Netd@ys '99 are coming! For the third time already, educational and cultural communities are invited to participate in Netd@ys Europe, the world's largest demonstration of awareness-raising on the use of the Internet and new media for knowledge and discovery.The Netd@ys showcase week from 13 to 21 November 1999 will take you on a tour through fascinating projects: enjoy tastes, colours and gastronomy of Europe, see islands and countries differently, go to the opera, cinema and museum, make circus, escape from jail, timetravel in the galaxy and in the past, explore Y2K, follow the flight of storks, be a cyber reporter - in reality and in virtuality! These and many other themes are in the core of the Netd@ys 99 projects. Links will be developed through the Internet and videoconferences, on online wine challenge will be organised by a business school, competitions on eco-tourism and art will take place, cultural and training institutions and youth organisations will open their doors for courses and performances…
Promoting the educational use of online technology is the aim of the Netd@ys projects, whose focus in 1999 is put on the changing role of teachers, trainers and youth workers. Learning with the Internet is fun!
Enjoy tastes and colours of Europe !
Europe is world-widely famous for its fantastic palette of traditions, culture and living styles. Now, new media offer other means to discover the variety of tastes, flavours, perfumes fragrances and colours, which make Europe so diverse and so unique.Gastronomy is one living example of the jewels and liveliness of the European tradition. During 'Netd@ys 99', everybody can learn more about Mediterranean cooking. A Sicilian hotel and catering school, supported by the Region Tourism Office and the Sicilian co-operative wine growers association, will invite other schools from the Mediterranean area to prepare and exchange online traditional menus. Links will be developed through the Internet and videoconferences. The idea is simply to show how sharing the same culinary tastes contributes to building a common identity all around the Mediterranean Sea.
Contact: Silvana Alba
E-mail: angesam@tin.it
URL: http://space.tin.it/scuola/ansamma
Do you know that Europe is also the cradle of wine? An Austrian business school in agriculture and wine marketing propose to discover the European know-how behind the beauty of grapes and the bouquet of wines. An online wine challenge will be organised with a jury composed of famous, specialised journalists, highlighting historic, geographic and economic factors of the production. The Austrian Wine Academy will then invite people to drink the 'Wine of Netd@ys 99'. Cheers!
Contact: Manfred Harter
E-mail: pc-prof@magnet.at
URL: http://www.bhak-nd.asn-bgld.ac.atFloristry is an important element of the culture of some countries. Helicon Opleidingen, a Dutch training organisation, wants to make teachers and students more aware of the cultural and economic characteristics of countries around the world in relation to the importance of their flower culture and industry of today. Which flowers are typical in religious use? How are they presented to the public, and at the occasion of birth, birthdays, weddings and funerals? Flowers express so many aspects of our own identity. Smell their scent and look at them twice !
Contact: Jan Gerrits
E-mail: jge@hlcn.nl
URL: http://www.hlcn.nl/flower
Sunny islands are not only about holidays and fun. Online media provide islanders with new tools to work, learn and live without being isolated anymore. The 'Netd@ys Island 99', initiated by the Cyberworkers association, aims at involving youngsters in presenting, in a new attractive way, the environment and the cultural heritage (arts, literature, music and cooking) of the European islands in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean sea as well as in the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. The best web sites on the new 'eco-tourism' paradigm will be rewarded and their promoters invited to come to Guadeloupe during the 'Netd@ys 99' week.
Contact: Sylvie Reforzo
E-mail: sreforzo@cyberworkers.com
URL: http://www.cyberworkers.com
The circus is in town !
