Provide knowledge and recognition of teaching and educational work at all levels;
Provide status, respect and inspiration for the teacher and social educator professions;
Influence development and innovation of teacher and social educator education in the member countries;
Learn about and promote understanding of the history, culture, values and traditions of the member countries, as expressed through teacher and social educator education;
Be pro-active in essential matters concerning national and international debates on education in general and teacher and social educator education in particular;
Promote opportunities for exchange and/or visits of individual and/or groups of students as part of their programmes of study (inclusive of teaching experience, practical training, curriculum work and research);
Involve as many students as possible in ETEN programmes during their studies;
Offer at least one international student activity within ETEN, in English, each year for each member institution individually or in co-operation with other member institutions to ;
Promote opportunities for exchange and/or visits of staff members in relation to student education, teaching, school development, curriculum development and research;
Involve as many staff as possible in ETEN programmes each year;
Promote opportunities within teacher and social educator education programmes and school practice to incorporate comparative and intercultural perspectives on education;
Promote opportunities for cross-national and international collaboration in research and development;
Provide opportunities for professional staff development;
Disseminate the work of ETEN in a wider educational context; and
Describe, evaluate and report all ETEN activities on the ETEN Web site, in order to assure the quality of the Network.
