Members of European SchoolnetEuropean Schoolnet is a knowledge-building network, enabling Ministries of Education to share experience and problems and to learn from each other. European Schoolnet strives to demonstrate how ICT can support change in teaching and learning. Innovation in practice is difficult without policy support. One of European Schoolnet’s objectives is to identify evidence, scalable and transferable practice and emerging priorities in education in Europe. 30 Ministries of Education are members of European Schoolnet. Click on a country on the map to see a full description of each of our members.
You can browse the country in the list here below. AUSTRIAOur member for Austria is the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture (Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur) Contact details: Minoritenplatz 5 A-1014 Vienna Austria Information about the Austrian education system and ICT policies: Insight country report: http://insight.eun.org/country_reports/austria BELGIUMOur members for Belgium are the departments of education for the Flemish and French speaking communities of Belgium. FLEMISH COMMUNITY Vlaams Ministerie van Onderwijs en Vorming (Flemish Ministry of Education and Training). Educational portals: www.klascement.net; www.klasse.be. Contact details: Koning Albert II-laan 15 B-1210 Brussels (Belgium) Tel: +32 2 553 95 70 Description of activities: Recognition and funding schools (working resources, salaries, extra subsidies) Quality assurance through curriculum development and defining so called attainment targets Quality Control, i.e. checking if the attainment targets are reached (via the inspectorate) Developing, supporting and running specific projects according to contemporary policy and societal needs. Information about the Flemish education system and ICT policies: Insight country report: http://insight.eun.org/country_reports/belgium_flemish FRENCH COMMUNITY Administration générale de l'Enseignement et de la Recherche scientifique de la Communauté française de Belgique Service de l'Administrateur général Cellule des relations internationales Main educational portal: www.enseignement.be Contact details: 20-22, boulevard du Jardin Botanique B-1000 Brussels Belgium CZECH REPUBLIC
Our member for the Czech Republic is the Centre for International Services (Dům zahraničních služeb). Educational portals: www.dzs.cz, www.naep.cz, www.msmt.cz, Contact details: Dům zahraničních služeb, Na Poříčí 1035/4, 110 00, Prague 1, Czech Republic. Tel: +420221850300 / +420221850100 Fax: +420221850251 Email: euncr@naep.cz Description of activities: The Centre for International Services (DZS) is the allowance organisation founded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. The National Agency for European Educational Programmes (NAEP) has been established under DZS and is responsible for implementation of the Lifelong Learning Programme and other educational programmes in the Czech Republic. NAEP provides promotion of educational programmes, assistance and consultancy services, management of funds and contracts for decentralized actions, monitoring, dissemination and valorisation, organisation of seminars and conferences. DZS also manages other activities related to international cooperation of schools, study possibilities for foreigners in Czech Republic, collaboration with other European Ministries of Education in the field of ICT in education.
CYPRUSOur member for Cyprus is the Ministry of Education and Culture (MoEC) www.moec.gov.cy. Educational portals: www.dias.ac.cy, www.pi.ac.cy, www.schools.ac.cy, www.e-epimorfosi.ac.cy Contact details: Elias Margadjis ICT Coordinator Acting Director of Secondary Technical & Vocational Education Tel: +357-22800651 Fax:+357-22428273 Email: margadjiselias@gmail.com Address Kimonos and Thucydidou Corner 1434 Nicosia Cyprus Information about the Cyprus education system and ICT policies: Educational System The educational system of Cyprus is mainly centralized, but with elements of decentralization regarding the distribution of responsibilities. The main authorities or bodies responsible for education are the Council of Ministers, the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Education Service Commission and the Local School Boards. The Council of Ministers is the highest authority for educational policy. Overall responsibility for education rests with the Ministry of Education and Culture, except for a small number of higher education institutions which come under the Ministries of Labour and Social Insurance, Agriculture and Health. The Ministry of Education and Culture is responsible for the administration of education, the enforcement of educational laws and the implementation of educational policy, the preparation of the education budget and educational bills and the construction of school buildings. Educational administration is centralized. Therefore, curricula, syllabuses and textbooks are set by the Ministry. The inspectorate of the Ministry of Education and Culture has the overall responsibility for supervising the proper functioning of the schools. Educational Reform Programme The Republic of Cyprus has initiated an ambitious Educational Reform Programme, inviting dialogue with all stakeholders (political parties, teachers’ unions, parents’ associations, associations of students, and the Government, represented by the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Planning Bureau) with a view to turning the vision of a better and more modern educational system that will meet the