In the European modern school, there is an increasing need to connect schools reciprocally,
especially on an international level, to offer students cultural exchanges.



Cultural exchanges allow to:
• break down all mental and cultural barriers that separate our nations and build the real European citizenship;
• improve the language skills of foreign language.
• offer personal experiences of great growth on an educational, cultural and human plan;
• the possibility to build new relations of friendship in different nations that will permit to all the students to socialize with mates of different places, and have a future full of opportunities (travelling abroad supported by friends and work opportunities);
• take responsibility;
• new rules to respect and follow, discover new tastes, local traditions and costumes.



To be connected, schools must know eachother in terms of teaching and education forms, and also they must be open to
"new and different thing" and knock down the mental block based upon the diffidence.



The European Open Day, open also to public, will start in the new edition of "European Schools Gala".
It will give the possibility to all European schools to present themselves in an international scenery in a complete way.
Schools could be presented through:
• Exhibition spaces and information stands.
• Conferences on different themes.
• Projects or lines of projects to be developed in common.
• Range of experiences combining school and work.
• Offer of formation stages.



Purpose of the European Open Day is to build up focused twinnings



Purpose of the European Open Day is to build up, over time, an European schools network, enrolling at which, a school will be
able to access to cultural exchanges, increasing, therefore, the level of internationalization of its institute.