The 'ufaFabrik', a Youth and Citizen Centre in Berlin, is organising a major awareness-raising campaign on the educational value of IT and online technologies in the city of Berlin. During the Netd@ys Week numerous organisations will open their doors for training sessions for citizens. Cultural and virtual performances will highlight the actions: the Youth Power Show (Germany); and Circus Ethiopia ( Ethiopia) for variety and circus; Charleroi/Danses Plan K (Belgium, Russia, New York) for dance; Needcompany (Belgium), Terra Brazilis (Germany); The Budhas (Germany); Blindman Quartet (Belgium); and Chanson Festival ( France, Germany) for music; and many other Artists from other countries will be invited to perform in a virtual Netd@ys show. The culmination of the Show will be the production of a Netd@ys Song with texts from schools in Europe. Sing along !Contact: Helen McNamara
E-mail: Mcnamara@netdays-berlin.de
URL: http://www.ufafabrik.de
Internet at the movies
During Netd@ys Europe 99, the Cinema will be at the service of the Internet. Europa Cinemas, a network of 745 screens promoting the European film industry, will organise awareness-raising activities on the use of new media as artistic education tools. These activities will take place in more than 20 theatres spread amongst 10 participating countries. The aim of the project is to develop, in a joyful spirit, a creative-oriented learning method. Schools as well as training organisations will be invited to create an on-line magazine on the European movie production. The writing of a scenario as well as the realisation of a short film broadcast via the Internet are also part of the programme. Action !Contact: Fatima Djoumer
E-mail: europacinema@magic.fr
URL: http://www.europa-cinemas.org
Europe goes opera
Opera must not be restricted to the 'happy few' who can afford it. All major European opera houses have developed special educational activities in order to raise awareness on the beauty of this art, particularly for the attention of children and youngsters. They are now networking at European level through an association, the 'European Network of Opera Education Departments', in order to make masterpieces open to everybody.The Finnish National Opera with the support of Helsinki School Board are developing an easy-to-use, interactive and fun web site on the basics and history of opera with a number of playful competitions and musical games. A closer look is taken to some highlights like Mozart, Verdi and Wagner. The project intends to show not only the opera itself but also how an opera performance is created. Background information on the paintings, costumes, habits and architecture will be provided during the period covered.
Contact: Ulla Laurio
E-mail: Ylekou@operafin.fi
URL: http://www.operafin.fiThe Opera La Monnaie in Brussels proposes to discover Brundibar, the piece composed by the Czech Hans Krasa (1899-1944) for the children of the Jewish ghetto of Terezin. Brundibar is now the symbol of children's resistance against barbary. Beyond the message, Brundibar is a pioneer masterpiece conceived to be performed by singers without particular musical background. It is a first step into the world of opera. The discovery of Brundibar will start from the Internet. The opera houses involved in the project (Brussels, Barcelona, Cardiff, Paris, Den Norske) will then open their doors to teachers and pupils to learn more, in an interactive way with actors and musicians, on how a piece is performed.
Contact: Christian Leblé
E-mail: c.leble@demunt.be
URL: http://www.resco.org
Internet del Arte
Where can people today fully and easily express their creativity ? On the Internet of course! New media are fantastic tools both to create and diffuse artistic productions.The Italian association Giovani Artisti (Young Artists) aims at developing arts and creativity among youngsters, inside and outside schools, through the Internet and CD-Rom. Liceo Artistico Statale of Matera, also from Italy, wants to enhance intercultural exchanges with its project NET-Art. Welcome to the online arts exposition, wake up the artist in you, improve and disseminate the knowledge of European art as a cultural and pedagogical tool on the Net!
Contact: Silvia Davite
E-mail: 0685356694@iol.it
URL: Not available
This is no normal museum
Museums are not only prestigious buildings, they go more and more online to enable students and teachers to deal directly with art and culture without any constraints in time and distance. 'Museum online' is an initiative of the Austrian Cultural Service, which aims at developing new ways to discover our museum collections and cultural heritage. Bridging the gap between museum and youngsters in challenging creativity of students. Art and culture are everywhere !Contact: Sirikit Amann
E-mail: sirikit.amann@oks.ac.at
URL: http://www.oks.at
Learning science is fun
Yes, learning can be fun and playing can be learning. Games stimulate curiosity, concentration and creativity. Educational games thereby are able to motivate students for further studies.Science in general, and chemistry in particular, does not easily appeal to youngsters of today. The National Centre for Educational Resources in Norway has decided to develop on the Internet a genuine multi-player chemistry game called 'Molecool'. The rule of the game is simple: build as many molecules as possible from three types of atoms - hydrogen, oxygen and carbon - with a limited number of moves. All the time, the relationship between atoms, molecules and formula is visualised. The bigger the molecule is, the more points are gained and chemistry-related questions are asked. Double or nothing?
