myEUROPE has grown to 8000 schools. In November 2007, Volker Wacker, who teaches at the Hans-Furler-Gymnasium Oberkirch, registered his school that became the 8000th school registered with myEUROPE.
With more than 4300 registered schools, more than 5000 contributions and more than 300 guests visiting schools, Spring Day was a success again. The outcomes of the events, activities and competitions, in all the 23 EU official languages, confirm that a large number of students, teachers...
On 29 January 2008, the European Commission re-launches the Debate Europe forum. The Commission will interact with the public permanently and not just on the launch day. The event is connected to “Communicating Europe via the Internet: Being Global, Going Local”,...
On 3 September 2007, in partnership with the Museum of Europe, European Schoolnet launched the “50 Years Together in Diversity” school competition that aims to raise awareness about European cultural values, the milestones of European integration and the 50 years of unity...
Launched on 9 May 2000 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, the myEUROPE Project turns seven in the year when the European Union celebrates its 50th anniversary.
On 13 November 2006, in partnership with PlasticsEurope, the association of plastics manufacturers, European Schoolnet launched the "Energy is our Future" website. The website aims to raise awareness among students throughout Europe between 11 and 18 years about the importance...
Josephine Ebejer Grech teaches biology at "Dun Guzepp Zammit Brighella" Boys' Junior Lyceum Hamrun in Malta. She shares her experience with the Energy is our Future project. She also describes the project impact on changing students’ and parents’ behaviour in terms of...
The European Commission and the Permanent Representation of Romania to the EU organised a number of events under “Romania week in the Commission”, which took place from 15 to 19 January 2007. The events aimed to welcome Romania, as one of the EU's newest members.
Inara Zlaugotne teaches at Engure Secondary School, in Latvia. She reports on an international gathering of the European Clubs, that took place in Warsaw, from 17 to 19 November 2006.
On 1 January 2007, Bulgaria and Romania joined the European Union, enhancing the European natural and cultural heritage. With Bulgarian and Romanian the EU language family will grow from 21 to 23. One of the most emblematic Romanian cultural symbols is Eminescu, the last romantic...
Tzvetan Naydenov teaches at Hristo Botev Secondary School in Vratza, Bulgaria. He has registered his school with myEUROPE in 2000, when the project aimed to link up schools from the European Union with schools from Central and Eastern Europe. In this article Tzvetan Naydenov describes...
Carnaun School from Ireland is one of the first schools that registered with myEUROPE, in 2000. The school comprises 3 teachers and about 50 students and it is located in a rural area in Ireland. This school year Carnaun School won the Digital Schools Awards, a national initiative.
Children’s internet safety organisation, Childnet International, announced the launch of Know IT All for Parents, on 9 October 2006, in London. The programme aims to better help parents support their children’s positive and safe use of the internet.
A month before celebrating its sixth anniversary, myEUROPE has grown to 5000 schools. The 5000th registered school is Ysgol Gynradd Llanfyllin Primary School in Wales, the UK.
This article briefly introduces “learning objects” and discusses some of their attributes to understand why they have become very attractive instructional and pedagogical tools. The article also provides explanations about the basic stages of designing a learning object,...
Magdalena Bobek, Spring Day pedagogical advisor for Slovenia, reports on the Spring Day meeting which was held by the Czech Ministry of education in Prague, on 7-8 January 2006.
This guide addresses teachers of art and media who would like to involve their students in the Green Week competition. It offers some background information on biodiversity and also some ideas on how such a topic could be integrated in lessons with the aim of creating artwork and...
elearningeuropa.info is a portal established by the European Commission to promote the use of multimedia technologies and Internet at the service of education and training. The site offers specific information, services and resources for four basic areas: schools, higher education,...
What is the Eurodrawing project? To say it in a simple way, its aim is to have children from the EU to draw one big picture. A picture of a place they want to live in. The place is called Europe.
According to the myEUROPE advisory board, European citizenship means more than rights and sharing common cultural values. Watch a set of videos featuring various feelings, perceptions and ways of defining this concept.
Celebrating the fifth anniversary of the myEUROPE project is a good opportunity to look back to what we achieved together throughout the years. Needless to say that due to myEUROPE we all are richer now, knowing more about Europe, its cultural heritage and its people.
On 11 May 2005, five Members of the European Parliament accepted to celebrate Europe Day in an on-line chat with 18 schools from 13 countries, namely Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey. The...
Neil Minkley from Hachette Multimédia in France sent us news from his company. The resources he recommends can help teachers when organising lessons for learning both English and French.
