1. A Global Virtual School For Sustainable Development The City Of Joensuu, Finland

2. ENO-Environment Online is a global virtual school for sustainable development and environmental awareness. Four environmental themes are studied within a school year on a weekly basis. About 200 schools from 75 countries currently take part. ENO is administrated by the city of Joensuu, Finland.

3. OBJECTIVES to add environmental awareness and sustainable development into learning to increase global awareness and internationality to learn skills in ICT to get schools from developing countries as active participants

4. ENO THEMES The Place We Live In (Sep-Oct) This Is Our Nature (Nov-Jan) The Way Lead Our Lives (Feb-Mar) This Is Our Lifestyle (Apr-May)

5. SPECIAL ACTIVITIES (also public) The opening of ENO schoolyear: ENO Tree Planting Day 21st of September The closing of ENO schoolyear: World Environment Day (June 5)

6. SOME KEY POINTS Act locally - think globally! Information is gathered from local communities and shared globally on the ENO website Learning is student-centred with both online and offline activities. At the end of each theme there is a campaign week during which the results of learning are raised at local level and on the website.

7. CO-OPERATION

8. ENO and National Curriculum Cross-curricular entities: International education and cultural identity, sustainable development, communication and media skills Objectives of each ENO themes are similar to ones in these three integrities

9. PARTICIPANTS 300 ENO Schools in 90 countries About 6000 students and 700 teachers The age of students: 11 - 18 years ”Open doors” days: ENO Tree Planting Day, 21st of September (the opening day for the new schoolyear).

10. STUDYING ENO curricula on the web (themes, contents,goals, schedule and weekly tasks ) A special campaign week in the end of each theme when results are shared with communities ( school, village, web community) Assessment: ENO Learning Diary Chat lessons about the topics Themes are decided by teachers

11. TOOLS ENO website: http://eno.joensuu.fi ONLINE: Material, Chat, Discussion, E Pals, Surveys, ENO Radio, blogs OFFLINE: Learning Diary email, video conferences, live webcasts

12. RECOGNITIONS & AWARDS A European Umbrella Project for NetD@ys 2000, European Commission III prize in EcoGallery Europe 2000 III prize in Childnet Awards 2001 A Labelled Project in NetD@ys 2001 A Finalist in Stockholm Challenge Awards 2002 A Finalist in Global Junior Challenge 2002 A Quality Prize in eLearning, 2003 (Ministry of education) A Labelled Project in NetD@ys 2003 A Finalist in GKP Youth Award 2003 A Finalist in Stockholm Challenge Awards 2004 WWF Panda Prize 2004 A Finalist and A Special mention in Stockholm Challenge Awards 2006 My Favourite eLearning Resource (one of 8) by European Commission 2006

13. ENO Tree Planting Day An open activity for schools 21st of September (the international day of peace) Schools register online and plant tree/s near to their schools Information (including photos and videos) is submitted to ENO Tree Database There were 528 registered schools in 82 countries who took part last week, over 20 000 trees were to be planted A blog for the event: http://enotreeplanting2006.blogspot.com http://enotreeplanting2006.blogspot.com