The Commission adopted a Communication on "The new generation of Community education and training programmes after 2006". This Communication contents of two major new programmes in the field of education and training:

1.       An Integrated Programme in Lifelong Learning, for mobility and cooperation between EU, EEA/EFTA and Candidate Countries, which will subsume the existing Socrates and Leonardo da Vinci programmes

• A Tempus Plus programme, for the countries neighbouring the EU and for the existing Tempus countries, which will focus on cooperation and development in higher (university-level)

More information: http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/newprog_en.html