needs and challenges of the 21st century, into reality. This dialogue was initiated in 2005 and several reforms have been implemented since then, while others are currently under way. The Educational Reform Programme is targeted at reforming major aspects of the educational system. It centres, namely on the preparation of new Curricula, the creation of a revised in-service training system for teachers, the implementation of a new appraisal scheme for teachers, and the introduction of new teaching methods, in order to eliminate obstacles constraining access and offer equal opportunities to children, young people and adults irrespective of their background or level of need. All of the above aim to an exclusive upgrading and modernising of the Cyprus educational system. ICT in Education The Ministry of Education and Culture is currently implementing an ICT integration plan. The aim of this program is to effectively use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the educational process and to enhance the digital literacy of students and teachers. The core objectives of this program include:
A detailed description of the ICT integration plan can be found in the “Insight Country Report” for Cyprus (http://insight.eun.org/country_reports) A more detailed description of all aspects of the educational reform can be found: In the Annual Reports of the Ministry of Education and Culture: http://www.moec.gov.cy/etisia-ekthesi/pdf/annual_report_en_2009.pdf http://www.moec.gov.cy/etisia-ekthesi/pdf/annual_report_2008_en.pdf In the relevant documents of the Eurydice Network, which provide information and analyses of the Cyprus educational system and policies: DENMARKOur member for Denmark is UNI•C, the Danish IT Centre for Education and Research. Located in Cophenhagen, UNI•C is an agency under the Danish Ministry of Education. Main educational portal: www.emu.dk Contact details: EMU-redaktionen, UNI•C Vermundsgade 5 2100 København Ø Tel: +45 35 87 88 89 Email: uni-c@uni-c.dk Description of activities: UNI•C delivers a variety of IT services to the educational and research communities. More than 500.000 users regularly benefit from UNI•C’s services and products. UNI•C has 300 employees, and offices in Copenhagen, Lyngby and Aarhus. Information about the Danish education system and ICT policies: Insight country report: http://insight.eun.org/country_reports/denmark ESTONIAOur member for Estonia is the Information Technology Foundation for Education a national programme under the Estonian Ministry of Education to increase Estonian school education quality utilizing modern information and communication technology. Main educational portal: http://www.eitsa.ee Contact details: The Innovation Centre for Digital Education Raja 4C Tallinn 12616, Estonia - Contact: ene.koitla@hitsa.ee FINLANDOur member for Finland is the Finnish National Board of Education (Opetushallitus/Utbildningsstyrelsen). Contact details: Finnish National Board of Education Opetushallitus/Utbildningsstyrelsen PL 380 SF-00530 Helsinki Finland FRANCEOur member for France is the Ministère de l'éducation nationale, de la jeunesse et de la vie associative. Educational portals: www.educnet.education.fr; www.education.gouv.fr Contact details: Ministère de l'éducation nationale, de la jeunesse et de la vie associative Direction de la Technologie 101 rue de Grenelle F-75357 Paris Cedex 07 SP France Tel: +33 6 32 230 92 79 Fax:+33 1 55 55 80 40 Description of activities: The Department of Information and Communication Technologies for Education is working on many projects that are grouped into programmes.
Information about the French education system and ICT policies: Insight country report: http://insight.eun.org/country_reports/france GERMANYGermany has the status of observer with European Schoolnet. GEORGIAMembership process underway. More information about our member in Georgia to follow. GREECEOur member for Greece is the Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs (MoNE&RA) which formulates and implements legislation, administers the budget, coordinates and supervises its decentralized Services, approves primary and secondary school curricula and appoints teaching staff. Educational portals: www.e-yliko.gr; www.pi-schools.gr Contact details: 396 Messogeion Ave. GR 153 41, Agia Paraskevi Greece Tel: +30 210 6396584 Fax:+30 210 6396583 Email: eun@ypepth.gr Description of activities: There are thirteen Regional Education Directorates under the Minister of Education that implement educational policy and link local agents to central services and organizations. They are responsible for the administration and supervision of the other decentralized services in their area, as well as for coordinating local School Advisors. At the next level of the administrative structure, Education Directorates (in each prefecture) and district Offices provide administrative support, supervise operation of area schools and facilitate co-ordination and cooperation between schools. School Directors serve as the administrative and educational heads of their school unit; they coordinate and guide teachers in their work and make provision for in-service training. School Committees, which include parent and local representatives, manage budgets for heating, lighting, maintenance, equipment etc. Private schools are not grant aided; they are fully self-financed. Private primary and secondary schools are under the supervision and inspection of the MoNE&RA. Higher education institutions are funded by the State. They are self-governing under the auspices of the Ministry of Education. Information about the Greek education system and ICT policies: Insight country report: http://insight.eun.org/country_reports/greece HUNGARY
