ITT is currently involved in the following EU Commission projects, which deal with language acquisition, intercultural matters, hospitality, health and many other topics.
For further information please contact:
Kristin Brogan- View Full Profile
EU project co-ordinator
Email:- Kristin.Brogan@staff.ittralee.ie
ITT recently conducted a survey asking staff what it means to be involved in EU Commissioned Projects. The response was very positive showing how beneficial the EU projects are to the college and to the staff members involved. One respondent claimed "working on EU projects had enabled me to broaden my mind and gain real life experiences that I can bring into the classroom to share with my students". All findings from the survey can be found here IT Tralee EU Survey
ITT also conducted a similiar survey with the National Agency. The National Agency manage international and national exchange programmes in education, youth and community work, and vocational education and training. These exchanges connect people in different communities and countries, and bring an international dimension to the work of organisations across Ireland. All findings from the survey can be found here National Agency Survey
What is C-MAP?
C-MAP is a project co-funded by Erasmus+ program under the KA202 - Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training that aims to aid team leaders, mangers and organisations to improve the performance of teams and individuals utilising a new coaching methodology called C-MAPs.
The project will help VET teachers and trainers to enable team leaders and managers in Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal and Bulgaria to implement effective work-based coaching, applying the intellectual outputs (IO), developed under the C-MAP project (January 2020 – December 2021).
It is expected that over 600 individuals and organisations will benefit from involvement with the project, being directly made aware of the project's results and impact with the aim of impacting on a further 5,000 indirectly via publicity and dissemination activities.
What are the objectives of C-MAP?
• To develop and test a new work-based coaching methodology, VET Curriculum and course (IO1);
• To develop and test a new VET toolkit Coaching MAPS (IO2): a Coaching MAP is a visual aide setting out key coaching questions and a coaching journey to address a work-based problem or challenge enabling team leaders and managers improve performance and productivity.
• To publish and distribute a new Handbook for Work-based Coaches (IO3) showcasing good practice and how to use the C-MAP methodology.
Who may take part in C-MAP?
The C-MAP project team is keen to make relevant information and the findings of its project available to the representatives of the three main project's target groups – potential project participants:
Target Group 1: VET teacher/trainers (x 12 participants). They will attend a Teaching, Learning and Training activity (C1) equipping them with the knowledge and competences to train 70 participants (team leaders and managers) to use the C-MAP methodology and C-MAP Toolkit in their own workplace.
Target Group 2: Team leaders and managers (x 70 participants) will learn how to use the C-MAP methodology and C-MAP Toolkit within their own organisations to improve the performance of their teams and team members and to build/strengthen a coaching culture.
Target Group 3: Other VET actors and stakeholders such as VET centres, high and further education establishments, Awarding Bodies and policy-making organisations such as Enterprise Partnerships.
Partners
Institute of Technology Tralee
www.ittralee.ie
Exponential Training & Assessment Limited
www.exponentialtraining.com
Mindshift Talent Advisory lda
www.mindshift.pt
Learning Hub Friesland
www.learninghubfriesland.nl
Varna Economic Development Agency
www.veda-bg.eu
Consorzio Friuli Formazione
www.friuliformazione.it
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WHY IS STORYAIDEU IMPORTANT?
Current healthcare training relies upon a comprehensive understanding of the bio-medical model of medicine. However, it has been recognised that a curriculum that incorporates a more rounded model is crucial. To explore a new model of healthcare education, storytelling can become a crucial tool for educators to show the hidden and silent stories of patients, healthcare professionals, loved ones, and vulnerable people. At the same time Europe faces increased demand for health services due to ageing populations, rising patient mobility, and a diminishing supply of health workers caused by retirement rates that surpass recruitment rates. This changing reality creates an even greater need for the health workforce to understand and value humanism.
WHAT WILL STORYAIDEU AIM TO ACHIEVE?
StoryAidEU aims to “humanise healthcare education through storytelling”. This will be achieved by producing a course book, learning tools such as videos and interactive lectures that all healthcare professionals can access. Storytelling can be used to ensure a holistic approach to healthcare professionals’ education and this project aims to build a truly interprofessional approach to humanising healthcare education through storytelling. Storytelling is best used in an interdisciplinary environment which this project will foster by creating an innovative multi-professional, inter-stakeholder approach to bridge the gap between current educational models and a more holistic model for the future
HOW WILL STORYAIDEU MEET ITS GOALS?
The project will conduct (through a number of data gathering techniques) a full review of interprofessional education tools from across the globe, an assessment of humanism policies and procedures on a macro and micro level in Europe, and conduct essential research into how storytelling approaches can be used to improve healthcare education training. These three areas will be combined to create a dedicated educational curriculum for healthcare educators to promote humanism in healthcare through the production of a coursebook, learning videos and an interactive lecture which can all be used in multiple training settings.
WHEN DOES STORYAIDEU START AND FINISH?
The StoryAidEU project runs from October 2019 To September 2021.
WHO ARE INVOLVED IN STORYAIDEU?
