EU and USA boost their co-operation in education

The European Commission has just completed a series of meetings and negotiations that have led to significant advances in the co-operation between the EU and the USA in education.

On the policy side, the first-ever EU-US Education Policy Dialogue, held in Washington, D.C., allowed for fruitful exchanges about education policies and programmes, as well as on the newly created European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and the area of cross fertilisation between university and industry. On the programme side, the Commission deepened its long-standing relations with the US administration in the framework of the Atlantis programme, a bilateral transatlantic student exchange programme.

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