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 collaborative use and exchange of learning resources in schools.

What particularly pleased the Commission was that the project fully addresses the requirements of the tender to strengthen the integration of ICT research in an Enlarged Europe.
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EUN ORGANISES TRAINING ON eTWINNING TOOLS
On 21 June 2005, 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 in the session, some even with several participants. In all, 35 national eTwinning coordinators were present.
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eTWINNING CSS-NSS MEETING IN BRUSSELS
The coordinators of the eTwinning action at European and national levels met on 22 June 2005 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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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.

myEUROPE will set up a team of experienced teachers who will build a network of European citizenship and intercultural education by implementing online activities to support fellow teachers to integrate easy ICT into the daily teaching.
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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.

Commissioner Reding specifically mentioned European Schoolnet and its work as a coordinating node for the Insafe network and as an important partner in the Internet safety arena.
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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, Scotland and The Netherlands are involved in this review.
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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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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, dictionaries, thesauri, classifications and ontologies.
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