International Network for Health Workforce Education, Spain
Agenfor Italia, Italy
Institute of Technology Tralee, Ireland
Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom
StoryAid UK, United Kingdom
Vysoka Skola Zdravotnicka, Czech Republic
Wyzsza Szkola Ekonomii, Prawa i Nauk Medycznych im. prof. Edwarda Lipinskiego w Kielcach, Poland
FIND OUT MORE?
You can visit www.storyaid.eu to see our latest news and products or attend our Final Conference to be held in Barcelona in 2021.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
The concept of internationalisation in the professional operations of SMEs is often approached without previous preparation or adequate strategies. Chambers of Commerce and Industry (CCI) and Vocation Education and Training (VET) providers are available for support, but most of them are not properly equipped with the requisite knowledge and tools for internationalisation.
The ISO project aims to create a new professional role, the Internationalisation Service Officer – and prepare the CCI and VET professionals who are working directly with the SMEs operating in the business areas of trading and services.
OUR MISSION
To develop and pilot:
• A training manual for future Internationalisation Service Officer professionals
• A set of videocasts with SMEs’ representatives to share their experience of internationalisation
• A self-assessment and training app to support start-ups
To promote dissemination actions, engage stakeholders and organise final conferences in all participating countries.
Partners
Poland - www.rig.katowice.pl
Greece - www.ebeh.gr
Spain - www.cenfim.org
Portugal - www.aeva.eu
Italy - www.ifelcampania.it
Poland - www.danmar-computers.com.pl
Ireland - www.ittralee.ie
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The project “IRENE – Increase the empowerment of adults and migrants with specific learning disorders” uses virtual technologies and realities to try help adults learn a foreign language. Partners from seven European countries (Austria, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands and Spain) are collaborating to develop and test an innovative methodology and create an E-learning multilingual interactive platform at a transnational level.
Who Will This Project Help?
The project’s cohort are adults between 18 and 35 years old who experience learning difficulties and are therefore discouraged to learn a foreign language. The project will support these adults undertaking a ‘second opportunity’ to learn outside the traditional school paths. Language teachers will be provided with didactic and methodological tools and will be trained to improve their skills when working with people with learning difficulties.
Objectives
The IRENE project intends to fill the knowledge gaps through the production of three main outputs:
- Comparative research of existing teaching methodologies in the partner countries.
- Didactic approach introducing a model to develop learning content and guidelines.
- E-learning platform offering playful and stimulating modes for language learning. The platform will be structured in four separate sections: pronunciation; study; exploration and learning together.
Project Activities
• Perform a comparative research and desk analysis on how teaching of foreign languages to people with learning difficulties is managed in the different contexts of the countries involved.
• Design of a curriculum defining which contents (materials, exercises, storyboard) should be included in the four different modules of the E-learning platform
• Design and develop the E-learning platform.
• Organize short-term staff training events in Denmark to train teachers how to exploit the resources of the E-learning platform and its applicability to motivate adults with learning difficulties to learn in a different way.
• Organize multiplier events in partner countries to present the project outcomes to stakeholders and a wide audience.
The project is running from September 1st 2018 till August 31st 2021.
Contact
For more information on the project, please contact:
Institute of Technology Tralee (IE)
Kristin Brogan
Kristin.Brogan@staff.ittralee.ie
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Due to the drastic growth in migration and the very significant increase in the movements of people across countries, intercultural awareness is becoming more and more essential. It is still neither common nor popular to teach interculturality in VET.
This project offers an easy access to tools in the area of intercultural learning and provides training materials, including instructions on how to apply theory to intercultural training.
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ABOUT THE PROJECT
LEAP – Learn, Engage, Apply and Perform is a Strategic Partnerships project for Vocational Education and Training under the Erasmus+ programme.
OBJECTIVES
The LEAP project intends to create a ‘step change’ in the use of ePortfolios as process-based pedagogical tool to improve learner and VET provider performance. It will exploit Digital Badges including open digital badges to create an engaging learning process leading to improved performance by learners and teacher/trainers. During the time of implementation of LEAP the following outputs will be delivered:
The LEAP e-Portfolio
A flexible, but structured tool designed to facilitate the collaborative interaction between learners and teacher/trainers and between teacher/ trainers and moderators; and to promote learner independence, the use of differentiated learner support, learning and assessment.
LEAP e-Portfolio and Good Practice Handbook
A series of training curricula and VET courses that will make use of the LEAP e-Portfolio. The Handbook will allow the lessons and experience of partners, teachers/trainers and learners to be transferred to other stakeholders interested in exploiting the use of digital open badges within an e-Portfolio such as LEAP.
Policy Report: Taking the LEAP
A strategic document with recommendations for the use of a learner centred pedagogical process model incorporating open digital badges within e-Portfolios in the delivery of VET courses and how it can support and complement other approaches to VET delivery (e.g. blended learning, use of VLEs, the flipped classroom and traditional classroom based activities).
Implementation Period
From 1st of September 2017 to 31st of August 2020.
