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VISCED supports the Specific Objectives of the Transversal Programme as follows:

(a) "to promote European cooperation in fields covering two or more sectoral sub-programmes": VISCED is a collaboration across Comenius and Leonardo and part of Erasmus.

(b) "to promote the quality and transparency of Member States' education and training systems": VISCED improves transparency by documenting the systems and encourages quality by searching for innovative Exemplars.

VISCED supports the Operational Objectives as follows:

(a) "to support policy development and cooperation at European level in lifelong learning, notably in the context of the Lisbon process and Education and Training 2010 Work Programme...": VISCED WP3 subtask 3.4 on policy recommendations will target ministries and their advisory agencies with a strong evidence base of well-researched and well-argued recommendations based on global analyses.

(b) "to ensure an adequate supply of comparable data, statistics and analyses to underpin lifelong learning policy development, as well as to monitor progress..., and to identify areas for particular attention": the core of VISCED is to provide comparable data, statistics and analyses for LLP countries and many others - making it easier to carry out global comparisons.

(d) "to support the development of innovative ICT-based content, services, pedagogies and practice for lifelong learning": VISCED's systematic search across the world for examples of innovative substantial ICT-based programmes in a variety of cultural contexts will be a key to unlocking innovation in Europe. The VISCED wiki inventory is itself an example of innovative ICT-based content and an innovative basis for collaborative work.

(e) "to ensure that the results of the Lifelong Learning Programme are appropriately recognised, demonstrated and implemented on a wide scale": Many operational outcomes of LLP will be documented on the VISCED wiki contributing to the global recognition of LLP.

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