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For the catalogue of European initiatives in Science Education, the STELLA project is looking for teachers’ and science experts’ favourite initiatives in Maths, Science and Technology (MST). Through the online catalogue good practices are presented and shared with all...
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Post your opinion on Europe’s role in Space research technology
The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry has launched a new survey to investigate young people’s opinion on Europe’s role in the Space industry. Do you think Europe invests sufficiently to fulfil its ambitions in Space research?...
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eTwinning Professional Development Workshop on the theme of Climate change in Roskilde – Denmark. 26 – 28 March 2009
From the 26 - 29 March 2009, 130 educators participated in the Professional Development Workshop, (PDW) hosted by the Danish National Support Service.
The themes included climate change, sustainability and education related to environmental issues.
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Xperimania competition deadline extended - more prizes on offer!
Following teachers' requests, the deadline for entries in the Xperimania competition has been extended to 22 May 2009.
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Get creative! Win a trip to Africa!
Until the end of May Development Youth Prize offers the chance of winning a trip to Africa to students from all over Europe. By submitting a poster or a video related to “Human Development” in Africa, students have the opportunity to join the European Development Days...
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Career councellors invited to Comenius training seminar in Greece
Greek private school Ellinogermaniki Agogi is organising a Comenius in-service training seminar for career advisers. The event will take place in Sounio, Greece on 14-18 October 2009. The in-service training is organised within the framework of the CareerGUIDE Network and Career...
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Six more weeks to go - don't miss the Xperimania school competition!
Participate on Xperimania by setting up your own experiment and posting your lab report to the Xperimania website. The winners will be awarded with a media player, and their schools will receive funding for scientific equipment.
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eTwinning Prizes 2009 award teachers’ innovation and creativity
Ten of the best eTwinning projects from the 2007-2008 school year were awarded on occasion of the eTwinning Prizes 2009. The award ceremony took place during the eTwinning Conference which took place in Prague on 13-15 February 2009. There were five categories, three by age (4-11,...
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Successful eTwinning conference in Prague
Over 400 participants from across Europe, comprising teachers, representations from eTwinning’s Central and National Support Services and other education stakeholders met in Prague on 13-15 February 2009 at the annual eTwinning Conference. The event focused on “Creativity...
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Safer Internet tackles cyberbullying
The sixth annual edition of Safer Internet Day was celebrated all around the world on 10 February 2009. Thousands of online and offline events were organised simultaneously in 50 countries, with one common topic, cyberbullying. Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information...
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Step by STEPS: view of ICT European primary schools starts taking shape
The STEPS project, an 18-month Study of the impact of Technology in Primary Schools led by European Schoolnet on behalf of the European Commission, has now entered its second and final phase. By June 2009 it will provide the most detailed picture ever taken of how ICT impacts on...
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Xperimania chat in German: How does transport rely on petrochemicals?
The next Xperimania chat held in German will take place on 23 March 2009 at 14.00 CET. It will focus on how transport relies on chemical research and innovations. Dr Ulrich Nies, Head of Information Coordination and Automotive Communications and member of the Global Automotive Steering...
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Win a trip to Africa!
“Human development” in Africa is the challenging topic of the Development Youth Prize, closing end of May 2009. The European competition invites students aged 16 - 18 to give their creative views on Africa; authors of the most original submissions will fly to Africa....
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Celebrating the euro: introducing the winning Eurocompetition posters
Eurocompetition, a poster competition to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the euro, received more than 1,800 entries. The competition invited pupils to use their creativity to design a poster on the benefits and the future of the common currency. “Fresh, young and original”...
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Check out the revamped STELLA web portal!
To make science education even more attractive, the Stella web portal has been updated with new graphics, colours and images. The website provides teachers and science education experts with an inspiring platform to communicate, share experiences and pick up new ideas and tools to...
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More than 3,000 schools registered for Spring Day for Europe
Spring Day for Europe is an annual campaign promoting debates and activities related to Europe. With a special focus on Creativity and Innovation, the Spring Day team believes that ideas can move Europe and invites schools to get involved in a rich programme of competitions, games,...
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Subscribe to the upcoming ASPECT workshop
The CEN/ISSS Workshop on Learning Technologies has initiated work on standardising a Simple Publishing Interface for Learning Object Repositories. If you are interested in the subject and would like to participate note that registration is open to anyone by notifying the organisers.
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More than 6,000 participants join the Insafe quiz to mark launch of Safer Internet Day
More than 6,000 10-15 year-olds across the world took part in the Insafe Quiz Quest, which closed this week in preparation for the sixth edition of Safer Internet Day. This year’s celebration on 10 February 2009, once again to be opened by the European Commissioner for Information...
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Last call for teachers to take EU wide survey on ICT successes in primary schools
How do Information and Communication technologies (ICT) make a difference in primary schools in Europe? Have you successfully used ICT in your school with children? This is the last opportunity to share your experience and be part of an EU-wide study conducted by European Schoolnet...
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Education Leaders Briefing in London
The Education Leaders Briefing, which took place in London on 12-14 January 2009, was organized by Microsoft in collaboration with European Schoolnet. The event took place in conjunction with the British Education and Training Technology Show (BETT). It brought together representatives...
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Xperimania activities in Physics and Chemistry: “Check out the property”
Xperimania activities in Physics and Chemistry: “Check out the property”
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Secondary school students aged 10-20 years old, in groups of maximum two or three, are invited to participate in the ‘Check out the property!’ competition. Submissions uploaded before...
Xperimania chat in French: How are chemicals used in art restoration?
Xperimania chat in French: How are chemicals used in art restoration?
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How can we preserve pieces of art for future generations? How is chemistry used to help prevent the deterioration of old art works? In the Xperimania chat “How are chemicals used in art restoration?”...
STELLA project boosts science education in Europe
The STELLA project aims to foster better science education in Europe. In 2009, the STELLA team is creating a set of guidelines for documentation and transferability of good practices, which is an issue currently being debated in many countries. The guidelines are targeted to teachers,...
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Bridging industry and science education: key to European innovation
In December 2008, PlasticsEurope published an interview with Marc Durando, European Schoolnet’s Executive Director. The interview focused on the efforts and current strategies by European industry to make science teaching more attractive in schools.
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Watch the winning Data Protection Day videos
With 16 European participating countries, 77 videos submitted in two months and more than 25,000 daily visits on the website (www.dataprotectionday.eu), the Data Protection Competition has closed successfully on 28 January...
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Congratulations to the Eurocompetition finalists!
The finalists of the Eurocompetition (www.eurocompetition.net), a poster competition to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the euro, are now published! From 15 September to 31 December 2008 over 1,800 schoolchildren from...
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Development Youth Prize 2008-2009: Creativity meets Africa
Human development in Africa is the challenging topic of the Development Youth Prize, which closes end of May 2009. The European competition invites students aged 16 - 18 to show their creative views on Africa - authors of the most original submissions will win a trip to Africa! The...
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1,000 schools registered for Spring Day for Europe 2009
Agrupamento Biotehniški center Naklo - Srednja šola, in Slovenia, is the 1000th school to join the Spring Day for Europe 2009 campaign. As part of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, the event aims to encourage schools to organise many debates and activities focusing...
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European Schoolnet stakeholders and partners meet in Rome at EMINENT Conference
European Schoolnet’s annual conference took place in Rome on 4-5 December 2008, offering two days of debates, plenaries and workshops. The event was attended by 240 participants from all over Europe and beyond representing ministries of education, industry partners, teachers...
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Turkish school wins 2008 eLearning Awards
The eLearning Awards prize-giving ceremony took place in Rome on 4 December 2008 and awarded eight schools for their exceptional projects. The project “EuroPoems”, submitted by Elif Kara, from Hisar Egitim Vakfi Okullari, Turkey won the Young Digital Planet Award for...
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Data Protection Competition: make a video and win a trip to Brussels, plus X-boxes!
European Schoolnet has launched a video competition, targeting young people from 15 to 19 years old, to encourage reflection on privacy and data protection. Participants are invited to express their thoughts and concerns about the use of their personal information in a 30-90 second...
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eTwinning toolkit on tenth anniversary of the euro
Eurocompetition, a poster competition to celebrate the first decade of the euro, has published an eTwinning toolkit to help teachers to bring the euro to the classrooms. The toolkit is available on the eTwinning portal. The Eurocompetition is aimed at 10-14 year old pupils and is...
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Spring Day 2009 at a glance
The seventh edition of Spring Day for Europe has just been launched. In 2009, Spring Day for Europe joins the European Year of Creativity and Innovation to encourage as many schools as possible to demonstrate their creativity and innovation on a European scale.
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Building a European Learning Resource Exchange: MELT presentations at EMINENT 2008
The work of the MELT project was presented in two workshops during the 2008 EMINENT conference to a combined audience of nearly 70 delegates. As well as highlighting how Associate Partners in the Learning Resource Exchange could benefit from MELT social tagging tools and the project's...
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Last chance to take part in European Schoolnet's Games in School Survey
European Schoolnet is undertaking a major study on the use of games in schools in Europe, financed by the Interactive Software Federation of Europe (ISFE). The aim of the study is to investigate to what extent games are used in schools across Europe, generate awareness and produce...
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FuturEnergia chat with Thomas Schmidt, former Olympics Champion
On 2 December 2008, Thomas Schmidt, a former Olympics slalom canoe champion met ten schools in an online chat with the topic “Plastics, the performance materials”. The participating schools got answers to their questions on the contribution of materials to performances...
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Xperimania chat to address use of petrochemicals
Are you able to live a week or even a day without using or coming into contact with petrochemicals? British science journalist Andy Brice took up the challenge and will share his experience with students on the next Xperimania chat “(Petro)chemicals – who needs them?”...
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Youth on stage: creativity faces Africa’s challenges
On 17 November 2008 in Strasbourg, France, the European Development Village hosted the p-giving ceremony of the Development Youth Prize 2007. Louis Michel, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, awarded 54 finalists.
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Insafe quiz for Safer Internet Day 2009 launched
On 2 December 2008, the Insafe network launched its first global activity for Safer Internet Day 2009 which will take place on 10 February 2009. The activity consists of a quiz available in 22 languages for young people between 10 and 15 years old. The quiz and requires them to answer...
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New tools to share best practices on the STELLA web portal
STELLA, a European project to improve science education in Europe by sharing ideas on teaching methods and best practices, had its third meeting on 24-25 November 2008 on the Portuguese Island of Madeira. The meeting focused on the new developments of the STELLA web portal, which...
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Final call to register for EMINENT Conference on ICT in education.
EMINENT takes place this year in Rome on 4-5 December. We invite our networks, high level policy makers, stakeholders and partners to register as soon as possible for the event at http://eminent.eun.org. This year’s theme is ‘ICT in schools: learning from each other’....
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Last opportunity to take part in Games in School survey
European Schoolnet is undertaking a major study on the use of games in schools in Europe, financed by the Interactive Software Federation of Europe (ISFE). We invite teachers to take part in this study and share their views on the use of electronic games for teaching and learning...
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eLearning Awards: evaluation begins
The eLearning Awards closed on 7 November 2008. Entries are now being evaluated by an international jury of experts. Results are due to be announced at EMINENT 2008 in Rome on 4 December 2008. Additionally, a series of podcasts has been produced which include information about the...
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Celebrate the tenth anniversary of the euro with Eurocompetition
10 to 14 year-old pupils from the euro area and Slovakia have until 31 December 2008 to design their posters for the Eurocompetition, a poster competition to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the euro. Besides the digital cameras for each national winner, the overall winner will...
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eTwinning Work Groups discuss new eTwinning platform
The eTwinning Work Groups for National Support Services met in Leuven and Brussels earlier this month to kick off the 2008-2009 school year and discuss issues related to the eTwinning portal, pedagogical issues, and communication. Activities for the new school year were discussed...
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Two eTwinning Professional Development Workshops in Leuven and Ischia
The first two professional development workshops for teachers of the 2008/2009 school year took place in Leuven, Belgium, from 3-5 October 2008 and Ischia, Italy, from 16-18 October 2008. The workshops brought together 220 participants in total to discuss the new eTwinning portal...
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New competition: “Surf the net – think privacy!”
To celebrate Data Protection Day on 28 January 2009, EUN in collaboration with Microsoft just launched a new competition, inviting young people aged 15 to 19 years old to express their views and concerns about online privacy. Winners will be invited in Brussels to meet eminent jury...
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Competition on development launched!
The new website of the Development Youth Prize 2008/2009 has just been launched. In its third edition, the Development Youth Prize (DYP) focuses this year on human development with three new themes: ‘gender equality’, ‘children and youth’ and ‘cultural...
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Students debate with role models at Sci-Tech Girls Day
On 15 October 2008, more than 100 girls from around Europe attended the Sci-Tech Girls Day. At the event, they met female scientists, and role models from the technology sector, and thought about their future. This project was held in conjunction with the Women’s Forum for...
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Leading ICT in education experts to meet at the EMINENT 2008 conference and e-Learning Awards
The EMINENT Conference takes place in Rome on 4-5 December 2008. This year’s theme is ‘ICT in schools: learning from each other’, highlighting our commitment to reach out to our stakeholders, networks and partners to meet and discuss common ICT initiatives, share...
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EUN leads debate at high level event to raise interest in maths, science and technology
European Schoolnet chaired a session at the European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT) forum on 2 October 2008, focusing on how to increase young people’s interest in maths, science and technology (MST). Research indicates their interest in these topics is falling, and it...
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eLearning Awards 2008: rewarding teachers for excellent use of ICT
The eLearning Awards, Europe's premier competition to reward excellence in use of ICT in education, is launched by European Schoolnet for the eighth consecutive year. As in previous years, key industry partners are supporting the event at elearningawards.eun.org. The aim of the competition...
