THE EU SERVER:

The European Union on-line

http://europa.eu.int/


The EU at a glance:

http://www.europa.eu.int/abc-en.htm

This page provides basic information about the European Union and links to more detailed information.


The European Union on-line – Search:

http://europa.eu.int/geninfo/query_en.htm

A very powerful search machine in the EU server.


DIRECTORIES:


European NAvigator (ENA), a knowledge base dedicated to the history and institutions of a united Europe

http://www.ena.lu/index.cfm 

ENA provides a wide variety of multimedia documents (speeches, historical documents, photos, facsimiles, cartoons, sound and film clips, interviews, interactive maps and diagrams, etc.) organised chronologically and by subject area.
The Documentary Resources are supplemented by four modules: Thesaurus, Glossary, Media Library, Selective Bibliography.
New material is regularly added to the documentary resources in order to ensure that as many areas as possible, structural, political, geographical or linguistic, are represented. By virtue of its multilingual approach, ENA presents material both in the original language and in translation. From the File menu you can select either of the two interface languages in which the knowledge base is available: French and English.


Europe – A sites compilation by Jean-Philippe Raud Dugal (in French and in English)

http://apella.ac-limoges.fr/lyc-perrier-tulle/europ/links/europe.htm

An excellent library of links in the European classes web site of Lycée Edmond Perrier in Limoges.


A to Z Index of European Websites – European Union in the US

http://www.eurunion.org/infores/euindex.htm

This comprehensive index is a guide to information on this website of the European Commission Delegation in Washington, as well as on all of the websites of the European Union’s institutions and specialized agencies in Europe.


Euroguide 

http://www.euroguide.org/euroguide/subject-listing/

Euroguide will help you find your way through the maze of European Information on the Internet.


European Access Plus

http://www.europeanaccess.co.uk/addinfo/eotihome.htm

A listing of sites on the Internet providing substantive and bibliographical information about the people and policies, issues and institutions of the European Union, the wider Europe and related subjects.


European Union Internet Resources – University of Berkeley

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/GSSI/eu.html

EU servers and institutions, documents, newspapers, journals…


European Union Webring
http://www.euwebring.org/

It includes an overview on EU: history (until 1999), institutions, euro…


Euro-sceptic Web Resource
http://www.euro-sceptic.org/


Dedictated to critical debate on Europe and helping others continue the debate. One of the best places to search for Euro-sceptic websites.

Hall European History.com
http://halleuropeanhistory.com/index.php


American portal on European History. There is a few links to EU related web sites.

WWW- World Library – European Integration History Index : Gateways
http://www.iue.it/LIB/SISSCO/VL/hist-eur-integration/gateways.html


A library of links on European Union.

 

EDUCATIONAL WEBS:


Alexander runs for Europe – A website for EU studies and studies about Europe.
http://www.alexandersajt.koping.se/europe/

This is a website for EU studies and studies about Europe. Its starting point is the EU parliament’s members and parties. It is run by Bengt Larsson from Sweden and it is one of the best educational sites on Europe.


Danish Alexander
http://www.sa.gymfag.dk/links/alexand.htm


EU Directory
http://apella.ac-limoges.fr/lyc-perrier-tulle/europ/links/europe.htm

A directory of 280 Internet links on Europe. The material is organized under the headings: Enlargement, Economy, Newspapers, Politics, History, Citizen & Culture, European Union Institutions, Statistics, Atlas, European Countries, Pedagogy and Miscellaneous. Made by a French teacher, Jean-Philippe Raud Dugal.


E-Schola
http://www.eun.org/cn/eschola/index.cfm


Education – EU Policy  

http://europa.eu.int/pol/educ/index_en.htm


European Evolution – We were Sapientes, we are Sapientes, we will be Eurosapientes
http://fsg-preetz.lernnetz.de/european-citizens/index_2.htm


An Europe at School web elaborated by German, Danish and Hungarian High Schools. 

European Schoolnet 
http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/index_eun.html

A unique international partnership of 23 European Ministries of Education developing learning for schools, teachers and pupils across Europe


European Treasury Browser 
http://www.en.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/etb/entry_page.cfm?id_area=14


The ETB builds a metadata infrastructure to link national repositories across Europe.

My Europe Schools Network 
http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/index_myeurope.cfm

Group of more than a thousand schools. They form a unique community of teachers who work for the development and the enhancement of our common European identity. 


