eLearning Awards at the EMINENT conference

Since 2001, European Schoolnet has been running the eLearning Awards to recognise the people and schools that provide some of the finest examples of ICT innovation and impact on children’s learning.

This year “EuroPoems”, a project submitted to the 2008 edition of the eLearning Awards by Elif Kara, a Turkish teacher from Hisar Egitim Vakfi Okullari located in Kemerburgaz near Istanbul, won the Young Digital Planet Award for outstanding teachers-First prize at the Award Ceremony in Rome on 4 December 2008. Piotr Mroz, Executive Director from Young Digital Planet awarded the teacher with a crystal trophy, a cheque for € 3,000 and an interactive whiteboard set for her school.

In the last seven years, the winners were invited to prize-giving ceremonies at the EMINENT conference in Lisbon, Stockholm, Geneva, Prague, Paris, Bruges and Brussels. This year, the event took place in Rome. The EMINENT conference is the major European event which brings together senior ICT policy makers from Agencies and Ministries of Education members of the EUN Consortium, invited experts, participants from national school portals and networks, leading researchers, innovative teachers and leading eLearning suppliers from the commercial sector.

The eLearning Awards have attracted thousands of entries from schools in over 40 countries in Europe since their inception.