Partners
United Kingdom, Exponential Training & Assessment [Coordinator]
Cyprus, Dekaplus
Austria, BEST Institut für berufsbezogene Weiterbildung und Personaltraining GmbH
Portugal, Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade
Ireland, Institute of Technology Tralee
Greece, Best Cybernetics
Target Groups
1. Teachers/trainers
2. Learners
3. VET/HE/FE Centres
4. Partners
5. European business community
6. VET Policy stakeholders
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Tourism is one of the largest and fastest growing sectors in the world. In the EU alone, tourism contributes 10% to GDP and creates jobs for 26 million people!
Aims
Tourism 4 Careers aims to promote the industry and the fast number of careers and opportunities available. The following two interactive and educational online units.
How The Aims Will Be Achieved
The partnership will develop the following two interactive and educational online units (e-learning resources):
- Introduction to Tourism
- Careers in Hospitality and Tourism
A prototype of the two e-learning resources (http://tourisminsight.ie/) has been developed by the Institute of Technology Tralee and hospitality partners in Ireland including the Irish Hospitality Institute, Failte Ireland, the Irish Hotels Federation as well as other national associations and hotels. The units provide valuable tourism insights to secondary schools students, VET students and other learners, informing them of career options within the tourism industry.
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Careers in Hospitality and Tourism provide valuable tourism insights to secondary school’s students, VET students and other learners, informing them of career options within the tourism industry. The resources give awareness of what life in the tourism and hospitality industry is really like, allowing them to make an informed career choice.
Who Is Involved?
Institute of Technology Tralee (Ireland, coordinator)
Irish Hospitality Institute (Ireland)
University of Plovdiv Paisii Hilendarski (Bulgaria)
Srednja sola za gostinstvo in turizem Celje (Slovenia)
Istituto dlstruzione Superiore di Ceccano (Italy)
Stichting Business Development Friesland (The Netherlands)
Mardin Artuklu Halk Egitim Merkezi ve Aksam Sanat Okulu (Turkey)
Klaipedos Turizmo Mokykla (Lithuania) - Danmar Computers LLC (Poland)
Vysokå Skola regionålniho rozvoje a Bankovni institut - AMBIS, a.s. (Czech Republic)
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Teachers of Tomorrow is a 2-year Erasmus+ project that develops an innovative competence profile for teachers and develops new future-oriented methods as well as teaching and learning materials / tools. This creates a framework / training curriculum that relates to the competence profile and at the same time picks up on changes in society (e.g. migration movement)
Aims
The project relies on an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach. It is a project of science, society and practice that is closely linked to the process of the European Union.
It is about a high-quality qualification of teachers and the socio-cultural and emotional participation and part of marginalized groups in society in the educational process , a dialogue-based, systematic knowledge transfer.
Target Groups
Adult education teachers in regular schools, educational counselling centres, coaching area and teachers with a migrant background.
Partners
ITT, Tralee (Ireland), the Foundation Fazio-Allmayer of Palermo (Italy), the Theater Association Teatro due mondi (Italy), the Adult Education Center VHS Simmering/Vienna (Austria), the Adult Education Center vhs Pforzheim-Enzkreis (Germany)
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The Project
INTERMOVE FOR TRAINERS project aims to further extend the innovative training pathway developed by the INTERMOVE model, which addresses institutions active in international mobility projects for education and training purposes in order to help them prepare customised pre-departure and upon-arrival preparation while combining two topics: intercomprehension of languages and intercultural competences. This aim will be achieved thanks to the development of a specialized training for trainers’ programme which will qualify trainers and mentors in partner organisations as INTERMOVE facilitators as well as experts able to train other organisations active in mobility projects and to recognise them with the INTERMOVE Label through the development of a solid Network.
What makes the INTERMOVE model so innovative?
INTERMOVE FOR TRAINERS is based on the innovative methodology and excellent results obtained by previous project – INTERMOVE – developed between 2015 and 2017, also within the framework of the Erasmus+ Programme (http://intermove.eu/en/home/). INTERMOVE combined the intercultural preparation of participants in mobility experiences with the use of intercomprehension in a blended training pathway that included French, English, Portuguese, Italian and Spanish as targeting languages.
Thanks to INTERMOVE, trainers and mentors were given access to innovative tools that have allowed them to incorporate a methodology based on an approach that combined intercomprehension and interculturality.
Following this model, INTERMOVE FOR TRAINERS will focus on developing more comprehensive learning contents, addressing the expert trainers that will recognize third institutions and facilitators, as the system has been already successfully tested and currently implemented with participants.
Expected Impact
• Increasing the quality of the preparation and, then, of the performance of participants in mobility actions.
• Boosting cooperation among national institutions through INTERMOVE Network.
• Contributing to the improvement of the VET system through the empowerment of trainers’ competences in intercomprehension and interculturality.
• Defining innovative, shared and modular learning outcomes and resources related to intercultural competences and intercomprehension, that will boost the use of those variables among local stakeholders.
• Activities Creating Open Educational Resources in diverse European Languages validated by a multinational consortium.
• Raising awareness about the importance of the preparation for the success of the mobility experience.
• Promoting intercomprehension of languages as a tool for a better intercultural understanding.
