Dutch schools participate in different activities directed towards an international attitude and competency of their children, as a basic part of their citizenship of the 21st Century. These activities are directed towards:

• Curriculair international activities, like within the Unesco nl scholenproject [engl], with esxperience & learning materials about water (World Water day), slavery & monuments.
• Usage of learning materials which hold international components (leermiddelenbank).
• Twinning activities, where ict is a must to use, reason why its also called eTwinning, Europe wide. Learning projects of a some classes of the school with pupils of schools in other countries. From the side of Europe this is intensily stimulated via the Comenius schoolpartnership program & bilateral schoolpartnerships. Sometimes they are also part of a city twinning project, like between 2005-2009 from schools of the Hague with schools from Surinam (link is in dutch).
• Early other language learning. As Waldorf schools teach their children already at age 7 in other languages since 1923, in other schools they are experimenting with earlier other language learning only recently. An example of this is the Early Bird project for pupils from 5 years old. Nation wide early foreign language learning in English, French or German, and recently also for Spanish is stimulated by the European Agency of Nl, Europees Platform, its projectsite informs about 320 schools (around 20%) who are practicising this.
• Two-folded language learning, so called TTO (here is the TTO platform). Dutch children learn most subjects directly in English in secondary education at 113 shools. These moments also 20 schools prepare to give tto to secondary preparative vocational education.
• Cooperation with schools in other countries. Sometimes as part of cooperation actvities via their municipiality (link is in Dutch), or by the information site of europese stedenbanden van de VNG. Dutch municipialities are holding with more then 400 foreign municipalities citybounds.

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