Editing Socrates programme (section)

{{Short description|Educational initiative}}
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[[File:Socrates Louvre.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Socrates]]]]
The '''SOCRATES programme''' was an educational initiative of the [[European Commission]]; 31 countries took part. The initial Socrates programme ran from 1994 until 31 December 1999 when it was replaced by the Socrates II programme on 24 January 2000, which ran until 2006. This, in turn, was replaced by the [[Lifelong Learning Programme 2007&ndash;2013]].<ref>[http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/llp/index_en.html EUROPA – Education and Training – The Lifelong learning programme] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130319090812/http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/llp/index_en.html |date=19 March 2013 }}</ref>

The countries participating in the programme were the then 25 [[European Union]] countries, the then candidate countries [[Romania]] and [[Bulgaria]]; [[Iceland]], [[Liechtenstein]], [[Norway]] and [[Turkey]].

The programme is named after the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[philosopher]] [[Socrates]].