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More than 3,000 academic exchange opportunities will be available for students and academic staff to study teach and train, thanks to the EU's Erasmus+ new Call for Proposals for Russia with a total budget of EUR 17 million. The EU has kicked off an awareness raising campaign to inform young people in Russia about these opportunities between the EU and Russia.
The EU will host the 12th Summit of the Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM12) in Brussels on 18-19 October 2018, with as theme “Global partners for global challenges”. The ASEM12 Summit will be chaired by the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk and the President the European Commission, as well as Federica Mogherini, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy will also be in attendance. ASEM partner countries will be represented by their Heads of State or Government as well as the other institutional partner ASEAN by its Secretary General, .
ASTANA – On 12 October the opening of the photo project “Discover Europe with Kids” was held in Astana, which was organized by the European Union Delegation to Kazakhstan in the framework of the European Cultural Heritage Year and the 25th anniversary of the European Union - Kazakhstan diplomatic relations. The project partners are Kazakhstan Kids Fashion Show 2018 and Aspara Fashion Week.
A meeting with Foreign Ministers of the 28 European Union Member States and the EU’s six Eastern partners – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine – and Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn, chaired by High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission Federica Mogherini, took place today in Luxembourg to take stock of the progress made under the 20 Deliverables for 2020 to bring concrete benefits for citizens.
Often the most marginalized groups are invisible in society. The IT Academy aims at making the invisible visible and excluded included by offering disabled youth with IT training to ensure their inclusion in the Kyrgyz labour market.