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eTwinning: Adventures in language and culture handbook
eTwinning has now released its latest publication, entitled “eTwinning: Adventures in languages and culture”. Produced primarily as a handbook for teachers, this new publication gives an overview of the possibilities that exist in eTwinning to incorporate language and...
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ICT in primary schools - the STEPS project
Early results are emerging from the STEPS project, Study of the impact of Technology in Primary Schools (STEPS), which European Schoolnet is co-ordinating for the European Commission Executive Agency. Partners in the study are empirica GmbH and national correspondents in 30 countries....
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Three thematic working groups take place in Brussels
Three working groups on ‘Portal’, ‘Interactive Whiteboards’ and ‘Learning Resource Exchange (LRE)’ took place in Brussels on 25-26 September 2008. These working groups were designed to address relevant issues raised by the EUN Steering Committee....
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Insight:
new series of country ICT policy profiles online
A new series of the Insight country reports is now available online. The focus of the annual update, compiled with the help of policy makers in the 31 member countries of European Schoolnet, is to present trends with regard to new technologies in school education. Reports from Austria,...
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Insafe training meeting in Luxembourg
An Insafe training session took place in Luxembourg on 22-24 September 2008. The event was attended by 80 participants from 25 of the current 26 nodes part of the INSAFE network. One of the highlights of the meeting were working groups about the way to keep websites up-to-date with...
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Games in Schools survey: need teachers views
European Schoolnet is undertaking a major study for the Interactive Software Federation of Europe on the use of games in schools in Europe: video games, computer games, online games that run on consoles, computers, handhelds or mobile phones. The aim of this project is to investigate...
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European Schoolnet tests Council of Europe game in schools
On Safer Internet Day 2008, the Council of Europe launched an online game for 7 to 10 year-olds. Entitled “Wild Web Woods”, the game is based on its widely publicised Internet Literacy Handbook, developed and revised twice since 2004 in close partnership with European...
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P2V policy visit in Paris: focus on Virtual Learning Environments
The last peer learning visit of the P2V project policy group took place on 15-17 September 2008 in Paris. The meeting focused on Virtual Learning Environments, a key priority for the French Ministry of Education which hosted the event at the International Centre of Pedagogical Studies...
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Futurenergia School Programme 2007-2008: Awards Ceremony
German MEP Holger Krahmer brought the Europe-wide FuturEnergia school programme and its competitions to a close by hosting the awards ceremony at the European Commission in Brussels, on 17 September 2008. Commissioner Figel’, responsible for Education, Training, Culture and...
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Xperimania prize ceremony in Brussels: girls come out on top in science competition
The winning students of the first Xperimanias competitions were awarded prizes at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels on 16 September 2008. The ten winners and runners-up coming from Bulgaria, Malta, Hungary, Poland and Cyprus were accompanied by over 60 high-level guests...
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The Eurocompetition is launched!
Eurocompetition, the poster competition for kids to celebrate the euro tenth anniversary, is now open! Young people from the euro area and Slovakia are invited to join in the euro's 10-year celebrations by designing a poster on the theme "10 years of the European Union's Economic...
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Take part in the Development Youth Prize 2008-2009
The 2008-2009 edition of the Development Youth Prize will focus on ‘Human Development in Africa’. Students from all European member states aged 16 -18 years are invited to prepare their creative artworks on three new themes: gender equality, children and youth and cultural...
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Inspire project teacher training meeting in Brussels
On the 27- 28 of August 2008, an Inspire teacher training sessions took place in Brussels, Belgium. During these sessions, the national coordinators learnt more about the Inspire research on the use of learning objects in math’s, science and technology. It was an occasion to...
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Sci-Tech Girls Day
European Schoolnet on behalf of the Women’s Forum is organising on the 15 October 2008 in Deauville, France, the Sci Tech Girls Day, a one day event dedicated to the promotion of a deeper participation of girls in technology and science studies.
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ASPECT project kick-off meeting: best practice in educational content
On 1-2 September 2008, project partners came together in Vienna, Austria for the first meeting of the 30-month ASPECT project. ASPECT is a new Best Practice Network for educational content coordinated by EUN and co-funded by the European Community eContentplus programme. This large-scale...
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Women in IT: debate in Paris
On 7 July 2008, seven teachers and 14 female students from 14 to 18 years old, coming from six different European countries, attended the debate ‘Women in IT’. The event was organised by Microsoft in collaboration with UNESCO, European Schoolnet, INSEAD and the Women’s...
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MELT – new brochure on learning resources
A new version of the MELT project brochure is now available. Entitled Building a Learning Resource Exchange for Schools, the brochure explains the aims of the project and its approach to enriching learning resources for schools. The brochure explains how content enrichment is accomplished...
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Commissioner Figel’ chats about intercultural dialogue and understanding
Commissioner Figel’, responsible for Education, Training, Culture and Youth, participated in an online debate for the Spring Day for Europe campaign on 16 June 2008. Students and teachers from 14 schools representing 12 countries participated in the chat. It was the fourth...
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Second Spring Day meeting in Brussels
On 6-7 June 2008, the second Spring Day for Europe meeting took place in Brussels. National Liaisons and Teacher Advisers from 22 European countries participated with the aim of discussing how to improve this project on European issues. The meeting started with an overview of the...
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eTwinning Professional Development Workshop
On 29-31 May 2008, 90 secondary school teachers from 27 countries met in Chantilly, just outside Paris, for the last eTwinning Professional development workshop of the 2007/2008 school year. Such workshops aim to raise awareness of best use of the eTwinning portal and other ICT tools,...
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eTwinning management meeting in Montreuil
The final eTwinning management meeting for the 2007-2008 school year took place on 13 June 2008 in Montreuil, France, bringing together representatives from the Central Support Service (CSS), National Support Services (NSS), the European Commission and the Education, Audiovisual...
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FuturEnergia to strengthen its impact in school and society in 2008-2009
PlasticsEurope and European Schoolnet announced that the “Energy is our Future” (FuturEnergia) school programme will start in September 2008. The competition is organised for the third year running to strengthen, enhance and support energy education across the curriculum....
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iClass validation workshops in Hungary and Poland
The last two validation workshops organised as part of the iClass project took place on 31 May 2008 in Budapest, Hungary and on 4 June 2008 in Toruń, Poland. About 40 teachers attended both events which aimed to validate how the learning platform, developed as part of the project,...
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MELT summer school in Mechelen
Teachers and other stakeholders from different European countries met in Mechelen, Belgium, on 9-12 June 2008, for a summer school on the latest achievements on the MELT portal. The aim of this summer school was to bring together the different groups that have been working on the...
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CALIBRATE project final report published
The final report of the 30-month CALIBRATE R&D project has now been published. Led by European Schoolnet and supported by the European Commission’s Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme, CALIBRATE ended in March 2008. Far from coming to a full stop, it has put into...
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Insafe meeting brings together internet safety awareness nodes
European Schoolnet, as coordinator of the Insafe network, organised a training meeting for all partners in the project on 23-24 June 2008 in Copenhagen. 25 countries participated in the meeting, and received training on topics including youth panels and gaming. They also exchanged...
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P2V consortium meeting at the EUN Office
An integration workshop and consortium meeting for the P2V project (Peer to Peer Networking for Valorisation) took place at the EUN Office on 6 June 2008. P2V is a project which aims to help teachers, inspectors and policy makers discover methods, pedagogies and inspection schemes...
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Development Youth Prize finalists announced
Following two rounds of evaluation, the finalists of the 2007 edition of the Development Youth Prize have been announced. The highest level grand jury that included representatives from the European Commission's DG DEV and DG EAC, the chair of the European Parliament’s Committee...
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eLearning Awards 2008 to launch soon!
The next eLearning Awards competition will be launched in the next months. The objective is to identify and highlight the best pedagogical uses of ICT in schools. Many teachers use their technical and creative skills to find new and innovative ways of teaching and learning based...
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European environmental website for young people – take the survey!
This July, young Europeans and their teachers are invited to give their opinion in rebuilding an EU environmental website for young people. The European Commission’s DG Environment oversees the initiative and has launched a survey to rate proposals for fresh layout, structure,...
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Find us on your favourite social networks
European Schoolnet develops a wide range of projects, competitions, and activities using innovative technologies. Many of our partners and participants are interested in our activities, in maintaining contacts with other participants, contacting us and being connected to our networks....
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New faces at the EUN Office
Several new people have recently joined the EUN Office, either as full staff personnel or as part of our internship programme.
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eTwinning camp 2008 celebrates intercultural dialogue
Organised by the Central Support Service for eTwinning in collaboration with European Schoolnet, the eTwinning camp 2008 took place in Vimeiro, Portugal, from 7 to 10 May 2008, gathering 103 participants from eight different European countries - 18 teachers and 85 pupils from 7 years...
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New teachers' website delivers strong lesson in e-safety
European Schoolnet and 14 leading industry actors including mobile operators, social networking sites, internet and mobile providers, have launched TeachToday.eu, a website to help teachers encourage children to use the internet and mobile technology responsibly and safely.
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PIC questions the relationship between policy-makers and policy-shapers
EUN’s Policy and Innovation Committee (PIC) met in the UK on 16 May 2008 to discuss how to improve the relationship between policy-makers and policy-shapers in the decision-making process. The meeting, hosted by BECTA, the UK national agency for ICT in learning, took place...
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eTwinning Working Group Meetings
All three eTwinning Working Groups brought together members of the Central Support Service (CSS) and of the National Support Services (NSS) from 20-22 May 2008, in Brussels, to discuss the eTwinning Portal (WG1), Pedagogical Issues (WG2), and Communication and Networking (WG3). As...
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iClass handbook presented at final conference
As part of the iClass project which comes to an end in June, European Schoolnet has produced a booklet to inform policy makers, researchers and practitioners about the project’s results. The publication titled ‘The Future of Learning? Results from the iClass project’...
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iClass workshops in Lithuania and Austria
In recent months, European Schoolnet has organised two more validation workshops as part of the iClass project. Some 30 teachers and 20 students participated in the two workshops organised in Lithuania on 10-11 April (for teachers) and 19-20 May 2008 (students and teachers).
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Students learned about the materials in toys via an online chat
Students from nine schools around Europe - Slovenia, Hungary, Spain, Finland, Bulgaria, Denmark, Poland and Germany - participated in the fifth Xperimania online chat on “Petrochemistry and toys” on 25 April 2008. Dr. Ralf Eisert, Head of Product Safety and Regulatory...
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Insafe family e-safety kit in European households
Launched on Safer Internet Day 2008 (12 February) the Insafe kit featuring Alex, Zeta and Hedvig has already been translated into more than ten languages and is circulating in eight European countries (Austria, Belgium Ireland, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and Spain).
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How MELT took the fast lane to China
The MELT brochure has been published in Chinese by Skólavefurinn, our Icelandic partner in this project. This development springs from a project undertaken by Dr. Geir Sigurðsson who has been creating teaching materials for Icelanders learning Chinese and introducing China...
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Successful Development Youth Prize 2007 competition
The DYP 2007 competition closed on 31 March 2008 with a total amount of over 1.100 eligible contributions from 27 European member countries. Evaluation is carried out by experts in development education, art and media until mid-June. Afterwards the finalists will be announced on...
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Take part in the Eurocompetition
European Schoolnet, in cooperation with the European Commission DG Economic and Financial Affairs, is organising the Eurocompetition. Young people aged 10-14 years old from the euro area are invited to participate by creating a poster expressing their feelings and thoughts about...
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Games in school
European Schoolnet has just launched in close cooperation with the Interactive software federation of Europe (ISFE) the first European study on the use of games in schools. 28 countries will be screened and a more detailed analysis will focus on Denmark, Estonia, Spain, France, Italy,...
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New faces at EUN office
Nathalie Scheeck and Agueda Gras-Velazquez have recently joined the EUN office. Nathalie in March 2008, as Translation coordinator, and Agueda in May 2008, as Maths, Science and Technology coordinator. This latest will be in charge of the management of science projects including...
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Successful eTwinning Conference 2008
From 14-16 March, over 400 participants met in Bucharest, Romania, to celebrate success and discuss eTwinning in Europe. The eTwinning Conference 2008 on “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue” provided practitioners, policy makers and national and central support services...
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Safer Internet Day 2008 celebrated worldwide
On 12th February, the Insafe network led worldwide celebrations of the 5th edition of Safer Internet Day on the theme “Life online is what YOU make of IT”. More than 50 countries joined forces to promote online safety for all users, especially youngsters, and to educate...
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P2V policy visit in Barcelona
On 20-22 February 2008, the second policy peer learning visit of the P2V project (Peer to Peer Networking for Valorisation) took place at the Department of Education of Catalonia, Barcelona. The meeting brought together thirty experts and project partners to develop policy solutions...
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CSS and NSS meet in Brussels to launch second phase of eTwinning
The Central and National Support Services for eTwinning (CSS and NSS) met in Brussels from 5-7 February for the first management and work group meeting of the new phase of eTwinning. In the new phase of eTwinning (2008-2014), the Action is again being coordinated by European Schoolnet...
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Spring Day for Europe 2008
European Schoolnet and the European Commission are organising the Spring Day for Europe 2008 campaign for the 6th year. Schools are invited to register and take part in new activities that encourage them to plan, organise and run their own events as part of the European Year of Intercultural...
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50 Years Together in Diversity competition: Winners announced
European Schoolnet and the Museum of Europe are pleased to announce the winners of the 50 Years Together in Diversity School Competition. On 6 February 2008, the jury - which is composed of experts from the Museum of Europe and European Schoolnet - finalised the evaluation process....
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Online chat on career opportunities in chemistry
Did you ever want to work with chemistry? Do you know about the variety of career opportunities in the chemical industry? On 14 March at 2 pm CET Fabian Scuvie, R&D Advisor for Training at essenscia, the Belgian chemistry association, will answer European students’ questions...
