European Citizenship

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.

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

VIDEOCONFERENCE European Pupil Jury

What did we do on Europe Day? Visser ‘t Hooft Lyceum from Leiden, the Netherlands VHL Website and VHL Internationale Leeromgeving, is one of the Elos Comenius III Network Schools for European Citizenship. We organised a videoconference in which European pupils acted as jury for a contest. Pupils from Bulgaria website Bulgarian school, Italy: Liceo Linguistico Internazionale “Grazia Deledda”, Turkey: TED Ankara College Foundation Schools and Romania: Grup Scolar Industrial Constructii De Masini Sibiu joined our pupils and presented themselves in English! Read the rest of this entry »

Flexicurity is the magic word.

If you believe having a job for life is a thing of the past, then you are like three quarters of European citizens. Today’s fast-changing global economy is the culprit.

To make more and better jobs possible, the European Commission is getting behind the active labour market concept of flexicurity. This combines security both for workers and companies.

One of its main principles is to narrow the comfort gap, say between someone with a steady longterm paycheck and the person in and out of the job centre, whose life feels more like walking a tightrope.

A spokeswoman in Brussels:
“What are the next steps? Basically, we are looking at establishing common principles which can then be adopted at the European Council in December.”

Flexicurity’s aims include ensuring that more Europeans enjoy income support between jobs or have opportunities to start their own businesses. It is also to prevent companies being mummified in red tape.  (Source Euronews )

Europe: the next 50 years!

Pupils working in a group of 3 can post their ideas for a better future in Europe, in the categories:

Theme 1: globalisation

Theme 2: climate change

Theme 3: Europe in the world

Theme 4: My country, a democracy

Theme 5: Working together, Living Together