European Citizenship

BEST Project: Award Winner of eTwinning Prize Netherlands 2008! For the report, see: http://web.kennisnet2.nl/thema/etwinning/erkenning/nl_prijzen

Worldconnector Tineke Lambooy meets the students of Visser ‘t Hooft Lyceum in Leiden during a live video connection on Tuesday 4 December. In the second live streaming video session from 09.30 to 10.30, you can watch Lambooy in a discussion with students about Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Global Citizenship.

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Between summer 2006 and summer 2007 the number of jobs in the European Union has  increased by three million. In total there are 222 million jobs. Europe has about 500 million citizens of which 325 million are employed aged 15-64.

The job increase is especially established by economic growth in Germany, Poland and Spain.
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More than a half of the European employees between 20 and the 39 years consider a job change.

According to 39 per cent switching to another job is to blame to their employer. Employers insufficiently  support employees to realise their potential.

This is the outcome of the research report ‘ Dream job or Career Nightmare?’ of the international consultancy OPP. The investigation has been conducted under 3,000 fulltime employees in 6 European countries, in the age category 20-69 years.

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The When We Connect Project! Polish-Dutch Divide? What’s the connection? 
When We Connect was set up for Dutch and Polish high school students.
Students learn about each other and their countries throughout the school year,
and hold a conference on European issues in The Hague in May of 2008. 
When We Connect would love to see a follow-up conference in Poland in 2009, but needs your support!
See: http://www.europeesplatform.nl/polen/

In Lisbon, October 2007, the Comenius Mobil ID Project was launched. This project is about European and Global Citizenship. Mobil ID stands for mobility and identity. Young citizens of Europe use their mobile and are far more mobile than European citizens have ever been. Social networking and a ‘nodes-and-ties’ structure are patterns of European life of today and the future. How flexible do we need to be to be in constant dialogue with rapidly changing values? See http://mobilid09.googlepages.com/

The Comenius III Network Elos is meeting from the 14th-16th of October in Lisbon, Portugal. At the conference 120 teachers from all countries in Europe are discussing the use of a European portfolio, the framework for the European and International competence of secondary school pupils, as well as the certification in the form of Certilingua, to add to a pupils CV.

European teachers are also exchanging good practice lesson materials on European and International citizenship.

The schools working within Comenius III are currently integrating European and International themes into their curricula and working closely together in this development.

Hi Colleagues

I have uploaded two videos on YouTube re: our Tree Planting at the Visser ‘t Hooft Lyceum, Leiden, The Netherlands. Just search for sips67.

Scott Skinner

Teacher

Teachers’ Project Made in Europe” awarded language label by Dutch ánd Turkish National Agencies 

Dear teachers of the learning circle Made in Europe, I would like to announce that our school has been awarded with the ”European Language Award” for the project “Teachers’ Project Made in Europe” by the Turkish National Agency. I am so happy to share it with you! Now our learning circle of teachers has been awarded 2 labels: both by the Dutch ánd the Turkish national agencies!

First of all, I would like to thank Marleen because she really helped me a lot while I was making the necessary arrangements for the evaluation! Thanks Marleen!

I hope our group will go on cooperating!!! Have a nice holiday my dear friends.

Best wishes,

Sema, teacher from Turkey