Best Practice Manual now available!

General news   October 18, 2006, 08:11 by mbijnens

One of the key activities of Citizen E was to disseminate best practice regarding e-twinning activities. Based on the experiences gathered during Citizen E, the project partners have written a Best Practice Manual intended as a guideline for European and national training institutions who are interested in setting up school twinning activities. This Best Practice Manual includes guidelines and recommendations as well as concrete examples of school twinning activities carried out during the project lifetime.

The manual can be freely downloaded here!

Read more about the Citizen E activities

General news   July 10, 2006, 09:37 by mbijnens

The reports on the activities and projects that have been carried out during the past school year, have been published on the Citizen E website. Go to "documents" or click here to find out more about the twinning activities between the participating schools...

And the winners are... !!!

General news   June 12, 2006, 08:36 by mbijnens

We are very pleased to announce you the winners of the Citizen E Awards!

European Schoolnet launches the eLearning Awards 2006

General news   June 1, 2006, 09:47 by mbijnens

After Citizen E organised its own Awards, teachers are now welcome to participate in the eLearning Awards 2006. The eLearning Awards is Europe's premier competition rewarding excellent use of new technologies by schools. The competition is open to all schools in all European countries.

Documents, documents, documents...

General news   May 23, 2006, 13:28 by mbijnens

A lot of new documents have been published on the Citizen E website. Find inspiration for a class activity in project plans, get to know more about ancient history, test your knowledge with several quizes or just enjoy some interesting presentations about sports, countries and national specialities...

All this can be found in "documents" at the left of this page!

The Citizen E awards approaching...

General news   May 9, 2006, 10:55 by mbijnens

In two weeks time, four jury members will start deciding which schools will win the Citizen E awards. The external jury will elect the winners in four different categories: best project, best forum use, best students’ work and best project plan. The participating students and teachers can win a digital camera, webcams, educational dvds and recordable CDs. On June 9th the winners will be announced on this website!

Teacher meeting in Poland

General news   May 9, 2006, 10:32 by mbijnens

WOM educational centre in Poland recently had an extra meeting with the Polish teachers participating in Citizen E. Here are some pictures!

Interesting resource about European Citizenship

General news   April 13, 2006, 13:41 by mbijnens

myEUROPE is a Web-based project which aims to help teachers raise their pupils' awareness of what it means to be a young citizen in Europe. By involving a network of more than 5000 schools, the diversity of Europe is brought into the classroom via the Internet.
Visit the myEurope website to find out more...

Citizen E launches the Citizen E Awards!

General news   March 17, 2006, 08:30 by mbijnens

The Citzen E partners have taken a decision to launch the Citizen E Awards. At the beginning of June an external jury will elect the winners in four different categories: The award for the best project, the award for the schools that make the best use of their forum, the award for the best students’ work and the award for the best project plan made by a teacher. Prizes are a digital camera, webcams, educational dvds and recordable CDs. On June 9th the winners will be announced on this website!

Press Release

Interviews with Citizen E teachers on the EC's eLearning Portal

General news   March 14, 2006, 15:03 by mbijnens

Cristina Vandelli (from S.M.S Giacomo Cavedoni, Italy) and Aneta Budzikur (Gimnazjum in Czarny Las, Poland) recently gave an interview to the editorial team of elearningeurope.info, which is the e-Learning portal of the European Commission. Their interview, in which they talk about Citizen E and their personal experiences with the project, can be read in English, Polish and Italian on the portal.

Teacher Workshop

General news   March 9, 2006, 13:49 by mbijnens

MEC, one of the partner organisations of Citizen E is planning a teacher workshop on the 20th of March for the Irish teachers participating in Citizen E. The workshop will be about using audio and video conferencing tools like Skype and the effective use of these kind of tools for twinning projects.

Press conference and Valentine’s day Videoconference.

General news   February 21, 2006, 09:05 by mbijnens

On Tuesday the 14th of February a press conference was held in St. Niklaas to promote Citizen E on a national and local level. The press conference took place in one of the participating schools, Instituut Heilige Familie, where partners, teachers and students talked about their experiences with Citizen E.

The press conference was then followed by a videoconference between the students of Instituut Heilige Familie St. Niklaas and their partner school ITIS A. Meucci in Italy. Since the former are all girls and the latter all boys, we baptized this event as a special Valentine’s Day Videoconference. The students had already been in contact with one another so this was an opportunity to really meet (almost) face-to-face.

"My Favourite e-Learning Resource" contest

General news   February 20, 2006, 09:27 by mbijnens

The eLearning portal "elearningeurope.info" has launched a contest about "My favourite e-learning resource". The purpose is that participants send their favourite e-learning resource and write some lines of description about it. The winner will have a laptop. The contest is running until 17th April.

Let's vote for Citizen E!

More first results!

General news   February 9, 2006, 11:51 by mbijnens

Meanwhile other students have also been publishing interesting documents in their forums. A lot of these great documents can be seen if you click on 'Documents' in the left hand side navigation bar.

Some first results!

General news   February 1, 2006, 10:37 by mbijnens

Lots of the Schools taking part in Citizen E are by now well advanced in their twinning projects and already have gathered some really nice results. Please go to ‘documents’ and have a look at the documents that have been written by the Irish students of Jesus and Mary Secondary School in the framework of their twinning project “Culture Differences and Similarities between Ireland and Poland”.

Meeting of project partners

General news   January 17, 2006, 15:35 by mbijnens

On the 13th and 14th of February, the Citizen E project partners will gather in Gent (Belgium) for a project meeting. They will evaluate the current school twinning arrangements with their respective activities and use the most interesting ones as examples for a best-practise handbook. The publishing of this handbook is foreseen for the end of this school year.

Teacher Workshop

General news   January 3, 2006, 07:52 by mbijnens

A new teacher workshop will be organised for new participating Belgian teachers that have recently been enrolled in Citizen E. Project partner Kaho has planned this workshop to take place in January in Gent (Belgium). During this workshop the teachers will be trained on how to use the Citizen E platform and in basic ICT skills.

Projects starting up!

General news   November 28, 2005, 15:22 by mbijnens

More than 1200 students and teachers from 50 different schools in Poland, Italy, Ireland and Belgium are currently participating in the Citizen E project. Almost all of them have been twinned by now and started discussing new project plans. Students as well as teachers are actively participating in forums that discuss cultural, political, historical as well as environmental and gender topics.

New schools wanted for 2005/2006!

General news   October 11, 2005, 09:50 by pandries

We are looking for several extra schools to take part in Citizen E this year, if you teach a subject related to the topic of European Citizenship and would like to be twinned with a school in a different part of Europe to carry out a twinning project on this topic - please contact: sally.reynolds@atit.be

Workshops, workshops & workshops!

General news   September 29, 2005, 09:48 by pandries

The new school year has got off to a great start for Citizen E with teacher workshops organised in Poland, Ireland and Italy for the teachers taking part in the 2005/2006 school year, more than 30 people taking part in the training session organised by WOM in Czestochowa on 27 September. The process of twinning the schools has already begun and project work between participating schools begins in October.