Register your school for Spring Day for Europe 2008 to join thousands of teachers and students across Europe to celebrate culture and initiate intercultural dialogue!

• Organise the school visit of a public figure to talk about Europe and its role in Intercultural Dialogue;
• Take full advantage of all the teaching and learning resources, digital games, online activities, which are designed and prepared specially for the Spring Day 2008 campaign;
• Encourage your classes to take part in the Spring Day competitions to win important prizes;
• Invite your students to have their say on European themes and encourage them to share their questions and concerns about any issue they want to raise;
• Become a member of the Spring Day community to help your students experience intercultural dialogues, by living the joy of speaking a second or a third language to communicate with peers from other cultures;
• Get in touch online with fellow teachers and their classes to take part in collaborative intercultural learning activities that are based on a real intercultural communication context;
• Involve your classes into communicating cultures activities that may enable your students to get to know other cultures, to achieve cultural openness, adopt a positive attitude towards other cultures to be able to remove prejudice and stereotypes;
• Receive a digital certificate of participation signed by top-level EU decision makers.

Spring Day for Europe web portal

The Spring Day for Europe web portal is available in 23 languages as the central point of the campaign. The portal features a number of curriculum-based activities, resources, services and tools that can be accessed by schools once registered.

• Online activities and competitions
  Following the Spring Day for Europe tradition, to provide the possibility to get as many classes as possible involved, online activities are designed to suit the needs of all age groups, from pre-primary to upper-secondary education. The activities are designed in such a way to fit into the various curricula in Europe and can be easily adapted to different teaching and learning needs.

The Spring Day for Europe school competitions encourage students from 5-20 years of age to submit entries – such as texts, pictures and audio/visual productions - that result from classroom activities. Prizes will be awarded for the best entries.

• Digital games
  A set of digital games are offered to support and make the teaching and learning of European topics more fun for students. The games are interactive and cover a number of thematic areas such as: European integration, citizenship, common cultural values and heritage, EU institutions, the EU and its citizens and EU treaties.
• Teaching and learning resources
  The Spring Day for Europe web portal contains a collection of teaching and learning resources to help teachers prepare and organise lessons focusing on the theme of Intercultural Dialogue.
• Other web portal features
  A set of special tools are available on the portal for schools to use: chats, blogs, e-cards, newsletters, podcasts and access to publishing tools.

The portal also features tips on traditional activities (i.e. non-ICT activities) such as: how to organise an event that involves a local, national and/or public European figure; lesson outcomes and contributions to activities and competitions; event reporting; and information about key European public figures that visit schools to talk to young people.

Using the latest technologies, the portal enables schools to communicate and exchange information with peers in Europe and beyond through online chats, blogs, RSS feeds, mailing lists and podcasts.

Join us now!