The European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation 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

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to form its current title.

History of the portfolio

Commissioner

Ján Figeľ Ján Figeľ (born 20 January 1960) is a Slovak politician who served as European Commissioner from 2004 to 2009, then as Slovak Minister of Transport from 2010 to 2012. From 2016 to 2019, Figeľ was European Commission special envoy for the pr ...

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. When the languages are just two, it is usually called bilingualism. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolin ...

''. This was enlarged since the

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

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is still just

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). However, when Romania joined the European Union on 1 January 2007, responsibility for multilingualism was handed over to the new Romanian commissioner, Leonard Orban. In its place the portfolio now also includes

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

, 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

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aims to create a

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where academic qualifications can be recognised across Europe. The

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is a proposed research university. With the 2014 inauguration of the

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, the portfolio was once again renamed – ''multilingualism'' was removed in favour 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''. The portfolio from 2019 is named ''European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation.''

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