Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2025 Newsletter
Code4EU – an eTwinning Project to Promote Coding and European Values by Ionela Camelia Lazea
From September until December 2024, together with Prof. Kalliopi-Lina Kynigopoulou from Kindergarten no. 32 in Thessaloniki, Greece, we initiated the eTwinning project“ Code4EU”( https:// schooleducation. ec. europa. eu / en / etwinning / proj ects / code4eu) in order to promote coding and robotics activities within the EU Code Week, as well as European values and citizenship according to the annual eTwinning theme“ Citizenship education: celebrating what unites us”. By implementing this project our students learned more about Europe, Erasmus +, eTwinning celebrating Erasmus + Days and organizing coding / robotics events.
The project was created for preschool and primary school children aged 3 to 12 and brought together 1,400 students, 80 teachers( 55 teachers for preschool
education, 25 teachers for primary education), 40 educational institutions from 6 countries: Romania – founder( 65), Greece – co-founder( 5), Italy( 3), Lithuania( 2), North Macedonia( 1), Turkey( 4). We also had many other collaborators who joined us just for the Code Week activities, using our unique code cw24-lDIr5 to create over 100 individual activities.
By implementing this project we aimed to promote knowledge of Europe, Erasmus +, eTwinning, Code Week; discover the cultural diversity of the EU; explore and discuss various applications of European fundamental values and citizenship; strengthening citizenship education in eTwinning projects for teachers and students; drawing attention to the importance of programming, robotics and digital skills through fun and engaging activities; developing creativity, problemsolving skills and cognitive, algorithmic, systematic, computational and critical thinking skills; encouraging children to engage in digital literacy, digital games, puzzles, videos, drawings / paintings, posters, literary creations, physical activities, songs, poetry recitation, dramatizations, etc.; encouraging collaboration, cooperation, teamwork and project-based thinking between both teachers and students; developing language and ICT skills for students and teachers; promoting the use of ICT as a successful tool for finding useful web resources.
The project planning consisted of 2 main components: active participation of teachers and students in carrying out the activities proposed in the project and
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