Over the course of the three days, representatives from the CSS included Anne Gilleran, Santi Scimeca, Christina Crawley, Silvia Spinoso, Sylvia Binger, Bart Vanhulle, Petru Dumitru and Yves Beernaert. Eugenio Rivière represented the European Commission.
 
The portals meeting concentrated first on short presentations from each NSS about new developments, good practice and statistical information regarding the national portals. The second part of the meeting focused on group discussions on: the role of the national portals; how NSS can better sinergise their efforts online; and how the European Portal can be further developed in light of the increasingly large number of registered schools.

The pedagogical meeting focused on issues related to professional development and the European Quality Label.  Beginning with the issue of training, the Spanish NSS presented their recently developed online eTwinning training course for teachers while NSS from the UK, Portugal and Sweden/Denmark reported on the results of their Professional Development Workshops this past fall. The European Quality Label was discussed in the context of the National Quality Label and it was decided that the current methodology works well.

The final meeting on Networking and Communications introduced the newest member of the Central Support Service, Yves Beernaert, who will be working on networking and communications issues at European Schoolnet. Mr. Beernaert chaired the meeting and all participants were very pleased with his insight related to better communicating with target groups and further developing communications strategies as eTwinning continues to grow.

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