Ratio of Ph.D. graduates in year t to number of young researchers recruited in universities and public research centres, by sex, in higher education and Government sector in year t+1

In the Republic of Slovenia, the central role in the creation and implementation of food policy strategies is played by the ministry responsible for health, the ministry responsible for food and agriculture, the ministry responsible for education, and the ministry responsible for higher education and science.

AGREEMENT between the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Bulgaria, the Republic of Croatia, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic and the Republic of Slovenia promoting cooperation in the field of higher education within the framework of the Central European Exchange Programme for University Studies ("CEEPUS II")

The Parties' higher education institutions, research centres and industries will play an appropriate part in this cooperation.

Such cooperation shall involve the Parties' centres of higher education and research and their industries, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises.

Higher-education institutions, research centres and productive sectors, including SMEs, on both sides shall be involved in this cooperation in an appropriate manner.

In this cooperation, the Parties shall favour the participation of their respective higher educational institutions, research centres and productive sectors, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises.

Whereas the countries of central and eastern Europe, the new independent States of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia, which are beneficiaries of the PHARE and TACIS programmes, consider higher education and training to be key areas for the process of economic and social reform;

In the light of the scope of this Regulation, consequent changes will need to be made to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3906/89 of 18 December 1989 on economic aid to certain countries of Central and Eastern Europe (PHARE)(7), to Council Decision 97/256/EC of 14 April 1997 granting a Community guarantee to the European Investment Bank against losses under loans for projects outside the Community (Central and Eastern European countries, Mediterranean countries, Latin American and Asian countries, South Africa, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina)(8), to Council Decision 1999/311/EC adopting the third phase of the trans-European cooperation scheme for higher education (Tempus III) (2000 to 2006)(9) and to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1360/90 of 7 May 1990 establishing a European Training Foundation(10).

encourage an innovative and sustainable range of student-centred higher education and training cooperative activities between the different regions in the European Community and in Canada that have a durable impact;

Marie Curie Host Fellowships for Early Stage Research Training - These will be targeted at higher education and research institutions, training centres and enterprises, with a view to reinforcing their training capability.

Regulated training courses of a total duration not less than 16 years, a prerequisite of which is successful completion of eight years of primary education plus four years of at least preparatory vocational education ("VBO") or a higher level of general secondary education, and which require the completion of at least four years of vocational training in the apprenticeship system, comprising at least one day of theoretical instruction at a college each week and on the other days practical training centre or in a firm, and culminating in a secondary or tertiary level examination.

regulated training courses of a total duration of not less than 16 years, a prerequisite of which is successful completion of eight years of primary education plus four years of at least preparatory vocational education ("VBO") or a higher level of general secondary education, and which require the completion of at least four years of vocational training in the apprenticeship system, comprising at least one day of theoretical instruction at a college each week and on the other days practical training in a practical training centre or in a firm, and culminating in a secondary or tertiary level examination.

In terms of practical implementation of cooperation, the Parties shall encourage their respective higher education institutions, research centres and industrial sectors, in particular SME, to play an active role.