From 14-16 March, over 400 participants met in Bucharest, Romania, to celebrate success and discuss eTwinning in Europe.

The eTwinning Conference 2008 on “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue” provided practitioners, policy makers and national and central support services from 29 countries with a great opportunity to meet and discuss both the success and future of eTwinning in Europe.

A highlight of the conference was also the eTwinning prize-giving ceremony where the winners and runners up of the 2008 Prizes were announced via an impressive media presentation. Congratulations again to all our finalists!

All conference activities were documented throughout the three days on the
CONFERENCE BLOG. Many thanks to all those who contributed!

What's going on in the rest of Europe... 

Slovakia: Conference for Head TeachersOn 3 April, 120 head teachers meet in Zilina to discuss innovation using project methods in education and how eTwinning projects can be used as a tool for understanding and creativity.

Germany: PDW in Bonn
The European Professional Development Workshop for teachers from all types of schools will take place from 25-27 April in Bonn. The workshop is open for beginners and advanced eTwinners.

Lithuania: eTwinning School Mascot!
The “Teddy Bear”, which started as a small class project, has gained such popularity that its symbol Teddy became its school’s mascot, taking part in many school activities and went on several trips to greet eTwinning ambassadors, local authorities, a member of Parliament and even the Minister of Education and Science!

UK: New Partner-Finding Guidelines
The UK NSS has developed new guidelines for finding eTwinning partners. A welcome letter along with the guidelines will be sent to all UK schools who register on the Portal from now on. Anyone already registered who would like more support in finding a partner can access the guidelines on the national website.

Spanish-Portuguese eTwinning Conference
From 30 January – 1 February, a conference was held in Santiago de Compostela for 25 Spanish teachers of different subjects and levels and 35 Portuguese teachers of Spanish. The focus was on the exchange of information with the aim of starting partnerships.

Lithuania: Experiments for young children
How can pre-school children manage to carry out simple scientific experiments? What skills do these types of experiments develop for children? Are they safe enough? What emotions do these activities create?

Greece: Celebration Conference
On 21 March, a celebration conference of the first 3 years of eTwinning was held at the Hellenic Ministry of Education. During the conference, the winners of the National eTwinning Awards 2006-2007 and the winners of the Artistic National eTwinning Contest 2007 received their prizes.

UK: Hospital School Looking for Partners
The Children's Hospital School is looking to establish links and partnerships with other hospital schools across Europe. The London school is particularly interested in using ICT as a tool to exchange ideas, information and good practice. Please do get in touch with the school if you would like to develop an eTwinning Project with them.

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