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This Eurydice Brief on Early Leaving from Education and Training (ELET) shows that collectively, Member States are getting closer to the EU headline target: by 2020, the share of early leavers from education and training (aged 18-24) should be less than 10%.

This document proposes a set of recommendations for the use of digital cultural heritage in education and learning. It concerns all forms and levels of education and learning, from formal classroom teaching in schools and universities to adult education and informal learning in, for instance, the context of associations or at home. These recommendations are the work of policymakers from European Ministries of Culture and Education and experts in the field of education from 21 different countries. They were created at strategy meetings under the Italian and Latvian Presidencies (2014/2015), facilitated by the Europeana Foundation, European Schoolnet and EUROCLIO - European Association of History Educators.

Ministers assessed the achievements of European cooperation in the field of education and training ("ET 2020"), and discussed its future development in preparation for the mid-term stocktaking and the 2015 ������Ƶt Report. The Council adopted conclusions on reinforcing youth work, highlighting its contribution to personal development, social inclusion, cultural diversity and active citizenship. Ministers also discussed how to improve political participation by young people in the democratic life of Europe.

A new EU study recommends including the film literacy in school curricula, and promoting the establishment of general rules for licensing schemes, then contributing to a wider use of films and other audiovisual content in European Schools. The study provides recommendations on how to better facilitate the use of films and other audiovisual content in European Schools. The recommendations will be used when assessing the Film literacy support scheme of Creative Europe MEDIA, and will also feed into the discussions on copyright reform.

This guide, taking account of EU law as of February 2013, should help you better understand your rights when moving within the European Union and give you detailed practical guidance.

Being a European citizen means you benefit from all the big things: a continent at peace, the world’s biggest economy, the freedom to move – things we often take for granted. But it also means all the small, everyday things that make a real and daily difference. Like being able to send back a faulty good you ordered online, low roaming costs or compensation for cancelled flights – all of that is Europe working for you. As promised in its 2013 EU Citizenship Report, the Commission launched a handbook giving citizens information on their main EU rights in simple words and a few pictures.

Following the intention to better understand the phenomenon of ICT in the first stage of institutional compulsory education the present analytical study published in Volume 3 describes five bright case studies from Singapore, Russian Federation, Mexico, Slovakia and Canada with good examples and innovative approaches to infrastructure development, curriculum design and ICT teacher competencies development.

The present action research has identified five guiding principles for youth and adult literacy programmes: (1) inclusion; (2) lifelong learning; (3) literacy perceived from a multilingual and multicultural perspective and as an essential aspect of the human right to education; (4) a multilingual and multicultural ethos; and (5) sustainability. These guiding principles are the pillars of the quality framework for youth and adult literacy education and learning which is proposed in this book.

Eurydice has produced national sheets which provide the most recent data on education budgets in European countries. The purpose is to contribute to the policy debate on sustainable budgets, growth-enhancing investments and improvements in the efficiency of public spending in education and training. The national sheets present an overview of the education budgets by type of expenditure and level of education, while the focus is on the planned – not actual – expenditure.

This publication indicates the dates at which the school year begins and the occurrence of holidays for each country of the Eurydice Network. Regional variations are also indicated where applicable.