EU-supported educational research 1995-2005

new perspectives for learning

Since 1995, the Directorate-General for Research of the European Commission has supported a significant number of research projects, thematic networks and project clusters that address a wide range of issues of education and training.  The total EU contribution to these projects exceeds 50 million Euro. These collaborative endeavours - some of them currently in progress - have produced important insights for policy formulation and have laid the foundations for significant research co-operation across Europe in this field.

This web site is aimed primarily at policy and decision makers in the field of education and training.  Given, however, that education is strongly interconnected with several other areas of social policy, this web site is potentially of interest and relevance to a large number of policy and decision makers beyond the field of education and training; The web site contains Briefing Papers, Newsletters, Press Releases and a Report highlighting some of the key conclusions and policy recommendations emerging from these activities. It also provides details of new educational research projects supported by DG-Research under the Sixth EU Framework Programme. You can also find information on the last Call for Proposals of Priority 7 which was published in December 2004. To know more about EU-supported research in the social sciences and humanities in FP4, FP5 and FP6, see: http://www.cordis.lu/citizens/

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 Newsletters 

Issue One - September 2001 – Higher Education research issues Issue Two - December 2001 – Lifelong Learning research issues  Issue Three - June 2002  - Skills, Mobility and Education Issues Issue Four - January 2003  - Improving Schools  Issue Issue Five - April 2003 - e-learning Research Issue Issue Six - September 2003 - Education, Inequalities and Social Exclusion Issue

Project Clusters

More than 55 research projects and thematic networks that address directly issues of Education and Training were supported under FP4 and FP5.  In addition to individual projects, five project clusters were supported around themes of policy relevance.  These clusters brought together groups of related projects in a way that drew out and consolidated key findings, produced thematic reviews, promoted synergies between projects and integration/cross-fertilisation of research results from individual projects. Cluster 1. Education and Labour Market Change: The Dynamics of Education to Work Transitions in Europe Briefing Paper Final Report Cluster 2. Education, equity and social exclusion Briefing Paper  Final Synthesis Report Cluster 3. Monitoring and Evaluation of Research in Learning Innovations  Briefing Paper  Final Report  Cluster 4. Synergy between Practitioners' needs and opportunities, Research orientations and Decision Making on the usage of ICT in primary and secondary education Briefing Paper Final Report  Cluster 5. Towards the Learning Society: conclusions from FP4 and FP5 projects to shape European policies in education and training Briefing Paper

	Briefing Papers of projects supported under FP4
bp1	Immigration and Cross-Cultural Teacher Training
bp2	Student Mobility in Europe
bp3	New Approaches to Work Experience
bp4	Labwork in Science Education
bp5	Quality and Performance in Universities
bp6	Government Policy on Higher Education Institutions
bp7	Innovations in Education and Training
bp8	University Access Policies for Adult Learners
bp9	Assessment, Effectiveness and Innovation
bp10	Higher Education & Graduate Employment in Europe
bp11	Improving Early Literacy for EU Countries
bp12	Training the Long-term Unemployed
bp13	Low Skills: A Problem For Europe
bp14	Helping Unemployed Youths into Work
bp15	Early Learning: The Impact of Environmental Factors
bp16	School to Work Transitions in Europe
bp17	Integrating Immigrant Children into Europe
bp18	Schooling and Training – An Economic Perspective
bp19	Organisational learning: the role of SME clusters
bp20	Lifelong Learning: implications for Universities
bp21	Lifelong learning for older workers
bp22	Lifelong learning: the role of human resource development within organisations
bp23	Integrated Funding Models for Lifelong Learning
bp24	Vocational education and training - European Research
bp25	Competence Evaluation and Training for Europe
bp26	Small Business Training and Competitiveness
bp27	A Comprehensive Framework for Effective School Improvement
bp28	Developments towards problem solving assessment tools
bp29	Public funding and Returns on Education
bp30	Learning Environments within Companies
bp31	Computer-supported Collaborative Learning in Primary, Secondary and Vocational Education
bp32	The effect of Educational Expansion on the Labour Market
bp33	Understanding innovation in science teaching
bp34	Virtual Learning Environments for Higher Education
bp35	Education Governance and Social Integration and Exclusion
bp37	Shifting skills and wages
bp38	Migration and its impact on the Labour Market and Education
bp43	The potential of tele-guidance for teacher training
	Briefing Papers of projects supported under FP5
bp44	Education & Training for Governance & Active Citizenship in Europe
bp45	Gender and Qualification
bp46	The Education of the Gypsy Childhood in Europe
bp47	Organisational Learning in the Chemical Industry
bp48	Children In Communication About Migration
bp49	The role of language in the mobilisation of ethnic and migrant minorities
bp50	Students as "Journeymen" between communities of Higher Education and Work
bp51	The role of participation and informal learning in the transition of young people to the labour market
bp52	The Impact of Women's Studies Training on Women's Employment in Europe
bp53	Legal Framework of New Governance and Modern Policy in Education throughout Europe
bp54	Work Identities in Europe
bp55	Participation in Continuing Vocational education and training: a need for a sustainable employability
bp56	Challenges for education and training policies arising from the European integration and enlargement
bp57	Higher education reform network: a collaborative partnership to explore, disseminate and advise on the university of tomorrow
bp58	The Creation of new occupational patterns for cultural minorities: The Gypsy Case
bp59	Education and Wage Inequality in Europe
bp60	Higher Education Institutions' Responses to Europeanisation, Internationalisation and Globalisation. Developing International Activities in a Multi-Level Policy Context
bp61	Dual Citizenship, Governance and Education: A Challenge to the European Nation-State
bp62	Learning in Partnership: Responding to the Restructuring of the European Steel and Metal Industry
bp63	Changes in regulation modes and social production of inequalities in education systems
bp64	Engaging People in Active Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe
	Projects supported under FP6
bp65	Biology, health and environmental education for better citizenship
bp66	Intercultural Active Citizenship Education
bp67	Professional Knowledge in Education and Health: restructuring work and life between the state and the citizens in Europe
bp68	The Flexible Professional in the Knowledge Society
bp69	Empowerment of Mental Illness Service Users: lifelong learning, integration and action
bp70	European Universities for Entrepreneurship: their role in the Europe of Knowledge
bp71	Towards a Lifelong Learning Society in Europe: the contribution of the education system