The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer and a copyright notice . Programmes has enabled over a million young people to take advantage of mobility schemes within the EU and experience new ways of learning. These programmes have entered a new phase, covering the period 2000-06, with a new design, more funds and easier administrative procedures. In the field of education, Socrates covers all types of learning, formal and informal and all levels, from nursery school to university, offering grants to study, teach, undertake a placement or follow a training course in another country. Leonardo da Vinci promotes transnational projects based on cooperation between the various players in vocational training.
Emphasis is placed on lifelong learning as well as on the use of new information technologies.
The Youth EU Action Programme is open to young people aged between 15-25 and promotes cooperation projects of youth organizations and groups, such as youth exchanges, based on informal education and training. Finally, the Tempus Programme, set up in 1990, underpins the moves to restructure the higher education systems in central and eastern Europe and in the former Soviet Union. The Council agreed to amend the system for the recognition of higher-education diplomas for nurses, dentists, architects, pharmacists, veterinary surgeons, midwifes and doctors awarded on completion of professional education and training of at least three years duration. To become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-driven economy in the world, the eLearning Initiative commits the Member States, the Commission and the Council to act. My aim, in relation to the Communication on eLearning adopted by the Commission on 24 May, is neither to create a new Community programme nor to dictate to Member States how they should organize their teaching and learning systems.