EU's Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP)

Please note that individuals, institutions or organisations from an EU-country that are interested in engaging in LLP-activities with Norway should contact the National Agency (NA) of their respective country.

About the LLP
The general objective of the LLP is to contribute through lifelong learning to the development of the Community as an advanced knowledge society, with sustainable economic development, more and better jobs and greater social cohesion, while ensuring good protection of the environment for future generations. In particular, it aims to foster interchange, co-operation and mobility between education and training systems within the Community so that they become a world quality reference.

The Lifelong Learning Programme is established to address the modernisation and adaptation of Member State education and training systems, particularly in the context of the strategic Lisbon goals, and brings European added value directly to individual citizens participating in its mobility and other co-operation actions.

The structure of the LLP is different from its predecessors. It takes the form of an integrated programme composed of four sectoral sub-programmes, a transversal programme targeted on cross-cutting areas, and a programme to support teaching, research and reflection around European integration and key European institutions.

The LLP supports and supplements action taken by Member States, while fully respecting their responsability for the content of education and training systems and their cultural and linguistic diversity.

The Lifelong Learning Programme will run for 7 years (2007-2013). The total budget for this period is Euro 6 970 million.