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European Schoolnet projects

European Schoolnet participates actively in EU programmes like eLearning, Socrates, Information Society Technologies (IST), eContent and Safer Internet and is currently involved in more than 15 projects. We are presenting here the current projects European Schoolnet is conducting. Past projects are available in the archive section.

Current projects

Development Youth Prize 2008-2009

The 2008-2009 edition of the Development Youth Prize will focus on ‘Human Development in Africa’. Students from all European member states aged 16 -18 years are invited to prepare their creative artworks on three new themes: gender equality, children and youth and cultural...

Sci Tech Girls Day

The Sci Tech Girls Day consists in a succession of exchanges between young girl students and female leading scientists, experts and role models. This event aims to support and encourage young women to pursue scientific studies by denouncing cultural and sociological barrier, and...

EYE: Study on Environment for Young Europeans

EYE was a 9-month project to review the website “Environment for Young Europeans” of the DG Environment of the European Commission. The task was conducted by an external contractor, Gellis Communications, and European Schoolnet as a subcontractor. As part of the evaluation...

STEPS, how technology impacts on primary schools

STEPS is a project aiming at studying the impact of Technology in primary schools. It is a continuation from a successful survey conducted in 2006 on the impact of ICT in schools in Europe. The STEPS study will provide a comparative analysis on the integration of ICT in primary schools...

Games in schools

European Schoolnet is launching a Europe wide survey on the use of electronic games in schools (video games, computer games, online games that run on consoles, computers, handhelds or mobile phones). The survey is sponsored by the Interactive Software Federation of Europe.

ASPECT: Best Practice Network for educational content

ASPECT is a 30-month, Best Practice Network for educational content that involves 22 partners from 15 countries, including 9 Ministries of Education (MoE), four commercial content developers and leading technology providers. For the first time, experts from all international standardisation...

Innovative Science Pedagogy in Research and Education

The INSPIRE project aims to develop and experiment new teaching methods in the field of math, science and technology (MST). The purpose is to challenge the lack of interest of students to start scientific studies and more widely to extend the supply of scientific specialists and...

P2V: Peer to Peer networking for Valorisation

European Schoolnet was awarded the contract to run P2V, a peer learning project funded by the European Commission DG Education and Culture under the Transversal Actions of the EU eLearning Programme. P2V (Peer to Peer networking for Valorisation) is a development from the P2P project...

MELT: Metadata Ecology for Learning and Teaching

Across Europe, Ministries of Education and other providers of educational content are offering extensive catalogues and large repositories of online learning resources to schools. However, as the number of resources in these repositories continues to grow, educational budgets are...

"Energy is our Future" - Futureenergia

European Schoolnet partnership with PlasticsEurope, the association of plastics manufacturers, launched the "Energy is our Future" website. It aims to raise awareness among students throughout Europe between 11 and 18 years about the importance of energy efficiency. Through online...

CALIBRATE: Calibrating eLearning in Schools

The CALIBRATE project was launched in Tallinn on 10-11 October 2005. CALIBRATE stands for Calibrating eLearning in Schools. It is a 30-month project to support collaborative use and exchange of learning resources in schools.

eTwinning: School partnerships in Europe

The eTwinning action was launched earlier this year at a conference in Brussels. It is a core part of the European Commission’s eLearning programme. eTwinning aims to foster and facilitate exchanges and partnerships between European schools.

INSAFE Plus: Internet Safety Awareness for Europe

The INSAFE Plus project aims at setting up a network of national Safer Internet awareness nodes, and implementing coordination instruments that will ensure its long-term sustainability. The project strives to strengthen and raise the visibility of Safer Internet actions across Europe,...

xperimania: From molecules to materials

European Schoolnet and the Association of Petrochemicals Producers in Europe (Appe) are launching an ambitious new project to raise awareness of petrochemistry among young people across Europe. The project - Xperimania - proposes attractive inquiry-based science teaching and learning...

Spring Day for Europe

Spring Day for Europe is a pedagogical platform for schools to integrate EU developments to the curriculum. It is a campaign that leads schools to the organisation of a European day of debate and knowledge exchange with local, regional, national or international personalities and...

50 Years together in diversity

The “50 Years Together in Diversity” school competition is intended to enhance and support European citizenship education in schools, in the year when the European Union celebrates its 50th anniversary.

P2P – Policy and Practice Peer to Peer

P2P (Peer Reviews and Observatory on Policy and Practice in ICT) is a project in response to the eLearning Call for Proposals, Directorate Education and Culture. The two year project (January 2004 to April 2006) aims both to monitor and to stimulate change in ICT policies and practice...

Earth and Space Week competition

Earth & Space Week (12-20 February 2005) was a European Commission and European Space Agency (ESA) initiative showing how Earth Observation (EO) and Space improve quality of life on our planet. The week included cultural, recreational and educational activities, a major public exhibition,...

ERNIST: European Research Network for ICT in Schools of Tomorrow

The purpose of the European Research Network for ICT in Schools of Tomorrow (ERNIST) was to create a network of leading experts and institutions in research and evaluation of ICT in learning and innovative schools. It has brought together researchers and education inspectorates from...

ESLN: European School Leadership Network

European School Leadership Network is a project that aims to build a network based on a community of practice and learning, a network of European School Leaders who are both practitioners in schools and learners. The participants in this project will take part in a specially designed...

eColours: eCONTENT feasibility study

eColours is an eContent feasibility study project which brings together Ministries of Education in Europe, educational content developers and content repositories to co-develop and localise about six learning resources using a variety of different production models.

EPICC: European Portfolios Initiative Co-ordinating Committee

European Portfolio Initiatives Co-ordination Committee (EPICC) is a project looking into the potential of e-portfolios. Epicc believes that the activities proposed in this project will allow Europe to become the leader in the field of e-portfolios in education.

Discovery Days

The aim of the project is to present the vision for the future operation of museums, science centres and thematic parks and to give to the wider public the opportunity to experience the new technological achievements during their visits in those places.

EQO: European Quality Observatory

The aim of the project is to build up a European-wide observatory for quality in ICT-based training, learning and education in Europe. The observatory collects and stores quality approaches in e-learning, as well as information about diversity of quality approaches in the European...

Green Week Competition 2005

The European Commission's DG Environment invites all children in the enlarged EU and candidate countries, aged between 6 and 16 years, to take part in its Green Week schools competition 2005, organised by European Schoolnet.

Life: Learning Interoperability Framework for Europe

The aim of the LIFE project is to improve interoperability and the use of standards in the field of e-learning by increasing the effectiveness of Learning Technology standards and specifications. The project is funded by the European Commission’s eLearning scheme.

OASIS: Open Architectures in Schools in Society

OASIS is a project that promotes small virtual communities in schools, concentrating particularly on how the role of socialisation can be enhanced by the Internet.

PENCIL: Permanent European Resource Centre for Informal Learning

PENCIL (Permanent European Resource Centre for Informal Learning) combines field programmes and academic research with the aim of identifying the keys of success that transform informal science activities into innovative quality tools for science teaching. 14 science centres/museums...

CELEBRATE: Context eLearning with Broadband Technologies

CELEBRATE stands for Context eLearning with Broadband Technologies and aimed to demonstrate the best use of broadband technologies in Education. The 30-month demonstration project was co-ordinated by European Schoolnet and supported by the European Commission's Information Society...

Valnet: Validation Network of School of Tomorrow Projects

The European Schoolnet Validation Network (EUN ValNet) was an accompanying measure funded by the IST programme to facilitate building knowledge about innovation in schools and help create the conditions for creating schools of tomorrow. The project ran for 41 months and ended in...