Past Newsletters

Here you will find past newsletters from effe.

2011
effe newsletter - October 2011
  • The IV 'European Stakeholders' Forum', 26th-27th September 2011
  • EUCIS-LLL: an Overview
  • effe Project What's Inside? 2011/2012
  • effe Colloquium 'We are schools', Münster, 18th-19th November 2011
  • Denmark: Conference 'Roots and Wings', Rødding, 15th-17th March 2012
effe newsletter - July 2011
  • The Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union
  • Meeting of the Council of the European Union for Education, Youth, Culture and Sports, 19th and 20th May 2011
  • The European Citizens' Intiative: How to get it started, Brussels, 29th June 2011
  • Free schools in England: a new beginning or the beginning of the end?
  • effe Colloquium "We are schools", Münster, 18th and 19th November 2011
effe newsletter - May 2011
  • European Youth Forum Conference on Quality Assurance
  • EESC Public Hearing on 'Societal Empowerment and Integration of Roma Citizens'
  • effe Austria Conference 2011, Vienna
  • EUCIS-LLL Conference on Volunteering, Kraków
  • Anne Liekenbrock elected to Steering Committee of EUCIS-LLL
effe newsletter - March 2011
  • Lifelong Learning Fair at the European Parliament
  • effe's response to the European Commission's Consultation on non-formal and informal learning
  • effe Austria Conference 2011, in Vienna
  • Adoption of the "Written Declaration establishing a European Statute for Mutuals, Associations and Foundations"
  • Project Officer in the EU Office, Brussels
effe newsletter - February 2011
  • EASEA Statement of Support
  • Hungarian Presidency of the European Council
  • "On our way to holistic European education?"
  • Consultation on non-formal and informal learning
  • New effe website and Facebook page
2010
effe newsletter - December 2010
  • Agenda for New Skills and Jobs
  • PISA Study 2009 published
  • Expansion of Lifelong Learning Programmes
  • Fingers crossed for a "Citizens' School"?
  • Institute for Education Research and Education Law (IfBB)
effe newsletter - November 2010
  • effe's Colloquium "For a Healthy School", 18th-20th November 2010
  • The Third "European Stakeholders' Forum", 28th-29th October 2010
  • News from effe in Brussels
  • Training programme Freinet-Certificate
effe newsletter - October 2010
  • The Belgian Presidency of the European Council
  • "Youth on the Move" - the new flagship initiative from the European Commission
  • News from effe in Brussels
effe newsletter - April 2010
  • New European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth
  • Meeting of the Education, Youth and Culture Council, 10th-11th May 2010
  • Report: Conference and Annual Meeting of EUCIS-LLL, 14th-15th April 2010
effe newsletter - January 2010
  • Introduction Anne Liekenbrock
  • Review: IfBB Symposium, "Education and economy in Europe", 5th February 2010
  • The Spanish Presidency of the European Council
  • Letter to the editor concerning the effe conference, June 2009
  • Training Programme Freinet-Certificate
2009
effe newsletter - December 2009
  • Changes in effe
  • General Meeting, 13th May 2009
  • effe statement in response to Council Conclusions: Strategic Framework for European cooperation
effe newsletter - June 2009
  • effe Conference on 'Creativity Genesis', 12th-14th June 2009
  • Commemoration of Manfred Borchert
  • Summer holiday
effe newsletter - April 2009
  • effe Conference on 'Creativity Genesis', 12th-14th June 2009
  • effe statement in response to Commission Comm.: Strategic Framework for European cooperation
effe newsletter - March 2009
  • effe Conference: members called to submit a presentation
  • The Second "European Stakeholders' Forum", 9th February 2009
  • EU Education Ministers' meeting, 16th February 2009, Brussels
effe newsletter - February 2009
  • effe statement in response to Commission Green Paper on Migration and Mobility
effe newsletter - January 2009
  • The Czech Presidency of the European Council
  • EC Communication: the updated EU-strategy on education
  • How can we lobby the European Commission and the Council as an NGO?
  • 5th Colloquium in Kassel, 30th January - 1st February 2009
2008

