Season's greetings, have a nice time and enjoy your school break! In one week you can start planning activities for the forthcoming term, as our Web portals feature plenty of services and tools which all are at your disposal.
Kind regards, Petru Dumitru Project coordinator and Web editor European Schoolnet, Brussels
50 years of the European Union This is a PowerPoint presentation which summarises the 50 years of unity in diversity and focuses on the milestones of the European integration, its main challenges and achievements. The presentation is published with the permission of the authors who work at the Communication Department of German Foreign Office. They provided the presentation in: English, French, German and Spanish. The following languages were made available by a group of volunteer teachers, as follows: Bulgarian (Anna Ananieva), Czech (Katerina Bavorová), Danish (Peter Rasmussen) Dutch (Marleen Spierings), Estonian (Leena Punga), Greek (Elena Vlachogianni and Linos Viglas), Hungarian (Janos Blasszauer), Italian (Fiorenza Congedo), Latvian (Inara Zlaugotne), Lithuanian, (Irma Sneideriene), Maltese (Stephanie Falzon), Portuguese (Isabel Fonseca), Romanian (Cristian Branza) and Slovak (Jozef Medvecky).
Activities This set of activities may suit the needs of all school levels, as they are designed to be used while teaching across the curriculum.
Resources The resources published in this section are in various formats, such as Web links, learning objects, quizzes and webquests.
What future does the European Union hold for us? The European Union has just turned 50! Starting with 6 Member States and growing to 27 Member States nowadays, the European Union is unique and a success story! Come to our blog and answer the question: “What future does the European Union hold for us?”
Energy Corner
Latest Energy is our Future chat The technologies may help organise a special lesson while a teacher and her/his classroom are in different locations in Europe. This photo-gallery features a group of pictures that were taken during a chat activity. The guests and the organisers were located in Madrid and Brussels while the participating schools chatted from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Romania, Slovakia and Turkey.
School Competition: Deadline extended to 22 April 2007 Due to the overwhelming success of the Energy is our Future school competition, a number of teachers have expressed their intention to participate with their classes during the upcoming weeks. The project team has therefore decided to extend the competition deadline from 15 March to 22 April 2007.
.Around Europe
Bulgaria: International Summer Camp in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria Organiser: The American University in Bulgaria; Age group: 13-18 years old; More information: http://www.aubg.bg/camp
Austria: Help is needed! Eva Eckert from Austria will be a teacher soon. She is currently involved in a research project to gather information for her degree dissertation. She invites your students to answer a questionnaire to help collect such an information. The questionnaire is available in: German, English, French, Spanish, Turkish, Serbian, Polish and Italian. Eva's email address is EvaEckert@gmx.de in case you would like to help her. .
myEUROPE is a European Schoolnet project. It aims to help teachers raise their pupils' awareness of what it means to be a young citizen in Europe. By involving a network of more than 6000 schools, the diversity of Europe is brought into the classroom via the Internet.
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