Activities
• Design and development of INTERMOVE training for trainers specialized programme, including the preparation of contents related to the main topics of the project: intercomprehension and intercultural approach.
• Implementation of transnational training sessions for trainers from partner institutions.
• Setting up of INTERMOVE Network and development of its structure, mission and secretariat.
• Preparation and delivery of training to third organisations from partner countries.
• Recognition of trained organisations that will be awarded with the INTERMOVE label, allowing them to belong to INTERMOVE network.
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SUMMARY
The EU policy on multilingualism supports the aspiration to be united in diversity. Languages can build bridges between people. giving us access to other countries and cultures and enabling us to understand each other better.
Hunt For Europe (HFE) uses a digital immersive language learning platform, using content integrated language learning method. The learning environment is an interactive, browser-based, language- and culture learning platform, which enables the learner to quickly acquire spoken language competency and cultural understanding via increased individual focus and the possibility of self-study. The platform is a Serious Games category development and integrates an interactive learning environment coupled with Automatic Speech Recognition where the learner acquires the necessary language- and culture skills which are subsequently practised and employed in a realistic 3D environment. It can be used in-class in a blended learning environment where the learners can practise under careful supervision, or it can be accessed online by the learner anytime, anywhere the learner wishes to continue practising pronunciation and a spoken language in the 3D world or the interactive lessons.
Hunt For Europe consists of:
1) The SKILL BUILDER SECTION which teaches both the pronunciation of single words as well as sentences and the culture information relevant to the various environments covered in the 3D sections. This section will also contain interactive exercises and quizzes, focusing on both perception and production issues, ensuring that the student has mastered the material.
2) 6 different but connected 3D ENVIRONMENTS, each one representing and depicting a culturally significant area of a partner country, in which the learner must perform a givenassignment. The overall storyline of the game-part is the discovery of the cultural identity of Europe.
TARGET GROUPS
The primary target group of the project are ADULTS in general – both European citizens, either in jobs, unemployed, NEETS, and migrants and refugees.
A secondary target are the TEACHERS of adult learners in language schools
OBJECTIVES / AIMS
INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS
To ensure a successful implementation, the project has been structured with six phases which are closely connected to the development and evaluation of intellectual outputs. It will be carried out through the 24-month project period:
1) Curriculum Design & Story & Games Development
2) Technical Development and Implementation & Digital Handbook
3) Evaluation of the platform
4) Quality Assurance Plan, Evaluation Plan and Checklist
5) Development of dissemination plan
6) Multiplier events - A final Conference
7) Local Multiplier Events
LIST OF PARTNERS
ITALY, ENAIP PIEMONTE
Operates in the regional area of Piedmont with a General Direction and 17 vocational training centres located in each province. The main objective is to enhance human resources and the most significant areas are training, guidance, consultancy, support in the professional insertion and job creation. We offer tools and means to design the most suitable opportunities for personal and professional development. We believe in the central role of each individual and we support the use of knowledge, technology and technique, to fully operate into society and the labour market. Each project is created with two key elements, professionalism and reliability, and attention is given to integration and equal opportunity issues. Know, know-how and know-how to represent the three pillars of our vocational training.
GERMANY, WISAMAR
Is a non-profit educational institute in Leipzig, Germany. It is a learning institution teaching vocational, cultural and adult education. It is accredited by TÜV as education provider according to AZAV principles (employment activities for the Federal Employment Office) and by the Office for Migration and Refugees as Integration Course Provider. In the AZAV accreditation, process the quality management system is audited on an annual basis. Wisamar has a long experience in the creation of language courses, holding of workshops on intercultural competences, ICT and empowerment, created E-learning courses e.g. Language learning and storytelling and teach German as well as cultural skills in our language school to migrants and refugees. They have direct access to the target group.
AUSTRIA, DIE BERATER
Is adult education, vocational training and human resources development. It has 350 employees in over 30 locations throughout Austria. It has ca 20,000 participants each year, die Berater figures amongst the largest private educational institutes in Austria and was awarded the state award for adult education. It also conducts courses for the Austrian Employment Service to motivate and qualify people to make full use of their potentials in the economy, at the labour market and in their personal lives. die Berater’s New Media department develops educational architectures, provides tailor-made e-learning and mobile learning solutions and producesstate of the art e-learning content.
DENMARK, VIDENSCENTER FOR INTEGRATION (VIFIN)
Is a knowledge and research centre at the Municipality of Vejle established in 2002 to collect and process knowledge on integration, and to develop and implement integration projects and activities. It creates, disseminates and mainstreams good practice on integration and social development at the local, regional, national and international levels with the vision to be the leader in knowledge building, dialogue and innovation on integration and development.
GREECE, VARDAKEIOS
Is a language school and is experienced in organising language seminars for immigrants who want to learn Greek, to help them find a job and also to integrate in to the local society. The institute also organises seminars for local people who want to learn or improve English or want to learn a second foreign language. They have access to the project’s target groups.