effe newsletter - November 2008
  • effe Colloquium: Creativity - Genesis. Timeframe and financing opportunities for participants
  • Eurydice publication on autonomy of teachers in Europe
  • The European Commission and its renewed Social Agenda
effe newsletter - October 2008
  • effe's response to the Agenda proposed by the European Commission for future cooperation on schools
effe newsletter - September 2008
  • OSI-Conference on religious pluralism, Zagreb June 2008
  • Freedom in Education in Croatia – State of Play
  • effe-Project „Beautiful School“ in Croatia
  • EUDEC-Conference, Leipzig, Germany July-August 2008
  • EU-Ministers of Agriculture and Nutrition in Schools
effe newsletter - August 2008
  • Migrant children and education
  • Conference ECNAIS (European Council of National Associations of Independent Schools), April 2008
  • Quality-of-Childhood-Meeting, European Parliament, Brussels, September 2008
  • OECD 2008 publication "Education at a glance"
  • Conference announcement: "Concrete ways to freedom of education in Germany", Berlin, October 2008
effe newsletter - July 2008
  • 2010: European Year for combatting poverty and social exclusion
  • High Level Conference on Mental Health, Brussels, June 2008
  • European Stakeholders' Forum on Future EU Cooperation in Education and Training, Brussels, May 2008
  • 2008 report of the education systems in the EU
effe newsletter - June 2008
  • "Improving competences for the 21st century: An Agenda for European Cooperation on Schools": Communication of the European Commission
  • Results of the Consultation Process "Schools for the 21st century"
effe newsletter - May 2008
  • EU Presidency Conference on Innovation and Creativity in Schools, Brdo (Slovenia), April 2008
  • European Meeting of Independent Education (EMIE), Brussels, May 2008
  • Human Scale Education: Small Schools Conference, Bicester (UK), April 2008
effe newsletter - April 2008
  • From early childhood curiosity to early school leaving - effe Colloquium Report addressed to the European Parliament, May 2008
effe newsletter - March 2008
  • effe Hearing at the European Parliament, Brussels, May 2008
effe newsletter - February 2008
  • Why to learn?
  • Training Programme for Freinet Certificate
  • Event EU Education and Youth Council, February 2008
  • Main points of Attention in Dutch education policy in 2007
  • Brussels and the battle for lobbying transparency
effe newsletter - January 2008
  • Teacher in the age of Globalisation. Report of the effe Colloquium, Ollerup, Denmark, November/December 2007
  • Country Report Estonia
  • Announcement Home Education Colloquium, Hedel, The Netherlands, May 2008
  • Preparations EUDEC (European Democratic Education Conference), Leipzig, Germany, August 2008
2007

