02/12/2008 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has given its approval to 63 university co-operation and 13 other high quality projects under the new phase of the Tempus programme, selected from 530 applications. All 28 Tempus partner countries are involved in this phase of the programme - which has a total budget of €60 million. In all, 900 universities (600 from the partner countries and 300 from the EU) will be involved in these projects. (I.L./transl.rt)