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.
Before 1 May 2004, myEUROPE aimed to develop and maintain an online meeting place for teachers in the Member States and Candidate Countries. Once the ten new states were officially welcomed to the European Union, myEUROPE has changed its focus, to become a gateway to teaching and learning resources, and practice examples on two main themes: European citizenship and cultural diversity.
Celebrating Europe in its 50th year is also an opportunity to look back at what we achieved together with myEUROPE: a network of 7000 schools, with teachers and students that dedicate lessons to European citizenship and European cultural values. myEUROPE has made a significant contribution to highlighting the wealth of cultures, languages and countries from all corners of the continent.
The project has also encouraged thousands of classes to communicate with peers from other countries to help them become aware of other cultures. By experiencing intercultural communication from an early age, the classes taking part in myEUROPE learn to shape their identity in a European context, which is the first step towards developing active European citizenship at school. And being a web-based project, myEUROPE has also helped thousands of teachers make their first steps in introducing ICT into the classroom.
