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Latvian Academic Programmes Agency/Akademisko programmu agent?ra - APA (Comenius, Erasmus, Grundtvig, Study visits)/Nationale Agentur - Europa, allgemeine und berufliche Bildung - english information

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State Agency "Academic Programme Agency" (APA) is submitted to the Ministry of Education and Science. Its main mission is to promote the implementation of European Union education programmes and other national and international education development projects. The main objective of the APA activities is to support the integration of Latvia in the common European education area in a lifelong learning context through promoting the mobility of pupils, students, non-formal and informal learners, teachers, trainers and education administrators and cooperation between education institutions of Latvia and the European Union, and other countries. The task of the APA is to ensure the administrative, informative and financial support to the involvement of Latvian institutions in the EU-financed cooperation and assistance programmes and initiatives in education. The structure of the APA divides into two main blocks one of them fulfilling the main functions of the agency, and the other one ensuring services and technical provision. The Agency includes the following units:1) General and Adult Education Programmes Unit 2) Higher Education Programmes Unit 3) Financial Management Unit 4) Quality Management and Internal Audit Unit 5) Information and Publications Unit 6) Technical Support Unit

Keywords

institution; learned society; European association; lifelong learning; mobility; exchange; EU-programme; educational programme;