Session 4: School collaboration

4.0 eTwinning: the community for scholls in Europe
Anne Gilleran, European Schoolnet, Belgium

Abstract
eTwinning promotes school collaboration in Europe through the use of ICT by providing support, tools and services to make it easy for schools to form short or long term partnerships in any subject area. Launched in 2005 as the main action of the European Commission’s eLearning Programme, eTwinning has been fi rmly integrated in the LLP since 2007. The eTwinning Portal, which now involves nearly 50,000 members and over 4,000 projects between two or more schools across Europe, provides online tools for teachers to find partners, set up projects, share ideas, exchange best practices and start working together immediately, using various customised tools.