Contact: Kjell Antvort
E-mail: kjell.antvort@nls.not
URL: http://www.nls.noSpace Adventure
Create your own space station online with the Guardians of the Millennium, a project presented by Coolderry Central School from Ireland! Time-travel, discover galaxies, solar systems, comets, meteorites, asteroids and planets with a project called 'Space Knowledge Adventure', which will teach you peaceful approaches to outer space exploration and resolution of conflicts in space. Students in 200 primary schools throughout Europe and 40 other countries will participate in the Adventure, emphasising future thinking and global understanding. Be galactic!Contact: Vicki Beth Lynn
E-mail: vicki@theguardians.com
URL: http://homepages.iol.ie/~batespd
Are you afraid of Y2K?
What did people think about in 999? The Centre for Computer-Assisted Learning in Turku (Finland) launch the debate on the Internet on old and modern fears. Once upon a time, when windmills were new technologies… Does history repeat itself with information and communication technologies? Bearing in mind past experiences can lead to a better prepared future.
Contact: Turkka Sinervo
E-mail: turkka.sinervo@tkukoulu.fi
URL: http://www.top.tkukoulu.fi
Where was my town three centuries ago?
At this period, borders were maybe not the same as today. How did people live in the XVI and XVIIth century in Nordic countries? The Helsinki City museum tells about the fate of Eric Sederholm (1669-1753), born in Stockholm, imprisoned in Poltava (Ukraine, in present-day), fell in love with a Finnish maid in Tallinn, married in St. Petersburg and died in Helsinki. The fascinating life story of Eric is developed on the Internet in association with the museum of Stockholm, Tallinn, St. Petersburg.Contact: Leena Arkio-Laine
E-mail: leena.arkio-laine@hel.fi URL: http://www.hel.fi/kaumuseo
From the memory of the past to the creativity of the future
How and where do our cities end up? What will living in a metropolis, feeling like its citizens, mean in the next millennium? Sharing a far wider life in the territory, made up of rapid and wide movements between home, work place and the islands of free time or rather shutting oneself up in a more introverted domestic dimension even if 'on the net' with the world?The Italian Association I.C.S. with its international partners is organising a Netd@ys competition 'FUTURCITYCREA' for young people: students are invited to prepare and present projects on various aspects relevant to the quality of urban life (arts, sciences, environment, citizenship, employment, cultural identity) through consulting studies, projects and works of innovative architects, Universities and Polytechnics, UNESCO's 'List of World Heritage', historical cities and natural sites, Agenda 21, studies on demography, sociology, economy with reference to urban centres, ecosystems and energy flows, essays, possible future urban scenarios hypothesised in films, pictures, declarations and 'International Charters' for the environmental, historical and artistic safeguard of the cities.
Contact: Augusta Busico
E-mail: icsociety@tin.it
URL: http://www.bdp.it/europa/ premiofuturcitycrea.htm
School of Democracy
What does it mean to be an active citizen? How can youngsters participate in the decision making at European level? In a series of workshops organised in the framework of the Austrian project 'Young Europe 2028' young Europeans come together to learn about everybody's active and participating role in the society.
Contact: Cornelia Pfeiler
E-mail: young.europe@carinthia.com
URL: http://www.a3a.at
Electronic Diaries
The European Centre for Media Competences has invited all secondary schools of North Rhine-Westphalia, one of the largest regions of Germany, to participate in a competition: schools have to find industry and commerce partners to set up projects upon the theme 'ICT and schools' and to report on their achievements in 'electronic diaries'. Click on and read the diaries of German schools!Contact: Carola Stabe
E-mail: raa@bfk-infos.de
URL: Not available
Man, technology and culture
These are the themes of the World Exhibition EXPO 2000 in Hanover, Germany. 'Next Step EXPO 2000' is a project of a Danish resource centre and consists in a series of conferences for teachers to inform them about the potential educational resources and contents of the World Exhibition, putting special emphasis on 'Danish' themes: wind, energy, water, food and the 'playing human', Homo ludens.Contact: Poul Tang
E-mail: ac@aarhus-ac.dk
URL: http://www.aarhus-ac.dk/
Carbon Pages
For the Future of the Earth, a better comprehension of the Greenhouse Effect and the Carbon Cycle is crucial. The Finnish Forest Association has set up a project for European schools, which aims at producing WWW pages demonstrating the natural occurrence of carbon, the carbon cycle and the effects of our living habits on this cycle. Go to the forest, take a piece of wood in your hand and think!Contact: Juhani Karvonen
E-mail: juhani.karvonen@smy.fi
URL: http://www.smy.fi
Cyber Reporters on the traces of the Paris-North Cape Rally
Two young cyber reporters will go on tour following the traces of the 11th Paris-North Cape Rally. Schools from Finland and Norway, along their tour, will provide them with information on culture and environment of the Nordic countries for on-line reports. With this project, the 'Cap Nord' Organisation from France aims at linking the traditional spirit of photo journalism with new learning methods for journalism and communication. Discover the North in Cyberspace!Contact: Philippe Boucher
E-mail: pcn@voila.fr
URL: http://www.ifrance/cap (Temporary)Tomatoes for sale online
Ask you neighbour farmer if he needs advertisement for his agricultural products. He will definitely say 'yes', and up you go and put his tomatoes on the Web! With the Agro-Net project, initiated by a Greek school, you will get an introduction in the e-commerce and learn how to set up a business and media coverage plan.Contact: George Tsakarissianos
E-mail: gtsaka@lrf.gri
URL: http://www.lrf.gr
Teachers : Internet is yours !
