By tradition, Spring Day for Europe includes, among other events, the Back to School activities, in which public figures such as local, national and European politicians and experts pay a visit to their former schools or to any other school. The purpose of these activities is to strengthen contacts between young Europeans and decision-makers in an attempt to bring Europe closer to its citizens.

List of the guests who visit schools in 2009 (EN)

For Spring Day 2009, we are currently working on developing a tool that aims to enable potential guests and schools to get in touch, plan and organise a school visit. At present, we encourage any potential guests to get in touch with us to put them in contact with schools by providing us the bellow information (either by email or phone):

• Guest name
• Guest title (position and organisation)
• Visiting school (name of school, city, region, country), if the school is already identified
• Date(s) of the visit(s)

Contact: Petru Dumitru, phone: +32 (0)2 790 75 56.

In case schools that are registered with Spring Day would like to invite a guest to visit them, a template letter is available on our website to help draft their invitation.

Who went back to school in 2008?

All guests who went back to school in 2008 (PDF, 347 KB)

Highlights: Past events in News (archive)

• European Commission Vice-President Margot Wallström visits the Katedralskolan in Uppsala, Sweden (JPG, 272 KB)
• Commissioner Figel‘ pays a visit to the Základná škola s materskou school in Slovakia (JPG, 358 KB)
• Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus went back to school (JPG, 355 KB)
• Slovenian president, Dr Danilo Türk, welcomes students to the National Parliament (JPG, 363 KB)
• Portuguese President Cavaco Silva went back to school (JPG, 266 KB)
• Euripidis Stilianidis, Greek minister of education, joins Spring Day (JPG, 236 KB)
• French minister Xavier Darcos met a group of Spring Day schools in Paris (JPG, 363 KB)
  
  

19/03/2009 by: Petru Dumitru