Ministry of Science and Higher Education

Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP)
The European Commission has integrated its various educational and training initiatives under a single umbrella, the Lifelong Learning Programme. With a significant budget of nearly EUR 7 billion for 2007 to 2013, the new programme replaces the existing education, vocational training and e-Learning programmes, which ended in 2006. It consists of four sub-programmes: Comenius (for schools), Erasmus (for higher education), Leonardo da Vinci (for vocational education and training) and Grundtvig (for adult education).
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Eurydice
Eurydice is an institutional network for gathering, monitoring, processing and circulating reliable and readily comparable information on education systems and policies throughout Europe.
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UNIDO - Europe and NIS Programme
The Europe and NIS Programme of UNIDO plays, along with four other Regional Programmes, a key role in the development and coordination of UNIDO technical cooperation (TC) programmes and projects and in promotion of global forum activities in Europe and NIS region.
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Tempus
The Trans-European mobility scheme for university studies is the EU programme that supports the modernisation of higher education in the partner countries of the Western Balkans, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, North Africa and the Middle East. It contributes to creating an area of cooperation in the field of higher education between the European Union and partner countries surrounding the European Union.
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EUREKA Initiative
Poland became a full member of the Eureka Initiative in 1995. In 2003 Polish institutions participated in 73 projects carried out jointly with partners from other states.
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COST
COST - European cooperation in Science and Technology - is an intergovernmental European framework for international co-operation, allowing the coordination of nationally-funded research on a European level. It is the oldest European networking system in research, established in 1971.
COST is a unique means for European researchers to jointly develop their own ideas and new initiatives across all scientific disciplines through trans-European networking of nationally funded research activities. COST networks are called Actions. 
For details, see http://www.cost.eu/ or http://www.consilium.europa.eu/policies/cost.aspx?lang=en

COST National Coordinator (CNC) for Poland
Mr. Marek ZDANOWSKI
Department of Science Policy Instruments
Ministry of Science and Higher Education
ul. Wspolna 1/3
00-529 Warszawa
Poland
tel. (+4822) 628 32 89
fax (+4822) 5292 481
e-mail: marek.zdanowski@nauka.gov.pl