IRELAND, ITT
Offers full-time and part-time courses from foundation level, to certificate, degree, post-graduate and doctoral level. It has two campuses, and a community of over 3,500 students and over 250 academic staff, consisting of a diverse mix of home, EU and overseas students. ITT has been at the forefront of learning and has gained a reputation as a centre of distinction for teaching, learning and research. The staff has many national and international networks that would be suitable to disseminate the core ideas of this project. They also have access to the target group. ITT oversees the evaluation of the games.
SPAIN, CENTRE FOR EDUCATION
Is a learning institution, providing education and training for children, youth and adults (often with a migrant background) in form of language courses, digital/ computer courses and key competence training to improve employability. Through its language and integration courses, the Centre is working in close collaboration with local and regional administration. The Centre has direct access to target groups.
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Why?
The International Labour Organization ranked medical professions as the second most vulnerable to violence in the workplace. This view is supported by the consortium’s pre-project research which saw a questionnaire disseminated to key stakeholders and received over 1000 responses. Results showed that only 5.9% respondents with previous patient contact said that they had never been verbally assaulted by patients and 62.5% were victims of physical assault by patients at least once.
What?
The chief goal of the project is to improve the workplace safety of healthcare professionals by increasing their skills and competences in dealing with difficult situations. To achieve this the project consortium will design and develop a complex multi-stakeholder, inter-disciplinary course for healthcare students, predominantly focused at paramedics and nurses. The didactic materials and project’s intellectual outputs will also be accessible to the rest of the health workforce such as physicians and physiotherapists.
How?
The project will develop an educational course which will result in an increase in the conflict management skills and knowledge of healthcare professionals. The course will create a uniform, comprehensive and complete programme applicable to all partner countries of the consortium, while also being adaptable enough for use in the rest of Europe and beyond. The majority of educational materials will be available online, free of charge, in the form of multimedia interactive materials realised in a Moodle format.
When?
The SAFEMEDIC project runs from November 2018 to October 2020.
Who?
• Wyzsza Szkola Ekonomii, Prawa i Nauk Medycznych im. prof. Edwarda Lipinskiego w Kielcach, Poland
• International Network for Health Workforce Education, Spain
• Institute of Technology Tralee, Ireland
• Vysoka Skola Zdravotnicka, Czech Republic
• Alma Mater Europaea-Evropski Center, Slovenia
• Kauno Kolegija/ University of Applied Sciences, Lithuania
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Project description
CORE project focuses on making improvements on the existing qualifications by identifying them in partner countries, improving them and matching a new joint curriculum. The project priorities are to make skills and competences more visible and comparable between different European countries.
At the same time, the project will increase the quality of education with a strong work-based component that also embeds OER learning and virtual transnational connections into the cook’s qualification. The aim is to improve the participating students’ international competences and language skills. Simultaneously the whole hospitality industry in Europe benefits from the project results as the professional cook’s competence and skills entity is identified, described and implemented in the European level.
This project is focused on developing a pilot version of a new virtual 360° web page featuring cook's competences, where all study programmes / specialisations are opened. The learning outcomes will be made as transparent as possible by using OER (e.g. open badges) approach for competences needed in the profession.
Target group
The primary target groups are students and teachers in VET as well as company representatives in the restaurant and catering sector.
Duration
28.12.2018 — 27.12.2020
Project manager
Oona Haapakorpi/Mika Heino, Omnia
Partners
Coordination: Omnia, Finland
Partners: Vamia (Finland), Ikaslan Gipuzkoa (Spain), Institute of Technology Tralee ITT (Ireland), Tartu Vocational College TKHK (Estonia)
Funding
Erasmus+ KA3 (European Commission)
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https://cookingforthefuture.net
WHO CAN BENEFIT?
If you are a member of security staff working in the police service, as a border guard or at the entrance point of a shelter for migrants and refugees the VOCAL IN NEED resources can help you to better interact with migrants, refugees and other foreign nationals who do not speak your language.
If you are a job coach / counsellor / educator / trainer working at an NGO or a non-profit organisation the VOCAL IN NEED resources will help you to overcome language and cultural challenges when dealing with migrants and refugees in situations where otherwise the help of an interpreter would be necessary.
If you are the manager of an agency offering services for migrants and refugees the VOCAL IN NEED online tools can help your staff mem-bers to improve their communication skills when dealing with people with different cultu-ral and linguistic background.
Please contact us to receive further informa-tion about the project:https://vocal.erasmus.site
WHY
The recent refugee crisis and increa-sing mobility both between EU member states and from other parts of the world poses a great challenge to security and agencies who are con-fronted with people with different cultural backgrounds and who do not speak the local language.
The VOCAL IN NEED project aims to bridge this linguistic and cultural gap by providing an online training course and an app for smartphones to better interact with migrants and refugees in the following contexts:
WHERE DO COMMUNICATION CHALLENGES OCCUR MOST?
The partnership has identified the following situations where the language and intercultural competences of security and agency staff should be improved:
WHAT?
The VOCAL IN NEED partners will develop, for example, the following results during the project lifetime:
WHEN
The VOCAL IN NEED project runs from October 2017 to September 2019.
