eTwinning Conference 2007

From 23-25 February 2007, participants from across Europe will come together in Brussels to award this year’s European prize winners and discuss the future of eTwinning.

From nearly 350 submissions for the eTwinning Prizes 2007, six project winners (three winners and three runners-up) will receive their awards during the prize-giving ceremony. Winning projects will be awarded with a four-day ICT camp at the end of April (venue to be confirmed) for teachers and students to meet their project partners face to face, learn more about online collaborative projects and spend time with other students from across Europe. Runners-up will be invited to participate in one of the European networking and development workshops taking place until June 2007.

The 2007 prize finalists will be announced on the eTwinning Portal on 7 February 2007.

Educnet publishes ICT in school videos

Educnet, the education portal of the French Ministry of Education, has released 17 videos (in French), available for direct streaming, showcasing how ICT can be effectively used in classroom environments.

WHY do teachers use a learning resources portal?

 Celebrating Europe            

50 years together - this is a  ong time and the EU has many reasons to celebrate it. The Treaties of Rome that iwere signed  half a century ago nitiated the EU.  Since then Europe has changed a lot  If you want to know more about the history of the EU or tosee what is going on in Europe please go here:

The e-Learning For Kids Foundation

The Foundation provides free online learning for children between 5-12 in math, science, language arts, computer skills and health & life skills. They also provide courseware on CD-ROM, free, to schools/Orphanages without access to the Internet.

They launched 85+ courses and have established  partnerships/sponsors with 35+ organizations including: IBM, Convergys, General Motors, Deloitte, Harvard Business School Publishing, and Skillsoft, among others.

Virtual Tourism

Polina Koleskina is a teacher in Moscow, Russia and invites secondary pupils at the age of 12-16 to exchange various information about their countries. in English and/or Russian.  The results shall be presented in different ways. The overall outcome after one year shall be a virtual museum of countries in Europe - created by the participants of the project: 

On 1 January 2007 Bulgaria and Romania joined the European family. The event is an important step towards peace, democracy, stability and prosperity in Europe. With Irish, Bulgarian and Romanian the EU language family will grow from 20 to 23.

Discover the new EU languages by visiting our learning objects repository:

"Aktion Europa"               

 In cooperation with the Representation of the "European Commission in Germany" and of the "German Information Office of the European Parliament" the Federal Government has created the initiative "aktion europa". The aim is an extensive dialogue on European political issues with citizens, associations and political parties.

European Schoolnet (EUN) is a unique not-for-profit consortium of 28 ministries of education in Europe created in 1997. EUN provides major European education portals for teaching, learning and collaboration and leads the way in bringing about change in schooling through the use of new technology.