Happy eTwinning Day,9th May!

What is eTwinning?

In eTwinning, teachers organise and run on-site and online activities with
their students along with colleagues from countries participating in the
Erasmus+ programme. They engage in collaborative projects with the
support of the TwinSpace environment. National Support Organisations are
responsible for validating user registrations for becoming eTwinners, thus
keeping the platform safe, providing support and guidance, and recognising
teachers’ work with National and European Quality Labels. The annual eTwinning book
features the most innovative projects. Excellent projects are rewarded
eTwinning European Prizes and become part of the project gallery.
 Teachers are encouraged to foster students’ creativity by asking them to draw,
photograph, make models or posters of their dream school. Students of all ages
can participate: younger students can draw or make collages, older students
can use, for example, online tools to create posters or digital templates.
Using the hashtags #eTwinningDay and #eTw4Future, starting today and until May 9,
eTwinners will be able to participate in the activity by sharing images of their
students’ dream schools on Twitter or Facebook. Throughout this week,
teachers and students will be able to visit Twitter and Facebook accounts and
check hashtags to get ideas from productions posted by other students.
To celebrate eTwinning day and help teachers develop the theme of the year,
some activities will be organized within the new eTwinning Group “
Our Beautiful, Sustainable Future Together: Schools and the New European Bauhaus” . It will be possible to be

informed about events, including those online, that will be organized

throughout the year.
 History of eTwinning.

he eTwinning action was launched in January 2005. Its main objectives complied with the decision by
the Barcelona European Council in March 2002 to promote school twinning as an opportunity for all
students to learn and practice ICT skills and to promote awareness of the multicultural European
model of society.[2] It is now a very successful component of the Erasmus+ program, the EU program for
education, training, youth and sport. More than 13 000 schools were involved in eTwinning within its
first year.[3] In fall 2008, over 50 000 teachers and 4 000 projects have been registered, while a new
eTwinning platform was launched. As of January 2018, over 70 000 projects are running in
classrooms across Europe.[2] In early 2009, the eTwinning motto has changed from "School
partnerships in Europe" to "The community for schools in Europe".
Member States of the European Union are part of eTwinning: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia,
Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland,
Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain,
Sweden and The Netherlands. Overseas territories and countries are also eligible. In addition,
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Serbia and
Turkey can also take part.
Seven countries from the European neighbourhood – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and
Ukraine, which are part of the Eastern Partnership and Tunisia and Jordan which are part of the
Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EUROMED) are also part of eTwinning via the eTwinning Plus
scheme
How to join eTwinning.

Register as a user today on the European School

Education Platform using EU Login and request to be
validated as an eTwinner by the National Support
Organisation in the country where your school is.