The European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth is a member of the

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. The portfolio was previously titled ''European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport'' until 2019 when it was merged with the

European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation The Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation was a portfolio within the European Commission. In 2019, the portfolio was merged with the Commissioner for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture to form the role of European Commissioner for Inn ...

to form its current title. The portfolio is responsible for policies in education and

training Training is teaching, or developing in oneself or others, any skills and knowledge or fitness that relate to specific useful competencies. Training has specific goals of improving one's capability, capacity, productivity and performance. I ...

youth Youth is the time of life when one is young. The word, youth, can also mean the time between childhood and adulthood ( maturity), but it can also refer to one's peak, in terms of health or the period of life known as being a young adult. Yo ...

sport Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, ...

civil society Civil society can be understood as the "third sector" of society, distinct from government and business, and including the family and the private sphere.Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture The Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC; formerly the Directorate-General for Education and Culture) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. The Education, Youth, Sport and Culture Directorate-General i ...

History of the portfolio

Commissioner

Ján Figeľ Ján Figeľ (born 20 January 1960 in Čaklov) is a Slovak politician. Figeľ served as European Commissioner from 2004 to 2009, then as Slovak minister of Transports from 2010 to 2012. From 2016 to 2019 he was European Commission special env ...

was approved by the

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in 2004 as the ''European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and

Multilingualism Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. More than half of all E ...

''. This was enlarged since the

Prodi Commission The Prodi Commission was the European Commission in office between 1999 and 2004. The administration was led by former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi. History The commission took office on 16 September 1999 following the scandal and sub ...

with the addition of ''training'' and ''multilingualism'' (The

Directorate-General Within the European Union, Directorates-General are departments with specific zones of responsibility, the equivalent of ministries at a national level. Most are headed by a European Commissioner, responsible for the general direction of the Dir ...

is still just

Directorate-General for Education and Culture The Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC; formerly the Directorate-General for Education and Culture) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. The Education, Youth, Sport and Culture Directorate-General i ...

). However, when Romania joined the European Union on 1 January 2007, responsibility for multilingualism was handed over to the new Romanian commissioner,

Leonard Orban Leonard Orban (born 28 June 1961) is a Romanian independent technocrat who served as the Commissioner for Multilingualism in the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union (EU). He was responsible for the EU language policy ...

. In its place the portfolio now also includes

, sport and

civil society Civil society can be understood as the "third sector" of society, distinct from government and business, and including the family and the private sphere.ERASMUS programme, which was established in 1987, is a student exchange programme promoting mobility of students between European universities. The Bologna process aims to create a

European Higher Education Area The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) was launched in March 2010, during the Budapest-Vienna Ministerial Conference, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Bologna Process. As the main objective of the Bologna Process since its ince ...

where academic qualifications can be recognised across Europe. The

European Institute of Technology The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is an independent body of the European Union with juridical personality, established in 2008 intended to strengthen Europe's ability to innovate. The EIT is an integral part of Horizon ...

is a proposed research university. With the 2014 inauguration of the Juncker Commission, the portfolio was once again renamed – ''multilingualism'' was removed in favor of ''citizenship'': "Education, Culture, Youth and Citizenship". ''Citizenship'' in turn was soon replaced by ''sport''. The title from 2014 to 2019 was thus ''European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport''.

List of commissioners

The previous portfolio to the current was Culture, merged with Audiovisual policy and EP relations.

External links

Commissioner's Website

References

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History of the portfolio

List of commissioners

See also

External links

References