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US Department of Education and the National Science Foundation are
cooperating in a US-EC program "European Community/United States of America
Joint Consortia for Cooperation in Higher Education and Vocational
Education".
Deadline for submission of proposals is May 16, 1997
The guidelines are available on the US Department of Education Web site:
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/FIPSE.
OBJECTIVES:
The Cooperation Program aims to add a new European Community/United States
dimension to student-centered cooperation and to bring balanced benefits to
both the European Community and the United States.
The essential objectives are to:
* promote mutual understanding between the peoples of the European
Community and the United States including broader knowledge of their
languages, cultures and institutions;
* improve the quality of human resource development in both the European
Community and the United States;
* improve the quality of transatlantic student mobility, including the
promotion of mutual understanding, recognition and thus portability of
academic credits;
* encourage the exchange of expertise in new developments in higher
education and/or vocational education and training -- for example, the use
of new information technologies -- for the mutual enrichment of practice in
the European Community and the United States;
* form or enhance partnerships among higher education, vocational
education, or training institutions, professional associations, public
authorities, businesses and other associations as appropriate in both the
European Community and the United States;
* introduce an added-value dimension to transatlantic cooperation which
complements bilateral cooperation between Member States of the European
Community and the United States as well as other European Community and
United States programs and initiatives in higher education and vocational
training.
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