250 European experts will meet in Poitiers to compare European experiences relating to the governance of education establishments.

The Etats Généraux Culturels Méditerranéens in Marseilles on 4 and 5 November is one of the events organised by the French EU Presidency as part of the Year of Euro-Mediterranean Intercultural Dialogue 2008. It will also be an opportunity to reaffirm, on the heels of the foreign ministers' meeting for the Union for the Mediterranean, the vital importance of culture in the Euro-Mediterranean partnership.

The development of mobility represents is one of the major, strategies for the development of higher education in Europe and throughout the world.

The development of mobility represents is one of the major strategies for the development of higher education in Europe and throughout the world.

The 59th international session of the European Youth Parliament brings together hundreds of young people from all over Europe to discuss important European issues.

This European Conference will facilitate debates between young people and scientists.

This meeting will address the topic of museum security. Its primary aim will be the drafting of a European declaration on theft prevention and theft-prevention measures.

The French Presidency of the Council of the European Union is holding a meeting of the directors-general in charge of vocational education and training from the EU Member States on 21 and 22 October next in Pontpoint (Académie d'Amiens).

A free European concert for 300 students

"Bougeons avec l'Europe" (Let's go with Europe), is designed to bring every school up-to-date with Europe. It will include non-linguistic courses in a foreign language, testimonials from pupils, students, teachers and headmasters who have experienced European mobility, "European Menus" at the cafeteria etc.

The French Presidency of the Council of the European Union is holding a Bologna Follow Up Group meeting at the Sorbonne University in Paris on 14 and 15 October 2008.

This forum will bring together professionals from across Europe in Bordeaux. It aims to strengthen architecture's role as a key vector in making Europe's towns appealing places to live.

In a common desire to get to know our world better, historians, well-known intellectuals and and amateurs of history are to meet in Blois over four days to focus on "Europeans".

This conference will allow participants to share current thinking on ways to change the public perception of and approach to knowledge, and to reform educational practices.

On Sunday 5 October, the French Presidency will welcome Europe's greatest athletes to the foot of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, transforming the Champ de Mars into a sports village.

The 3rd Culture Economy Seminar will bring together European figures from the economic and cultural spheres to draft proposals to steer European cultural policies.

At the initiative of the European Commission and for the fourth year running, on 26 September 2008 over 20 countries are holding a new series of informal meetings with scientists from all backgrounds, putting researchers at the centre of society.

On 26 September, a thousand key European figures will meet in the Sorbonne's Grand Amphithéâtre to give a new boost to Europe's multilingualism policy.

In Greece, European Heritage Days usually take place in the last weekend of September. This year's events took place on 26 to 28 September under the banner "Home-Like Stories".

On the occasion of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the meeting of the HEREIN network is being held on 25 and 26 September 2008 at Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire.

‘Europe at school’ is inspired by the ‘Back to School’ event launched in January 2007 by the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union, with the support of the European Commission, and repeated under the Portuguese Presidency in autumn 2007 and the Slovenian Presidency in March 2008.

The Creative Content Online seminar will debate two themes: the development of the creative online content economy and how  to promote legally available content and combat piracy.

The association "Les rencontres" traditionally organizes a meeting in the country which holds the Presidency of the European Union.

Lifelong guidance plays a key role in education and training strategies at the European level. This is the theme of the conference being held in Lyon on 17 - 18 September.

On 16 September the jury chaired by Sir Robert Scott recommended that the title of “European Capital of Culture 2013” be awarded to the city of Marseilles (France). On 9 September, Košice was recommended as the European Capital of Culture for Slovakia.

15th meeting of the European cultural network 'Banlieues d'Europe'

This conference, to be held on 9 -10 September in Strasbourg, should be a step towards extending the procedures which guarantee the quality of educational courses and qualifications throughout Europe and beyond by means of the "Bologna process", which aims to promote the European system of training and higher education.

The meeting of the Directors-General for higher education will provide an opportunity to exchange experiences of modernisation projects undertaken in Member States of the European Union.

The European Civic Forum organised this major event to bring together citizens and association leaders from all over the European Union to promote active European citizenship

The Toulouse Film Archive is dedicating its entire September 2008 program to the diversity of the boundaries that form Europe: political, cultural, linguistic boundaries, etc.