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Education is a project by excellence. Education is first and foremost a project embodying the human being, the human becoming, a project of institutional-educational building-up of the future mature citizen, of the future agent of professional action. The project and the action are intrinsic parts of education. The present study gives an overall image of the learner-centred education, one of the main requirements specific to the reform of the European higher education system. In what follows we will synthetically introduce the main requirements of the "learner-centred education" and the activity of the main actors engaged in this process: the teaching staff, students as well as the entire institution in order to achieve a learner-centred education of high quality, which focuses on the acquisition of competences relevant to the post-degree activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on a study launched by the European Commission's Directorate General for Research in 2000. The study discusses the structural similarities and differences between European and the U.S. biotech research centers, their performances, and

The article provides information on the cooperative research body NordForsk, which was established in January 2005 for the facilitation of cooperation between national research-funding bodies under the auspices of the Nordic Council of Ministers for Education and Research in Europe. In 2005, several researchers have participated in activities financed by NordForsk and recently, a range of initiatives was launched, including various training courses and networks of graduate schools, national centers of excellence and researchers. The organization covers researches in science, from medicine to social sciences.