SYNERGY
Virtuality turns into reality
Over the ten years of its operations, the eTwinning programme has proven to be a safe platform of cooperation and an important element of work for 305,000 teachers and their students. This is a great success of this virtual programme, which has won recognition and many fans in education circles. eTwinnig community is a very strong group who can make good use of virtual projects and transform them into real life cooperation, to mention this under the former Comenius programme. I truly hope that eTwininning projects are also visible in the new perspective of the Erasmus+ School Education programme. The two programmes are strongly interrelated and address the same target group. Their offer is compatible and every Polish school should use it. Virtual projects form an excellent basis for international cooperation, which when commenced in this form brings tangible benefits. Experiences gained as part of eTwinning allow for the use of EU funds with greater ease and offer bigger potential, to mention well verified foreign partners.
Aleksandra DĹ‚ugosz Erasmus+, School Education programme, FRSE
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The teaching profession involves the need to consistently develop and improve teaching and methodology related competences and knowledge of the subject taught. Independent and voluntary taking up such activities by teachers stands for adopting professional attitudes. Thanks to programmes like eTwinning, taking such approaches is possible.