Cette section vous offre un aperçu des pays des quatre coins de l’Europe et de leurs diversités culturelles et linguistiques. Elle vous offre également des renseignements sur les classes et les méthodes pédagogiques.
Une activité est un projet à court terme. Elle peut être menée à bien pendant un jour, une semaine, un mois, voire plus. Le sujet de l’activité doit être souple et facilement adaptable à vos besoins. Les activités...
Ce guide permettra aux enseignants d’en savoir plus sur les bénéfices à la fois pédagogiques et didactiques des projets scolaires en ligne. Il a été rédigé et mis à jour en fonction des réactions obtenues...
Cet article décrit l’évolution de l’identité locale, régionale ou nationale vers la citoyenneté européenne. Il explique également les principaux droits des citoyens européens et énonce les facteurs qui leur...
Franck Le Cars, a French teacher, is currently managing SAGE, a project that focuses on bringing environmental topics to schools in Europe in order to raise awareness about environment protection and sustainable development.
The European Commission and Euro-toques International, the European Chefs' association, today launched "EU Mini-chefs" - a website for children which aims to contribute to the fight against child obesity by encouraging healthy eating and cooking. It promotes the European Day for...
Information Technologies (ICT) are everywhere. They make our lives richer and more comfortable, connect people across the world, help save lives. Despite the importance of this sector, less and less young people, in particular women, choose to study an ICT related subject or pursue...
En inscrivant votre établissement scolaire au Printemps de l’Europe 2007, vous faites automatiquement partie d’une communauté de milliers d’enseignants et d’élèves en Europe. Vous permettez ainsi à votre école de participer...
This 12-day work camp will bring together high school students of various ethnicities from neighboring countries of Eastern and Western Europe which have been subject to inter-ethnic conflict.
Erland R. Andersen and Finn Horn from Denmark designed and described several experiments which may enable young students to understand the role of various materials and phenomena in relation to energy.
Laurent C. Patenotte teaches all levels of French at St. Paul's School, New Hampshire, in the USA. In this article he shares the way he introduced the EU flag and the Member States, following a discussion in an American school.
Carmen Sammut teaches in Malta. She shares a play she wrote focusing on waste management. The play takes place in a surrealistic environment. It is meant for youngsters and its main aim is to raise consciousness towards waste separation.
Ana Bello teaches in Spain. Over the past five years she has involved her students in a number of
myEUROPE activities including chats. In this article she reports on a blog activity which gathered together schools from five countries.
This year, Child’s Friends organised a second international exhibition dedicated to Spring Day and 9 May in the European Information Centre in Sofia. In about two months, the organisers received more than 350 entries from 18 schools from 12 countries. The Bulgarian vice-president...
Trui Catteeuw teaches English and Dutch at Handelsonderwijs Burgerschool in Roeselare, Flanders, Belgium. She tells us more about how she discovered international collaborative projects, as a way to bring something new to her teaching.
Pupils from the third year (14-15 years) of the Porta Mosana College in Maastricht were involved in this project. Their school takes part in the Dutch-based European programme of ELOS. ELOS aims at creating a European learning environment inside schools and hence giving a European...
A group of teachers representing a varied range of educational institutions (universities, teachers’ training institutions, secondary schools, educational web sites…) from different European countries is planning to start up a project on Citizenship in the next academic year...
They are all around us, some close to us, real not imaginary. We enjoy their natural smell, beautiful songs and colours. Even we keep them in our homes. Look at them when you pass by, listen to their speech, say hello to them. We all live together on the same planet. We need each...
Virginia Bogdan teaches French at Grupul Şcolar de Electrotehnică in Focşani, Romania. This article is a reflection on Romania and its accession to the European Union, which is scheduled for the 1st of January 2007. She makes some connections between Romania’s and Europe’s...
Ce court article présente l’enseignement et les projets réalisés dans le cadre du dispositif français des « sections européennes ». Il rassemble pêle-mêle quelques pistes et témoignages d’un enseignement...
Bożena Stepien is a teacher of English in a rural area in Poland. In this article she describes an experience they had while running an interesting project in relation to the Olympic games.
The European Landowner's Organisation (ELO) represents millions of landowners throughout Europe. The ELO seeks to develop European solutions to the challenges which will face European decision-makers in the years to come. At the same time the ELO, supported by its Secretariat in...
Ruta Aukspole teaches English at Viesite Secondary School, in Latvia. In this article she summarises their main achievements during 2005, the European year of citizenship through education.
The continuous conflict between a theoretical and a more practical approach in teaching has been the core of interesting debates for years. With no difficulty we can assert that effective tuition is the necessary selection of practical initiatives, into which the student can express...
Susanne Pratscher and her students from Austria sent us a list of national holidays of the European countries. To read more about each holiday, click on the link listed below each country name.
Anna Ananieva, the Bulgarian member of the advisory board, reports on a survey she carried out on Bulgarian 16-year-olds’ thoughts on European citizenship.
A hunger strike declared and provided BG Teacher Union these days. At least 2000 teachers lived on starvation for about 10 days. Some damaged their health significantly.
They demanded on a 15 percent rise of their 150 euro per a month salaries. The Government rejected and offered...
Carla Romanelli from Scuola Secondaria "B. Guidobono", Savona, in Italy reports on an event she organised with her students. The event was dedicated to the European Day of Languages which is celebrated across the continent on 26 September, each year.
From 4 to 6 November, a two-day-workshop for EU teachers took place in Brussels. It was organized in the framework of the “Linking and Learning Europe” project, which gathers teachers willing to design learning objects on European citizenship. Anna Ananieva, a teacher...