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European students get advice on chemistry careers via online chat
“What career opportunities are there in the chemical industry?” asked students from 11 schools around Europe on the fourth Xperimania online chat on 14 March. Fabian Scuvie from essenscia, the Belgian chemistry association, gave students practical and helpful advice in...
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Take part in the Development Youth Prize 2008
This year again, European Schoolnet, in cooperation with the European Commission DG Development, is organizing the Development Youth Prize competition. Young people aged 16-18 from around Europe are invited to participate by submitting a piece of artwork which for them best highlights...
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EUN Steering Committee supports ICT in primary school project
At a recent meeting organised in Brussels on 7 February 2008, Steering Committee members have given support to EUN’s project to study the impact of Technology in primary schools (STEPS). STEPS is a continuation from a successful study conducted in 2006 on the impact of ICT...
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First iClass advisory board meeting in Munich
Project partners and external experts in the iClass project met on 4-5 February in Munich for a two-day workshop and discussion on the latest development of the project. iClass is an innovative learning model currently being developed under a European Commission scheme. It has been...
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First iClass validation workshop in Austria
Teachers from Austria and Lithuania participated in the first validation workshop for the iClass platform. The meeting took place in March in the Tourismus Schule Bad Hofgastein, not far from Salzburg. The aim was to demonstrate the iClass system to teachers a few months before the...
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Game based mobile learning in schools
The eMapps.com final project conference took place 12 February 2008 in Prague. The aim of the conference was to share the results of the project, which started in 2004, with policy makers, academia, teachers and other interested stakeholders. 67 participants from 17 countries including...
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Learn more about peer learning in Europe with P2V
The P2V (Peer to Peer Networking for Valorisation) portal was launched at the end of January. It features the latest development in the P2V project. P2V aims to help teachers, inspectors and policy makers discover methods, pedagogies and inspection schemes in other countries using...
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Safer Internet Day competition: e-voting begins on 1 February 2008
On 12 February 2008, the Insafe network will lead celebrations across the world to mark the 5th annual Safer Internet Day. This year’s theme is “Life online is what YOU make of IT”. The competition scored the remarkable 655 entries which have been uploaded for selection....
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Make science education a fun experience with Xperimania
Europe is facing a crisis in science education with fewer and fewer students pursuing studies or careers in science. Xperimania (www.xperimania.net) aims to combat students’ bad perception of chemistry by offering fun yet simple hands-on activities to help teachers revitalise...
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Innovative Science Pedagogy in Research and Education
The INSPIRE project aims to develop and experiment new teaching methods in the field of math, science and technology (MST). The purpose is to challenge the lack of interest of students to start scientific studies and more widely to extend the supply of scientific specialists and...
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Xperimania Chat, students ask an expert: ‘Petrochemistry: caring for the environment?’
On 31 January 2008, two top experts, Dr. Roger Van der Linden (Group Manager for Environment, Energy and Product Stewardship – Borealis) and Dr. Joachim Krueger (Executive Director of the Energy, Health, Safety & the Environment & Logistics Programme – Cefic, European...
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FuturEnergia Chats
In its second year the “Energy is our Future” school programme (FuturEnergia) focuses on enhancing and supporting energy education across the curriculum in schools. The programme is intended to raise awareness on how energy consumption might affect climate change and...
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Second Policy visit of the P2V project in Barcelona
On 20-23 February 2008 the second policy peer learning visit of the P2V project (Peer to Peer Networking for Valorisation) will table place in Barcelona. The Barcelona visit follows the first peer learning visit which took place in June 2007 in Lithuania. As part of the Policy strand...
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Online information centre – take the survey
EUN is currently working closely with key names in the mobile and internet industry to create an online information centre to guide teachers through the multiple opportunities and challenges that the virtual world brings. A core element of the centre will be the availability of free...
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Development Youth Prize 2007 deadline extended to 31 March 2008
DYP 2007 has a special focus on sustainable development in Africa. Interested pupils between the age of 16 to 18 can still take part in the competition. The deadline has been extended to 31 March 2008.
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50 Years Together in Diversity: Competition closes
The 50 Years Together in Diversity competition closed on 31 December 2007. We would like to inform the participants that the competition entries are currently being evaluated in two stages that are scheduled from 1 January to 15 February 2008.
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Successful EMINENT 2007 conference in Brussels
230 participants from all over Europe and beyond met on 6-7 December 2007 in Brussels for the seventh edition of European Schoolnet’s EMINENT conference. Representatives of Ministries of Education, industry partners and practitioners were welcomed by Odile de Chalendar, outgoing...
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Maltese project wins 2007 EUN eLearning Awards
The project ‘Rescue La Vallette: An Adventure in Time’ from the Dun Anton Manche school in Malta won the Young Digital Planet Award for best use of ICT at the 7th eLearning Awards. The ceremony was held in conjunction with the EMINENT 2007 Conference in Brussels on 6...
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New technologies – we’d like to hear your views Ever wished you knew more about Web 2.0, what’s new in the world of mobiles, or where these two worlds come together? Social networking services, user generated content and access to these services via mobile phones are becoming an integral part of life for many young people.
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Sports and chemistry: chat with students
On 10 December 2007, the second Xperimania chat took place at the European Schoolnet office. The invited expert was Michel Caillebotte, the Global Marketing Manager for Sportswear from Dow Fibre Solutions. He answered students’ questions on the importance of chemistry in sports.
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GENIE meeting organised at EUN Office
A Global Exchange of Networks in Education (GENIE) meeting took place at the EUN Office in Brussels on 5 December 2007 in connection with EMINENT 2007 which was held on 6-7 December 2007. GENIE is a global network of senior officials working in government, sponsored or related national...
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P2V Project Partners Meeting in Brussels
The second P2V Project Partners Meeting took place on 7 December 2007 in Brussels. Participants reviewed the first year of the project and discussions covered reports on peer learning visits for policy-makers (to Lithuania), schools (to Austria) and inspectorates (to the Netherlands...
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Policy Innovation Committee Meeting in Brussels
The Policy Innovation Committee met on the 8 November 2007 in Brussels at the EUN Office. Participants discussed many issues around the topic of “How can innovation and ICT be used to contribute to meeting the current challenges facing education and what type of policy strategies...
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Learning Resource Exchange Seminar in Brussels
European Schoolnet organised a major seminar for approximately 100 potential Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) Associate Partners in Brussels on 9 November 2007. The seminar provided an overview of LRE benefits for Associate Partners and information on the range of options for how...
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Safer Internet Day 2008 Competition
Insafe, the European network of internet safety awareness nodes is inviting young people to express their ideas about the facts of online life. The Safer Internet Day 2008 Competition “Life online is what you make of it” launched in October 2007 encourages groups of young...
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50 Years Together in Diversity school competition – deadline reminder
Deadline for the “50 Years Together in Diversity” school competition is on 31 December 2007. Teams of students between 14 - 20 years of age, led by two teachers, are invited to take part in the competition. The winning teams will be invited to Brussels to visit the new...
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myEUROPE welcomes the 8000th school
The Hans-Furler-Gymnasium Oberkirch in Germany is the 8,000th school to register on the myEUROPE portal. Volker Wacker, who teaches at the school, joined the network while looking for school partners in the UK. The myEUROPE project and its Web portal were launched in May 2000 to...
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EUN Steering Committee elects new chairperson
Giovanni Biondi, Director of the Agenzia Nazionale per lo Sviluppo dell'Autonomia Scolastica (formely INDIRE), was unanimously elected new chair of the EUN Steering Committee, taking over Odile de Chalendar from the French Ministry of Education. The election took place during EUN’s...
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EMINENT Conference in Brussels: Register now and secure your place
The last chance to register for EMINENT is approaching and hotel rooms are filling fast. EMINENT takes place on 6-7 December 2007 in Brussels and you are invited to register and nominate the people in your organisation who you think should participate. This year's theme focuses on...
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2007 eLearning Awards: deadline extended
Interest in the seventh eLearning Awards competition has been high and so the deadline to submit entries has been extended to 11 November 2007. There are already entries from 26 countries and the event has attracted 13 sponsors: Young Digital Planet, Intel, Interwrite Learning, Promethean,...
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eTwinning Professional Development Workshop St Julien’s
The first professional development workshop for the current scholastic year, took place in St. Julien, Malta 19 – 21 October 2007. The primary audience for this workshop was school principals at both Primary and Secondary level and a number of school district administrators.
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eTwinning Professional Development Workshop Nottingham
The second Professional Development Workshop of the year took place on 26 – 28 October 2007 in the National Centre for School Leadership, Nottingham, UK.
The workshop had a specific target audience consisting of members of national, educational inspectorates, regional educational...
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Romania Joins eTwinning
As from 1 October 2007, Romania is a new participant in the eTwinning network. Only a month since the opening day, many Romanian schools showed their interest and some of them are already registered as partners.
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eTwinning Weeks 2007: A Successful Campaign
The “eTwinning Weeks 2007” campaign proved to be an even bigger success this year as it brought in registrations from over 3,600 new schools as well as over 800 new projects. During the weeks from 17 September 2007 - 19 October 2007, schools across Europe participated...
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Enter the Safer Internet Day 2008 Competition
For the third year, the Insafe network coordinated by European Schoolnet organises a European Safer Internet Day 2008 Competition. To enter the competition peers are invited to create a multimedia project related to internet safety issues.
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Children pose questions on the science of fashion
What’s the link between fashion and science? Children taking part in the first Xperimania chat for schools, held on 25 October 2007, got the chance to explore the topic with an expert guest. Children from schools in 10 countries posed their questions to an invited expert, Dr....
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CALIBRATE portal new version launched
The CALIBRATE portal was launched in an improved version at the beginning of October 2007. The CALIBRATE portal is a one-stop-point where CALIBRATE teachers from primary and secondary schools can find and use free learning resources that are located in repositories or other portals...
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EMINENT 2007 Conference and exhibition in Brussels
EMINENT takes place on 6-7 December 2007 in Brussels. As in previous years, the event allows our partners, stakeholders and networks to meet, make new contacts and discuss common ICT initiatives that foster the development of education in Europe. This year Conference’s theme...
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Celebrate achievement with technology: Enter the 2007 eLearning Awards
The seventh eLearning Awards competition is now open and schools are invited to submit entries for the eLearning Awards 2007 that exemplify the best use of ICT in education. Entries are welcome from schools or teachers in EU Member States, EEA Countries, EU Applicant Countries as...
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Raising young people’s awareness of petrochemistry
European Schoolnet and the Association of Petrochemicals Producers in Europe (Appe) are launching an ambitious new project to raise awareness of petrochemistry among young people across Europe. The project - Xperimania - proposes attractive inquiry-based science teaching and learning...
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Development Youth Prize 2007
The Development Youth Prize 2007 portal was launched at the beginning of September and is now open for submissions. The focus this year is on sustainable development in Africa. Pupils from all 27 EU member states at the age 16-18 can submit posters or multimedia presentations on...
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Bringing Europe’s 50th Birthday to schools
On 3 September 2007, in partnership with the Museum of Europe, European Schoolnet launched the “50 Years Together in Diversity” school competition which aims to raise awareness about European cultural values, the milestones of European integration and the 50 years of...
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Energy is our Future prize giving ceremony and new school year
Twelve nominees of the ‘Energy is our Future’ competition took part in a prize-giving ceremony organised at the European Parliament in Brussels in September 2007. The ceremony was chaired by EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs. More than 2,400 competition entries...
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Launch of European eTwinning Prizes 2008
The 2008 edition of the eTwinning Prizes takes place between 17 September and 31 October 2007. During this period, schools can submit online entries for the European eTwinning Prizes 2008. Finalists will be announced in January 2008 and invited to attend a prize-giving ceremony.
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eTwinning Weeks 2007: Online Campaign
To launch the new school year, the special “eTwinning Weeks 2007” are being organised to focus on encouraging schools and teachers to get involved in eTwinning. Between 17 September and 19 October, special events, activities and prizes are taking place across Europe.
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Calibrate Summer School in Portoroz
The Calibrate summer school took place on 21-24 August 2007 in Portoroz, the beautiful seaside town on the Slovenian coast. The workshop involved 62 teachers from six countries participating in the project as well as representatives from the University of Ljubljana (SI) and the Austrian...
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MELT Summer school in Tampere
About seventy teachers from different European countries came to Tampere, Finland, on 7-8 June 2007 for a two-day summer school on the use of collaborative tagging and bookmarking methods for learning resources. The summer school was organised as part of the MELT project that looks...
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EUN leads two workshops at EC-TEL’07 conference
The EUN Office organised two workshops at the second European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL'07) which took place on 18 September 2007 in Sissi, Crete, Greece. The first workshop was on Learning Object Discovery and Exchange (LODE'07) and the second on Social...
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LODE Charter voted by IMS members
On 24 September 2007, the contributing members of the IMS Global Learning Consortium have approved a charter for a new Project Group on “Learning Object Discovery & Exchange” (LODE). This group, co-chaired by EUN, aims at facilitating the discovery and retrieval of learning...
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Korean agency for ICT in education visits EUN
A delegation from KERIS, the Korean Education and Research Information Service, visited the EUN Office on 21 August 2007 to exchange and discuss possible cooperation and synergies. The delegation was headed by Pr Jung Sung Moo, Executive Director of the Education Information Center...
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Learning Resource Exchange seminar in Brussels
On 9 November, the CALIBRATE and MELT projects are organising a seminar for potential Associate Partners of the new Learning Resource Exchange service for schools that EUN will launch at the end of 2007. The event is by invitation only and aims to attract senior personnel from educational...
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PIC looks at relationship between policy and practice
Representatives of the EUN’s Policy and Innovation Committee (PIC) met in Brussels on 13 June 2007 for the second PIC meeting of the year. The event was organised in connection with the EUN Steering Committee meeting on 14 June. Eighteen PIC representatives from 11 countries...
