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 well as Switzerland and Israel. Entries can be made from now until 31 October 2007 online at http://elearningawards.eun.org.

This year’s sponsors include Young Digital Planet, Intel, Interwrite Learning, Promethean, MICHAEL and Telefónica O2.
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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 activities for upper primary and secondary schools.
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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 three new themes: climate change, water and energy, and sustainable tourism.
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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 unity in diversity.

The competition is intended to enhance and support European citizenship education in schools, in the year when the European Union celebrates its 50th anniversary.
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ENERGY IS OUR FUTURE GOES ON
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. European Schoolnet and PlasticsEurope will continue to develop the programme through new activities and a new school competition in the 2007-2008 school year.
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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 Ministry of Education.
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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 into "metadata ecology", which is how user-given tags with more structured metadata can help the discovery of suitable learning resources across Europe.
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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 Information Retrieval for Technology-Enhanced Learning (SIRTEL07).
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LODE CHARTER VOTED BY IMS MEMBERS
The First International Workshop on Learning Object Discovery and Exchange (LODE'07) was held in Sissi, Crete, Greece on 18 September 2007 together with the second European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL'07).

The event was organised by David Massart and Jean-Noel Colin of European Schoolnet, 32 participants took part in the discussions.
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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 Dr Jung Sung Moo, Executive Director of the Education Information Center at Keris.
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FOURTH ISSUE OF "INSIGHT NEWSLETTER"
The latest issue of the Insight newsletter features a story on the Dutch country report which forms part of the annual update of the Insight country reports. Other stories relate to the latest developments in the areas of policy, practice and interoperability. The Insight Newsletter brings you the latest articles published on Insight.
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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 EUN's new Learning Resource Exchange to be launched at the end of 2007.
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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 in the Documentation française.
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