In this period, the partners-hip will develop online training and an app for smartphones.
WHICH LANGUAGES?
The VOCAL IN NEED training materials will be available in the following languages:
Arabic, Bulgarian, English, German, Italian, Lithua-nian, Russian, Turkish.
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The core idea of the project Eco-SmaRT is to encourage local societies to get interested in eco-tourism. Our target groups are adults who decide on their mode to travel, travel agencies or companies providing tourism services (e.g. hotels and B&B) or local governments that have an influence on the development and exploitation of natural resources. We hope that the project will provide plenty of opportunity to encourage discussion and to have real influence on fostering sustainable development in tourism.
Adult learners, teachers, tutors, trainers from partners' countries will have an occasion to gain theoretical knowledge, and work together during blended-learning activities on case studies and provide other participants with their experience.
Further stakeholders are:
The objectives of the project are:
The main activities during the duration of the project will be:
If your institution wishes to join the project as a local partner please contact the project partner in your country and sign the le er of support. If you wish to join the project as a participant and be involved in the meeting of the local group and training please fill in participation form available on the project website and send via email to the contact person.
Developing a Project Management Tool for SMEs
The IPEC consortium is build up from a strong network of partners from different EU countries, all having extended experience and expertise on the topics of Project Management Methodologies and Gamification.
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This project reflects the views only of the author and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained herein.
IPEC will become the Project Management Tool small and micro companies are excited about to use.
IPEC makes the hard stuff in life fun!
As micro and small enterprises are rarely able to employ dedicated project managers, they often struggle with their project management. Most formal project management methodologies are just too costly and time intensive for their needs. Yet, research has shown that only 2,5% of the companies successfully complete 100% of their projects. This calls for action.
What is IPEC?
IPEC stands for Initiate, Plan, Execute and Close. The IPEC project plans to develop a new micro lite Project Management methodology, based on the needs of small and micro enterprises and using the IPEC cycle: Initiate, Plan, Execute and Close. Not only will IPEC develop this project management methodology, it will do so by applying Gamification. Gamification uses the typical elements of game playing (e.g. point scoring, competition with others, rules of play) to other areas of activity, typically as an online marketing technique to encourage engagement with a product or service.
By combining Project Management practices, ‘state of the art’ gamification technology and the latest blended learning techniques and practices, Project IPEC provides a solution that contributes to improved SME productivity and effective use of Project Management within young smaller enterprises and builds VET centre capability to support the use of micro-lite Project Management.
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‘Micro-sized and small companies need less bureaucratic more people-focused forms of Project Management, to facilitate the work of teams of generalists. Especially start-ups set up by individuals from Generation Y will be triggered by a gamification project management model.’
John Moore, Exponential Training UK
CES&L Project – Languages 4 Work
Agreement number 2015-1-IE02-KA203-000420
Supporting Language Graduates into successful careers.
Cooperation between students, academics, career services and graduate employers.
www.languages4work.eu
https://www.facebook.com/languages4work/
AHECS Employability module: https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/cll/about/cllteam/pmccash/ahecs_final_module_08_14.pdf
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Language fluency is critical for university graduates to secure work in the global workplace.
This project aims to enhance language students’ employability by engaging them in work related activities as part of their academic studies so they can optimize their career opportunities after graduation.
The CES&L project team is working with employers across Europe to seek their views on how HEI can support their students to be more employable and recognize the significance of their modern languages degree in today’s international job market. The views of the employers will shape the workshops which means the material will be up-to-date, and relevant tailored for each of the member countries. The main aim of this project is transferring the generic AHECS (Association of Higher Education Careers Services in Ireland) Employability module into the different target languages of international European partners and customize it for HE students of languages.
The current employability module that will be adapted consists of 8 workshops including introductions and aims for each workshop, comprehensive facilitator notes, clear methods, activities and timings, easy-to-use materials (activity sheets), learning outcomes and assessment strategies available both for in class and online work.
9 project partners in 7 countries:
Plur>E is a follow-on project from the ECML PlurCur project run within the Learning through Languages Programme from 2012-2015. The goal of the Plur>E project is to further develop the concept of a plurilingual, inclusive and intercultural whole school policy in secondary education in an international context. Partner schools from five European countries develop language-based projects and will implement and assess them based on the concept of plurilingual whole school curricula. The main target groups are learners and teachers, but the Plur>E project also involves school management and policy makers.
For more information on the PlurCur project go to the ECML website (www.ecml.at) and look at the PlurCur website: http://www.ecml.at/plurcur
A plurilingual, inclusive and intercultural whole school policy embraces all languages present at a given school: majority and minority, regional, heritage and neighbouring languages. Languages as subjects are taught in an inclusive way; language and non-language instruction overlap so that all subject teaching can also become language teaching. The languages used are those already present at a given institution. This can either mean that schools offer additional language courses in the students’ family languages and/or that teachers encourage learners to use the languages they bring to the school in their subjects for clarification, deeper understanding, exchange etc.
