Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 116

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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At the end, a little tip for your activities this year:
contact your national relay for the European Day of
Languages; they will provide you with promotional
material like stickers, pencils or posters. You can
find a list with contact details here.
young people find difficult to deal with the different.
It is because they have limited experiences and
tend to have a suspicious attitude towards and even
reject anything that does not seem to fit in their
small world. Although there has been a great
progress to protect minorities, several researches
carried out in EU seem to conclude that people are
still biased when it comes to race, gender,
economic and social status and so on. It is
therefore our main objective to help our pupils
develop a more analytic and critical thinking
towards people that stand out in one or another
way.
Andrea Ullrich is a teacher of English and
Ethics/Philosophy at Gymnasium Georgianum in
Hildburghausen, Germany. She is an active eTwinner and
has been an eTwinning ambassador since 2014.
eTwinning - an active part of Erasmus+
by Cornelia Melcu
eTwinning was launched in 2005 as the main action
of the European Commission’s eLearning
Programme. Since 2014 eTwinning has been co-
funded by the Erasmus+, the European programme
for Education, Training, Youth and Sport. eTwinning
promotes school collaboration in Europe through
the use of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) by providing support, tools and
services for schools. If you are planning to apply for
Erasmus+ school funding, eTwinning can support
you in different ways.
Firstly, eTwinning is an easy and free of charge way
for you to find partners, training courses and more
for Erasmus+ projects across Europe and beyond.
Then, you can promote in a safe way the results of
your Erasmus+ projects. The place where
eTwinning magic really happens is the TwinSpace; a
safe platform visible only to the teachers
participating in a project. Students can also be
invited in the TwinSpace to meet and collaborate
with peers from their partner schools.
My school has been involved in eTwinning-
Erasmus+ projects since the beginning of the
programme. This past school year, we ran three
projects: “The odd one...IN!”, ”MY ROOTS BECOME
OUR WINGS -TRAVEL AGENCY” and ”Children's
Voices for a new Human Space”. eTwinning is a
crucial part of our projects: all the activities,
meetings and products, in one word the results, are
visible on eTwinning Live.
“The odd one...IN!” is focused on diversity and
emotional awareness. Diversity is evident in every
aspect of school life in all countries. Children and
We try a new approach to teaching diversity. The
innovation is applied on the fact that the focus will
not be the stranger, for example refugees, but our
attitude towards anything different. Our intention is
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