INTRODUCTION

Education is the core investment in our societies future. Today, on both side of the Atlantic, educationnal issues are becoming a growing concern. The new US President put it as his top-priority followed by a large popular consensus that this ought to be; and in Europe, both the Member-States and the EU are trying to cope with the huge consequences of both the new technologies and the very changes of education as a social process.

Meanwhile, both areas (and this is new for the US), are getting more and more aware that international education (whether it starts at school level with language teaching, geography and history; or whether it addresses higher education issues as training global-class managers) is becoming a crucial issue for our countries' future.

The recent renewal of the EU-US higher education and training agreements, the first week on 'International Education' organised in the US, the new initiatives as EU-StudentVote in the EU are showing these new aspects.

Meanwhile core debates are going on on both side of the Atlantic on the evolution of schools and high-schools, on the role and nature of the primary and secondary education as well as the role of the educator at the time of Internet.

All those elements definitely support the idea to have a kind of common look at a common issu addressed so differently on each side of the Atlantic.

VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND EDUCATION

Programmes and strategic initiatives in the field of education, managed by the General Directorate for Education and Culture of the European Commission - Presentation of the European Exchange programs : Socrates, Tempus, Leonardo da Vinci

EduFrance
Site dedicated to French Education abroad

CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange)
The mission of the Council is to help people gain understanding, acquire knowledge, and develop skills for living in a globally interdependent and culturally diverse world.

MICEFA, Interuniversity Consortium for Franco-American Exchanges
The MICEFA is a consortium of most of the Parisian universities and the INALCO.
They organize exchanges at the Graduate and Undergraduate levels on a one to one basis of reciprocity. They offer to American students, who have at least an intermediate level of French, a wealth of options.


US DEPARTMENT OF STATE

US Department of State
US Department of Education


EUROPEAN MINISTRIES OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Luxemburg
Netherlands
Portugal
Spain
United Kingdom


EUROPEAN MINISTRIES OF EDUCATION

Austria
Belgium:
- Ministère de la Communauté française de Belgique / Administration générale de l'enseignement et de la recherche scientifique / RESTODE
- Ministry of the Flemish Community, Education Department
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Italy
Luxemburg
Netherlands
Spain
United Kingdom


E-LEARNING

Education.com
Educational portal from Vivendi Universal Publishing Group


DISTANCE LEARNING

Online Education
Global education and management consulting provides listing to education, distance learning, online education, courses, books, bookstores, jobs, job sites, management consulting Group


SCHOOL VIOLENCE

School Violence Ressources
From the Office of Juvenile and Delinquency Prevention (OJDP), which provides information and ressources on both general areas of interest about juvenile and delinquency.