Liam McGurrin is headteacher at St John Fisher Primary School, in Sheffield, the UK. He runs a project “Time for citizenship”, aimed to promote good aspects of Citizenship and share best practice. The website has been “on the go” for about 5 years and he hopes...
The annual festival of foreign languages in Germany is the second round in the field of school’s group contributions for classes from 5 to 10. The objective of this festival is to find the best contribution among theatre and media presentations in any foreign language taught...
Pille Lodi is a student at Kuressaare Gymnasium, in Estonia. This is a short chronicle of her trip to Haiti. She tells us more about Haitian culture, its people and children.
At the beginning of March, this year, Noemi Lusi went to Romania to meet her Comenius partners. For several days they worked together on planning the further project activities. In this article Noemi tells us about her trip, partners and the hosting country, Romania.
Reasoning on what happens and what affects mankind is not mere mental or open debate. It should become, instead, a personal memento towards the respect of law as the paramount source of our survival and well-being.
Esther Theiler, a member of the myEUROPE Advisory Board, teaches at Kreisschule Mutschellen, a secondary school in Switzerland. She tells us the story of how the 600 students from her school raised more than €45,000 to help the victims of the Asian tsunami.
The concept of solidarity is often meant as the spontaneous or organised sharing of what we possess, in terms of resources or money, with those who need it. It usually tends to be perceived as a support to improve the condition of life of the poor through coherent actions based on...
Milan Hausner is head-teacher at Junior Language School Lupáčova, in Prague. He wrote us about a project initiated by his colleagues and students. The project is called “So Far – So Near” and it aims at organising various activities, during one day, to learn...
I teach English in Debrecen, Hungary. Our city is the second biggest city of the country and it is situated in the eastern part. Last year my school had a so called “Bear” project which run in German. The bear soft toy travelled around the world.
Neus Lorenzo works as an inspector of education for the Catalan Educational Authorities, in Barcelona, Spain. She has been interested in ICT as a support for innovation in teaching and international collaborative Web-based projects since the beginning of her teaching career. She...
In 2005, the 5th edition of the International Contest “The Great Well-Known And Unknown Artists” focuses on the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt. Every year the organisers encourage young artists from 5 to 20 years old to participate in this international project.
This is a competition addressing high-school students based in France and its neighbour countries: United-Kingdom, Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Spain.
EuropaGO, le site web pour les jeunes citoyens européens de 10 à 14 ans, vient de publier deux nouveaux jeux amusants pour la rentrée des classes. Ils s’intitulent « Jeu de mémoire » et « l’Europe en harmonie ». Ces...
We are convinced of the contribution that remembrance education, linked up with conflict in the past, such as the Great War, may make towards bridging cultural and ideological gaps, valuing cultural diversity and implementing European, even global, citizenship. We warmly invite schools...
On 26th September, we celebrated European linguistic diversity and the joy of speaking other languages.
myEUROPE teachers permanently encourage their students to learn and practise a second or a third language, not only during lessons, but also by working with other classes in Europe....
Class activities are obviously always instructing, but when they manage to be fun, goals are reached more easily, faster and with more results! That has been the case with my colleague Magdalena Bobek from Slovenia and I and our classes. Slovenia and Italy decided to cooperate in...
Petros is a village in Baru, a small district in Hunedoara County, Romania. Ana Tecau, who was born there, moved back to Petros to teach English. She points out that even in smaller communities children are motivated to learn more too, when local community supports and encourages...
When summer holidays start, the school year seems so far away… and yet, here it is, once more and the hall that welcomed teachers on September 1st, quietly, with echoes created by the empty space surrounding us, all of a sudden rejoices with young people voices and enthusiasm.
Vittoria Di Fabio est enseignante à Rome, Italie. Ses élèves ont participé aux éditions précédentes du Printemps de l’Europe. Elle décrit l’impact de ces deux événements sur ses élèves...
This question came up during a myEUROPE chat with the topic 'ICT Pedagogy and my curriculum'. Twenty-one teachers went on-line to share experiences and ideas about the impact of the ICT pedagogy on teaching and learning in classroom.
The first school day in Latvia is the 1st September. This year the day was very special for our pupils and teachers from Viesite Secondary School, as the school building is renovated now.
Dans certains pays européens, les élèves remplacent leurs enseignants pendant une journée. Ils apprennent ainsi à préparer un cours et rédigent un rapport à la fin de la journée. Voici une occasion unique pour enseignants...
Six myEUROPE teachers were invited to present our activities at the BECTA Netd@ys 2003 Conference which took place in Coventry, the UK, on November 21, this year. The theme of the conference was ‘Celebrating Cultural Diversity’. Noemi Lusi from Italy talked about Pretty...
This is a mirror project between Decin, in the Czech Republic and Haninge, in Sweden. In this project Eva Ingelstedt and Svatja Hradska
have developed a twinning project for young peope in the two communities to come closer together, to discover and understand their cultural differences...
In many European countries, the tradition of wearing folk costumes has almost disappeared. In those countries they are revived today through paintings, museum collections and written accounts. In some other European regions this tradition is still alive and people from countryside...
Geert van Overloop is a Belgian living in the Czech Republic. He teaches English at Cesky Krumlov Gymnazium. He coordinated The Mystery of the Week, a project whose goal was to publish a multilingual set with the days of the week. The project implied foreign language learning, history...
The senior students of our school came together
on 28 September to share their thoughts about the role of languages in our life. Pupils in Viesite Secondary School study three foreign languages: English, Russian and German. Latvian is our native language.
