eTwinning partnership promotes many skills
The EU's eTwinning action aims to go a step further by generalising partnerships where two schools from two different European countries take advantage of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools to work together in order to harvest pedagogical, social and cultural benefits. It provides an opportunity to motivate young people to learn about each other, their school culture, and family while practising their ICT skills at the same time.
The eTwinning action was created to give schools the opportunity to learn from and with each other, to share their views and to make friends. It correspondingly promotes the awareness of the multilingual and multicultural European model of society.
eTwinning can be defined as a long term partnership where at least two schools from at least two different European countries use ICT to carry out some form of pedagogically relevant activity together. It can occur at several levels: an exchange between two individual teachers, two teams of teachers or subject departments, two librarians or two head teachers. eTwinning is about enhancing pedagogy and schools see it as a worthwhile activity that adds value to conventional learning.
The most important asset of the eTwinning action is the personal commitment and valuable experience of the teachers and schools concerned. By networking and learning from each other, they contribute to the cultural and social development of Europe in the 21st century.