Newsletter No. 126 7 March 2008
Dear colleagues,
Here in Brussels spring is showing its first signs of coming and we are happy to tell you that we will soon be starting on the next edition of Spring Day for Europe 2008. You will find more information below. The Development Youth Prize 2007 is going into its final round – submissions are open until 31 March 2008 – so don’t hesitate and participate. The United Nations is announcing two activities for schools. Read yourself about more projects, competitions and perhaps find a partner school for your projects.
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Spring Day for Europe 2008
European Schoolnet and the European Commission
invite you to take part in the Spring Day for Europe 2008 project. This year all activities will have as a focus the European Year of ‘Intercultural Dialogue’.
The new Web portal will be launched soon.
We welcome you to register your school at a new
Web address
Check the URL in the upcoming week
50 Years Together in Diversity School Competition:
Winners announced
European Schoolnet and the Museum of Europe are
pleased to announce the winners of the 50 Years Together in Diversity School Competition. On 6 February 2008, the jury - which was composed of experts from the
Museum of Europe and European Schoolnet – finalised
the evaluation process. The competition prizes consist
of a group trip to Brussels to visit the European Parliament and the exhibition “It's our history”, between 21 and 23 March 2008. The trip is sponsored by the Museum of Europe.
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Annual eTwinning Conference, 14-16 March 2008
The eTwinning Conference 2008 will be held at the Hotel Grand Rin in Bucharest, Romania, from 14-16 March. The theme of this year’s conference is “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue” and the event will be attended by nearly 400 participants from across Europe. To launch this important event, Jan Figel’, Member of the European Commission in charge of education, training, culture and youth, will open the Conference followed by a number of plenary discussions with various actors working in education in Europe.
A central activity of the Conference will also be the prize-giving ceremony for the eTwinning Prizes 2008. From over 400 entries, all eight project finalists will be present in Bucharest where the winners and runners-up will be announced and given their awards.
For more information: Read more
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Online chat on career opportunities in chemistry
On 14 March at 2 pm CET, the next Xperimania online chat will take place.
Fabian Scuvie, R&D Advisor for Training, at essenscia - the Belgian chemistry association - will answer students’ questions on "What career opportunities are there in the chemical industry?"
Interested schools can register by sending an email to xperimania@eun.org with the subject "Xperimania chat".
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FuturEnergia: Climate Protection and taking Steps to Ensure a Bright Future
The world’s climate is changing. Experts around the world agree that it is no longer a question of whether we need to act, but what we should be doing. Climate protection is perhaps the key challenge facing the next generation. This chat, hosted by Mike Childs of Friends of the Earth, will give some ideas on how these changes will affect our lives and what we can do to mitigate their impact. This article summarises the steps that are needed to ensure climate protection and make a contribution to a sustainable future. The article is published in connection with the chat activity that is hosted by Mike Childs from Friends of the Earth.
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Take part in the ISSUE course in Alicante
The course "Design of on-line/blended learning sequences for integrated teaching of Science, Mathematics and CLIL" is published in the Comenius -Grundtvig Training Database with the reference "ES-2008-190-001" and it will be held in Spain, July 14th-18th at Alicante University (a beautiful Mediterranean city).
The main objective of the course is to familiarise participants with examples of good practice in Science, Mathematics and CLIL teaching and to learn how to develop an on-line course using the Moodle open source platform. The course will be divided in three type of sessions: plenary sessions about teacher professional development in EU, workshop computer sessions and "hands on" working group activities.
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FOOD 4U started again!
The Italian Ministry for Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policies is pleased to invite teachers of European secondary schools to take part in the FOOD 4U 2008 competition. This initiative, which is now in its fourth edition, involves teachers and students between the ages of 14 and 19 for the production of video spots on the topic: “Youngsters and an informed Diet”
Deadline of the competition: 26th May 2008
Contact
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Participate in the EUR-OCEANS film script contest!
Together with your class write a film script about
« Climate Change and Human activities impact on Marine Ecosystems ».
You can win the chance to have your film made by a professional production team and the opportunity to present it at the European Final of the contest in Brussels (Belgium) in June 2008.
There are 5000 euros worth of educational materials to be won by the best film in the European Final.
Register online now on www.eur-oceans.info and send your script to the EUR-OCEANS Aquarium of your choice (list available on the EUR-OCEANS website) before the 7th of April.
The contest is open for all European classes.
