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ASPECT: Best Practice Network for educational content

ASPECT is a 30-month, Best Practice Network for educational content that involves 22 partners from 15 countries, including 9 Ministries of Education (MoE), four commercial content developers and leading technology providers. For the first time, experts from all international standardisation...

CALIBRATE: Calibrating eLearning in Schools

The CALIBRATE project was launched in Tallinn on 10-11 October 2005. CALIBRATE stands for Calibrating eLearning in Schools. It is a 30-month project to support collaborative use and exchange of learning resources in schools.

Development Youth Prize 2008-2009

The 2008-2009 edition of the Development Youth Prize will focus on ‘Human Development in Africa’. Students from all European member states aged 16 -18 years are invited to prepare their creative artworks on three new themes: gender equality, children and youth and cultural...

"Energy is our Future" - Futurenergia

European Schoolnet partnership with PlasticsEurope, the association of plastics manufacturers, launched the "Energy is our Future" website. It aims to raise awareness among students throughout Europe between 11 and 18 years about the importance of energy efficiency. Through online...

ENTITLE: Europe's New libraries Together in Transversal Learning Environments

ENTITLE is a multilateral project under LifeLearning Programme Key Action 4 - Dissemination and Exploitation of Results, designed to support and extend the progress made to date by Europe’s public libraries in supporting learning for all age groups and sections of society....

eTwinning: School partnerships in Europe

The eTwinning action was launched earlier this year at a conference in Brussels. It is a core part of the European Commission’s eLearning programme. eTwinning aims to foster and facilitate exchanges and partnerships between European schools.

Eurocompetition

European Schoolnet, on behalf of the European Commission, is coordinating the Eurocompetition, an online poster design competition to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the EU's Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). The Eurocompetition - for pupils aged 10-14 living in the euro area...

EYE: Study on Environment for Young Europeans

EYE was a 9-month project to review the website “Environment for Young Europeans” of the DG Environment of the European Commission. The task was conducted by an external contractor, Gellis Communications, and European Schoolnet as a subcontractor. As part of the evaluation...

Games in schools

European Schoolnet is launching a Europe wide survey on the use of electronic games in schools (video games, computer games, online games that run on consoles, computers, handhelds or mobile phones). The survey is sponsored by the Interactive Software Federation of Europe.

IMAGINE: Increased MAinstreaming of Games IN Learning PoliciEs

There is now a large amount of evidence available to suggest that the use of Games-Based Learning (GBL) can make a positive impact on learning outcomes at all levels of education. However, adoption of GBL by policy makers as a mainstream learning remains limited. The Increased MAinstreaming...

Innovative Science Pedagogy in Research and Education

The INSPIRE project aims to develop and experiment new teaching methods in the field of math, science and technology (MST). The purpose is to challenge the lack of interest of students to start scientific studies and more widely to extend the supply of scientific specialists and...

INSAFE Plus: Internet Safety Awareness for Europe

The INSAFE Plus project aims at setting up a network of national Safer Internet awareness nodes, and implementing coordination instruments that will ensure its long-term sustainability. The project strives to strengthen and raise the visibility of Safer Internet actions across Europe,...

ITEMs: Integrated Teaching Elearning Modules

The Integrated Teaching Elearning Modules (ITEMs) project has as central objective the development of a framework aimed at driving up standards of teaching and learning in Science and Mathematics. The goal is to enhance students’ achievement and, as a corollary, their interest...

MELT: Metadata Ecology for Learning and Teaching

Across Europe, Ministries of Education and other providers of educational content are offering extensive catalogues and large repositories of online learning resources to schools. However, as the number of resources in these repositories continues to grow, educational budgets are...

METASCHOOL

The METASCHOOL project aims to improve the in-service training of school teachers and school ICT staff on topics related to the organisation, sharing, use and re-use of digital learning resources that can be accessed online through learning repositories. Building upon the experience...

MOLAN: Network for the exchange of information about good practices that serve to motivate language learners

The 'MOLAN - Network for the exchange of information about good practices that serve to motivate language learners' project, funded by the European Commission under the Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP), is carried out by 40 higher education institutions and schools from 24 European...

OER TN: the Open Educational Resources Teachers' Network

The Open Educational Resources Teachers' Network (OER TN) is a new initiative led by European Schoolnet (EUN) and supported with funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. It consists of a short scoping and feasibility study (January 2008 – September 2009) building...

P2V: Peer to Peer networking for Valorisation

European Schoolnet was awarded the contract to run P2V, a peer learning project funded by the European Commission DG Education and Culture under the Transversal Actions of the EU eLearning Programme. P2V (Peer to Peer networking for Valorisation) is a development from the P2P project...

Sci Tech Girls Day

The Sci Tech Girls Day consists in a succession of exchanges between young girl students and female leading scientists, experts and role models. This event aims to support and encourage young women to pursue scientific studies by denouncing cultural and sociological barrier, and...

Spring Day for Europe

Spring Day for Europe is a pedagogical platform for schools to integrate EU developments to the curriculum. It is a campaign that leads schools to the organisation of a European day of debate and knowledge exchange with local, regional, national or international personalities and...

STEPS, how technology impacts on primary schools

STEPS is a project aiming at studying the impact of Technology in primary schools. It is a continuation from a successful survey conducted in 2006 on the impact of ICT in schools in Europe. The STEPS study will provide a comparative analysis on the integration of ICT in primary schools...

Xperimania: from molecules to materials

European Schoolnet and the Association of Petrochemicals Producers in Europe (Appe) are launching an ambitious new project to raise awareness of petrochemistry among young people across Europe. The project - Xperimania - proposes attractive inquiry-based science teaching and learning...