Dear teachers,

European Schoolnet and the European Commission invite you to take part in the Spring Day for Europe 2008 project. The new Web portal has been launched and welcomes you to register your school at a new Web address:
http://www.springday2008.net

In its 6th year the main goal of the Spring Day for Europe campaign is to prepare and assist schools to plan, organise and run their own events as part of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. This school year Spring Day for Europe runs from 25 March to 30 June 2008, with a particular focus on 9 May, when Europe Day is celebrated.

Why register?

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

• Organise a 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.

Join us!

Contact: Spring Day for Europe 2008 Team springday@springday2008.net