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eTwinning is the Community of schools in Europe. Teachers from all participating countries can register and use the eTwinning website tools to meet, get to know each other virtually, exchange ideas and practices, form Groups, learn together in Educational Meetings and participate in projects on the website. Click here to watch a video that clearly explains the program.
In order to benefit from the possibilities that eTwinning offers you, the first thing you have to do is register in eTwinning and create a profile. Here you will find recommendations to do so: http://bit.ly/2d9msS4. From there it is possible to contact other European teachers who want to do the same thing you want and share similar interests.
1. Through Training Activities:
2. Through Resources and materials:
3. Through contact with teaching communities:
4. To start, we recommend these three videos about general aspects of the program:
Different educational centers can collaborate with each other and create a project using ICT tools. To create a project it is necessary for at least two different educational centers to be associated.
Please note: projects must be founded with educational centers from two different countries to qualify for European Quality Labels or eTwinning Awards.
You can work with your partner on any topic. The projects must be distributed equally between the use of ICT and class activities, as well as adapted to the national school programs of the centers participating in the project.
No! absolutely. One of the objectives of eTwinning is to improve teachers’ ICT knowledge, and make it part of normal classroom life. eTwinning adapts to any level of ICT knowledge.
Furthermore, you can always count on the advice of the National Support Service through the assistance email @etwinning.net or by using the project cards.
You can take advantage of the professional development and networking possibilities offered by eTwining Live. You can also go one step further and found an eTwinning project that can be carried out by two or more teachers, teams of teachers or departments, librarians, head teachers and students from all schools in Europe. The topic to be developed using ICT can be from the same subject or multidisciplinary.
All preschool, primary, secondary and high school centers can participate (students between the ages of 3 and 19).
eTwinning is addressed to all Member States of the European Union: Albania, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, FYROM (Macedonia), Greece , Holland, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Sweden and Turkey. In addition, the so-called “eTwinning Plus” countries can also participate: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Republic of Moldova, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Teachers and advisors from all educational levels prior to university can register in eTwinning as long as they are working in an official educational centre.
Registration takes place on the European portal www.etwinning.net. To do this, you must click on an orange functionality that says “Register”. Registration is done in two phases. First, you enter your personal information, passwords and email. Then, the system will send a message with a link to continue with the registration to the email account that you have entered in your personal data. This is intended to verify that the email account you have provided is correct.
You receive a username and password which are the keys that allow you to access the eTwinning Live platform (see the “Tools” FAQ) where you have many tools at your service to find partners, communicate with other schools and start a project.
Once a teacher registers, the eTwinning representative of the Autonomous Community to which the center belongs contacts the director of the Educational Center to verify that the teacher is currently part of the center’s teaching staff. For all these reasons, it is necessary that the details of the school director be updated in the school profile in eTwinning Live.
Once the eTwinning representative receives approval from the director, they will proceed to validate the teacher’s registration.
When you register on the eTwinning Portal, you can use any language as all information is translated. However, to discuss your project idea, use a commonly used language (such as English, French, or German) or more than one language. This information is no longer translated, so it is up to you to make it more or less easy to understand for other European schools.
To recover your access codes, you must click on the question Forgot your password? . The system will ask you to enter the email you used in your registration to send you your access codes.
If with this procedure, you cannot recover your passwords, inform the national Support Service through the email assistance@eTwinning.es
A profile may appear blocked for different administrative or technical reasons. If your profile is blocked, please contact your National eTwinning Support Service. In the case of Spanish teachers, they must do so by email at asistencia@etwinning.es
If you do not enter the platform within two years, your profile will become inactive. If three years pass without access, your profile will disappear from eTwinning. Get in touch with the SNA eTwinning through the email address assistance@etwinning.es
Do a search in the Contact section found on the public page of the etwinning.net portal. In “Search for schools, people, projects” you can use the available tools to check if your school is already registered on the platform.
