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 News (last update 02.07.2008)

  • The 32nd effe-Colloquium took place 13-15 May 2008 in Brussels/Belgium.

    Theme:

    "From early childhood curiosity to early school leaving. Compulsory education - Giving all young people a future"

    with Royston Maldoom (Rythm is it!), Mike Davies, Kees Vreugdenhil et al. This colloquium was recognized as in-service training.

    The Colloquium addressed one of the five benchmarks of the EU “Education and Training 2010” work program, namely the problem of early school leavers: One in six young people in the 27 countries of the European Union leaves school with no more than lower secondary education and does not participate in any kind of education ..program. The opening speech was held by our former vice-president Robert Bell.

    The Colloquium endet with a Hearing in the European Parliament, hosted by Katherina Batzeli (speech only in German for the moment), Chairwoman of the Education and Culture Committee of the European Parliament . The Commissioner for Education Ján Figel' and the Chairman of the education committee of the Council of EU-Education Ministers, Mirko Zorman, took also part. The results and recommandations of the effe-Conference were presented by our vice-president Fiona Carnie. A lot of attention was also given to the presentation of the effe-sms-project of Dirk Höflich with young people.

    The report will be out soon.

  • The first European Democratic Education Conference will be held in Leipzig, Germany, from 25 July to 3 August 2008. The effe will be represented by Vesna Puhovski and Lies Feron. For more information please contact Leslie Ocker at info@eudec2008.org or visit the EUDEC website www.eudec2008.org

  • Newsletter 2nd Edition 2008: Program of the effe-Conference on Early School Leaving - EU-Education Council of February - Country report Netherlands - Lobbying in Brussels

  • Newsletter December 2007: effe-statement to the public consultation of the EU-Commission on the theme „Schools for the 21st Century"

  • Newsletter November 2007: 10 Years Beautiful School International - eTwinning - EU-Council of Education Ministers - EU-Commission on Equal Opportunities - European Year of Intercultural Dialogue

  • Newsletter October 2007: Conference of the Portuguese EU-Presidency on schools - 2007 report of the EU-Commission on Education - AGORA - ECI

  • Newsletter September 2007: International Day of Education Freedom - Reports from England, Germany - the OIDEL-Symposium in Portugal

  • The 31st effe-Kolloquium took place 29.11-2.12.2007 at the Free Teacher Training School in Ollerup / Dänemark, to the theme "The Teacher in the Age of Gloablisation". Have a look at the program.

  • Newsletter August 2007: EUDEC2008 in Leipzig - the Reorganisation of effe-Switzerland - Teacher Education at BFAS - The EU-Commission and Teacher Education

  • Newsletter July 2007: Open Consultation of the EU-Commission "Schools of the 21st Century - Key Competences on Lifelong Learning - International Freedom in Education Day

  • The first European Democratic Education Conference will be held in Leipzig, Germany, from 25 July to 3 August 2008. For more information please contact Leslie Ocker at info@eudec2008.org or visit the EUDEC website www.eudec2008.org

  • !!! The European Commission opened a Public consultation "Schools for the 21st Century". This public consultation addresses all those interested in the development of school education in Europe. The Commission's consultation document raises a series of issues that are deemed to be crucial for schools in Europe (such as schools and key competences, schools and social inclusion and the role of teachers, among others) on which contributions are sought. The deadline for the consultation is 15 October 2007. You will find the consultation document, available in all the official EU-languages at: http://ec.europa.eu/education/school21/index_en.html. Please, send your answers until September 15th to contact@effe-eu.org, the effe will hand over a statement in person

  • On Saturday, September 15, 2007, a first “International Freedom in Education Day” (IFED) will take place. There will be various events around the world, to remind us that a choice in education has to be free to be successful. The organisers of this new event especially want to promote the concept of home education and other forms of alternative learning. For more information, check out following website: http://jipli.free.fr/england

     

  • Newsletter May/June 2007: 2. International Colloquium on Home Education - effe Resolution on Home Education - Colloquium on pedagogical variety in Estonia - OIDEL Symposium - Launch Conference of the Lifelong Learning Programme

  • Please take note of the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) at www.citizens-initiative.eu. The final goal of this campaign, through collecting signatures, is to enable citizens to directly influence the European agenda. You can sign online.

  • Newsletter April 2007:effe-President is Mr. Reform - BSI - effe in England - UN-report on the state of education in Germany - GA of EUCIS-LLL - Meeting of EU Education Ministers - EU Constitutional Treaty - ECI

  • Human Scale Education, effe and the Potential Trust are organising following Conference: "Small Schools, Learning from Each Other", in Bicester, England from 21-22 April 2007. The idea behind this event is to bring together people working in different small school settings in the UK and neighbouring European countries to share experiences. You can find the programme here and you can get more information at info@hse.org.uk

  • Newsletter November 2006: effe-Colloquium on Teacher Training - News from Croatia, Czech Republik, Latvia and Spain - activities of EUCIS-LLL and its members

  • The effe-Colloquium "Teacher Training. A Challenge for Europe and Every Teacher."  will take place in Bad Honnef (Germany - close to Bonn), 17th to 19th of November 2006.We would be very happy to welcome you there.

    You will find the promising program at Colloquia.

  • Newsletter October 2006: The GATS-negotiations and education policy - Report Romania - Situtation in Russia and BSI

  • Newsletter September 2006 - special edition on Teacher Education: Teacher Training situation in Germany - Learning Teacher Network - Teacher Training at European level

  • Newsletter July/August 2006: effe-Communication with the EU-Commission and the Finnish EU-Presidency - The Lisbon Strategy in Education - Denmark Report

  • Newsletter June 2006: effe-Colloquium in Finland 8th-11th of June - EU-Summit - EMIE - Country Report Czech Republic

  • Campaign of effe-Austria: "Learning needs Variety" (in German)- Ralley from Vienna to Helsinki from 16.03-08.06.2006

  • Newsletter May 2006: effe-Austria Campaign - effe-Hungary - APAPS, Country Report Croatia - ECI - Announcement effe-Colloquium Autumn 2006 on Teacher Training

  • Newsletter April 2006: EU-Financial Perspective - Lobby and Transparancy in the EU - Homeschooling Colloquium in Rheims

  • Newsletter March 2006: Announcement effe-Colloquium in Finland - EFFE- Austria Campaign - White Paper on a European Communication Policy - Statute for a European Association - EUCIS-LLL

  • Newsletter February 2006: The aims of effe - UN special report on the Rigth to Education - Report from England -Colloquium in Finland 8th to 11th June.