Teacher's Newsletter No. 120

Dear Colleagues,
we hope you are not too tired from all the 50th anniversary celebrations and are fit enough to have a look at schools looking for partners, project reports and announcements and some more interesting information.

Many of you might already have left for their Easter break - so enjoy your holidays, relax and ... Happy Easter to all of you!

Development Youth Prize winners accompany Commissioner Louis Michel to Rwanda

25 winners and their teachers will leave from Brussels for a five-day trip to Rwanda from 17-21 April 2007. They will accompany Louis Michel, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid. This trip is a unique opportunity to witness real developmental work in Africa. The programme of the trip is related to the three themes of the competition: health, education and environment. The pupils will be present at the inauguration of a health clinic by the Commissioner and meet pupils of a secondary school in Kigali to exchange views and do some activities together. They will get an introduction to the development projects that the delegation of DG Development is carrying out in Rwanda and have the chance to see some of them. Furthermore they will learn about the country, its people, its tradition and the special sad history of Rwanda. They will stay in 'Hotel Les Mille Collines' which is the well-known location in the movie 'Hotel Rwanda"

Development Youth Prize 2006

Spring Day for Europe 2007

Spring Day activities and a school competition for primary and secondary schools are launched now.

You will find tips and ideas for activities you can carry out at your school. Build bridges, tell stories about the EU in pictures or think of presents you would like to give to the 50th anniversary of the EU. You can also share important events of the last 50 years in an online calendar.

Go and have a look at the website and get inspired- just register and participate!

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Czech and Greek e-values transcend classroom borders

Two school classes discussed how to transpose common values to the digital context on the occasion of the Safer Internet Day 2007 Competition. The teachers of the young pre-teens in Greece and the Czech Republic, Fotis Kousoulas and Ivana Drbohlavová respectively, share their successful experience with us.

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Hands On - Brains On

Mainly targeted to primary school teachers, the objective of the "Hands On - Brains On" project is to create a European network that links formal and informal learning with the organisations ECSITE, EUN and ESHA.
The project puts together the processes of teaching cognitive facts at school and learning how to make observations in science centres and museums.
The objective is to identify key elements within the curricula of different countries in order to teach the scientific research process using interactions between science centres and schools. The science centres will use the teachers' pedagogical expertise as well as the curriculum development input by the educational authorities.
Many new descriptions have been added now to Xplora's web site.

Energy is our Future School Competition: Deadline extended to 22 April 2007

Since its launch in November 2006, the “Energy is our Future” project has been growing each day to offer three major opportunities to European schools: a web-based activity, online chats and a school competition. Due to the overwhelming success of the school competition, an additional number of teachers have expressed their intention to participate with their classes during the upcoming weeks. The project team has therefore decided to extend the competition deadline from 15 March to 22 April 2007.

Career Counselors' training seminar

In the framework of the European network "Career Guide for Schools" Ellinogermaniki Agogi (EA) is organizing a Summer School. An interactive session", at Rhodes Island, in Greece. The Summer School will take place on 19th of July by 27th of July 2007.

The training programme addresses to career counselors and teachers- counselors, which implement carrer guidance at students, about 11 to 20 years old. All the participants (except Greek participants- only five will be granted) will be granted by their National Agencies, for the total cost of the training seminar (participation fee, accomodation, tickets,all meals, excursions).

International conference on' Rural Learning'

The RuraLEARN international conference will bring together academics, agents of applied research, and field practitioners from Europe and beyond who investigate ways of promoting lifelong learning, in the widest sense, in rural communities and geographically disadvantaged areas.

Speakers will include renowned international academics and EU representatives

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EducaPoles

To celebrate the International Polar Year 2007-2008, Alain Hubert and Dixie Dansercoer will attempt a traverse from Siberia to the south of the Greenland on skis. As part of their journey, they will participate in a full educational programme. They will also undertake a range of scientific studies and take measurements and samplings under the guise of several polar research institutes.

Educational activities will be proposed in two phases.

‘Join Up - Send my Friend to School’

The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) promotes education as a basic human right, and mobilizes public pressure on governments and the international community to fulfil their promises to provide free, compulsory basic education for all people. For 80 million children, this right is still violated everyday. ‘JOIN UP! - send my friend to school’ is a campaign that asks children, teachers and other campaigners to join to together to make chains.

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French School looking for industrial partners

"I would like to find factories and industrial parterns in European Union.( in alarms and fire security) ( to install, to repare and to explain to the costumers how they can use it) I would like to create a leonardo project ( teacher' s exchanges and training course for the students in factories and in different schools too). I would like to exchange with teachers and professionals of this topics and they teach this part of the electronics.
I would like for my students (17 to 20 years old) that they can spend a period (between 3 and 6 weeks) in european's factories."
I could be a school partern for european country to do the same thing in France and i can help thme to find factories in France for example."

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Kindergarten student needs help

Dear teachers, my name is Eva Eckert. I am a 23 year old student of kindergarten education in Vienna. I do a request of bilingual children for my degree dissertation and I would be very glad, if you could help me by handing out the questionnaires to your students. The languages they are available in are German, English, French, Spanish, Turkish, Serbian, Polish and Italian. If you are willing to help you, please contact me. I will send you the questionnaires. Thank you very much!

Contact: Eva Eckert

The EU is 50

Concerts, festivals, debates, exhibitions, sports events and much more brought people from all over Europe together on 24 and 25 March to celebrate the EU's 50th birthday.

It was a real party weekend all over Europe. In many European capitals people joined the different festivities around the EU's 50th anniversary. No matter if it was rainy or sunny - the young and the old came together in Brussels, Berlin, Rome, Madrid and Cardiff. They listened to music, they got informed and learned about Europe, they discussed and exchanged their views.

Find out more how the EU celebrated and get inspired for your Spring Day for Europe activities.

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Declaration on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the signature of the Treaties of Rome

In an agreement, known as the Berlin Declaration, the EU's self-understanding is expressed of Europe being an idea of hope, peace and prosperity. The importance of European values that are our fundament on which we built our community is outlined. Europe is stated to be a unique place that preserves its identities and traditions in its member states.

You can find this declaration in 23 languages on the homepage of the German presidency.

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