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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...

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...

Commissioner Figel’ chats about intercultural dialogue and understanding

Author: EUN News

14 July 2008

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...

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...

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,...

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...

FuturEnergia to strengthen its impact in school and society in 2008-2009

Author: EUN News

22 July 2008

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....

iClass validation workshops in Hungary and Poland

Author: EUN News

22 July 2008

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,...

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...

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...

Insafe meeting brings together internet safety awareness nodes

Author: EUN News

22 July 2008

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...

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...

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...