Our member for Hungary is the Ministry of Human Resources. The delegate organization to European Schoolnet is Educatio Public Services Non-profit LLC (Emberi Erőforrások Minisztériuma, EMMI képviselet EUN-ben: Educatio Társadalmi Szolgáltató Nonprofit Kft.). Educational portals: www.sulinet.hu; www.oktatas.hu Contact details: Educatio Public Services Non-profit LLC, Maros u. 19-21. Budapest 1122 Hungary Tel: +36-1-4773100 Fax: +36-1-4773136 Description of activities: The Ministry oversees the pedagogical, professional and educational efforts in public education. It is responsible for drawing up the necessary development plans, creating the legislation required for such operations and ensuring that the institutions work at the required standard of quality. To this end, it organizes pedagogical, professional assessments, examinations and surveys in the field of public education. It ensures that children are supplied with high-quality textbooks by elaborating the order and conditions of schoolbook registration. An important duty of the Ministry is to organize the State's public education activities and to support public education. The educational IT development tasks together with the tasks related to the EUN membership were delegated to the Educatio Public Services Non-profit LLC by the Ministry of Human Resources hence the organization is acting as the Hungarian EUN Member on behalf of the Ministry. Further to the mentioned tasks the Educatio Public Services Non-profit LLC maintains the Hungarian educational portal (Sulinet - www.sulinet.hu), the administration of applicants to higher education, and operates several national and international ICT projects (eg. MELT, ASPECT, iTEC). Educatio is also acting as the eTwinning NSS for Hungary.
ICELANDOur member for Iceland is the Office of Information and Service of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. Contact details: Office of Information and Service Menntamálaráðuneyti / Ministry of Education, Science and Culture Sölvhólsgötu 4 IS-150 Reykjavík Iceland IRELAND
Our member for Ireland is the Department of Education & Skills. Contact details: Department of Education & Skills, Marlborough Street, Dublin 1.
ISRAELOur members for Israel are MAKASH and Ministry of Education, Directorate for Science and Technology. Contact details: Ministry of Education Directorate for Science and Technology 2, Hashlosha St, Tel Aviv Israel MAKASH - ICT Implementations in Education P.O.B. 151 Doar Haela 9987 Israel Information about the Israeli education system and ICT policies: Insight country report: http://insight.eun.org/country_reports/israel ITALYOur member for Italy is Agenzia Nazionale per lo Sviluppo dell'Autonomia Scolastica ANSAS (National Agency to support School Autonomy-ex Indire). Educational portals: http://for.indire.it/dirigenti; http://for.indire.it/docenti Contact details: Via Buonarroti, 10 50122 Firenze ( IT ) Tel:+ 39 055 2380301 Fax: +39 055 2380395 Email: segreteriadirettore@indire.it Description of activities: INDIRE, the National Institute for Documentation, Innovation and Educational Research, is the Ministry of Education’s most ancient institute of research. Since its inception, the Institute has been accompanying the evolution of the Italian school system, investing in training and innovation and supporting the processes of school improvement. The Institute, with INVALSI (the National Institute for the Evaluation of the System of Education and Training) and the Inspectorate, is part of the system of national assessment in education and training. The Institute has extensive experience in the use of Information and Communication Technologies for in-service training of teaching staff, administrative, technical and auxiliary staff and school leaders and is a point of reference for educational research. INDIRE looks to Europe through the Lifelong Learning Programme and many international collaborations, contributing to the development of a network of contacts, exchanges, flows of information and experiences among schools, students, companies and institutions of all EU countries. Information about the Italian education system and ICT policies: Insight country report: http://insight.eun.org/country_reports/italy LATVIAMembership process underway. More information about our member in Latvia to follow. LITHUANIAOur member for Lithuania is the Ministry of Education and Science, Centre of Information Technologies of Education (Švietimo ir mokslo ministerija, Švietimo informacinių technologijų centras). Main educational portal: http://portalas.emokykla.lt Contact details: Suvalku str. 1 LT-03106 Vilnius Lithuania Tel: +370 5 2356131 Fax: +370 5 2356155 Description of activities: The Centre of Information Technologies of Education:
Information about the Lithuanian education system and ICT policies: Insight country report: http://insight.eun.org/country_reports/lithuania LUXEMBOURGThe EUN Member for Luxembourg is the Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training (Minstère de l'Éducation nationale et de la Formation Professionnelle). The Ministry is in charge of all questions related to primary and secondary education. Main educational portal: www.myschool.lu Contact details: 29 rue Aldringen L-2926 Luxembourg Tel: +352 247 85154 NETHERLANDSOur member for Netherlands is the Kennisnet Foundation (Stichting Kennisnet). Contact details: Kennisnet Foundation Postbox 778 2700 AT Zoetermeer The Netherlands Paletsingel 32 2718 NT Zoetermeer The Netherlands Tel:+ 31 79 329 65 48 Fax:+ 31 79 329 23 22 Description of activities: The main task of Kennisnet Foundation is to provide tailor-made ICT support within a broad spectrum of educational target groups in primary, secondary and adult education in the Netherlands. Kennisnet Foundation is a public, demand-driven organisation and continuously monitors specific needs in ICT and education. The mission statement of Kennisnet Foundation is ‘Learning to innovate with ICT and innovate learning with ICT’. NORWAYNorway Our member for Norway is the Directorate for Primary and Secondary Education. Contact details: Directorate for Primary and Secondary Education P.O Box 2924 Tøyen N- 0608 Oslo Norway Information about the Norwegian education system and ICT policies: Insight country report: http://insight.eun.org/country_reports/norway POLANDOur member for Poland is the Ministry of National Education (Ministerstwo Edukacji Narodowej) which co-ordinates and carries out the state education policy, supervises partially the work of education superintendents and co-operates with other organisational bodies and units in the field of education. Main educational portal: www.scholaris.pl Contact details: al. J.Ch. Szucha 25 00-918 Warszawa Poland Tel: +48 22 34 74 100 Fax:+48 22 628 35 04 Email: informacja@men.gov.pl Description of activities: The Ministry determines the following groups of problems and tasks:
PORTUGAL
Our member for Portugal is a department from the Ministry of Education and Science: DGE, Directorate-General for Education (Direcção Geral da Educação - DGE). Educational portals: www.dge.mec.pt; www.portaldasescolas.pt Contact details: Direcção Geral da Educação (DGE) Av. 24 de Julho, nº140, 1399-025 Lisboa Portugal Tel: +351 213 934 500 Fax:+351 213 934 696 Email: dge@dge.mec.pt Description of activities: DGE is the Directorate-General for Education (Direção-Geral da Educação) of the Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science. DGE’s specific remit is to make sure that national policies are implemented regarding the pedagogical and didactic components of pre-school, primary, lower and upper secondary education, as well as the provision of education for children not attending school. It gives technical support to their design and at the same time evaluates their implementation. It coordinates the exam planning activities. It also designs, organises and puts into practice prevention measures concerning risk, security and violence control in schools. A specific team within DGE is in charge of designing, developing and evaluating initiatives and projects related to the use of digital tools and resources in education. It fosters the effective use of computers and the Internet by all educational agents (students and teachers alike) and is a partner in several EUN projects, namely eTwinning, InSafe, iTEC, inGenious, Living Schools Lab, Creative Classrooms Lab, among others.
ROMANIAMembership process underway. More information about our member in Romania to follow. SLOVAKIAOur member for Slovakia is the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic (Ministerstvo školstva, vedy, výskumu a športu Slovenskej republiky) which is the central body of the state administration of the Slovak Republic for preprimary, primary, secondary and higher education, language schools and art schools, educational facilities, lifelong learning, science and for the state's support for sports and youth. Contact details: Stromova 1 813 30 Bratislava Slovak Republic Tel: +421259374405 Fax:+4212593744285 Email: sekretariat.si@minedu.sk Description of activities: The Ministry manages schools and school facilities at the territory of the Slovak Republic and provides guidance to all founders, it administers the network of school and school facilities in the Slovak Republic. SPAINOur member for Spain is the National Institute for Educational Technologies and Teacher Training - the unit of the Ministry of Education in charge of implementing and coordinating actions related to ICT in schools. Ministry of Education: www.mecd.gob.es ICT-Education portal: www.ite.educacion.es Contact details: c/Torrelaguna, 58 Madrid 28027 Spain Tel: +34913778300 Fax:+34913680709 Email: webmaster@cnice.mec.es Description of activities: The Institute of Educational Technologies is an organization that belongs to the Spanish Ministry of Education. Its projects are carried out within the scope of education below the university level. Its main functions are:
Information about the education system and ICT policies in Spain: Spanish national report (Insight Country Report). SWEDENOur member for Sweden is the Swedish National Agency for Education (Skolverket), it acts as the national authority for the public school system, the preschool system, for school age and for adult education. Educational portal: ICT for schools. Contact details: Swedish National Agency for Education Fleminggatan 14 SE-106 20 Stockholm Sweden Tel:+46 8 52733573 Fax: +46 8 244420 Description of activities: The Agency steers, supports, follows up and evaluates the work of municipalities and schools with the purpose of improving quality and the result of activities to ensure that all pupils have access to equal education. In the decentralised Swedish school system the responsibility for ICT is shared. The role of the municipalities is to see to good accessibility to computers and the Internet in schools as well as that the educationalists are highly skilled in using