# 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’, Article 3: Community actions

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

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:
Action 1
School education (Comenius);
Action 2
Higher education (Erasmus);
Action 3
Adult education and other educational pathways (Grundtvig);
Action 4
Teaching and learning of languages (Lingua);
Action 5
Open and distance learning; information and communication technologies in the field of education (Minerva);
Action 6
Observation and innovation;
Action 7
Joint actions;
Action 8
Accompanying measures.
2. These actions shall be implemented through the following types of measures, in the form of transnational operations which may combine several of the measures:
(a) support for the transnational mobility of people in the field of education in Europe;
(b) support for the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in education;
(c) support for the development of transnational cooperation networks facilitating the exchange of experience and good practice;
(d) promotion of language skills and understanding of different cultures;
(e) support for innovatory pilot projects based on transnational partnerships designed to develop innovation and quality in education;
(f) constant improvement of Community reference material through the
observation and analysis of national education policies,
observation and dissemination of good practice and innovation,
comprehensive exchange of information.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2000/253/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2000-253/article-3
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