The e-Skills Week campaign aims to raise awareness of the growing demand for highly skilled ICT practitioners and users within the industry. DIGITALEUROPE and European Schoolnet have come together with 20 national partners to promote e-skills whilst building bridges between the different stakeholders. The culmination of the campaign will be the European e-Skills Week taking place in the first week of March 2010
“Today, e-skills and computer literacy are a competitive advantage on the job market," said Bridget Cosgrave, Director General of DIGITALEUROPE. “The technologies are developing very fast and it is essential to help SMEs and entrepreneurs to keep up with the technology development to remain competitive."
“Fewer and fewer young people decide to study technology at tertiary level in Europe, and the European e-Skills Week campaign will help to change this situation, by helping students to get realistic views of IT studies and careers, meet inspiring role models and get their hands on inspiring technology," said Marc Durando, Executive Director of European Schoolnet.
Public authorities, ICT companies as well as schools and students are working together to organise a range of exciting events, training sessions, school visits, competitions and more, to underline the importance of ICT skills in today's society, and to demonstratethe wide range of job opportunities in the field. The campaign ultimately aims to increase ICT skills among professionals and to encourage more young people to take up ICT studies and careers.
The European e-Skills week is expected to involve 300,000 participants in more than 100 activities. The events will take place across Europe with more than 20 participating countries. This exciting collaboration ensures that the European e-Skills Week 2010 will be one that is both informative and memorable for a wide and diverse audience.
Soon, the website will feature national and pan-European events taking place between November 2009 and March 2010. Organisations and companies interested in joining the e-Skills Week can already register as e-Skills Week stakeholders.
For further information, please contact:
Magali MERINDOL
DIGITALEUROPE Communications Officer T. +32 2 609 5315 M. +32 477 229 939
Last year in 4 November I speak about this project in European Parliament from Bruxelles because I was selected in the 8 finalist in AtmosphEuropa Contest from 44 participants . My speech from 4 november in Eurobama Contest in European Parliament from Brusseles was against discrimination of students with special needs , against poverty and climate challenge
Mister presidentof the European Parliament Hans-Gert PÖTTERING, Mister presidentof The Intercultural Communication and Leadership School Geza Tessenyi , Representative of the Swedish Presidency (t.b.c.), Representative of the European Commission (t.b.c.) , dear europarlamentars ,dear candidates and guests , honorated assistance because I’m not so good english speaker I will read my speech .
My name is Cornel Lucian Duma .I am a teacher of religion , history ,citizenship and social studies in Caransebes, Romania .In the second year I was elected by my headmaster ElenaMemelis as the coordinator of educational projects and programes in ourSpecial School Caransebes , Romania . Our school is special because all our students are with special needs . Sincethe begining of my commisionI havetried to fight against discrimination of students with special needs and for this reason I developed many educational projects and extracurricular activities in partenership with normal students from many schools in Caransebes . One of my educational projects is based on environnment problems and it is called,, Water and nature is life itself” .
In this project my students with special needs couldsee the importance of water and nature in people lives . I also involved my students in all kind of activities to make them fight against the problems of Climate Change and Global Warming : On 21 september ouSpecial School Caransebes participated toghether with thousands of schools from all over the worldin the internationalcampaign Eno Tree Planting Day 2009 and after we made ashort video with our activities with can be watched on the oficial website for internationalcampaign .
I want show to the whole world that students with special needs can make beautiful things in spite of their handicaps if they are helped by us because today in a selfish and egocentric society people forget mostly near them are others children or people with Special Needs Education who need understanding, help and support. Different but equal - is a principle of democracy and mutual respect. Diversity in ethnic and social categories on earth is the beauty of the human universe, each of us contributing to the cultural heritage with its specifics. History, traditions, culture of each ethnic group is an important chapter of universality. For this reason I have conceived and launched eTwinning project ,,Different , but equal” – partenership and collaboration between students with special needs across the Europe ” and for our project we designed a website with photos , videos , presentations withall the activities made by the parteners involved in the project and also our project was approved by Ministry of Education Research and Innovation from Romaniaand by the European Commission as part of European Year for Creativity and innvoation , unfortunatelly our project was approved but we didn’t receive any fundsfrom European Commision .
In this project I organized in partenership with Diocese and City Hall from Caransebes , Inspectoratul Scolar Judetean , Casa Corpului Didactic din Caras-Severin and Cosiliul Judetean Caras-Severin under eTwinning and Didacticain 7 april international symposium ,, Creativity and innovation in special education , project ,, Different, but equal „-first edition and we had three hundred fifty participants from all Romania . In our symposium we had three sections : section 1 – scientific comunications and referates , section 2 – Power Point presentations made by teachers with the activities –in this section was participated also our parteners from eTwinning project ,, Different, but equal ” – Signe Leht , Estonia ; Todor Lambov –Bulgaria , Arzu Borlas –Turkye , and in thirdsection we organized international contest ,, Resurrection of Son of Good and the renaissance of whole humanity ” and in the final I present website for our project and after we made the vernisage of the exhibition at the Art Gallery Corneliu Baba from Caransebes .
Our slogan ,, We are people just like you, maybe sometimes with a better heart and want to show everybody that we can work, learn, play , respect each other and last but not least we love the neighbor who is in suffering . We learn to respect each other , to communicate, to cooperate , to tolerate each other . We want to make you understand that there are no differences between us . All we are different but equal. ”. The removal of discrimination between peoplemust begin with theelimination of discrimination in education, because all the children who are now students will be the future membersof European Union. In the same time we have as example the words of our Lord Jesus Christ in Galatians three with twenty eight ,, There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. ”
I try from two years to make in our school a club for art and creation with three workshops : workshop for drawing , collage and paintings , workshop for folk art and crafts , workshop for dolls and puppets but unfortunatelly I can’t made still now because is a mondial crisis .
Now is the time for all nations to join forces for to realize the importance of each individual either normal or withspecial educational needsand to start giving them our respect and consideration . And that is more important in the contxt of next year title EUROPEAN YEAR FOR COMBATING POVERTY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION .For this reason I think that all higher institutions of the European Union toghether with the member countriesof the European Union should make a deal and should shake their hand and be involved in projects to help poor people and to remove discrimination between people because we are all part of the big family of European Union. From my experiences gained during the years I believe that the most effective teaching approaches designed to integrate all children in school are those that we offer as many opportunities to work and play together, to discover new things together. If we will give to children with Special Needs a multitude of learning experiences, it will be easier to integrate them later in society .
SO LET’S WORK TOGHETHER AND FIGHT AGAINST DISCRIMINATION , POVERTY AND CLIMATE CHANGE .
Anul trecut in data de 4 noiembrie am vorbit in Parlamentul European de la Bruxelles despre proiectul internațional ,,Diferiți, dar egali " deoarece am fost ales între cei 8 finaliști din 44 de participanți deoarece am particiat la concursul internațional AtmosphEuropa care a fost organizat sub președenția parlamentului European , iar prezentările participanților au fost transmise în direct pe site din Parlamentul European iar aici puteți vedea discursurile participanților . Anul trecut proiectul ,,Different, but equal " s-a derulat sub egida Anului European al Creativității și Inovării , dar din păcate nu am primit finanțare pentru derularea lui în continuare cu toate că apare pe siteul oficial de la Bruxelles .
Tot anul trecut am organizat simpozionul internațional ,, Creativitate și inovație în învățământul special, proiectul ,,Diferiți, dar egali " și Concursul Internațional ,, Învierea Domnului și renașterea spirituală a întregii umanități "