ICT as a pedagogical tool. The role of the state is to promote the use of ICT in education, mainly by supporting the municipalities in their task. The state authorities promote the use of ICT in education by developing user-friendly ICT tools for in-service competence development and school improvement as well as by stimulating the educationalists to increase their knowledge and competence. Furthermore the government will continue to work for good accessibility in all areas of education although mainly by supporting the municipalities in their task. An important task on a national level is to spread the use of ICT to all concerned groups in education and all over the country. The Agency is responsible for promoting the use of ICT in schools. One of the main activities is to facilitate schools with access to digital learning resources both in terms of stimulating production by different actors (teachers, museums, publishers etc) and in terms of easy discovery and access to these resources. One of the results is the Spider, a federated search service that provides access to resources in a number of Swedish repositories. The Agency has participated in a number of EU projects where Swedish resources are shared at European level and Sweden is contributing resources to the Learning Resource Exchange. Information about the Swedish education system and ICT policies: Insight country report: http://insight.eun.org/country_reports/sweden SWITZERLANDOur member for Switzerland is the Swiss Agency for ICT in Education (Centre suisse des technologies de l'information dans l'enseignement / Schweizerische Fachstelle für Informationstechnologien im Bildungswesen), which aims promote the integration of information and communication technologies ICT in the Swiss education system. Main educational portal: www.educa.ch Contact details: Swiss Agency for ICT in education Erlachstrasse 21 Case postale 612 3000 Berne 9 Switzerland Tel: +41 (0)31 300 55 00 Fax:+41 (0)31 300 55 01 Email: info@educa.ch Description of activities: The Agency’s task mainly consists of informing, documenting and advising the various decision makers in the education system on ICT and its purpose in education. The services of this Agency are directed to school authorities and teachers of preschool level, primary school level, lower secondary level, upper secondary lever (including vocational education) and special needs education. The Swiss Agency for ICT in Education:
Information about the Swiss education system and ICT policies: Insight country report: http://insight.eun.org/country_reports/switzerland TURKEYOur member for Turkey is the Ministry of National Education General Directorate of Innovation and Educational Technologies (Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı Yenilik ve Eğitim Teknolojileri Genel Müdürlüğü). Main educational portal: www.meb.gov.tr Contact details: Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı Yenilik ve Egitim Teknolojileri Genel Müdürlügü Mevlana cd. Bogaziçi sk No:21 Teknikokullar 06500 Yenimahalle Ankara Turkey Tel:+90 312 2969495 Fax:+90 312 2238736 Description of activities: The use of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) in education and training has been a priority in the Ministry over the last decade. Edu-Tech is authorized to do the followings with the article 8 of the law number 4359 on behalf of MOE: To submit and procure the services on arrangement, implementation, assessment and training manpower, needed for building up a new functional connection between open education and formal education and needed for raising the quality, diffusion and boosting of education and training with the technological improvements, To arrange, implement and assess tests on Private and Public enrollment and graduation which are organized by central authority. Carry out duties and services of Central and Provincial units of the ministry on data processing implementation. The main aim of the institution is to provide necessary IT infrastructure to all schools, get all the teachers to acquire ICT skills, adapt to new curriculum with its all aspects. The Ministry of National Education has launched a number of projects to help especially students, parents and teachers, and then people who are related to education, to benefit from educational technologies. These projects have been carried out a range of activities from training teachers via distance education to preparing regulations which are related to information technologies. The most important projects carried out all through the country can be described as: Educational and Informatics Network (EBA) which has been designed under the component of FATİH Project named as “Enabling and Management of the Educational e Content” within the scope of the FATİH Project is a portal which has been set with the aim of enabling the transformation of the society to information society, generalization of the information culture in education with a systematic policy and meeting the needs of information in education by blending the dynamics of the age such as search engine, social networking, and e-cyclopaedia and can carry the all educational informatics system by developing. When the Infrastructure of this Portal is designed, it should be taken into consideration that this portal will serve to 700.000 teachers, 17 million students and parents besides all adult students within the scope of the Life-Learning Program. UNITED KINGDOMOur member for the United Kingdom is the Department for Education.
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