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ATLANTIS Programme

The European Union and the United States of America have signed on 21/6/2006 at the EU-US Summit in Vienna a new agreement on higher education and vocational training for another eight-year period (2006-2013). The new agreementwill renews and reinforces the long standing EU-US cooperation programme that was established in 1995. The programme is funded and managed jointly by the European Commission and by the US Department of Education. It aims primarily at promoting understanding between the peoples of the European Union and the United States of America and improving the quality of their human resource development.

Link to the ATLANTIS Programme.