The eMapps.com project, funded under the European Commission’s 6th Framework programme has produced some significant breakthroughs related to innovative ways of learning, computer games and mobile learning in schools. They are of particular relevance to countries in the expanded...

Representatives of the EUN’s Policy and Innovation Committee (PIC) met in Brussels on 13 June 2007 for the second PIC meeting of the year. The event was organised in connection with the EUN Steering Committee meeting on 14 June. Eighteen PIC representatives from 11 countries...

Yasutaka Shimizu, President of NIME, the Japanese National Institute of Multimedia Education and Kumiko Aoki Associate Professor, visited European Schoolnet on 22 March 2007. The aim of the meeting was to discuss each other’s activities, highlight synergies and identify possible...

The Policy and Innovation Committee (PIC) met in Copenhagen on 22-23 February 2006, at which 11 countries were represented. The meeting was hosted by the Danish Ministry of Education. On the agenda were follow up to the EUN Round Table in Bruges last year, future directions for EUN...

More than 120 high level experts met in Bruges for the first EUN Round Table ‘Imagining the future of schooling’ on 7-8 December 2006 in Bruges. The meeting brought together three key stakeholders in the EUN network: representatives from the ministries of education, the...

European Schoolnet’s Policy and Innovation Committee meets 12-13 October 2006 in Zoetermeer, The Netherlands, for a workshop hosted by Kennisnet ICT op School on developing the use of ICT in assessment in education. Amongst current tendencies in assessment, there is the necessary...

The second Policy and Innovation Committee meeting (PIC) of the year took place on 6 June 2006 in connection with Xchange 2006 in Belfast. The theme of the meeting was: the Next Curve: the evolution of educational policy and its impact on ICT strategies of agencies and ministries....

EUN’s Policy Innovation Committee met in Barcelona on 23-24 February 2006. The theme of this first meeting of 2006 was innovation in education. The workshop included presentations by national experts and working group sessions to define what innovation is and how innovative...

Widening the uptake of ICT in schools was the theme of EMINENT 2005, European Schoolnet’s sixth annual conference. This annual EUN Conference, which brought together over 200 experts, took place in Paris on 8-9 December 2005. The event was co-organised by European Schoolnet...

The second Policy and Innovation Committee meeting of the year took place in Birmingham on 16-17 October 2005, in connection with the Xchange 2005 conference. The central theme of the PIC meeting was quality criteria in the area of eLearning.

The link-up database is now opened to a wider public. Link-up is an ICT project of the Dutch Inspectorate of Education which aims to strengthen the link between ICT policy, research and school practice. A big symposium was held in The Hague last year and the project has gathered...

European Schoolnet's Policy Innovation Committee (PIC) met on 17 May 2005 in Brussels. The central theme of the meeting was leadership in education. It was organised as a workshop with interactive sessions among participants.

The Department of Education of the Ticino Canton in Swizerland is organising from 21-23 September the 2005 Congress of the Swiss Society for Research in Education under the theme: 'Educational Leadership and the Changing School'. The conference aims to explore the issues of flexibility...

The second EPC meeting took place on 11-12 March 2005. The first day featured a series of presentations from EUN projects leaders and among others, a presentation of the Australian education.au portal by Gary Putland its director. The second day, two working groups discussed the...