Teachers resources

AFS Educator Programmes website. Are you a current or retired educator in your home country? Would you like first-hand experience meeting educators and teaching in another country?

AFS is one of the world’s largest community-based volunteer organizations dedicated to building a more just and peaceful world through international student exchange.

The LC-SE is a joint programme between English Specialist Schools and European sections (English) of French schools.

Are you envisaging to start a (European) project related to teacher education and are you looking for partners to join you?
Send us a short summary of your project.
New address: www.atee1.org and www.atee2008.be

BBC Worldclass provide a selection of partner organisations to help you establish school twinning, finding a partner school, expert guidance etc.

Manual addressing the organisation of e-twinning activities on the topic of European Citizenship for post-primary schools

Useful links for school exchanges

Find the next deadline for the programme you're interested in. You can also click on the programme name to find more information.

The British Council delivers a wide range of programmes providing an international experience for children, young leaders, students, graduates, teachers, business professionals and employers.

The study visits programme aims to encourage exchanges and discussion among those responsible for vocational training on subjects of common interest at the European level.

Programmes d\'échanges et subventions
Fonds Prince PHILIPPE (Trèfle, Trialogue, Trois +, Expédition européenne) - Socrates (Comenius, Grundtvig), Leonardo, Equal

Central Bureau database, UK

The British Council database has been replaced by the Global Gateway

Finding information on setting up an educational exchange and further information on exchange partners

General search for FP6 partners from the Candidate States

Exchanges between schools and school classes

The Cultural Contact Points have established an official CCP Partner Search Mechanism which is focused solely on Culture 2000 and allows you to submit your own search request and to find others who are interested in finding partners for Culture 2000 projects

The Linking and Itinerary system offers the possibility to meet a community of schools from all over the world, where teachers and students show their work and share it with others online.

100- Schools Networking - Japan

EDU Japan - Participating schools

Teachers from partner schools can register a project and build up their classwork in a shared space online. The tool is available in 18 languages.

ELTeCS projects and funding

The ePALS Chinese-English Language and Learning Portal is the latest initiative to partner Chinese and native English speaking classrooms worldwide for Chinese and English language learning.

The world's largest online classroom community

including partner searching

The European Secondary School Student Exchange (ESSSE) Programme

School partnerships in Europe

eTwinning is about collaboration between schools in Europe using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to carry out a pedagogically relevant activity.

Ready-made project kits are step-by-step guides to successful eTwinnning projects.

8 Gründe für eTwinning, Nationale eTwinning-Koordinierungsstelle, Links, Download

The EUN School Managers Forum gives you an easy way to get into contact with colleagues all over Europe. Use it to set up relationships for professional exchange, exchange experiences etc

International Vocational Education and Training

Eurolinks is experienced in creating networks and projects for students and teaching staff. Eurolinks can assist you, or your organisation, in applying for financial support or offer project assistanceand project management.

EURONET is a network of organisations and individuals, in which you will receive information and proposals for projects.  Supported by the Council of Europe

EFIL is the umbrella organisation of the European AFS Organisations in Europe. AFS (formerly American Field Service) is a non-profit volunteer based educational organization offering exchanges for students, young adults and teachers in over 50 countries around the world.

The European Studies Programme is a post-primary curriculum based programme linking schools in Ireland with schools across Europe

The partner section of the EYID 2008 website

Federation EIL promote the lifelong involvement of individuals in intercultural learning experiences through homestays, group travel, study abroad, language training, work exchange and other cultural immersion programs.

Fédération internationale des professeurs de français

The site to learn French!

These lists for partner finding are based on the data provided during the online registration.

The Global Gateway website, was set up by the British Government as a mechanism for UK schools to create schools links around the world.

GSN - (USA) Global Schoolnetwork

IECC is dedicated to helping teachers connect with other teachers to arrange intercultural email connections between their students.