effe newsletter - December 2007
  • How can schools best meet the students' needs? effe's philosophy of education
  • Educational case studies: the example of three successful countries
effe newsletter - November 2007
  • 10 years of effe project Beautiful School International. A report by Eginhard Fuchs
  • Results of the Council of EU education ministers
  • The EU-Commission and equal opportunities
  • UNESCO: Education for All - halfway there
effe newsletter - October 2007
  • Forthcoming conference: "Schools facing up to new challenges", Lisbon, November 2007
  • Slow pace of reform in education and training. The Commission's Annual Report 2007
  • European Parliament's citizens' AGORA: Representative Democracy meeting on participative democracy, Brussels,         November 2007
effe newsletter - September 2007
  • International Freedom in Education Day
  • England: supporting teachers in alternative schools
  • Germany: reorganisation of the BFAS and presentation of the 'Netzwerk Archiv der Zukunft' (Network Archive of the Future)
  • Spain: International OIDEL Symposium 'Choice of School versus Social Justice: Dilemma or Mirage?', Lisbon, September 2007
effe newsletter - August 2007
  • First European Democratic Education Conference, Leipzig, July 2008
  • Country Report Switzerland 2008: reorganisation of effe Switzerland
  • Report on Continuous Education BFAS
  • The European Commission and Teacher Education
effe newsletter - July 2007
  • Results of the European Summit
  • Public Consultation: 'Schools for the 21st century'
  • Key Competences for Lifelong Learning
  • Efficiency and Equity in European education and training systems
  • The Education Programme of the Portuguese EU-Presidency
effe newsletter - May 2007
  • Second International Colloquium on Home Education, Burg Rothenfels am Main, April 2007
  • effe resolution for the right for German students to Home Education
  • Colloquium on 'Education in Modern Civil Society', Tallinn, May 2007
  • European Launch Conference for the Lifelong Learning Programme, Berlin, May 2007
effe newsletter - April 2007
  • effe President Karel Rydl appointed coordinator of Czech education reform
  • effe in England
  • UN Report on the State of Education in Germany
  • General Assembly of EUCIS-LLL, Brussels, March 2007
  • The European Constitutional Treaty - what next?
2006

effe newsletter - December 2006

  • The development of effe
effe newsletter - November 2006
  • effe Colloquium. Participant's report, Bad Honnef, Autumn 2006
  • News from effe Croatia
  • Country report: Czech Republic
  • News from Latvia and Spain
  • Meeting of the Education and Training 2010 coordination group, Brussels, October 2006
effe newsletter - October 2006
  • The GATS-Negotiations - Procedures and Effects on Educational Policy in Europe
  • Country report: Romania
  • The situation in Russia and the consequences for the celebration of the 10 years anniversary of the project Beautiful Schools
effe newsletter - September 2006
  • Germany, your children! Or the observations of a mother...
  • Note on a Speech by the German President Horst Köhler on Education Policy, Berlin, September 2006
  • Teacher Training at a European level - the Search for Common Standards
  • Eurydice 'Quality Assurance in Teacher Education in Europe'. Comparative Study
  • Working Group on Teacher Training in Free Alternative Schools, Niederkaufungen/Germany, March 2006
effe newsletter - July/August 2006
  • Review of the Austrian EU-Presidency - the educational goals of the Finnish EU-Presidency
  • The Lisbon Strategy in Education
  • The White Paper on a European Communication Policy
  • effe Autumn Colloquium 2006
  • Country report: Denmark
effe newsletter - June 2006
  • News from Germany
  • EU Summit, Brussels, June 2006
  • Future EU conference 'Plan D and the citizens' right to know', Brussels, June 2006
  • EMIE Meeting, Brussels, May 2006
effe newsletter - May 2006
  • Heading for Helsinki - Interim report of 25th May 2006
  • New impulses - in search of effe Hungary
  • New members: APAPS and the Fédération des écoles Steiner-Waldorf in France
  • Country report: Croatia
  • Citizens' initiative 'Time for participatory democracy': in search for one million signatures...
effe newsletter - April 2006
  • Discussions EU Financial Framework 2007-2013
  • Lobbying in and around the EU institutions
  • The International Homeschooling Colloquium, Reims, April 2006
effe newsletter - March 2006
  • effe Colloquium Finland, June 2006
  • effe Austria and the meeting of EU Education Ministers in Vienna, March 2006
  • Petition for a Statute for a European Association
  • effe's membership of the EUCIS-LLL platform
effe newsletter - February 2006
  • effe's aims and principles
  • Spring Day in Europe 2006 'Debating our Future'
  • UN special reporter on the Right to Education on visit in Germany, February 2006
  • Country report: England
effe newsletter - January 2006
  • effe's view on the European Qualifications Framework (EQF)
  • The Financial Perspective of the European Union 2007-2013
  • National report from effe Switzerland: Looking back on 2004/2005
  • Report from the Elternlobby Schweiz, Switzerland