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A new activity: Christmas traditions
In European countries Christmas is the biggest holiday of the year. It is a time for giving and a celebration to share with family and friends. In some countries, St Nicholas announces Christmas time, which in some other countries lasts until after the New Year. Christmas itself remains a time for reflecting on the past and thinking about the year ahead. Select, describe and share a local custom or tradition on our Web site
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Citizenship starts much closer to home: in our houses, neighbourhoods and schools .
The Presidency of the EU is held for six months by each member state on a rotational basis. The Netherlands has held the Presidency in the second half of 2004. Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science Maria van
der Hoeven talked about European citizenship at the ELOS conference, and stressed that the path to living together in Europe starts at school. Read the entire speech given by Minister van der Hoeven:
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Radio-based projects in school
Since 2000 Radio.Rasant has served the needs of Städtische Realschule Sundern, a school in Germany:
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Our first Thanksgiving Day
My American students wanted to read this text and this made me happy. They were challenged by the design of the myEUROPE Web site, not just by the
fact that the article was written by their Bulgarian teacher:
THANKSGIVING
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Inside Schools, new school portraits:
SCHOOL PORTRAIT
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Bridging traditional and modern pedagogies through Web-based projects
This article describes solutions of bridging traditional and modern
pedagogies through Web-based classroom projects:
BRIDGES
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United Europe during the centuries
A photo-reportage about Vratza Liberation Day:
LIBERATION DAY
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Competitions:

1. The Peace Challenge: Living democracy Europe
This is a competition addressing high-school students based in France and its neighbour countries: United-Kingdom, Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Spain:
LIVING DEMOCRACY EUROPE

2. Gustav Klimt Art Competition
In 2005, the 5th edition of the International Contest The Great Well-Known
And Unknown Artistsfocuses on the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt:
ART COMPETITION

myEUROPE is a Web-based project which aims to help teachers raise their pupils' awareness of what it means to be a young citizen in Europe. By involving a network of more than 3000 schools, the diversity of Europe is brought into the classroom via the Internet, because the path to living
together in Europe starts at school:
http://myeurope.eun.org