European Citizenship

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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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/

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

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 »

I would like to hear what you think of this idea of setting up E-Citizenship as part of a new European curriculum? Would you like to become one of the teachers / co-editors of this new European webbased subject? What are your ideas on content?

Created on a European level by pupils and their teachers from all European countries, using high-tech means of international communication.
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  A Revolution for Communication? Implications and Challenges for Communication Management and PR

More than 400 communication experts from all over Europe participated in the second major study dealing with the way weblogs and social software are changing organizational practice.

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                                      School Competition on Europe: 50 Years Together 2007

The competition is open to young artists and only one entry per person/group is allowed in one of the two categories:

primary education / lagere scholen

I - ‘Design a Stamp for 50th anniversary of European Union’

secondary education / middelbare scholen

II - Digital Product on Europe: the next 50 Years

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The integration of Europe’s immigrants through schooling should become a major policy priority by the end of this decade. The EU education ministers have agreed to ramp up investment. Recent OECD data showed many countries are failing to help children of immigrants integrate.

The ministers decided that language support has to play a key role. They also agreed to make vocational training more market responsive. The number of students who leave school early was also discussed. Read the rest of this entry »