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Lithuania: P2V policy peer learning visit
23 participants from five countries partners in the P2V project (Peer to Peer networking for Valorisation) participated in the first policy visit to Vilnius, Lithuania on 18-20 June 2007. The meeting was organised by the Lithuanian Centre of Information Technologies of Education...
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French MoE appoints new head of ICT in education division
Jean-Yves Capul, a 50 year-old French civil servant, has just been appointed as head of the French Ministry of Education’s ICT in education division. Jean-Yves Capul, who succeeds Benoit Sillard in this position, was previously deputy director of editorial and information resources...
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Three years of eTwinning celebrated in Brussels
The final CSS/NSS meeting for the 2005-2007 phase of eTwinning took place in Brussels, on 12 June 2007. The meeting both celebrated the excellent and successful collaboration during this first stage of eTwinning as well as paved the road for future activities for the 2007-2008 school...
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Professional Development Workshop in Tallinn
The final professional development workshop of the 2006/07 series took place in Tallinn, Estonia on 7-9 June 2007. 90 participants from 22 countries came together for this workshop aimed at teachers from primary school.
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New eTwinning Handbook 2007
Following the success of last year’s first edition, a new eTwinning book was recently published. The new ‘Learning with eTwinning: A Handbook for Teachers’ is now available in print and online.
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Young people play m-games at eMAPPS.com summer school
Using 3G mobile phones with built in cameras and GPS devices, groups of young people took part in educational games to explore the historic town of Torun in Poland during the second eMAPPS.com summer school 4-8 June 2007.
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The summer school was a major opportunity for some 50...
Safer Internet Day winners announced
Children and their teachers presented their winning projects in the Safer Internet Day 2007 Competition at a ceremony in Brussels Town Hall on 11 June 2007.
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Spring Day meeting in Brussels
The second project meeting for Spring Day 2007 took place on 16 June 2007 in Brussels. Almost all Pedagogical Advisers and twelve National Liaisons from the EU member states and candidate countries came together to report on their activities and experience throughout this initiative...
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Energy is our Future school competition
The finalists of the ‘Energy is our Future’ school competition have been selected out of 2,400 entries representing schools from almost all European countries
The competition is organised as part of the Future Energia project which aims to raise awareness among students...
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European Schoolnet strengthens initiatives in content exchange
EUN experts recently attended two key meetings in the area of interoperability and content exchange: the EDRENE kick off meeting which took place on 11-13 June 2007 in Naples and the European Foundation for Quality in eLearning (EFQUEL) Open Seminar on 13 June 2007.
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Successful PENCIL Science Teachers conference
More than 120 participants attended the final PENCIL Science Teachers conference on 14-16 June 2007 in Technopolis, the Flemish science centre located in Mechelen, Belgium. About 100 science teachers from all over Europe where given the chance to see the results of the PENCIL project...
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CoSN and European Schoolnet join forces
EUN and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) announced on 4 June 2007 a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the aim to share knowledge, resources and insights on the role of education technology. Both organisation will work closely together to explore synergies, exchange...
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European Schoolnet and Appe to cooperate
European Schoolnet was recently approached by the Association of Petrochemicals Producers in Europe (Appe) to launch an educational campaign for upper primary and secondary schools. Together, they are developing an innovative concept to enable young people to explore the properties...
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Development Youth Prize winners in Rwanda
On 17-21 April 2007, Development Youth Prize winners and their teachers travelled to Rwanda with Louis Michel, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid. This visit was organised as part of the Development Youth Prize competition (DYP) where young Europeans submitted...
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Steering Committee meeting takes place in Brussels
The European Schoolnet Steering Committee meeting took place on 26 April 2007 in Brussels. 20 representatives representing 17 Ministries took place in the one day meeting to discuss issues linked to EUN development and financial perspectives. This is the first Steering Committee...
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eTwinning Camp 2007: A Great Success
On 25-29 April, the 2007 eTwinning Prize winners came together for the second annual eTwinning camp in the Sicilian resort of Città del Mare in Italy. The group consisted of 120 participants from six different European countries, including 16 teachers and 104 pupils. The camp...
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Playing safe on the internet in Sicily
Adolescents, primary school pupils and teachers from the Czech Republic, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Spain shared their thoughts about safety online during internet safety workshops held on the occasion of the eTwinning camp 2007 in Città del mare. The teenage participants...
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European Schoolnet signs MoU with education.au
European Schoolnet and education.eu signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in San Francisco, USA at the end of March 2007.
The main aim of the MoU is to ensure cooperation and synergy between the two organisations, specifically in the area of learning resources and international...
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US Center for Open and Sustainable Learning visits EUN
European Schoolnet received visitors in April from the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL), Utah State, USA. The COSL, headed by David Wiley, provides tools and support for teachers in using this content, and is part of an international movement to promote the use of...
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eTwinning Work Group Meetings in Brussels
All three work groups of the eTwinning action met on 14-16 May 2006 in Brussels to build upon their previous work group discussions as well as to evaluate their activities over the last three years as eTwinning soon reaches the end of its first phase 2005-2007. The meeting brought...
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Professional Development Workshops for eTwinning
The European Professional Development Workshops for eTwinning continue their successful series with three being held within the last month, in Slovenia, Germany and Slovakia with a combined teacher involvement of over 220 teachers from 25 countries.
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Xplora hands out the Millikan web experiment to Finnish school
After more than a year of development work, Xplora, the European Gateway for Science Education has now handed over to Helsingin Yhteislyseo, a private high school in Helsinki, Finland, the web version of the Millikan oil drop experiment. This classical Nobel prize winning experiment...
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Folksonomies, social bookmarking and tagging: the state-of-the-art
Insight, EUN’s observatory for new technologies and education, recently published a Special Report on folksonomies, social bookmarking and tagging. Often cited as examples of ‘Web 2.0’, folksonomies and social tagging need to be further explained and defined. The...
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European Schoolnet presents Learning Resource Exchange to peers in Hungary
European Schoolnet gave a presentation in the Commission's Peer Learning Activity (PLA) in Budapest on 25-27 April 2007. The PLA group, set up in the framework of the European Commission’s ICT cluster, gained in-depth knowledge about Hungarian
school system and its emerging...
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Spring Day for Europe chats at EUN
Two more chats between EU decision-makers and European schools took place in the EUN Office in May 2007. The chats are part of the Spring Day for Europe 2007 campaign and featured on 11 May 2007 Margot Wallström, EU Commissioner for Institutional relations and communication...
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EUN to co-organise two workshops on digital content in EC-TEL 07
European Schoolnet is co-organising two workshops in the area of digital content discovery. The workshops will take place within the 2nd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL07) in Greece on 17-20 September 2007.
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eTwinning presented in Rhodes
European Schoolnet was invited on 10-12 May to the “Twinning for tomorrow’s world” conference in Rhodes, Greece to present the activities of the EU’s eTwinning action which has been successfully running for three years. In Rhodes, the EUN representative gave...
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European Schoolnet organises Spring Day chats
As part of the Spring Day for Europe activities, European Schoolnet organised three chats in April 2007 between European decision-makers and European schools. Chat guests included Dimitris Dimitriadis, president of the European Economic and Social Committee, Michel Delebarre, president...
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myEUROPE celebrates its 7th Birthday
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...
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Teachers share their views about eTwinning through ECOTEC Survey
In order to get a better idea about how eTwinning is working for schools in Europe, an online survey will be launched on 2 May 2007. The independent online survey has been developed by ECOTEC Research & Consulting to find out exactly how eTwinning is impacting students, teachers,...
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Professional Development Workshop in Finland
The seventh professional development workshop of the 2006/07 series took place in Helsinki, Finland on 12 – 14 April 2007.
81 participants from 19 countries came together for this workshop; the theme of the meeting was vocational education.
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eTwinning wins learning impact awards
eTwinning won a "gold Learning Impact Award" at the Learning Impact 2007 Conference in Vancouver, Canada on 19 April 2007. The Learning Impact Awards is organised by the IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC) a worldwide organisation which develops and promotes the adoption of...
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EUN-NIME meeting opens new cooperation areas
Yasutaka Shimizu, President of NIME, the Japanese National Institute of Multimedia Education and Kumiko Aoki Associate Professor, visited European Schoolnet on 22 March 2007. The aim of the meeting was to discuss each other’s activities, highlight synergies and identify possible...
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EUN establishes links with Turkey
Odile de Chalendar, European Schoolnet’s steering committee chair, met representatives of the Turkish ministry of education on 8-10 March 2007. The aim of the meeting was to strengthen the links between European Schoolnet and Turkey and to establish a dialogue for future membership...
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eTwinning Conference awards top ICT school projects in Europe
Ján Figel’, European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth, awarded this year’s top European school collaboration projects at the 2007 eTwinning conference “eTwinning Past, Present and Future” which brought together teachers from across...
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First Spring Day 2007 Meeting in Brussels
On 3 March 2007, the first meeting among the Spring Day 2007 EUN Office Team, the SD2007 Pedagogical Advisory group and the SD2007 National Liaisons took place in Brussels, at the Hotel Crown Plaza. Some 50 people attended a full day meeting. In the morning, the EUN Office SD2007...
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Schools celebrating Europe: Spring Day for Europe 2007 is now running!
The Spring Day for Europe portal was launched in February. Spring Day for Europe is an annual citizen-driven initiative aimed to encourage young people to debate, reflect, learn and make their voices heard on European issues. Spring Day, which has already proved to be a success over...
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eTwinning Camp 2007: Celebrating Europe with eTwinning
The eTwinning Prizes 2007 winners are heading to Città del Mare, Sicily, from 25-29 April for the second annual eTwinning Camp. Awarded on 23 February 2007 in Brussels as the top eTwinning projects in Europe for the 2005-2006 school year, teachers and pupils from the three...
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Development Youth Prize winners accompany Commissioner Louis Michel to Rwanda
25 winners and their teachers will leave from Brussels for a five-day trip to Rwanda from 17-21 April 2007. They will accompany Louis Michel, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid. This trip is a unique opportunity to witness real developmental work in Africa....
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CALIBRATE project meeting in Prague
The findings and recommendations of the first review of the CALIBRATE project were discussed by partners in a full project meeting in Prague on 7-8 March 2007, hosted by the Centre for International Services, of the Czech Republic’s Ministry of Education Youth and Sports. The...
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MELT partners meet in Leuven
On 20-21 March 2007, MELT Consortium partners took part in the second full project meeting hosted by Professor Erik Duval at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL). MELT is a content enrichment project funded under the European Commission’s eContentplus programme. The aim...
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Professional Development Workshop Dublin
The sixth professional development workshop of the 2006/07 series took place on 22 - 24 March 2007 in Dublin, Ireland. The workshop included 100 participants, from 23 countries and was specifically for school principals. The event took place in the Marino Institute and was organised...
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Second Insafe plus training session in Vienna
While temperatures in Vienna dropped to winter levels on the first day of spring, Insafe, the European safer internet network coordinated by European Schoolnet, organised its second Insafe network’s training meeting on 22-23 March 2007. Insafe plus, which runs from 2006-2008,...
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eTwinning Pegagogical Advisory Group publishes new book
The third and final booklet in the series entitled ‘Reflections on eTwinning’ has just been published by the eTwinning Pedagogical Group (PAG). The series of books examines the pedagogical aspects of eTwinning and this issue focuses on the areas of Professional Development...
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Peer learning project P2V kicks off in Copenhagen
P2V – Peer to Peer networking for Valorisation – had its kick-off meeting on 21-22 February 2007 in Copenhagen. The meeting brought together the nine partners of the project and was hosted by UNI.C, the Danish ICT Centre for Education and Research. The event was organised...
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Blog around the globe with Safer Internet Day
On 6 February 2007, European Schoolnet, coordinator of Insafe, the European safer internet network (www.saferinternet.org), successfully organized the fourth Safer Internet Day 2007 (SID).
A global digital event, the SID blogathon, highlighted the celebrations of the fourth edition...
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Safer Internet Day 2007 Competition winners announced
Viviane Reding, Commissioner for Information Society and Media announced on 6 February 2007 the results of the Safer Internet Day competition for the award categories of e-privacy, netiquette, power of image and innovation. The competition took place in connection with Safer Internet...
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Spotlight on Teacher training at PIC meeting
The Policy and Innovation Committee (PIC) met in Copenhagen on 22-23 February 2006, at which 11 countries were represented. The meeting was hosted by the Danish Ministry of Education. On the agenda were follow up to the EUN Round Table in Bruges last year, future directions for EUN...
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MELT project meeting in Brussels
The first MELT focus group meeting took place in Brussels on 29-30 January. 15 participants, both focus group coordinators and participating teachers from eight different MELT countries followed a two-day workshop on social bookmarking and tagging.
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MELT aims at creating better...
eTwinning Professional Development Workshops in Brussels and Amsterdam
Two Professional Development workshops took place in February, one in Brussels on 8-10 and the other in Amsterdam on 19-21. In total, more than 140 teachers attended the two workshops. The workshop in Brussels had a cross curricular theme and the working language was French. The...
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PENCIL science teachers conference in Technopolis
The second Pencil Teacher’s Conference will take place on 14-16 June 2007 in Technopolis, Mechelen (Belgium). The conference is organised within the PENCIL project, supported by the European Commission's Directorate General for Research as part of Science and Society. Xplora,...
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Insight newsletter: new issue out
The third issue of the Insight newsletter was published in February. The newsletter informs on the latest stories and reports published on the portals. This third issue leads with a story on a major report on the impact of ICT on schools in Europe published by EUN within the framework...
