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home > Media services > Press releases > Record number of schools participating in Spring Day in Europe 2005 Record number of schools participating in Spring Day in Europe 2005 More than 6200 schools have signed up for Spring Day in Europe 2005, which takes place on 17 March 2005. Organised for the third year, the event is this year focused on the European Constitution. The aim of Spring Day in Europe is to start a dialogue between pupils, teachers and European Union personalities. It enables European schools to discuss European issues and incorporate them into the curriculum. Schools are organising a range of activities, some of which include participation by European or national political figures. Events organised by schools will be highlighted on the European Schoolnet website within the next two weeks at http://futurum2005.eun.org. More than 70 MEPs, Commissioners and other European personalities have committed themselves to go back to schools on Spring Day to discuss their vision for Europe and its future. Margot Wallström, European Commission Vice President, is among the personalities particularly involved in the 17 March events. On 17 March at the Representation of the European Commission in Paris, Margot Wallström and French Minister of European Affairs Claudie Haigneré, together with official guests, will answer questions from about 30 pupils from France and Germany on the European Constitution. The day before Commissioner Wallström visits European Schoolnet Office in Brussels for an Internet chat with schools in Europe. Other chats organised in the run-up to Spring Day include on 15 March a chat between Polish schools and former Polish foreign minister MEP Geremek Bronislaw. On 16 March, a similar chat will take place between MEP Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Vice President of the European Parliament, and Polish schools. On 17 March, MEP Grażyna Staniszewska also had a chat with Polish schools. Also these chats sessions are organised from the European Schoolnet Office.
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