Traduction de «Transformation de troisième cycle » (Français → Anglais) :

The most effective means to achieve these aims in a programme of excellence are highly integrated study programmes at postgraduate level and, at all study levels, collaborative partnerships with third countries, scholarships for the most talented students and projects to enhance the worldwide attractiveness of European higher education.

It has already been stated here that there are more women undergraduate students in universities than men; this is also true of Master’s and Doctoral degree students – there are more women.

Recent statistics show that in 2004 only 3.3% of students in the European Union were postgraduates, the Czech Republic, Austria and Finland being in the lead with a figure of 7% and over 50% of postgraduates in the EU coming from France, the United Kingdom and Spain.

Europe is aware of the importance of postgraduate studies for the creation of a knowledge-based economy and measures to promote them will make it possible for companies to provide employment for highly qualified and productive staff.

This should commence at the beginning of their careers, namely at postgraduate level, and should include all levels, regardless of their classification at national level (e.g. employee, postgraduate student, doctoral candidate, postdoctoral fellow, civil servants).

(7) The College of Europe, providing postgraduate courses in law, economics, politics, social sciences and humanities with a European dimension, the European University Institute, contributing to the development of European cultural and scientific heritage by means of higher education and research, the European Institute of Public Administration, training national and European civil servants in the field of European integration, the Academy of European Law in Trier, providing university-level training of European law professionals and users, the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation, providing a European Masters degree and Advanced Internships and other education, training and research services in promotion o ...[+++]f human rights and democratisation, the European Agency for Development in Special Needs Education, working to improve the quality of education for pupils with special needs and to foster sustainable European cooperation in this field, and the International Centre for European Training, providing teaching, training and research on issues of Europeanisation, globalisation, federalism, regionalism and the transformation of contemporary social structures, constitute bodies pursuing aims of general European interest.