1. EUROSPIN EUROpean Students’ Press INitiative Open Days, 5 th May 2001

2. OPEN DAYS, 5 MAY 2001 Partners ECCHAT EUROPE & Liberte College Jean Moulin College Alphonse Daudet Free University of Berlin Gymnasium Philippinum Lambrakis Research Foundation Ellinogermaniki Agogi EPINOIA Creative Marketing KURIER BG & BRG SCHWECHAT

3. OPEN DAYS, 5 MAY 2001 The idea… To sensitize youth to current European issues, and especially on issues concerning European political conscience by promoting an innovative methodology on civic education through the active participation of students based on student cooperation throughout Europe and taking advantage of the power of press.

4. OPEN DAYS, 5 MAY 2001 Aims Develop an innovative model of co-operation between schools, experts and the media throughout Europe, Develop a model of active civic education, allowing students to participate in research efforts, Implementation of this model through advanced Web based technology.

5. OPEN DAYS, 5 MAY 2001 School network EUROSPIN Ellinogermaniki Agogi College Jean Moulin College Alphonse Daudet Philippinum Marburg Martin-Luther Schule Elisabeth Schule BG Schwechat BG Moedling High School of Pallini

6. OPEN DAYS, 5 MAY 2001 Activities Field Research Interviews Data gathering and submission Data interpretation Articles Teachers Expert Journalists STUDENTS

7. OPEN DAYS, 5 MAY 2001 Interviews  Our tool: the questionnaire  Way of working  Interviews in the city  Exchange between schools in order to conduct the interviews

8. OPEN DAYS, 5 MAY 2001 Data interpretation Greece Informatics, Elements of Democratic Regime, Civic EconomicsAustria GermanGermany Social StudiesFrance History, Geography, Informatics, Bibliographic research, French

9. OPEN DAYS, 5 MAY 2001 Article writing Using information from the Internet and from other media, Writing articles first of our own and then exchanging views with other members of the group, Completing the articles with the support of the journalist.

10. OPEN DAYS, 5 MAY 2001 Results Being involved in current issues and social developments, Collaboration at European level, Familiarization with the social research methodology, Responsibility for their learning, Being engaged in authentic and interdisciplinary tasks.

11. OPEN DAYS, 5 MAY 2001 Difficulties Find interviewees & fix a date for the interview, Non – cooperating people, Not enough time, Some people didn’t know a lot about the topic (e.g.questions on politics & economics), The web-site could not be easily accessed from computers outside school, We live far away from each other and we could not meet outside school to work.

12. OPEN DAYS, 5 MAY 2001 What we liked … Collect interesting information, Know how students in Europe think, Communicate with other young people, Experience of being active researchers, Experience of being a reporter – Find out how an inquiry works, Contact with students from other schools,

13. OPEN DAYS, 5 MAY 2001 What we liked … It was something else than the usual lessons”, The cross – subject approach, Knowledge acquired on the EU, The contact with students from other countries & the new insight on the views of young people in Europe Surfing the Internet,

14. OPEN DAYS, 5 MAY 2001 What we liked … Daily grind vs. project 0:1, Getting acquainted with the work of a journalist, Collaborating with a newspaper, Designing the layouts of the articles with a real layout program at the office of newsapapers, Our views have been published and in fact translatd and published also abroad!

15. OPEN DAYS, 5 MAY 2001 What we gained ! Exchanging opinions and learning of the lifestyle in other countries, Advantages & disadvantages of handling this kind of data, Knowledge about the Internet.