Only teachers or educational advisors can register on www.eTwinning.net. Students are enrolled by their teacher in the TwinSpace generated by participating in a project.
Consult the ideas section on our portal www.eTwinning.es where tools, suggestions and mini-tutorials are offered. You will also find a section with guides and tools on the European Portal. www.etwinning.net
Finally, you can consult the National Support Service by email at asistencia@etwinning.net and, if you are participating in a project, use the cards so that the National Support Service can make pedagogical and technical recommendations on the best tools according to the objective of the activity. http://bit.ly/29S5pGF
There are different types of eTwinning recognition for projects and teachers: eTwinning Seal, National Quality Seal, European Quality Seal, National Awards, European Awards. This type of recognition, in some cases, translates into administrative recognition by some Autonomous Communities and Cities.
When a project is approved and starts working, the eTwinning Seal is automatically generated, which is in electronic format and can be downloaded from the teacher’s own desktop. This is a recognition of the teacher.
When a project receives at least two National Quality Seals from two different countries, and is also proposed by one of them for the European Quality Seal, it is automatically awarded. This is an individual recognition of the teacher, not the project.
Annually the Spanish SNA announces the National eTwinning Awards. The criteria are similar to those of the Quality Seal, but, in this case, the number is limited (normally 10 projects are awarded). Normally three age categories are called (from 4 to 11 years; from 12 to 15; from 16 to 19), and depending on the year, other categories are included such as awards for new teachers, awards for center teams, and others. The call is published in the Official State Gazette, on the portal of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, on eTwinning Live and on the website of the eTwinning National Support Service. This is a recognition of the project and those participants in the project who have the National Quality Seal on the date of the National Award application call are awarded.
On an annual basis, the Central Support Service announces the European eTwinning Awards. Three age categories are called (from 4 to 11 years; from 12 to 15; from 16 to 19). Additionally, there may be other special categories. Two projects are selected per category. The prize is the attendance of the finalist and winning teachers at the Awards Ceremony in Brussels, invited by the SCA. For a project to be eligible for these awards, it is an essential requirement that it has previously obtained a European Quality Seal. This is a recognition of the project and those participants in the project who have the European Quality Seal on the date of the European Award application call are awarded.
On the SNA website, an article is published monthly showing a project that stands out for some aspect of quality: innovation, appropriate use of ICT tools, collaboration… It is not an official administrative recognition, but it represents recognition of the good practices carried out by the students, teachers and the centers involved.
Information about eTwinning Professional Development Seminars can be found on the eTwinning website. These face-to-face workshops are organized in different European countries and their objective is to introduce eTwinning projects to teachers and help them find partners abroad.
In Spain, a public call is opened every year. The bases are published in the Official State Gazette.
The annual eTwinning Conference brings together more than 500 teachers from all over Europe. This conference provides the opportunity for its participants to meet each other and establish networks of teachers, develop professional activities, share methodologies and practical cases, as well as feel part of a living community.
eTwinning online seminars are an opportunity to access ongoing professional development online. They are online, live seminars in which we will have the opportunity to learn, debate and talk about various topics.
You must register to participate. The registration phase for each activity opens about a week before the start of the seminar. You will find the link to register on the European eTwinning portal or on the eTwinning Live home page. After each online seminar, the recording will be published on the eTwinning portal.
Didactic meetings are short, intensive virtual training activities that deal with different topics. They are led by experts and offer dynamic work with debates between teachers from all over Europe. Didactic meetings are based on the idea that a short and intensive course, as an introduction to a specific topic, stimulates ideas and helps develop skills. Additionally, it does not require a long-term commitment. They are also designed to be an enjoyable and engaging learning experience. Each meeting lasts four to five days of active work, along with discussions, followed by another four or five days of reflection and personal work. All materials are online, and can be accessed at any time. You will find the link to register on the European eTwinning portal or on the eTwinning Live home page.