Pop-Up The European Youth on-line Magazine
http://www.pop-up.org/indxmain.htm

POP-UP is a European youth magazine. Meaning not an English, German, French, Spanish etc., but a European one. POP-UP offers you information and contributions from the various countries and regions about training, profession, music, studies, leisure time, culture, politics and much more. POP-UP is produced by a project partnership and is in no way commercial. The project partners are people from non-profit making organisations from Dortmund and Frankfurt/ Oder in Germany, from Durrow and Dublin in Ireland, from Belfast in Northern Ireland, from Gdansk in Poland and from Vilafranca in Spain (Catalonia).


Virtual School – European Schoolnet 

 http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/vs-Front_/entry_page.html

This web site is created by teams of teachers from different countries that together create and collect different kinds of learning resources.


Webquest: Europe Day, What to celebrate?
http://www.lo-net.de/group/Material/europe/WebQuest3.htm

Who were Jean Monnet, Robert Schuman and Konrad Adenauer? What is important to remember about them? What makes them the founding fathers of a United Europe? Why is what they did on 9 May a ‘leap forward for Europe’? 


Task:


The German government has assigned you to a task force that will design an appropriate way not only to commemorate the men but also the creation of the European Union. The sky is not the limit though. What you design must not cost much, but must find cost efficient ways to remind Europeans of the three men’s importance and their significance for the present.

Webquest on European Union
http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq160/


This is the task for the students: “You and your team members represent one of the 15 member nations and are your country’s liaison to the EU Council. Each of you has a specific role — economist, historian, or environmentalist. Together, you must gather information about the country you are representing so that you can convince the council that your country should host the presidency as soon as the current schedule ends. Design a PowerPoint presentation and write a report explaining your position, based on your findings. The report should include at least one graph/chart and/or other visual”.

Webquest: What is the European Union? By Jean-Philippe Raud Dugal
http://apella.ac-limoges.fr/lyc-perrier-tulle/europ/whatsup/spring/webquesteurope.htm

This the task for the students: “You are a teenager from Europe and you have to explain what is the European Union to your familly. You have to be the clearest you can to make the members of your family understand its role, its importance in their lives”.

Webquest: The Copenhagen European Council By Jean-Philippe Raud Dugal
http://apella.ac-limoges.fr/lyc-perrier-tulle/europ/whatsup/spring/copenhagen.htm

This the task for the students: “You are a journalist from Europe and you have to explain to your worldwide readers what happened in Copenhagen during the last European Council Summit.”

 

DEBATE ON THE FUTURE OF EUROPE


Centre for European Reform
http://www.cer.org.uk/

The Centre for European Reform (CER) is a thinktank devoted to improving the quality of the debate on the future of the European Union. The CER aims to promote new ideas and policies for reforming the EU. As an independent organisation, the CER has published work by contributors from all the main political parties. Those involved in its activities are well placed to ensure that its ideas are fed into the policy-making process. The CER also provides advice to governments in several European countries, as well as to EU institutions.


The European Convention
http://european-convention.eu.int/bienvenue.asp?lang=EN


The European Convention – The Forum website
http://europa.eu.int/futurum/forum_convention/index_en.htm

The purpose of this site is to provide information about the Forum, and to offer all who so wish the opportunity to make their own contribution to the debate on the future of Europe. These contributions are published on this site, to help all those wishing to follow this wider debate.


The future of the European Union – Debate
http://europa.eu.int/futurum/index_en.htm

“The debate on the future of the European Union” is an initiative launched at the Nice Intergovernmental Conference (declaration on the future of the Union) in December 2000. This will be a wider and more profound debate than “Dialogue on Europe”, launched by the Commission in February 2000. It will form part of a process of discussion and exchange of ideas which will contribute to the preparation of a further intergovernmental conference planned for 2004. 

Future of the Union (2004 ICG)
http://ue.eu.int/CIG/default.asp?lang=en

The Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) which agreed the Treaty of Nice adopted a declaration on the future of the European Union in which the following Presidencies, in cooperation with the Commission and involving the European Parliament, were asked to encourage wide-ranging discussions on the future of the Union involving all the interested parties: representatives of national Parliaments and all those reflecting public opinion, including political, economic and university circles, representatives of civil society, etc. The candidate countries will be associated with this process. This vast public debate is intended to be the first stage of a process of preparation leading up to the convening of a new IGC in 2004.


European Parliament – 2004 The Future of Europe
http://www.europarl.eu.int/europe2004/index_en.htm

The Europe 2004 webpage was devised to enable Europe’s citizens to read the European Parliament’s official positions on the future of the Union. It also gives details of the work of Parliament’s Delegation in the European Convention.


Friends of Europe – Debating Europe’s future
http://www.friendsofeurope.org

Friends of Europe aims to promote discussion, research and new thinking on the issues shaping the future of European integration. It is a non-profit organisation without national or political bias.