Overview of eTwinning

Web Editor: YANDIK Ali
Published: 21.11.2008
Last changed: 26.07.2010

The community for schools in Europe

www.etwinning.net

The eTwinning action promotes school collaboration in Europe through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by providing support, tools and services to make it easy for schools to form short or long term partnerships in any subject area.

The eTwinning Portal (www.etwinning.net) is the main meeting point and workspace for the action. Available in twenty-three languages, the eTwinning Portal now has the involvement of nearly 50 000 individual members and over 4000 projects* between two or more schools across Europe. The Portal provides online tools for teachers to find partners, set up projects, share ideas, exchange best practice and start working together immediately using various customised tools available on the eTwinning platform.

Launched in 2005 as the main action of the European Commission’s eLearning Programme, eTwinning has been firmly integrated in the Lifelong Learning Programme since 2007. Its Central Support Service is operated by European Schoolnet, an international partnership of 26 European Ministries of Education developing learning for schools, teachers and pupils across Europe. eTwinning is further supported at national level by 30 National Support Services.

* figures based on statistics from October 2008