To be successful, any widespread implementation of online and interactive media at schools depends upon the commitment of teachers.The Confederación Española de Centros de Enseñanza, a Spanish association of educational centres, has decided to make teacher training in the use of the Internet a priority, in order to make things move on beyond the first experiments. More than 15.000 teachers are going to be involved in a major awareness-raising and training campaign during Netd@ys 99, which links theory with apprenticeship and self-evaluation. Curricula via Internet will be developed on Mathematics, Physics, History, Arts and Social Sciences.
Contact: Mariano del Castillo
E-mail: castillo@cece.es
URL: http://www.cece.es'Teachers teach teachers' is the principle of the 'Looking through my window' project managed by the Scottish Council for Educational Technology within Apple Computer Europe. Courses will be organised on the theme of climatic conditions in the 12 European countries, Norway, Turkey, Russia, the USA and Japan. All materials will be diffused on the Internet and linked to world-wide educational networks.
Contact: Ivan Mykytyn
E-mail: I.mykytyn@scet.com
URL: http://www.scet.com
Do you talk Internet ?
To be able to fully exploit the Internet resources requires a good understanding of English, even if more and more sites are written in different other languages. The Centre d'Animation en Langues, a Belgium training organisation, organises online activities, some amongst others on the theme of citizenship, to familiarise students and teachers with the Internet multilinguism. The results will be presented in the framework of the Language Festival in Luxembourg during the Netd@ys week.Contact: Eric Cornu
E-mail: actucal@pophost.eunet.be
URL: http://www.darespeak.org
Get out of Jail with Internet!
It is a real pilot project that the Maison Centrale de Poissy, France, is intending to develop during the 1999 edition of the Netd@ys Europe. Within the context of carrying out sentences, this penitentiary has set up a broad programme of education and professional training. The teachers, encouraged by the Director of the 'Maison Centrale', intend integrating new technologies as a tool for education, training and culture. Within the limits of the Penal Code - which does not allow prisoners to have direct access to the Internet - the main goal of this project is to give an isolated group a new possibility to accede to knowledge and a new way to escape to culture, all this under the same conditions as if they were free. A remarkable initiative, which aims to facilitate the release and reintegration of prisoners on the labour market.Contact: Didier Voituron
E-mail: mpoi@club-internet.fr
URL: Not available
Wings of change
Where are the black storks coming from in Spring and where are they going to in Fall? For a long time, they did not come anymore to the Benelux countries. They are back now! 'Réseau Idée', a Belgian association, wants to celebrate their return in reporting their migration to Africa on the Internet through satellite. The journey will give the opportunity to produce and diffuse new documentaries to learn about this fascinating bird and to discover the regions and the human environments they are going to fly across. Birds of a feather flock together!Contact: Etienne Holef
E-mail: reseau.idee@skynet.be
URL: http://www.ful.ac.be/hotes/ideeWelcome to the Netd@ys Europe 99 site [www.netdays99.org} and feel free to contact us for all practical information on your participation. More information ?
Alain Dumort (Head), Maria Kokkonen, Loïc Bestard
European Commission, DG XXII
Sector New Technologies
5, rue Belliard - B-1040 Bruxelles
Tel.: (32)2-299.27.83 - Fax: (32)2-296.62.97
E-mail: netdays@cec.be