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In 2010 a collaboration between a Greek and a Polish school library and a primary school from Cyprus was launched by the name of “Bookraft”. The project was under the umbrella of eTwinning, which is the teacher network that functions within Erasmus+, the European Union program for youth, training, education and sport. Since its inception in 2004 launching, eTwinning counts around 179,000 schools through Europe as members and is a rapidly growing network for educators.
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Karavanidou, E. (2017). European Ideas in Education. In: Cummings, J.B., Blatherwick, M.L. (eds) Creative Dimensions of Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century. Advances in Creativity and Giftedness. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-047-9_23
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