Become an undercover Agent !

Become an undercover 'eco agent' and save the planet! 

You can now learn about ways to protect the environment, while chasing eco-villains on the 'Eco Agents' website, available in 24 languages.

The European Environment Agency's  invites 9- to 14-year-olds to become undercover 'eco agents'. After creating a personal profile, each new recruit appears in an online comic strip alongside permanent characters.

Special missions will be assigned to the player, such as infiltrating a 'wind farm' in the Netherlands, which is a cover-up for a natural gas extraction facility. Each mission includes games where children earn points towards a general score. Several storylines on climate change, water quality, sustainable lifestyle, biodiversity and air quality are already online.  

Teachers can access educational material as well as a list of local websites where they can find more information about environmental issues. Each storyline has a corresponding quiz. Correct answers provide feedback and further information on that particular issue, whereas incorrect answers first provide a hint and then invite the player to try again. The quizzes can also be downloaded and used in classrooms.

Wanna save the planet? Just click!

Travel the Universe of Greater Europe

Ready for the adventure? Yes?  Let's go!

The Council of Europe has entrusted you today a big space mission: "Travel the Universe of Greater Europe".   Your target is to release from a magic box a very important message for all the nations of Europe.  To make your adventure a success, you must first travel

across several galaxies and solve all the clues to find 12 hidden gold stars. A real challenge for the most audacious kids!  Once you have collected all gold stars, you could reach the space station and the secret message will be released.

In each galaxy you will discover lots of things about Europe, its culture, languages and nature, which we must value and protect.  You will also learn the rights of the children and a big secret, which we can not reveal to you here: you will discover it yourself taking part in  "Travel the Universe of Greater Europe", this fastastic adventure story that the Council of Europe has written for kids. Download it for free!

Good luck!

European Languages Game

LinguaGo Game

Hi!  Ready for a new adventure? 

You have turned into a gold star and you live in the planet EuropaGo. How exciting! But don't think that is going to be easy.

You are trapped on the languages maze... and awful spiders run after you! Help!

To overcome this challenge successfully, you need to answer  questions on European languages. Go as fast as you can to avoid the spiders who want to eat you; if they touch you, you lose a life. Don't forget to collect the parcels you will find in the way, you will add points!

With the exciting game LinguaGo you will learn about the 23 official languages of the European Union, which are: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish.  Did you imagine that there were so many?

LinguaGo is a free online game for kids, made by the European Union.

It's time to play!

What is the European Union?

The European Union is a big family of ... 27 countries!!!

Souce: European Union 2012

Like many families, it was small at the beginning, with only 6 members that had the idea to create a club of fellow countries, more than 60 years ago: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

But... How it began everything? In that period Europe was sad and broken. Two big world-wide wars had destroyed schools, houses and especially lives, dreams and illusions. All was grey. The Europeans deserved something better! And they decided that it was time to overcome the problems and to begin a new way together in peace. And the family of fellow countries was born!

Little by little the European Union has gone growing and new members have joined to the club. Now we are 27 countries; each one of us is different: some are big, other small, ones are richer and others no so much. Each country has its own culture and its languages, but we shared many things and… most important: we want to work together to have a better future in Europe!

If you want to know more about the European Union, visit the EU Kids Corner. It's a great site for children!

You can also download a colourful map of the EU and put it in your room.

The legend of Europe

Do you know the legend of Europe?

A legend of the old Greece says that the name of "Europe" comes from a beautiful princess who lived thousands of years ago. Zeus, the Greek gods' father, was fascinated by her beauty and devised a plan to get her love. As Europe liked animals very much, Zeus, who had big powers, transformed himself in an attractive white bull. One day, when Europe was taking flowers and walking with her friends along the beach, she saw the precious white bull and approached to caress him. Seeing that he was good and tame, she climbed up to his back. Zeus took that opportunity and ran to the sea and swam, with her on his back, to the island of Crete. There, he recovered his human form and offered three magic gifts to Europe: a giant man of metal who was the guard of the island, a javelin that always hit the focused target and a dog who never failed to catch what he was hunting. Finally Europe did not marry Zeus, she married the King of Crete and became the Queen, but this is another story...

In honor to beautiful Europe, our continent takes her name.

In ancient times there was not television, neither online games, internet or movies. To entertain themselves, people liked listening to legends as this one. Every evening, after the daily tasks, the family gathered and the elderly used to explain exciting stories about heroes, warriors, kings, princes and gods. These tales, magic and religious, were told from parents to children. They all knew these legends that we still remember in our days !!!