Contact
Tolerance at school
I'm organising an international competition named TOLERANCE AT SCHOOL and I invite you to take part in it. You can find a statute on the website:
http://www.progressio.pl/tolerancja2008
I'm looking forward to your reply.
Contact: Bogusia Przew?oka, chairwoman
European Association of Science and Culture Lovers PROGRESSIO |
Media education and language awareness in Berlin and Europe
New Join-In activity "Friends!"
A new activity for teachers to join in and connect with other teachers across Europe. The "Friends!" theme is based on the Television News project and linked with the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. Read the short description, join in with your school class and share your experiences and outcomes!
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European Teacher Training Courses
The March 2008 course is over-full and we are finalising the programme now which will include again a studio workshop at the Open Channel Berlin. There are still a few places for the October 2008 "Language Learning and Video Production" course. Please pass the message on to your colleagues.
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Languages and Film Talents Award
A video competition from CILT in London (UK) - a competition to get students thinking about why it's good to learn languages (closing date end of March). The winning results will be broadcast on our transmission slot in Berlin.
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Do you need help to set up a Comenius project?
We invite you, or your friends from schools to join our Comenius projects.
We are an NGO, non-profit association, who are helping those schools and kindergartens to make proposals, that have not experiences, yet. We help to coordinate the projects, too.
Our projects are made by experts and we have associated partners such as the Pedagogical Institute of Hungarian University ELTE. Every project will be registered on the eTwinning portal, too. (Like "Reclamo pro Europa Cogitans")
You can read our short outline and the Activity Plans on our website.
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Are you interested in European involvement in development issues in Africa?
Would you like to win a trip to Africa?
Then take up your last chance and participate in the Development Youth Prize 2007. Until 31 March 2008 pupils aged 16-18 from around Europe are invited to create their own poster or multimedia presentation. Be creative, show others your view on three different themes and help to create awareness among fellow pupils, teachers, families and others.
Finalists and their teachers will be invited to a two-day prize-giving event in Strasbourg throughout the European Development Days on 16 – 17 November. Winning students and their teachers will be invited to accompany the European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, Louis Michel, to an African country.
Read more about the competition
See last year's winning entries and get inspired.
See video High quality : (282Mo)
See video Medium quality : (15Mo)
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“Mathias and Amadou
The major challenge for the next 25 years is to reduce by half the intolerable poverty in the world.
The adults striving to achieve this will without doubt not see their efforts through to the end. Our children have to take over the task. They who spontaneously know about sharing have to be helped by us to discover and understand why and how, each and every one, wherever they may be, whatever their means… can contribute to building a better world in which the North and South unite their destiny.
Education is one of our main priorities. This is why we have created an illustrated book designed to explain very simply to young Europeans aged 6 to 8 what development co-operation is all about and what the European Union is doing in this area. It is titled “Mathias and Amadou”.
To help you - as parents, teachers and educators – to help our children to discover this book, we also wanted to compile a brief teaching manual detailing a little of the reality hidden behind the 16 original storyboards.
We would be grateful if you can provide us with lists of schools where we could send the comic strip and the teaching manual.
See clip: Mathias and Amadou and Teaching manual
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“Life online: what WE made of IT”
The fifth annual edition of Safer Internet Day has surpassed all records, with 55 countries taking part across the world from New Zealand to Costa Rica and Taiwan to Greenland. The unprecedented take-up reflects a growing concern from all sectors including government, the civil sector, the public and media on the importance of educating young people to use online technologies safely, effectively and ethically.
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Wild Web Woods
Council of Europe launches game for children in thirteen languages. The Council of Europe chose Safer Internet Day 2008 to launch its "Wild Web Woods" internet game in Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Russian and Turkish.
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SAVE THE DATE!
On 28 March 2008, the United Nations is organizing a global student videoconference to honour the victims of slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade . From 9h30-1300h (Eastern Standard Time), high school and college students from the United Kingdom, Sierra Leone, Norway and Barbados will share what they have learned about the causes and consequences of the slave trade that have been felt throughout the world. The entire event will be webcast on 28 March and students will be able to participate by sending questions and comments directly to UN Headquarters in New York through the United Nations Cyberschoolbus website.
Learn more about the 400-year slave trade or the
UNESCO's Slave Route Project
(available in English, French and Spanish).
Have a question about the UN or a global issue on the UN's agenda?
Ask the Secretary-General. Primary, intermediate, and secondary school students around the world have the opportunity to send questions to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon until 31 March, 2008.
Learn how you can submit your question |
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