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Teacher's Newsletter - EUN tradition with new look
In January a revised edition of the teacher's newsletter came to life. It has a new look, a new concept and a new editor, but the idea and the aim stay the same. It is written from a teacher for teachers to give them help and support to identify good ideas and projects. In this context...
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P2V to kick off in Copenhagen
P2V – Peer to Peer networking for Valorisation - will have its kick-off meeting on 21-22 February 2007 in Copenhagen. The event is organised in conjunction with the Policy and Innovation Committee meeting on 22-23 February 2007. The meeting will bring together the nine partners...
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Safer Internet Day takes off at EUN
43 countries have signed up to take part in the fourth edition of Safer Internet Day (SID) so far. The event is celebrated on 6 February 2007. More than 200 schools and 150 organisations take part in the event via a global ‘blogathon’ and competition for creating digital...
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myInsight improved and relaunched
As part of continuing improvements to Insight, EUN’s Observatory for ICT in Education, the myInsight service has undergone a major technical overhaul, making it more powerful, flexible and easier to use. Now myInsight subscribers can access RSS feeds of their choice from the...
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Insight publishes major study report on ICT impact in schools
Available on Insight, EUN’s Observatory for News Technology and Education, is a major pan-European study titled ‘The ICT Impact Report’. This study was conducted by European Schoolnet within the framework of the ICT Cluster of the European Commission. The report...
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First PIC meeting of 2007 in Copenhagen
The first meeting of the year of EUN’s Policy and Innovation Committee will be hosted by the Danish Ministry of Education in Copenhagen on 22-23 February 2007. The theme of the meeting is "the challenge of teacher training faced with the need to mainstream ICT use and provide...
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Pedagogical Advisory Group meets in Brussels
The Pedagogical Advisory Group for eTwinning met in Brussels on the 16th January. Among the issues discussed were considerations about the next steps for the future of eTwinning and the workshop organisation at the eTwinning Conference in February.
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eTwinning Prize finalists announced
Following the success of the first eTwinning Prizes in 2006, the 2007 edition has raised considerable interest among European schools as 350 high-quality projects were submitted for the prize. The competition is now in their final evaluation phase at the European level and the finalists...
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eTwinning Working Groups meet in Brussels to kick off 2007
From 16-18 January 2007, eTwinning’s three Working Groups met in Brussels to discuss this year’s activities and the future of the Action as it approaches its next phase. With participants from the National Support Services (NSS), Central Support Services (CSS) and the...
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European schools participate in third Futurenergia chat
As part of the Futurenergia project, 16 schools in Europe participated in an online chat on 23 January 2007. The activity was organised by European Schoolnet and PlasticsEurope as a way to bring the EU Sustainable Energy Week to all schools participating in the “Energy...
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Xplora launches portal usability survey
Following the reshuffle of the Xplora portal in September 2006, the number of visitors to the Xplora portal has been increasing. To continue improving the website, the Xplora team is launching a survey to give a chance to the portal visitors to give feedback and comment on the new...
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EUN Round Table 2006 takes a look at the future of education
More than 120 high level experts met in Bruges for the first EUN Round Table ‘Imagining the future of schooling’ on 7-8 December 2006 in Bruges. The meeting brought together three key stakeholders in the EUN network: representatives from the ministries of education, the...
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eLearning Awards ceremony at EUN Round Table 2006
The eLearning Awards ceremony took place at European Schoolnet’s event “Round Table: Imagining the future of schooling” on 7 December 2006 in Bruges. More than €25,000 euros in cash prizes were awarded to 8 winners.
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LIFE project presents a roadmap to interoperability
On 7 December, about 50 participants convened to discuss the issues of adoption of learning technologies and the arising issues that touch upon the underlying interoperability aspects, both the technological and semantic ones, as well as the political will to tackle them. The event...
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European Schoolnet to coordinate new peer learning project
In December 2006, European Schoolnet was awarded the contract to run P2V, a peer learning project funded by the European Commission DG Education and Culture under the Transversal Actions of the EU eLearning Programme. P2V (Peer to Peer networking for Valorisation) is a development...
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ICT Cluster work completed
EUN has completed its work for the ICT cluster of the European Commission with a major deliverable: The ICT Impact Report. The report is a review of 17 recent studies of ICT impact on schools in Europe. It addresses the question of what have been the concrete results or impact of...
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Insafe discusses the meeting point of internet safety and education in Bruges
Media literacy was one of the main issues on the table at the Insafe network meeting on 7 & 8 December 2006. This was the first training meeting of the new Insafe plus project. It took place in connection with the EUN 2006 Round Table “Imagining the future of schooling”...
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European Schoolnet helps children to stay safe on the internet
On 8 December European Schoolnet's Insafe team (www.saferinternet.org) launched a new tool for children to evaluate their online behaviour and receive appropriate safety advice based on their choices. The data gathered from this tool will be compiled into a report on children's internet...
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EUN makes Millikan oil drop experiment available to schools
Xplora was awarded a grant from the Agilent foundation to develop in cooperation with the University of Kaiserslautern, the Millikan oil drop experiment, which can be used to measure the charge of an electron. The ‘web’ experiment is now available from the Xplora portal,...
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Nearly 350 submissions received for eTwinning Prizes 2007
Between 15 October and 15 December 2006, teachers from across Europe had the opportunity to apply for the eTwinning Prizes 2007.
With submissions now closed, the eTwinning team is happy to announce that nearly 350 submissions were received and it is anticipated that there will be...
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EUN Round Table:
The EUN Round Table on the future of schooling takes place in Bruges on 7-8 December. For two days discussions take place between invited stakeholders in education: Ministry of Education, European Commission, industry representatives and a number of experts. The discussions will...
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LIFE final session and Roadmap to eLearning Interoperability
The LIFE-project, an e-learning project focusing on interoperability, will hold its final session on 7 December 2006. The session takes place in conjunction with the EUN Round Table on ‘imagining the future of schooling’ on 7-8 December in Bruges. As one of the outcomes...
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EUN organises successful Development Youth Prize competition
From 12-14 November 2006, European Schoolnet and the European Commission welcomed in Brussels the 50 winners and runners-up of the Development Youth Prize 2006, an art competition for EU schools focusing this year on Africa. The pupils were accompanied by their 25 teachers from all...
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eTwinning reaches 20,000th registered schools milestone
Just over two years after its initial launch as the main action of the European Commission’s eLearning Programme, eTwinning has gone from strength to strength now involving over 20,000 registered schools across Europe. On 14 November 2006, St. Vincent’s RC Primary School...
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"Energy is our Future" brings energy efficiency into the classroom
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 of...
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ESLN Final Conference organised in Rome
The final conference for the European School Leadership Network (ESLN) project took place in connection with the bi-annual conference of
the European School Heads Association (ESHA) held in the Sheraton Roma Hotel in Rome on 3-5 November 2006.
Together the ESHA/ESLN conference...
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Pedagogical Development Workshop in Copenhagen and Malmo
On 19 November 2006, the third professional development workshop of the 2006/07 series took place in Copenhagen Denmark and Malmo Sweden. The workshop
was jointly organised by the Swedish and Danish Nation Support Services (NSS) it began in the Technical University of Copenhagen...
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Peer Learning Activity in Luxembourg
European Schoolnet assisted the second peer learning activity (PLA) in Luxembourg on 27-29 September 2006. EUN was appointed last year as the adviser to the ICT cluster of the European Commission. Daniel Weiler from the Luxembourg Ministry of Education and General Portal Manager...
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New faces at EUN: Christine Huybrechts
Christine joined the EUN Office in November. She will be working as Financial Manager. Her responsibilities will be to monitor all the financial aspects of the Office: management of the day-to-day financial tasks, monitoring of the cash flow situation, financial reporting, HR management...
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Round Table: ‘Imagining the future of schooling’
European Schoolnet is organising on 7-8 December in Bruges, Belgium, an expert meeting bringing together policy makers, representative from EU institutions and the industry for a two day panel discussion on the future of schooling in Europe. This event will be the occasion to take...
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MELT kick off meeting in Brussels
For two days about 40 people gathered in Brussels for the kick-off meeting of the MELT-project. MELT is project of the eContentplus programme bringing together 19 partners from 14 countries, including 16 content providers, both public and commercial ones.
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E-assessment on the agenda at October Policy and Innovation Committee meeting
The theme of the October PIC meeting was e-assessment and the use of e-portfolios. The third Policy Innovation Committee meeting of the year took place in Zoetermeer, The Netherlands on 12-13 October 2006. Hosted by Kennisnet ict op School foundation, the meeting was enriched with...
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Insafe and eTwinning join hand for the Safer Internet Day 2007 Competition.
The fourth edition of Safer Internet Day (SID) will be celebrated on 6 February 2007. In this context schools from all around the world are invited to enter a SID 2007 Competition, work in pairs and win valuable prizes for their schools.
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Back to School with eTwinning Weeks
In order to encourage schools and teachers to get involved in eTwinning at the beginning of the new school year, special “eTwinning Weeks” were organised between 25 September and 15 October 2006. At both European and national level, focused events, activities and competitions...
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eTwinning Professional Development Workshops in Nottingham and Lisbon
The eTwinning year 2006/07 opened with two Professional Development workshops held in the past month, one in Nottingham on 28-30 September 2006 and in Lisbon on the 19–21 October 2006. In total, in excess of 170 teachers attended the two workshops. The workshop in Lisbon was...
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eTwinning Work Groups meetings in Brussels
Two Work Group meetings for eTwinning took place in Brussels on 25 (WG1) and 26 (WG3) October 2006. Work Group 1 focuses on portal issues. It brought together 29 representatives from the National Support Services. Workgroup 3 (communication) was attended by 26 NSS (National Support...
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EUN presents MINOR at eMapps.com workshop in Ljubljana
In October, EUN released the first version of MINOR: An open-source repository of learning resources and metadata. MINOR will be presented for the first time to the eMapps teachers on 7 November 2006 during a workshop organised in Ljubljana, Slovenia. MINOR was developed by EUN in...
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First web experiment in Europe delivered to Gymnasium Iserhagen
Xplora, the European gateway to science education set up by European Schoolnet, has delivered to Gymasium Isernhagen in Hannover, Germany the first web experiment in Europe. The ceremony took place on 8 September 2006 with the mayor of Isernhagen, representatives from the commune...
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eTwinning CSS publishes three new books
During the summer months two sets of publications, relating to eTwinning have been published, the eTwinning Book titled ‘Learning with eTwinning’ and the first in the series of papers produced by the Pedagogical Advisory Group on ‘Reflections on eTwinning’.
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eTwinning Working Group two meets in Brussels
The first eTwinning meeting of the new school year took place in Brussels on 7 September 2006 between the Central Support Service (CSS) and representatives of the National Support Services (NSS). The meeting brought together members of the eTwinning Work Group two which deals with...
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New Release of the EUN Community
The EUN Community is a free online collaborative platform aimed at schools and institutions that want to set up and run cooperative online projects. Now in its seventh year running, the Community is currently comprised of more than 12,000 communities used by over 47,000 users.
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Important Changes at EUN
Earlier this month Ulf W Lundin announced that he is leaving his post as Executive Director of the European Schoolnet. On 21 September 2006, the Board of Directors and the Steering Committee confirmed the appointment of Marc Durando as Executive Director at their meeting in Brussels.
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MELT to kick off in October
MELT will officially start on 1 October 2006 and will have its kick-off meeting on 12-13 October in Brussels. MELT is an eContentplus programme which brings together 20 partners from 14 countries including 12 Ministries of Education/regional authorities. MELT (a Metadata Ecology...
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Xplora releases new portal, new Knoppix DVD
European Schoolnet has launched at the end of September a new and improved Xplora portal as well as a new version of its Xplora DVD Knoppix, providing further and improved tools to the science teaching community. The new portal includes enhanced usability and accessibility, clearer...
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CALIBRATE partners meet in Warsaw
CALIBRATE partners had their third project meeting in Warsaw on 7-8 September 2006. The aim of the meeting was to take stock of the work done for the launch of the first version of the CALIBRATE portal, for the 70 schools participating in the project validation exercise. The project...
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LIFE project surveys teachers’ access to learning resources
A recent LIFE survey found that only 30% of surveyed learning resources repositories in Europe contain resources matching national or local curriculum requirements. The LIFE surveys attempts to study the way teachers access and search digital learning resources. To complement this...
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European Schoolnet submits proposals for a grant to European Association
European Schoolnet has responded to the call for a grant to European Association. The European Association grant purpose is to support the functioning of association active in the field of education and training. The EUN proposal requested financial support for three aspects of ongoing...
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EUN submits proposals for extension of eTwinning services
Over the summer, European Schoolnet has submitted a proposal to the tender for an extra contact for eTwinning (2006-2007).
It concerns the extension of the Central Support Services for eTwinning provided by EUN for the year 2006-2007. The additional services covered in the proposal...
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Xplora Teachers Conference at CERN
The first Xplora Science Teachers Conference took place on 15-18 June 2006 at CERN, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory in Switzerland. The event was organised within the Pencil project and more than 80 teachers and educators from all around Europe attended the...
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PIC meeting takes stock of the wind of change in ICT policy
The second Policy and Innovation Committee meeting (PIC) of the year took place on 6 June 2006 in connection with Xchange 2006 in Belfast. The theme of the meeting was: the Next Curve: the evolution of educational policy and its impact on ICT strategies of agencies and ministries....
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eMAPPS.com summer school demonstrates use of games
On 21-25 April 2006 a summer school for teachers took place in Nida, Lithuania, the workshop was organised within the eMAPPS.com project. It was the occasion to experiment for the first time the possibilities of using games in the learning process in schools. Among the games the...
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Taking stock of the Linking and Learning Europe project
The Linking and Learning Europe project came to an end on 31 May 2006. The aim of the 12-month project was to set up a group of teachers to design a set of online resources to support teaching and learning about European citizenship and cultural diversity. The project built on the...
