The Socrates Programme was an educational initiative of the European Commission in which 31 countries took part. The initial programme ran from 1994 until 31 December 1999, when it was replaced by Socrates II on 24 January 2000, which ran until 2006. That was in turn replaced by the Lifelong Learning Programme 2007 to 2013. Participants were the then 25 European Union member countries, the then candidate countries Romania and Bulgaria, and Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Turkey. The programme is named after the Greek philosopher Socrates. It is a predecessor of the later Lifelong Learning Programme and, through it, of Erasmus+.
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Policy StatusReplaced by the Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013 1 Policy Status
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What was the Socrates programme created to do, and what did it build on?
It combined earlier programmes such as Erasmus and Lingua with new actions into one European programme for cooperation across all education sectors.
The Socrates programme was the European Community's action programme for cooperation in education. It was adopted on 14 March 1995, covered 1995 to 1999, and applied to the 15 European Union member states plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. It continued and extended earlier programmes, including Erasmus for higher education and Lingua for language learning, and combined them with new actions into the first comprehensive European programme for cooperation in all sectors of education. Its objectives included developing the European dimension in education, improving knowledge of European languages and promoting the mobility of teaching staff and students.
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1. Socrates programme (Wikipedia)
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The initial Socrates programme ran from 1994
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was replaced by the Lifelong Learning Programme
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