The Independent Schools Directory

The aim of the Inter-Action project is to facilitate long-lasting partnerships between specialist schools and schools in France with sections européennes, based on jointly planned projects which meet the needs of learners in both schools

InterPrimair is a non-commercial international consultancy for kindergartens & primary schools.

Japan 21 works with schools in the UK and Japan, helping them to find and develop successful links. As well as making initial introductions, we provide ongoing back-up and advice. We are the main channel through which schools with no personal contacts find their links and we work closely with the British Council in Tokyo and other organisations on this.

This forum is for teachers looking for partners for school projects

Finding email Partners

Nacell provides some links to organisations and projects that can put you in touch with schools around the world

The Network of Schools is a network of multilingual schools in minority language areas in Europe and encourages the exchange of information and collaboration on joint projects between the different member schools and their pupils.

Nordiska skolnätet - The Nordic Schoolnet is a service from the Nordic Council of Ministers aimed at facilitating and stimulating partnership between schools, teachers and students in the Nordic region.

The Nordiska skolnätet partner finding forum

Open Youth supports its members who work in various areas of youth activity:
youth exchanges; anti-discrimination campaigns; debates; training etc.

PartBase has been developed to assist in the implementation of SOCRATES:

the European Community action programme for co-operation in the field of education

Partnerships and exchanges with Northern Ireland
Mrs Linda McKee, .International Officer
Western Education & Library Board,
1 Hospital Road, Omagh, Co Tyrone,
N Ireland. BT79 0AW,
Tel 01662 411304, Fax: 01662 411 400 ]

Quarter Mediation assists with:
writing projects; advice about transnational partnerships; support for writing application forms etc; hosting in Europe; drafting agreements between schools,companies,institutions; organizing conferences,workshops,study visits,exhibitions etc.

The twinning program is part of the School Networking programme, implemented by the Government of Romania, through the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) with the financial support of the World Bank.

Sabis School Network - Specific educational systems currently used in 15 schools in 7 countries.

The Safer School Partnerships website aims to provide a single point of access to information, resources, contacts and advice for people establishing, developing, operating or working within Safer School projects.

Find partners for projects related to Youth Initiaves or Youth Democracy Projects 

EducNet - Finding out about exchanges between school and university exchange programmes
Last updated: November 2002

www.schoolnetafrica.org - African Schoolnet

networking initatives across Africa.

Use the SAW worldwide schools database to find your exchange partners who are studying the same topic at about the same time.

ISOC is a catalogue of projects supported by the European Commission under the centralised actions of SOCRATES. ISOC also provides information about international partners in the various projects,

A SURVIVAL KIT FOR EUROPEAN PROJECT MANAGEMENT.

Advice for Coordinators of Centralised SOCRATES - Projects

This is your chance to make your voice heard by finding a partner school and join the thousands of teachers and pupils shaping and building the European Union.

From the UK Times Educational Supplement.  Links to organisations promoting international educational co-operation and research, and sites to help teachers link up with other schools around the world.

The voyage: british german connection is a true British-German bilateral project which has been developed and established in collaboration between the governments and cultural organisations of Germany and the UK.

The voyage: british german connection is a true British-German bilateral project which has been developed and established in collaboration between the governments and cultural organisations of Germany and the UK.

Consultancy on European funding, training and public affairs information services

\'The World Education Database\' is designed to help educators disseminate information and projects across a country, region or even globally. Full details of appropriate users and usages can be seen on the About page on the site

The database is ONLY available for educators who satisfy the terms of usage.

Young Reporters for the Environment is a programme of the Foundation for Environmental Education designed for secondary school pupils and teachers. Each group must define its own investigation project about a local environmental issue

YOUTHFOREUROPE.EU was designed to respond to the growing interest of young people, youth groups and organizations for active participation in international projects on European level.

The World Links for Development program - an initiative of the World Bank - brings together students and teachers in developing countries with students and teachers in industrialised countries for collaborative research, teaching and learning programs via the Internet. The World Links website offers resources, collaborative school project facilities, country overviews, contacts and many other resources.