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Green Week School Competition winners announced
The Green Week School Competition winners were announced at the Green Week event in Brussels, on 1 June 2006. School children from Latvia and Greece took the top honours in this year's school competition. The two awards categories were ‘paintings and drawings’ and ‘digital...
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Spring Day Chats foster European dialogue
The Spring Day 2006 chat session closed on 15 May 2006. The last chat of the school year took place at the EUN Office between European schools and Mariann Fischer Boel, European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development. The chat activities took place between February and...
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CSS-NSS meeting held in Austria
The meeting between the eTwinning Central Support Service (CSS) and the representatives of the National Support Services (NSS) was held in Vienna, Austria on 8 June 2006. The CSS was represented by Ulf Lundin, EUN Executive Director who chaired the meeting. The theme of the meeting...
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Final eTwinning Professional Development Workshops
The last two eTwinning Professional development Workshops were held in Lillehammer, Norway on 18-20 May 2006 and in Vienna, Austria, on 8-10 June 2006. In Norway the meeting was attended by 95 participants from 19 countries, 60 of them were teachers. In Austria, the meeting was held...
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LIFE Festival for e-learning standard interoperability and certification
The LIFE Fest 2006 took place on 13-14 June 2006 at ‘Cité de Sciences et de l'Industrie’ in Paris. The two-day event organised, among others, by the LIFE project (Learning Interoperability Framework for Europe) brought together 90 key developers and instructional...
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Learning resource Exchange workshop in Slovenia
On 7-9 June 2006, European Schoolnet organised a Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) developer workshop in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The workshop was hosted by the Laboratory for Telecommunications of the University of Ljubljana. It brought together 16 developers from 10 organisations including...
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EUN releases upgraded Learning Resource Exchange Application profile
In May 2006, European Schoolnet completed the revision of the Learning Resource Exchange Application profile, which is used to describe digital learning resources in the form of metadata. For European Schoolnet the application profile is a tool which makes it easier for users to...
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New faces in EUN
In the past two month, three interns joined the EUN Office for a series of internship with the development team. These included Sereyvath Chea from Cambodia, Steven Jones from the UK and Colin Knight from Canada. Sereyvath will more specifically be involved in the Calibrate project,...
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eTwinning camp brings young Europeans to sunny Lanzarote
From 27 to 30 April, the six eTwinning Prize winning partnerships came together in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, for four days of technology-related workshops, pedagogical networking and rich intercultural exchange. For 77 young people and 28 teachers from all over Europe, it was the...
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P2P reports presented at final conference
A series of reports were published as part of the P2P project. The publications include four reports as part of the policy strand of the project and one report respectively for the practice and inspection strands. They are available online on the P2P site as well as in print format.
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P2P final conference, but peer learning should continue…
The P2P final conference took place in Brussels on 26 April 2006, bringing together decision-makers from Ministries of Education and regional educational authorities, as well as practitioners in schools, national inspectors and researchers. The aim of the conference was to enable...
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EUN Office organises Spring Day chats with schools
In April and May, a large set of chats between schools in Europe and European decision-makers took place at the EUN Office. The chats participants included Commissioner Margot Wallstrom, Vice President of the European Commission responsible for Institutional Relations and Communication...
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Spring Day in Europe 2006 – meeting in Paris
On 13-14 May 2006, Spring Day liaisons and teachers gathered in Paris, together with the EUN Spring Day team. The meeting took place to evaluate the last Spring Day in Europe campaign and plan a new one. Ulf Lundin, executive director of European Schoolnet opened the meeting and...
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Green Week 2006 School Competition nominees announced
The finalists for the Green Week 2006 School Competition have been selected out of 7,000 entries. The theme of this year’s school competition was biodiversity. The artwork category (drawings, paintings and collages) was open to younger pupils (5 to 10 years old) while the video...
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eLearning Awards 2006 website goes live
The English version of the elearning Awards portal went online at the beginning of May. Other language versions including French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish and Portuguese, will follow soon. European Schoolnet is organising the event for the sixth consecutive year.
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EUN submit P2V proposal within the eLearning call
In May, EUN submitted a project proposal ‘Peer to Peer networking for Valorisation’ (P2V) for the new eLearning programme of DG Education and Culture in the area of ‘transversal actions’. P2V brings together eight partners with European Schoolnet as coordinator...
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eTwinning Professional Development Workshop in Paris
The Paris workshop for eTwinning took place on 9-11 May 2006 in the Centre international d’études pédagogiques located in Sevres just on the edge of Paris. A total of 76 persons from 18 different countries attended the workshop to discuss issues linked to the...
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EUN visits Young Digital Planet
Ulf Lundin, Frans van Assche and Jim Ayre from the EUN Office visited Young Digital Planet (formerly Young Digital Poland) on 10 May 2006 at the company's offices in Gdansk. Founded in 1990, YDP now has over 360 staff and has developed an international reputation as a developer and...
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New faces at EUN: Christina Crawley
Christina Crawley joined the EUN Office in May. She will be working as the Web Editor for the eTwinning portal. Her responsibility will be to define the editorial content and policy of the portal, gathering news and information from a variety of sources in collaboration with the...
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Steering Committee meeting in Brussels
European Schoolnet’s Steering Committee had its first meeting of the year in Brussels on 27 April. It took place back-to-back with the final conference of the P2P project on 26 April. The Committee adopted the Work Programme for 2006 and the budget linked to it.
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European Learning Resource Exchange seminar in Brussels
A European Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) seminar took place in Brussels on 23 March 2006. The event brought together close to 100 organisations with an interest in digital educational content. LRE will build on EUN’s work in projects such as CELEBRATE, eCOLOURS, LIFE, FIRE,...
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CALIBRATE project meeting in Brussels
The CALIBRATE project had its second full meeting on 21-22 March 2006 in Brussels. Since the project’s kick off meeting in October 2005, preparatory work has been carried out in order to start connecting learning content repositories from Austria, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania,...
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myEUROPE grows to 5,000 schools
A month before celebrating its sixth anniversary, myEUROPE has grown to 5,000 schools. The 5,000th registered school is Ysgol Gynradd Llanfyllin Primary School in Wales, the UK. The myEUROPE project was launched in May 2000 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration.
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Spring Day campaign reaches new heights
For the first time in its four-year history, Spring Day in Europe has reached the 7,000 school milestone. The 7,000th to register on the portal is a Romanian school. Spring Day in Europe 2006 is an event for schools to discuss the future of Europe. Many public figures are taking...
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LIFE website on Insight
The LIFE project website was relaunched in March in a new refreshed layout, it is now embedded within Insight, EUN’s Observatory for new technology and education. The LIFE site is the one-stop place to know more about the project developments and news in the field of interoperability....
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European Schoolnet kicks off eLearning Awards 2006
European Schoolnet launched mid-April, the eLearning Awards 2006 website. EUN is organising the event for the 6th consecutive year and this year the competition will culminate in a ceremony that will take place during European Schoolnet’s 10th Year Anniversary celebration and...
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eTwinning Professional Development Workshops in Prague and Athens
Two Professional Development workshops were held in March 2006, one in Prague, the Czech Republic on 23-25 March 2006 and in Athens on 6-8 April 2006. In total, more than 160 teachers attended the two workshops. The workshop in Prague was specifically for teachers of Mathematics...
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New faces in EUN Office
Jean-Noël Colin, Sofia Aslanidou and Ivo Šír joined the EUN Office in April. Jean-Noël is EUN’s Chief Technology Officer. His main responsibilities are to manage EUN’s technical platform and work on EUN’s system architecture and technological development....
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Xplora Science Teachers Conference
Xplora, EUN’s portal for science education within the Pencil Project is organising a science teachers conference at CERN, Geneva. The conference will take place on 15-18 June 2006 and will focus on open source and ICT in science education, science teaching approaches, the role...
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Spring Day chats with Commissioners
Commissioners Jan Figel’, responsible for Education, Culture and Multilingualism visited the EUN Office on 2 March 2006 to chat with Spring Day schools. He was followed by Danuta Hübner, responsible for Regional Policy on 21 March. The chats are a regular feature in the...
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Policy Innovation Committee in Barcelona
EUN’s Policy Innovation Committee met in Barcelona on 23-24 February 2006. The theme of this first meeting of 2006 was innovation in education. The workshop included presentations by national experts and working group sessions to define what innovation is and how innovative...
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SIFA-EUN sign cooperation agreement
The School Interoperability Framework Association (SIFA) and European Schoolnet have signed a cooperation agreement. The agreement makes European Schoolnet SIF representative in Europe, while BECTA is SIF representative for the UK. With this agreement, SIFA and EUN will work together...
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Agilent supports Xplora for web experiments
Agilent Technologies Foundation has provided a grant of €42,000 to Xplora to carry out a new web experiment: the Millikan oil drop experiment. Xplora, the European Science Education Gateway which is supported by the PENCIL project and funded by the European Commission's Directorate...
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eTwinning Professional Development Workshops in Edinburgh and Bonn.
Professional Development workshops were held in Scotland on 23-25 February 2006 and in Germany on 9-11 March 2006. In total, 150 teachers attended the two workshops. The workshop in Scotland focused on presenting eTwinning to teachers of foreign languages, the workshop in Germany...
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eTwinning Working Groups in Brussels
As the number of schools registered on the eTwinning portal reached 13,000 in March, two of the CSS-NSS Working Group met in Brussels on 16-17 March 2006. The meetings were on Working Group 1 (Portal) on day one and Working group 3 (Communication) on day two.
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ESLN third conference in Rome
The third working conference of the European School Leadership (ESLN) network, took place on 16-18 March 2006 in Fiuggi, Rome. The event marked the start of Module 3 of the online professional development programme for school leaders.
Fifty five school leaders from 15 European Countries...
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LIFE project organises plugfest in Paris
The second plugfest organised by the LIFE project will take place on 13-14 June 2006 in Paris. LIFE is an eLearning project of which EUN is the coordinator. The objective of this event is to present the state of the art of eLearning technologies, demonstrate and explore interoperability...
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EUN invited to contract negotiation for MELT
EUN’s MELT proposal which was submitted late last year to the first call of the new eContentplus programme scored high in the evaluation and EUN has now been formally invited to begin contract negotiations with the Commission with a view to starting the project later in 2006.
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Apple’s donation helps EUN in various projects
Apple UK recently made a substantial donation of computer equipment to the EUN Office in Brussels and to EUN’s technical platform in Austria. These included a Power Mac Quad G5 and its 23” flat panel, an Xserve G5 server and 14 iBook laptops made available to EUN for...
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Key figures of European Schoolnet budget 2006
European Schoolnet’s budget for 2006 was presented to EUN’s Board of Directors on 15 February 2006. In the budget document presented to the Board, the EUN Office put together a series of graphs which describe adequately European Schoolnet’s revenues and costs.
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Board of Directors meeting
The EUN Partnership Board of Directors met on 16 March 2006. Discussions focused on the status of projects and contracts with the EC, on the cash flow and issues related to the EUN Office.
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New Spring Day web editor
A new member of the EUN Office is Agathe Djelalian who joined the EUN in January 2006 as a Web Editor for the Spring Day in Europe 2006 portal. Her duties include providing news and information for the portals as well as writing and organising contents. Prior to joining EUN, Agathe...
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EUN Board of Directors meeting
The Board of Directors of the EUN Partnership met in Brussels on 15 February. This first meeting of the Board in 2006 was particularly focused on budgetary matters. It adopted the budget for 2006 taking into account new projects and services awarded to European Schoolnet in the last...
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Safer Internet Day 2006 goes global with EUN
For the second year, the Insafe network coordinated by European Schoolnet organised a European Safer Internet Day. This year it took place on 7 February 2006, one of the highlights of the event was a global ‘Blogathon’ on internet safety under the patronage of Viviane...
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Country reports on insight portal
Insight’s Country reports have been uploaded to the Insight database. The series of reports is a major section of the Insight website. For policy makers and other education professionals they are a unique tool to identify latest e-learning and education trends in their neighbouring...
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eTwinning Workgroup 2 in Brussels
Workgroup 2, dealing with quality issues and professional development, met on 10 February 2006 in the Belgian French Ministry of Education in Brussels. 26 National Support Services were represented. Anne Gilleran, Pedagogical Manager for eTwinning with the Central Support Service,...
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Seminar on Learning Resource Exchange in Brussels
European Schoolnet is organising on 23 March 2006 in Brussels a major seminar on digital learning content and its vision for a new pan-European Learning Resource Exchange. Organised within the framework of the CALIBRATE project, the event aims to identify how Ministries of Education...
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LLE learning objects now online
The first set of learning objects (LOs) on European citizenship were made available at the end of January on the myEurope.eun.org portal. The LOs were submitted by 40 teachers from all EU and Candidate countries, part of the “Linking and Learning Europe” (LLE) teacher...
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Xplora DVD helps science education
Xplora – EUN’s portal for Science education – has started the dissemination of an Xplora's Knoppix DVD for science education. More than 400 copies of the DVD have already been preordered on the Xplora portal. The DVD contains educational material from the internet...
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Xplora organises online event with Deutsches Museum
Xplora, EUN’s portal for science education, has teamed up with Deutsches Museum, one of the world's largest museums of science and technology, to organise an online event on Dynamic Geometry. The event will take place at 10.30 am on 14 March 2006 at the Deutsches Museum in...
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AJAX brings new functionalities to EUN portals
Several EUN portals now use a state of the art web application called AJAX. It is a JavaScript-based application which has taken the web by storm since its invention a year ago. For European Schoolnet’s development team, AJAX means more flexibility as it allows, among other...
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Sweden and Israel connect to EUN’s learning resource exchange for Europe
An Israeli and a Swedish repository are now connected to EUN’s federation of learning resources. The expansion of the federation is part of the LIFE project (Learning Interoperability Framework for Europe) which aims to enhance the interoperability of the different collections...