Jan Figel’, European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Multilingualism, and the education and research minister Mircea Miclea visited the “Ion Creangă” General High School of Bucharest to find out about the European projects developed by pupils and...
Susanne Pratscher and some of her students from VBS-HAKIII Schoenborngasse were invited by the European Union Representation in Vienna to participate in a video conference on May 31, 2005 with Jan Figel’, Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Multilingualism.
This year the myEUROPE Project is five years old! Some members of the European Schoolnet Office and some of the myEUROPE teachers and students greet you. Click on a picture to watch a video. The videos are in different formats. They should be recognised by your Media Player or Quick...
Rodica Miala is an inspector for international cooperation and European integration at The Inspectorate of the Dolj Country, in Romania. She encourages and assists teachers to implement international collaborative projects. In this article she reports on an event dedicated to Europe...
The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions leading to climate change. It was negotiated during the CoP-3 meeting held in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997. The protocol came into effect on Wednesday, February 16, this year. Paul Renders teaches at...
Susanne Pratscher, a member of both myEUROPE and Spring Day Advisory boards, has won the biggest raffle prize at the eTwinning Conference, which took place from 14 to 16 January, in Brussels. The prize was offered by Sun Microsystems and it consists of a trip for two to the US, to...
On December 26, 2004, giant tsunamis waves triggered by a huge earthquake devastated many countries in South-East Asia. myEUROPE Network sends many thoughts of condolence and hope to all people affected by this global catastrophe. This page groups some on-line resources on how to...
Cultures around Europe have very different traditions at Christmas. All of them convey a message about tolerance, love, understanding and celebrating cultural differences and similarities. We invite you to enjoy a Christmas journey through Europe!
The Presidency of the EU is held for six months by each member state on a rotational basis. The Netherlands has held the Presidency in the second half of 2004. Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science Maria van der Hoeven talked about European citizenship at the ELOS conference,...
Viljenka Šavli teaches English at Solkan Elementary School, in Slovenia. Two of her students, Sara and Kristi, report on a school event scheduled before Christmas. It was a concert which brought together students, teachers, parents and other people from the local community to celebrate...
In 2000, Radio.Rasant was initially launched as a school project, during the 75th anniversary of Städtische Realschule Sundern, a modern secondary school in Sundern, Germany. Afterwards the project has been expanded and nowadays it is a real radio station, which serves the needs...
Hans Christian Andersen will be celebrated worldwide, in 2005. Children, parents and teachers will have the opportunity to talk more about his tales. Christian Duckworth, the British member of the Advisory Board, launches “The Hans Christian Andersen Project”. In this...
On Monday, 15 March 2004, the Spring Day in Europe Web site ran a chat session with the topic: "The future generation in the enlarged Europe: protecting and preserving the environment". Margot Wallström, Commissioner for the Environment, was on-line and answered students’...
All autumn beauty from the gardens seems to have gathered at schools. In Latvia the school year always starts on September 1, except the occasions when this date happens to be Saturday or Sunday , then school starts on the following Monday. This day is a real festivity in every school...
The competition, open to young Web developers (aged 18 and under) is part of the Cable & Wireless Childnet Academy 2005. Winners will be invited to attend the week-long Academy in Jamaica next Easter, where they will be offered specialist Web support, technical advice and leadership...
Sophie Vandeputte works as a language coordinator at the EUN Office. She speaks four languages - French, English, Dutch and Spanish - and she is in charge of a team dealing with more 20 languages on the EUN Web sites. In this article, Sophie discusses issues related to language learning...
Violeta Tsoneva, the Bulgarian member of the myEUROPE advisory board, has been accepted on the Fulbright teacher exchange programme. The programme aims to increase mutual understanding between Americans and people from other countries.
European Schoolnet announced today the launch of the new myEUROPE Web site (http://myeurope.eun.org). This Web site is the ultimate practical tool for teachers to raise children’s awareness of European issues, by sharing knowledge within...
Bergen Handelsgymnasium, a myEUROPE school from Norway, is a hundred years old! “Even though we are a hundred years old”, says Ewa Bivand, “and
the teaching stuff may be described as vintage, in both senses of the word, we are young in spirit and open for modern...
Launched by European Schoolnet in March 2000, the myEUROPE project aims to bring together schools around European topics through active citizenship. In October 2003, the myEUROPE network welcomed the 2,000th school: Primary school GTVS Reichsapfelgasse 30, from Austria.