Classrooms all over Europe are becoming increasingly multilingual and multicultural. Teachers face the challenge of effectively incorporating the language skills that students already have into their lessons. A whole school language policy has the potential to contribute to new pedagogical and methodological approaches which could enhance the learning process of all students.
Project activities and outputs are based on current, on-going research in the fields of multilingualism/plurilingualism. Of special interest for the Plur>E project are studies on multilingual or metalinguistic awareness and the use of (foreign) languages for subject teaching (so-called CLIL approaches – content and language integrated learning). European intercomprehension, i.e. the use of prior language knowledge to learn new languages (e.g. the use of French to learn other Romance languages) is another interesting field of research that can inform Plur>E practice.
Expected outputs will include reports of the implementation of (aspects of) plurilingual whole school curricula by partner schools and best practice examples for plurilingual language-teaching collected during the lifetime of the project. Based on the experience gathered, recommendations on school development will be offered to school management and policy makers . In addition to this, Plur>E online modules for networking with existing and future partners will be created so that best practice examples can be shared with teachers, students, parents and school boards.
Partner schools
INTERMOVE project, funded within the framework of the Erasmus+ Programme, aims to prepare participants on EU mobility projects by the development and implementation of a new training pathway that will tackle two of the barriers to mobility:
What makes the INTERMOVE Training so Innovative?
INTERMOVE combines the intercultural preparation with the use of intercom- prehension in a blended training pathway that will include French, English, Portu- guese, Italian and Spanish as targeting languages.
Intercomprehension is a form of communicating in which a person uses his/her own language to understand the language used by the other person(s). This method gets immediately linked to Interculture (interaction between one or more cultures) as soon as concepts such as diversity, empathy and non-oral communication skills rise up: understand a language, understand a culture. This approach gives special importance to the comprehension (reading, listening) rather than the production (writing, speaking).
Target Groups
INTERMOVE aims to favour International Mobility for Training and Education purposes by the development of an open and collaborative learning pathway addressed to mentors dealing with pre-departure and upon-arrival preparation of trainees and students, providing them with resources for blended learning, e-learning and face to face training sessions.
If you are an institution active in mobility programmes such as VET institutions and schools, universities, Chamber of Commerce, NGOs or Youth Associations, INTERMOVE could be particularly useful for you!
Thanks to INTERMOVE, trainers will have access to innovative tools that will allow them to incorporate a methodology based on Intercomprehension and Intercultural approach. Trainers will acquire the expertise needed to prepare participants on mobility experiences, helping the latter individuals to better understand multicultural contexts and to interact in 5 different languages. This will become a reality by the implementation of:
The project work plan is organized in different activities each of which is important for the achievement of the targets set:
INCOMA, Spain (Coordinator)
Cap Ulysse, France
IFOA, Italy
Institute of Technology Tralee, Ireland
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
This Project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
The Vocal-Medical project will produce training materials and a tool to support communication in emergency situations where there is no common language and/or a need to bridge culture gaps between different healthcare systems.
If you are a doctor, nurse or member of the emergency services. The vocal medical resource can help you with the first physical examination of patients whose language you may not speak - and save precious time waiting for an interpreter.
If you are a manager or have responsibility for human resources or training in the medical sector. The vocal medical resource will help clinical and non-clinical staff overcome language and culture barriers in emergency situations.
If you a language teacher or trainer. You can use the vocal-medical resources to contextualise your teaching or to provide the correct translations of medical terminology needed by learners.
If you can help us contact any of the above. Please pass on information about the vocal medical project.
Whatever your interest. Please contact us to receive updates about the project.
Good communication is essential in the healthcare sector, where it can literally make the difference between life and death.
Increased mobility and demographic change mean that more and more healthcare situations involve people who do not share a common language or cultural background.
The project aims to bridge the language gap by providing language training materials and a translation support application focusing on key contexts where language barriers are most acute:
Needs analysis conducted by vocal-medical partners shows that the situation where help to overcome communication barriers is most needed are:
The vocal-medical project runs from February 2014 to February 2016. The prototype resources will be available for trialing from February 2015.
The vocal-medical resource covers the following languages with english:
The aim of RSGAE is to utilise mobile learning in cultural and language learning.
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15.11.2012 – 14.10.2015 (3 years)
A multi-country project to modernize curricula in sustainable tourism management (SuToMa) and develop a joint understanding about the principles of sustainability.
Tourism development is a regional priority for the Caucasus. Especially for Europeans it is a fascinating area with a rich cultural history and biodiversity. Well educated human resources are needed for sustainable regional development. Our perspective: Only a sustainable regional development within the tourism sector guarantees a long-term economic, social and ecological welfare for people and following generations. Partners 30 universities, enterprises and NGOs in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia. European partners in Ireland and Latvia, 2 representatives from CIM/GIZ.