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Successful eTwinning Conference in Linz
The second European eTwinning Conference took place in the Design Centre in Linz, Austria on 13-15 January 2006. More than 450 teachers gathered for the three-day conference to take stock of the eTwinning action, one year after it was launched in Brussels.
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myInsight service available on Insight portal
The myInsight feature of the Insight portal was launched at EMINENT and we invite EUN News readers to discover its new features. myInsight is an integrated part of Insight – EUN’s observatory for ICT and Education. It is a network-building tool for experts in education...
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eTwinning prize winners announced
The winners of the first eTwinning prize were presented on Friday 13 January 2006 at the eTwinning conference. Ján Figel’, Commissioner for education, training, culture and multilingualism and Elizabeth Gehrer, the Austrian Minister for Education, Science and Culture...
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Green Week Competition website goes live
For the fifth time, European Schoolnet will be organising the Green Week Competition for schools. A new portal was launched at the end of January highlighting this year’s theme: biodiversity. As in past years the competition allows young people to learn about environmental...
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Spring Day in Europe 2006 meeting in Prague
The group of 30 pedagogical advisors from all member and candidate EU states and the Spring Day team from the European Schoolnet office met in Prague on 7-8 January 2006 to discuss main issues related to Spring Day 2006. The meeting took place in the Czech Ministry of Education and...
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Commission holds ICT cluster meeting first time with EUN as supporting expert
The European Commission had its third ICT cluster meeting in Brussels on 6 December 2005 to evaluate the first Peer Learning Activity (PLA) held in Oslo, September 2006 and to prepare the next PLA which will take place in Finland at the end of January 2006. European Schoolnet, represented...
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EUN NEW CONTRACTS 2006 European Schoolnet has been awarded four new projects and service contracts with the European Commission. At the end of December the European Commission signed the contract for CALIBRATE. Before Christmas, DG Press gave EUN a contract to organise the Spring Day 2006 campaign.
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ESLN Meeting at the EUN office
A European School Leadership Network (ESLN) project meeting took place in Brussels on 16 December 2005.
Nine project partners discussed the last working conference held in Budapest in 22 – 24 September 2005 and the planning of the next training module on Leadership of Change...
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Successful EMINENT 2005 Conference
Widening the uptake of ICT in schools was the theme of EMINENT 2005, European Schoolnet’s sixth annual conference. This annual EUN Conference, which brought together over 200 experts, took place in Paris on 8-9 December 2005. The event was co-organised by European Schoolnet...
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eLearning Awards ceremony at EMINENT 2005
The eLearning Awards ceremony took place at EUN’s annual EMINENT conference on 8 December 2005. More than €24,000 in cash prizes and over €10,000 in software and equipment were awarded. Describing the prize, EUN Executive director Ulf Lundin said, “The aim is...
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European Schoolnet launches Spring Day 2006 portal
Spring Day in Europe 2006 was launched on 23 November 2005 when the new portal went live. More than 1,300 schools already registered for the event. This year’s theme is “Debating our Future” and the event will again give a voice to young Europeans and help teachers...
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Second CSS-NSS General Meeting in Florence
A CSS-NSS meeting took place on 6 December 2005 in Florence to discuss the achievements and future developments of the eTwinning action. The meeting brought together members of the Central Support Service, representatives of the National Support Services and the eTwinning project...
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eTwinning professional development workshop in Budapest and Malta
The first two professional Development workshops were held in Hungary on 24-25 November 2005 and in Malta on 2- 3 December 2005. The participants of the workshops had the honour of being addressed by two Ministers of Education, Mr Magyar Bálint, the Minister for Education...
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eTwinning prize winners nominees announced by European Schoolnet
A European panel of experts has now evaluated the top list of projects recommended by the National Support Services to win this year's eTwinning prizes. All entries submitted have been evaluated, first by the National Support Services and then by the European evaluation panel consisting...
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Paris hosts stakeholder meeting for internet safety
Insafe, the European network of internet safety awareness nodes, organised a meeting in the framework of the EMINENT conference on 9 December 2005.
Entitled “Education meets industry”, it brought together 60 representatives from a wide range of organisations to meet...
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Insafe book presented in Paris
The Insafe book was officially presented on 9 December 2005 in Paris at a ceremony. It is written by young writers from the 16 participating countries in the Insafe Friendship and Magic competition. The event was organised in conjunction with EMINENT 2005 and the winners were handed...
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P2P reports for Northern Ireland and Finland published
Peer review reports on Northern Ireland and Finland for the Policy strand of the P2P project have been published online and on paper. The 28-page publications make fascinating reading for decision-makers at all levels. They describe and analyse the ICT policy state of play in each...
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PENCIL consortium meeting in Toulouse
All members of the PENCIL consortium met at Toulouse's space science centre, La cite de l'espace on 25-26 November 2005. The meeting was very positive and fruitful, and included a "hands on" session for participants to understand more about the evaluation procedure for the project...
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Workshop on Quality of Digital Learning Resources
European Schoolnet organised on 30 November a workshop on quality of digital learning resources during the first European Conference on Innovation for Quality in eLearning. The conference, which took place in Berlin, was organised by the European Foundation for Quality in eLearning...
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CALIBRATE workshop on the use of the curriculum as metadata
A CALIBRATE meeting took place on 28-29 November 2005 in Brussels to organise research into descriptions of national curricula and investigate how different curricula in Europe can be used in the discovery, evaluation and use of learning resources. CALIBRATE is a 6th Framework Programme...
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EMINENT Conference in Paris, last chance for registration
The last chance to register for EMINENT is approaching. EMINENT takes place next month on 8-9 December in Paris and we would like to invite EUN News readers to register and to nominate the people in their organisation who you think should participate. This year’s theme focuses...
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Spring Day 2006, Debating Our Future
Spring Day in Europe – the successful event to give schools a voice in the debate on Europe – will be organised also in 2006. The 2006 edition builds on the positive results and the demand from schools to continue the event. The theme for Spring Day 2006 will be "Debating...
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Xplora organises chat session with inventor Ray Kurzweil
On 7 November 2005, the Xplora portal hosted the first in a series of chats with leading scientists and innovation experts. Ray Kurzweil, one of most far-sighted thinkers in the field of artificial intelligence, was the Xplora chat guest: Xplora (www.xplora.org) is the gateway to...
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eMapps.com project launched in Prague
The eMapps.com project, of which European Schoolnet is a partner, had its kick-off meeting early October 2005 in Prague. The project will run for 30 months. eMapps.com is an eLearning project funded under the European Union IST programme to develop an interactive map based game environment...
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Meeting on eTwinning portals
On 27-28 October 2005, meetings of eTwinning Working Group 1 (Portal) and Working group 3 (Communication) took place in Brussels. Working group 1 discussions focused on how the national and European portals could complement each other. Working Group 3 discussed the best and most...
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First LLE teacher meeting in Brussels
Over the past two weekends, 40 teachers met in Brussels and took part in training sessions on designing learning objects (LOs). The workshops were organised by the Linking and Learning Europe project (LLE), which is supported by the European Commission DG Enlargement. For the current...
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ePortfolio plugfest: Real time testing of interoperability
The first ever e-portfolio plugfest was organised in Cambridge on 26 October 2005 by the EPICC project of which European Schoolnet is a partner. The event attracted about 100 delegates to follow the demonstrations of importing and exporting files from one e-portfolio system to another....
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LIFE project organises expert meeting on learner information
A LIFE meeting took place on 26 October 2005 in Cambridge to take stock of the current emerging issues in the area of learner information and to identify key issues, obstacles and drivers. This expert group meeting formulated a number of recommendations addressing technical, semantic,...
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UN-EUN event for schools at WSIS Tunis
The United Nations Department of Public Information in collaboration with European Schoolnet is organising an event for schools in connection with the upcoming World Summit on the Information Society to be held in Tunis on 16-18 November 2005. Mrs Nane Annan, wife of UN Secretary...
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CALIBRATE project fosters eLearning in an Enlarged Europe
CALIBRATE was launched in Tallinn on 10-11 October 2005 at a kick-off meeting hosted by the Tiger Leap Foundation. It is an IST project supported by the European Commission’s 6th Framework Programme.
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Policy and Innovation Committee meeting in Birmingham
The second Policy and Innovation Committee meeting of the year took place in Birmingham on 16-17 October 2005, in connection with the Xchange 2005 conference. The central theme of the PIC meeting was quality criteria in the area of eLearning.
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P2P project inspectorate strand meeting in Brussels
The inspectorate strand of the P2P project (P2P) had its second meeting in Brussels on 7-8 October 2005 to take stock of the work done in the different countries reviewed. This strand (P2P-i) aims to bring together inspectorates of education in six countries to share practices, policies...
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Commission contracts EUN to provide services for its ICT cluster
Early October, the European Commission selected European Schoolnet’s bids to provide support services for the peer review cluster on ICT in education. The tender was submitted by EUN in response to the DG Education and Culture call to enhance the contribution of ICT to the...
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EPC Committee Meeting in Luxembourg
EUN’s Education Portal Committee met in Luxembourg on 13-14 October 2005, hosted by the Luxembourg Ministry of Education and Vocational Training. Highlights of this 3rd EPC meeting were ‘new generation portals’, ‘semantic web’ and ‘topic maps’....
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iClass Educational Co-ordination Board and Executive Committee meetings
A series of meetings of the 22-strong iClass project consortium took place in Tel Aviv November 29th to December 1st. The key items were the launch and testing of Release 1 of the iClass personalised learning system, planning for the Release 2, articulating a clear vision for the...
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Xplora launches event for schools
The European science education portal, Xplora, was presented to schools on 13 October 2005 at Technopolis in Mechelen, Belgium. Xplora (www.xplora.org) is the European gateway to science education. It is aimed at teachers, pupils, scientists, science communicators and science educators....
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Romania applies for EUN membership
In the beginning of October, Romania applied for membership of European Schoolnet. Commenting on the application, Paloma Cecilia Petrescu State Secretary for pre-university education said “European Schoolnet offers a European dimension and facilitates access to specific information....
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eLearning Awards 2005 evaluation begins
Nearly 800 entries were submitted to the eLearning Awards 2005 through the EUN portal before the 19 October deadline. The Awards, now in their fifth edition, aim at identifying and awarding excellent practice in using ICT for learning. The Awards will be presented at a ceremony during...
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Steering Committee meeting in Vilnius
The EUN Steering Committee met in Vilnius on 22-23 September 2005, hosted by the Lithuanian Ministry of Education. A highlight was a half-day session on the first set of outcomes of the Peer-to-Peer project. Another main issue was the work programme and the budget of EUN.
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Peer 2 Peer experts present project at SC meeting
The report for Northern Ireland and Finland of the Peer-2-Peer project policy strand was presented at the Steering Committee meeting in Vilnius on 22-23 September 2005.
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New eTwinning portal launched
A new and further developed eTwinning portal was launched at the end of September. The portal features a new graphical interface and restructured eTwinning portal to allow schools in Europe to eTwin more easily. In the first year of eTwinning, many schools have successfully carried...
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Insight portal gets a major redesign
In the summer, the Insight portal was redesigned and reorganised. Reflecting this work, early September, a beta version of the portal was launched. The new portal will officially be launched and receive its final additions in October. Insight will provide effective and relevant tools...
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NSS workgroup 2 meeting in Brussels
On 16 September 2005 a meeting of the eTwinning workgroup 2 (WG2) took place in Brussels. This group focuses on pedagogical issues of the eTwinning action and consists of NSS and CSS members.
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The meeting focused on three main items: the eTwinning quality label criteria, the...
Virtual School stocktaking conference in Stockholm
The closing conference for the Virtual School took place on 16-17 September 2005 in Stockholm. More than 70 people attended the successful event to take stock of the Virtual School achievements since its launch in 1998.Virtual School was a pioneer and inspiring project for EUN. It...
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LIFE project organises two meetings on content and learning object repositories
The aim of the first meeting organised in Manchester on 5 September 2005 was to take stock of the current emerging issues in the area of interoperability of learning resources repositories and to identify key issues, obstacles and drivers. This expert group meeting formulated a number...
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Insafe network meets in Greece
The Greek partner of the Insafe network hosted a training session and steering committee meeting in Thessaloniki from 21-23 September.
Key issues were the annual stakeholder meeting to be held in Paris during EMINENT, and the storytelling competition. European Schoolnet is the coordinator...
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eCOLOURS final project meeting in Florence
The final meeting of the eCOLOURS project coordinated by EUN took place in Florence on 8-9 September 2005. eCOLOURS is a nine-month feasibility project, funded by the eContent programme. It is concluding its work and will finalise the project deliverables by the end of September...
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Pedagogical Advisory Group meeting in Brussels
The Pedagogical Advisory Group (PAG) for eTwinning held their final meeting for 2005 on 15 September 2005 in Brussels. The group discussed the first two items on the agenda for the Work Group 2 meeting being held the following day, the eTwinning Quality Label and the ten European...
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iClass moves up a gear
As part of EUN’s new responsibilities as educational coordinator for the iClass project, Roger Blamire took part in a series of meetings and workshops in Dublin on 7-9 September 2005. Roger Blamire also took part in the Executive Committee meeting and chaired a meeting of the...
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Registration for EMINENT 2005 is open
Hosted by the French Ministry of Education, European Schoolnet's annual EMINENT conference will take place at the Concorde-Lafayette Hotel, Paris, on 8-9 December 2005. Registrations are now open at http://eminent.eun.org. This year’s theme focuses on ensuring that schools...
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EUN project proposals
In July, EUN submitted two proposals for the eLearning programme (DG EAC): ACME and LO4ALL. ACME answers a call for ‘transversal actions’ and LO4ALL for ‘digital literacy’. These were followed by two other proposals submitted in September: VIRTUALITY and EDUGRID...
