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Issue 1: November 2001

Project News

activities

events

other news

The Euro.Geo Project is supported through the Minerva Action under the Socrates Programme. The project partners are EUROGEO, Liverpool Hope University College, Amsterdam TEacher Training College, University of Bucharest and Nelson Thornes.

Project Aims
The aim is to promote the European Dimension through geographical education. It is concerned with improving the electronic resource base for teaching in and about the countries of Europe..

PROJECT ACTIVITIES
The project members have been undertaking a state of the art analysis of Citizenship and Geography in different European countries. The team have also been investigating the ways that informaiton and communications technologies are being used in Geography.

An analysis of text books and Geography curricula has also been undertaken in order to deteermine the gaps, strengths and weaknesses and needs in Europe.

A survey of schools and national Geography associaitons is also planned. Find out more from the Project Web site.

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PROJECT EVENTS
Project event Liverpool: September 2001
Liverpool Hope University College welcomed delegates to the formative project meeting/conference. The networking of associations is essential for the gathering of information and the dissemination of project outcomes to Geography teachers across Europe. The conference presentations and workshop activities are available from the Euro.Geo Project Web site. A CD ROM of materials was produced as part of the project and disseminated widely.

Project event Funchal: September 2002
Delegates will be invited to attend the Funchal conference in September 2002, hosted by the APG (Portuguese Geography Teachers Association), where the Euro.Geo Project will be presented and the activities will further develop the products and objectives. The theme is ‘European citizenship and valuing cultural diversity’. A CD ROM of materials will be produced as part of the project.

Final Project Conference
The final event of this project will take place in the beautiful city of Ljubliana in Slovenia, with the theme of GeoInformation. Further details will follow in the next newsletter. If you would like to participate or have some ideas or contributions for the conference, please contact the conference organiser at: tatjana.resnik-planinc@guest.arnes.si

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eScola
eSchola is a project organised by European Schoolnet which aims to encourage schools to participate online. You can find out more by visiting the EUN Web site.

Spring Day in Europe,
In 2003, the 21^st of March will be European Spring Day, this is a day in school about Europe and the European Constitution.

The European Convention, with representatives from 28 countries, is writing a constitution for Europe. Young people should have their say. Let pupils in school discuss about Europe.  European Schoolnet (http://www.eun.org) is seeking to get as many schools as possible on-line to discuss the future of Europe. Spring Day in Europe helps schools to organise an event to increase pupils' and teachers' involvement in the debate on the future of Europe.

Register your school: http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/index_spring.cfm