SCHOOLS CELEBRATING EUROPE: SPRING DAY FOR EUROPE 2007 IS NOW RUNNING!
The European Commission (DG COM) has selected European Schoolnet to implement Spring Day for Europe 2007. In February, the Spring Day portal was launched in 23 languages. Spring Day for Europe is an annual citizen-driven initiative aimed to encourage young people to debate, reflect, learn and make their voices heard on European issues.

Set up to stimulate interest and debate about the principles, achievements and future of the EU, Spring Day for Europe is a unique opportunity for pupils to meet, exchange ideas and share their hopes and concerns with EU experts and political leaders.

BLOG AROUND THE GLOBE WITH SAFER INTERNET DAY
On 6 February 2007, European Schoolnet, coordinator of Insafe, the European safer internet network (www.saferinternet.org), successfully organized the fourth Safer Internet Day 2007 (SID). A global digital event, the SID blogathon, highlighted the celebrations of the fourth edition of the event in 43 countries.

It was the second year the blogathon was organised. The twenty-six nodes of the network and organizations across the world conducted a great variety of national, international and local events.
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SAFER INTERNET DAY 2007 COMPETITION WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Viviane Reding, Commissioner for Information Society and Media announced on 6 February 2007 the results of the Safer Internet Day competition for the award categories of e-privacy, netiquette, power of image and innovation.

The competition took place in connection with Safer Internet Day 2007. Schools presented their projects on the Blogathon, a global blog marathon that crossed the world from east to west on Safer Internet Day.
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SPOTLIGHT ON TEACHER TRAINING AT POLICY AND INNOVATION COMMITTEE MEETING
The Policy and Innovation Committee (PIC) met in Copenhagen on 22-23 February 2006, at which 11 countries were represented. The meeting was hosted by the Danish Ministry of Education.

On the agenda were follow up to the EUN Round Table in Bruges last year, future directions for EUN and PIC and – the main item – a one-day workshop on the challenge of teacher training for the school of tomorrow, with discussions centred around expert input.
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PEER LEARNING PROJECT P2V KICKS OFF IN COPENHAGEN
P2V – Peer to Peer networking for Valorisation – had its kick-off meeting on 21-22 February 2007 in Copenhagen. The meeting brought together the nine partners of the project and was hosted by UNI.C, the Danish ICT Centre for Education and Research .

The event was organised in conjunction with the Policy and Innovation Committee meeting on 22-23 February 2007. The aim of the meeting was to draw a roadmap of the tasks and activities planned in the project for the months ahead.
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ETWINNING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS
Two Professional Development workshops took place in February, one in Brussels on 8-10 and the other in Amsterdam on 19-21.

In total, more than 140 teachers attended the two workshops. The workshop in Brussels had a cross curricular theme and the working language was French. The workshop in Amsterdam was for teachers of Social Sciences.
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PENCIL SCIENCE TEACHERS CONFERENCE IN TECHNOPOLIS
The second Pencil Teacher’s Conference will take place on 14-16 June 2007 in Technopolis, Mechelen (Belgium).

The conference is organised within the PENCIL project, supported by the European Commission's Directorate General for Research as part of Science and Society. Xplora, European Schoolnet’s gateway for science education supported by Pencil, plays a key role in the organisation of the event.
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INSIGHT NEWSLETTER: NEW ISSUE OUT
The third issue of the Insight newsletter was published in February. The newsletter informs on the latest stories and reports published on the portals. This third issue leads with a story on a major report on the impact of ICT on schools in Europe published by EUN within the framework of the European Commission ICT Cluster.
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TEACHER'S NEWSLETTER - EUN TRADITION WITH NEW LOOK
In January a revised edition of the teacher's newsletter came to live. It has a new look, a new concept and a new editor, but the idea and the aim stay the same. It is written from a teacher for teachers to give them help and support to identify good ideas and projects.
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MELT PROJECT MEETING IN BRUSSELS
The first MELT focus group meeting took place in Brussels on 29-30 January. 15 participants, both focus group coordinators and participating teachers from eight different MELT countries followed a two-day workshop on social bookmarking and tagging.

MELT aims at creating better access to open learning resources across Europe. Since Sept 2006 project partners work on different ways to enrich learning resources with metadata in order to enhance their discovery and reuse on the European level.

The task of the focus group teachers is to tell the project developers about the needs and requirements that teachers have when accessing learning resources and what kind of tools should be useful.
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