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Laura Massoli from Italy joined the Xplora team as a web editor. She is in charge of providing news and information, writing and organising content for the different sections of the portal, and collecting external contributions from partners. She also analyses portal usability and...
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Xplora launched at ECSITE conference
The new version of Xplora portal (www.xplora.org) was launched at the ECSITE conference on 10-12 June 2005, held in Vantaa, Finland. Xplora is the European gateway for science education. It includes new tools to help science teachers in Europe as well as a fresh design.
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Excellent review for CALIBRATE proposal
The CALIBRATE project received an excellent first evaluation from the European Commission. CALIBRATE brings together eight Ministries of Education, including six from the new member states, and other expert and user organisations to carry out a multi-level project to support the...
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Meeting between the central and national support services of eTwinning
On 22 June, the coordinators of the eTwinning action at European and national levels met to take stock of work done so far and to discuss strategies for the second year of the eTwinning action. About 60 people took part in the discussions, including the European Commission.
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EUN organises training on eTwinning tools
On 21 June, a training session on the eTwinning tools took place at the EUN Office. The National Support Services were invited to get a thorough introduction to the technical functionality and pedagogical use of the eTwinning tools. Almost all National Support Services participated...
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Commissioner Reding acknowledges Insafe’s work for Internet safety
On 14 June 2005, Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media gave a keynote speech at the Child safety and mobile phones conference organised by the European Commission in Luxembourg.
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Linking and Learning Europe project to be launched
EUN has signed a contract with the DG Enlargement for its project “Linking and Learning Europe” (LLE). It aims to design a set of online resources to support teaching and learning about European citizenship and cultural diversity.
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European Schoolnet leads in learning standards
European Schoolnet's Strategy Manager Frans Van Assche has been re-elected as vice chairman of CEN/ISSS Workshop on Learning Technologies, a European body that encourages the effective development and use of appropriate standards for learning technologies in Europe.
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EUN demonstrates online service to harmonise thesauri
During the last international meeting of learning technology standardisation experts in Paris on June 16-17 2005, organised by CEN/ISSS WSLT Frans Van Assche demonstrated an EUN developed online service facilitating the harmonisation of vocabularies including value lists, glossaries,...
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P2P inspectorate strand evaluates ICT in schools
The Peer 2 peer project has a separate strand in which inspectorates throughout Europe peer review each others’ work. The focus of the peer review is how to evaluate the introduction and use of ICT for teaching and learning. Six inspectorates, Sweden, France, England, Ireland,...
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Peer learning takes shape in P2P project
On 23 June 2005, coordinators of the P2P project met in Brussels to take stock of the project and its three strands of policy, practice and inspection. Also under discussion was the evaluation and dissemination of P2P research and findings.
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iClass appoints EUN as education coordinator
EUN has been contracted to provide pedagogical leadership to the iClass project and the first meeting of the project's Educational Co-ordination Board took place in the EUN office on 17 June.
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eLearning Conference 2005 in Brussels
The eLearning conference took place on 19-20 May 2005 in Brussels. The event was organised by the European Commission's DGs Education and Culture and Information Society under the patronage of Viviane Reding, Commissioner for Information Society and Ján Figel', Commissioner...
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European Schoolnet featured at the eLearning conference
European Schoolnet was highlighted in several ways at the eLearning Conference.
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In his closing remarks Commissioner Figel's Head of Cabinet, Miroslav Adamiš recognised EUN by saying: "We have seen how the European Schoolnet is using the Internet to support co-operation between...
EUN report on new ways of assessing teachers
Early May, European Schoolnet published the report: "Assessment schemes for teachers' ICT competence". Sixteen European countries took part in the survey which was carried out at the initiative of the EUN's Policy and Innovation Committee and is part of the P2P project.
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eTwinning Prize 2005 announced
The first eTwinning competition has been announced. It is aimed at primary and secondary schools registered for the eTwinning action in Europe.The competition closes on 20 November 2005, and partnerships may submit projects from September 2005 onwards. There are three categories...
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P2P policy review visit to Finland
The third P2P policy review took place in Helsinki on 9-11 May 2005. After two visits in Northern Ireland and France, the visit benefited substantially from the experiences gained in the previous visits in terms of procedures and mutual understanding of the functioning of the education...
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Policy Innovation Committee members meet in Brussels
EUN's Policy Innovation Committee (PIC) met on 17 May 2005 in Brussels. The central theme of the meeting was leadership in education. It was organised as a workshop with interactive sessions among participants.
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Insafe Steering Committee meeting
European internet safety awareness nodes met in Germany 28-29 April 2005. German node "Klicksafe" hosted the event in the picturesque town of Deidesheim.
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European Schoolnet, as coordinator, and 17 of the network's 19 nodes attended the meeting. The steering committee welcomed...
myEUROPE celebrates its fifth anniversary
myEUROPE is celebrating its fifth anniversary. It was launched in May 2000 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration. The project aims to bring together teachers from all over Europe to work together on European topics. Thanks to myEUROPE, schools have had the...
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ESLN meets in Budapest
The European School Leadership Network (ESLN) consortium group met in Budapest on the 21 May 2005 to discuss the further implementation on Module 2 of the professional development course for European school leaders.
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The ESLN is a project to build a network of school leaders...
Meeting on exchange of learning resources
On 17 May 2005, representatives from 13 European countries met in the EUN Office to set up a framework to discuss national policy issues on learning resource repositories and to agree on concrete steps towards setting up a pilot network for the exchange of learning resources in Europe....
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EUN-SIF meeting bridges US and EU experiences in interoperability
Linking US and European experiences in the field of interoperability was the highlight of the EUN-SIF Conference, which took place on 19-20 April, 2005.
The School Interoperability Framework (SIF) Executive Director Larry Fruth along with representatives from, among others, Blackboard,...
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Steering Committee members meet in Brussels
The EUN Steering Committee met in Brussels on 18 April 2005 for its first meeting of 2005. The Ministry of Education of the Flemish Belgian Community kindly hosted the meeting. Slovakia was welcomed as new member and Latvia as an observer. There were three key items: Content exchange,...
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Virtual School moves on
The Virtual School has been the backbone of European Schoolnet school networking services ever since the launch of the EUN in 1998. Following a review and a discussion of options, the Virtual School Board decided that the initiative should come to an end with a taking stock conference...
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Green Week Competition closed
The Green Week Competition has now closed for entries and more than 3,000 paintings and 120 movies made by groups of children have been submitted through the website. A panel of teachers and environmental experts from all over Europe will be judging the entries.
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New EUN Web editor
Anne Pinstrup joined European Schoolnet in April, from Denmark; she is a web editor for eTwinning, responsible for the editorial policy and content of the eTwinning portal. She is in charge of providing news and information on eTwinning and school collaboration for teachers and other...
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Spring Day in Europe 2005 meeting
On 23-24 April 2005, teachers and national liaisons from all EU member and candidate countries gathered in Brussels to discuss the results of the last Spring Day in Europe campaign and events. Over the last three years, the project, which aims at ‘making the voice of young...
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SchoolPlaza helps teachers communicate across borders
The EUN SchoolPlaza is to be launched. It is a hub for social and professional communication among teachers. SchoolPlaza is an EUN project to connect teachers in Europe who share similar interests or teach the same subjects. For this project, EUN developed a new backend that it will...
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TwinSpace boosts eTwinning collaboration TwinSpace, a collaborative workspace developed specifically by European Schoolnet for eTwinning activities, was launched in April. TwinSpace is dedicated to registered and approved eTwinning partnerships.
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It provides schools with a single place where they can publish documents...
CSS-NSS eTwinning meeting
Three CSS-NSS workgroup meetings took place on 20-22 April, 2005 in Brussels to discuss and take stock of the eTwinning action in Europe. On 20 April, various aspects related to the content and functionality of the portal were discussed as was the coherence between the central and...
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Record number of schools for Spring Day 2005
More than 6,600 schools signed up for Spring Day in Europe 2005, which took place on 17 March 2005. It was the third year European Schoolnet organised the event in collaboration with the European Commission. Many events during the day involved European and national political figures,...
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100th issue of teachers'
Issue 100 of European Schoolnet Teachers' Newsletter was posted in 14 languages to an estimated 30,000 teachers around Europe and beyond on Monday 21 February 2005. This newsletter is the only one of its kind and has now been a European feature and source of information since October...
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Ernist project wins e-Learning awards ERNIST Schoolportraits won the European eLearning award (eureleA) in the category 'Journalism and Reporting' at the prize-giving ceremony on 14 February 2005 in Karlsruhe. ERNIST is an eLearning Programme project coordinated by European Schoolnet, that has brought together researchers...
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Education Portal Committee meets at the EUN Office The second EPC meeting took place on 11-12 March 2005. The first day featured a series of presentations from EUN projects leaders and among others, a presentation of the Australian education.au portal by Gary Putland its director. The second day, two working groups discussed the...
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EUN submits CALIBRATE proposal On 22 March 2005 EUN submitted a proposal call CALIBRATE, in response to the IST call 4. CALIBRATE (Calibrating eLearning in Europe) brings together 17 partners in ten countries to carry out a project to support the collaborative use and exchange of learning resources in schools.
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eLearning Awards takes off end of March The eLearning portal will be launched in the last week of March, European Schoolnet is organising the event for the fifth year. Entries will start as of the last week of March until mid-October 2005, on the http://elearningawards.eun.org...
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Safer internet stakeholders sign up for newsletter
The Insafe team published the second issue of its Safer Internet newsletter on 10 March 2005. The newsletter highlights safer Internet awareness-raising activities by national nodes, industry and other partners. It also endeavours to inform about emerging technologies and their associated...
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Celebrate project reaches completion
The final report of the CELEBRATE project will be submitted to the European Commission at the end of March 2005. The project was completed last November and received excellent feedback from the project reviewers. The project included 35 deliverables. CELEBRATE was EUN's biggest project...
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Peer-2-Peer review in France
The Peer-to-Peer (P2P) project did its second peer review in Paris on 7-9 March 2005, following a successful first review in Northern Ireland early December 2004. P2P is an eLearning project which aims to develop a closer dialogue between senior officials working on eLearning policy...
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EUN launches major science education portal
The Xplora portal (www.xplora.org) was launched during the Science in Society Forum organised in Brussels, 9-11 March 2005. It endeavours to be a major European hub for the science education community with a wealth of resources, tools and information for science teachers. The portal...
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eTwinning portal fosters school partnerships The eTwinning portal was launched on 14 January 2005 with partner finding and registration facilities to help schools in Europe to etwin with each other. As this newsletter is sent out, more than 2,000 schools in Europe have registered for eTwinning and close to 150 eTwinning partnerships...
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European teachers meet at eTwinning launch The European launch of the eTwinning action took place on 14-16 January 2005 in Brussels during a conference which gathered more than 300 teachers, national and European education authorities. During the eTwinning launch conference European Education Commissioner Ján Figel’...
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VALNET - Succesful validation of school of tomorrow projects The final report for Valnet was published at the end of January. It summarises the result of this unique and ambitious scheme, funded by IST, to validate five IST School of Tomorrow (SoT) projects in 200 schools in 16 countries and integrate them with findings for the other seven...
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European Schoolnet starts three new projects In early 2005, kick-off meetings for three new EU projects involving EUN took place. eColours kicked off on 1 February, it is an eContent feasibility study project focused on co-production and localisation of digital learning resources (Read more).
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On the same day, the interoperability...
EUN new project: eColours eCOLOURS is an eCONTENT feasibility study project focused on the co-development and localisation of digital learning resources for schools
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EUN new project: Pencil The 19 partners of the science education project PENCIL (coordinated by the ECSITE - the European organisation for Science Centres) met in the EUN Office on 26 January to plan their three years of work.
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Insafe launches saferinternet portal The portal was launched on 8 February 2005 as part of the Safer Internet Day organised for the second year, and this time with European Schoolnet in a very active role. The new portal has been set up by EUN as part of the Insafe project, for which the contract with the Commission...
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More than 3,500 schools registered for Spring Day 2005 For the third year European Schoolnet organises Spring Day in Europe. This year the focus is on the new European constitution and by 10 February 2005 more than 3,500 schools had registered. Close to 50 MEPs and other European personalities have already committed to go back to school...
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Spring Day national liaisons meet in Austria This year, a group of representatives from most European Ministries of Education complements the work done by the 31 Spring Day pedagogical advisors. This group met for the first time during the EMINENT conference in Prague to receive thorough information about the project they would...
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New faces in EUN office Evita Tasiopoulou and Paul Gerhard are new staffs in the EUN Office. Evita takes care of the web mastering for the eTwinning portal, and will be doing the same for the European Science Education portal, to be launched by European Schoolnet. Paul's responsibilities include this newsletter...
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Odile de Chalendar - new Chairperson of European Schoolnet At the meeting in Prague on 17 November 2004, the Steering Committee elected Odile de Chalendar of the French Ministry of Education and Research as its new chair replacing Lilla Voss. Vanessa Pitthard, Jan de Craemer, Jerzy Dalek and Zdenek Svoboda were elected as Vice-Chairs and...
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Commissioner Figel’ visits European Schoolnet Commissioner Ján Figel' responsible for education, training, culture and multilingualism visited the EUN Office on 10 February to chat with schools all over Europe. The chat was organised as part of Spring Day in Europe and followed a similar chat on 31 January 2005 involving...
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Schoolplaza teacher’s portal now online
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The SchoolPlaza is currently under developement and will be launched in October. We apologize for the announcement of the launch in the EUN newsletters. The SchoolPlaza team
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The SchoolPlaza is currently under developement and will be launched in October. We apologize for the announcement of the launch in the EUN newsletters. The SchoolPlaza team
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