It's very nice and warm outside. The leaves on birches and aspens are just beginning to turn red and yellow. As the local history has it, when the first settlers came here in 1957 to found our Academic Town, someone exclaimed: "Look, it's the Golden Valley!" The Golden Valley is...
This year, going back to school meant expressing our solidarity with all teachers and pupils affected by the tragedy in Belsan, Russia. As teachers, parents, adults, and children, we are all part of the same community and one people's tragedy is everyone's pain. Nobody is secure...
The European cultural and natural heritage is transmitted from generation to generation and it provides a sense of identity. It helps to differentiate communities in a climate of globalisation and it allows cultural communities to discover and understand each other. We invite...
Michel Delebarre, President of the Committee of the Regions, answered schools’ questions related to “Europe in my region and my region in Europe”. The discussion was in French and took place on the Spring Day in Europe website, on 30 March 2006.
Oksana Deica and some of her fellow colleagues in Daugavpils, Latvia, organised an event to celebrate the European Day of Language, on 26 September this year.
On 21 March 2006, a group of 16 schools from 11 countries were online to discuss with Mrs. Danuta Hübner, Commissioner for Regional Policy, and her team of five experts. They chat topic was "Europe's regions and the future of the European Union".
Sibiu or Hermannstadt (in Romania) was designate European Capital of Culture in 2007, together with Luxembourg and the Grand Region of Luxembourg. Diana Sârbu works as a teacher in one of schools located in Sibiu. She shares these pictures with us.
Ján Figel', Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Multilingualism, visited the European Schoolnet office on 10 February 2005 for an on-line chat with schools from all over Europe. Several myEUROPE schools took part in the chat. See the pictures they took during...
The myEUROPE chats are classroom activities in which guests answer questions posed by teachers and their pupils over the Internet. The topic, language, name of the guest and time of each chat session are announced in advance within the project community. This photo-reportage shows...
On 16 March 2005, Margot Wallström, European Commission Vice President, came to the European Schoolnet Office to chat with students and teachers from twelve European countries. The chat was organised by the Spring Day in Europe team and its topic was about the needs and expectations...
Pupils and teachers from Dimitrije Todorovic – Kaplar School, in Serbia and Montenegro tell us more about them and their curricular and extra-curricular activities through this photo-reportage.
Maria Voicu is a teacher of Computer Science at Grigore Moisil Theoretical High School, in Urziceni, Ialomita county, Romania. Each day her students spend seven hours at school, so that they could say that the school is their second home. This photo-reportage is the story of one...
This is a photo-reportage that Esther Theiler from Kreisschule Mutschellen (Switzerland) sent us. She tells us the story of how the 600 students from her school raised more than €45,000 to help the victims of the Asian tsunami.
This photo-reportage features six important moments of the work carried out by a Comenius project involving students from several European countries. The project name is Refrigerator and its goal is to compare the food stored in the fridge of the students’ families.
The teachers and students from Sunnulækjarskóli, Selfoss, in Iceland greet us. In August 2004 they moved in a new school building and they are very proud to share some pictures of their school yard.
On January 10, this year, all the myEUROPE schools were invited to observe a minute of silence and to light a candle in the memory of the tsunami victims is SE Asia. Marzena Samborska, headmistress at Zespół Szkół In Gruta, Poland sent us these pictures.
Northern Europe suffered flooding in many coastal towns. According to meteorologists the storm was the worst to hit the Baltic states, in the last four decades. This is a photo-reportage from Kuressaare, in Estonia.
Our school is located in Valeni, Olt, Romania. Last November my colleagues and myself were involved in a special event. Our Comenius partners visited us. We greeted them with flowers and songs in Finnish, Catalan, French, Romanian and English. We also wrote ‘Good morning’...
127 years ago some European countries, such as Russia, Romania, and Finland, gathered together to help Bulgarian people to get rid of Turkish slavery and give them freedom. On 9th November we celebrate Vratza Liberation Day.
On October 9, this year, students and teachers from "Lucian Blaga" Secondary School, Bistrita, in Romania organised a Holocaust Memorial Day. Tamasan Camelia and Aurelia Pop sent us these pictures.
A meeting called Weimar Triangle took place on May 9, 2003, in Wroclaw, Poland to discuss the entry of this country to the European Union. Chancellor Schroeder, presidents Chirac and Kwasniewski were there. The leaders of France, Germany and Poland walked on Wroclaw streets meeting...
This is a photo-reportage about the European Day of Languages, an event organised at Basisschool De Regenboog, in Ghent, Belgium. The author of the photo-reportage is Pierre Michiels, a 5th grade teacher.
