Traducción de «Consejo Internacional de la Enseñanza a Distancia » (Español → Inglés) :

2. As referred to in Article 13, paragraph 2 of Regulation No . of the European Parliament and of the Council, in order to promote the international dimension of higher education, an indicative amount of EUR 1 680 000 000 from the different external instruments (Development Cooperation Instrument, European Neighbourhood Instrument, Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance, Partnership Instrument), will be allocated to actions of learning mobility to or from non EU countries and to cooperation and policy dialogue with authorities/instit ...[+++]utions/organisations from these countries.

- promote transnational university cooperation and student and scholar mobility at international level through accompanying measures facilitating country to country or regional programmes, the use of ICT networks to build south-south and south-north education networks and access to information resources, including on the ERASMUS mundus programme, distance learning and virtual mobility;

23. Calls on the Commission, with the participation of the Member States, to conduct an objective study on students' preferences and needs regarding countries and languages, so that its international cooperation activities in the field of higher education in the European Union may focus on real demand as demonstrated by this study, and, in this connection, to submit to the European Parliament and the Council proposals on strengthening existing programmes or launching pilot projects along the line of the above proposals; emphasises, h ...[+++]owever, the particular importance of the Mediterranean region, following the decision of the Ghent European Council;

The Council conclusions of 11 May 2010 on the internationalisation of higher education emphasised that international cooperation programmes and policy dialogues with third countries in the field of higher education not only enable knowledge to flow more freely, but also contribute to enhancing the quality and international standing of European higher education, boosting research and innovation, fostering mobility and intercultural dialogue, and promoting international development in accordance with the EU's external policy objectives.

23. Calls on the Commission, with the participation of the Member States, to conduct an objective study on students’ preferences and needs regarding countries and languages, so that its international cooperation activities in the field of higher education in the European Union may focus on real demand as demonstrated by this study and in this connection to submit to the European Parliament and the Council proposals on strengthening existing programmes or launching pilot projects along the line of the above proposals; emphasises, howe ...[+++]ver, the particular importance of the Mediterranean region, following the decision of the Ghent European Council;

Whereas the Commission memorandum on open and distance learning and the European Parliament's various resolutions on the subject pointed out that this form of education offers considerable new opportunities for enriching education and for economies of scale, with an increased impact especially on the promotion of a European dimension in studies at all levels; whereas the conclusions of the Council and Ministers for Education on the development of open and distance learning in the European Community (4) and on criteria for actions in open and distance learning (5) clarified the role of and criteria for Community action in this field;