);\nAction 5\nOpen and distance learning; information and communication technologies in the field of education (Minerva);\nAction 6\nObservation and innovation;\nAction 7\nJoint actions;\nAction 8\nAccompanying measures.\n2. These actions shall be implemented through the following types of measures, in the form of transnational operations which may combine several of the measures:\n(a) support for the transnational mobility of people in the field of education in Europe;\n(b) support for the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in education;\n(c) support for the development of transnational cooperation networks facilitating the exchange of experience and good practice;\n(d) promotion of language skills and understanding of different cultures;\n(e) support for innovatory pilot projects based on transnational partnerships designed to develop innovation and quality in education;\n(f) constant improvement of Community reference material through the\nobservation and analysis of national education policies,\nobservation and dissemination of good practice and innovation,\ncomprehensive exchange of information.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2000/253/article/3",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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