Targets:
Development of 12 new modules for innovative topics which will be integrated into already existing curricula. Outcomes
Andrea Menn Gila Altmann Jade Hochschule Friedrich-Paffrath-Straße 101 D-26389 Wilhelmshaven Tel: +494421-985-2386 Mail: menn@jade-hs.de gila.altmann@jade-hs.de Website: www.sutoma.eu
LEONARDO DA VINCI Partnership Project
Project duration: 01.08.2012 – 31.07.2014
This project is designed to help the individual who is not yet) a professional trainer and public speaker. The focus is on the worker, teacher, supervisor, manager or brand new trainer who has to speak in front of an audience on a regular basis or train a group of individuals, make presentations at work, sell or introduce new products, etc; a task for which he or she has little prior experience.
To develop training course that will cover following subject:
Download the Brochure: Speak-Up
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Speak-UP/447168308664156?ref=hl
Project coordinator:
Fundacja Instytut Rozwoju Regionalnego i Przedsibiorczoci – Tenczynek, Poland, www.firrip.pl
Project Website: http://speakup.grenzenlos-europa.at/
Project Facebook Profile: https://www.facebook.com/SpeakUP.LLP
Partners
- Maison de la Promotion Sociale - Artigues-pr¿s-Bordeaux, France www.mps-aquitaine.org
- MGAURY Consultancy – Montagne, France
- Instititiúid Teicneolaíochta Trá Lí, ITT – Tralee, Ireland www.ittralee.ie
- GRENZENLOS INTERKULTURELLER AUSTAUSCH – Wien, Austria www.grenzenlos.or.at
A training concept by the Adult Education Centre of the District Freyung-Grafenau to qualify and integrate unemployed.
Target Group:
The training focuses on jobless people below 25, who want to get re-employed after a timeout. This training program is particularly aimed at job seekers with buy finance training, or related work experience, or specialists from all branches of trade, who want to update their knowledge and skills for today‘s requirements.
The theoretical instruction is carried out in the whole class and if necessary, in small groups. The near-the-job training is organized in teams, which operate si- milarly to departments in a company. The product, or the service, is the integration of participants in the primary labor market.
The training supervisor acts as manager. The individual teams are represented by the team leaders from the participant groups. The rotation of tasks and roles ensures that the learning effect and the experience are optimized for the indivi- duals. The combined personality training encourages the participants to reflect on the experience of team work and if need 50% near-the-job-training in team further training in key skills and modules relevant to the job 50% 3-5 members. The be, to make corrective changes in their own behavior.
Besides the three obliga- tory modules “Organization and Admini-stration”, “Research” and “Marketing”, further modules are offered as needed or depending on the individual team com- position, such as “Controlling”, “Human Resource Development” or “Innovation Management”.
Identify goals and skills improvement of qualification enhance the chances of integration get employed The participants learn to be responsible for others, become a team-player, support each other and solve tasks together. The training qualifies people who worked at branches of trade, administration as well as management and want to be re-employed.
English
Short:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3kpF1n21rM
Long:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwLCuCOm0hQ
TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeVp6XBIGwo
German
Short:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8Vtw3mUs6k
Long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6fjAfkxFwo
TV-Presentation:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ-1vMYVDWw
Italian
Short:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-21eX9shog
Long:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHImQhPUht8
Spanish
Short:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYT_XWvFwhY
Long:https://www.youtubecom/watch?v=BRQLMKRg_94
Polish
Short:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLQVVkMs61w
Long:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AMdM6Elx98
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Website link: http://www.leonardo-teamcoaching.de/
The EU co-funded Leonardo da Vinci TOI (Transfer of Innovation) project "Eurotraffic Language Training" focuses on the acquisition of basic communication skills in the road traffic sector. The main aim of the project is to develop clearly structured and audio-visually supported language learning material: a free web-based language course for linguistic preparation for mobility, for teaching workplace-related language at traffic and police schools and as language learning support to the professionals of the target sector. The course content is based on the evaluation of the needs analysis covering the main target groups.
Offer help to professionals in the traffic sector and frequent road travellers to communicate more efficiently in most frequent problem situationson the road;
Fill the gap in modern, cross-curricular vocationally oriented language teaching/learning materials by making the course applicable for integration into the curriculum; particularly into the new modules of the reformed VET (Vocational Educational Teaching) programs;
Respond to the needs of transport enterprises for time-saving and user-friendly language training course which can be used for guided learning or self-study and is accessible through internet anytime and anywhere.
Contractor: Srednja šola za gostinstvo in turizem Celje, Slovenia
Omnia, the Joint Authority of Education in Espoo Region, Finland
Srednja tehni¿ka prometna škola Split, Croatia
Institute of Technology Tralee, Ireland
Languages For Works: www.languagesforwork.eu.
Download the Brochure: ETRALT Euro Traffice Language Training
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
October 2010 - August 2012: EU Lifelong Learning Programme - (Grundtvig Learning Partnership) X-TREAT Improving Communication and Social Skills by Theatre Education for Single Parents project - ITT is the quality manager.
For further information please contact Kristin Brogan or Sharon Phelan: sharon.phelan@staff.ittralee.ie.
Overall objectives:
1. to help provide adults - particularly from disadvantaged groups - with pathways to improving their knowledge and competencies.
2. to help facilitate the development of innovative practices in adult education and their transfer, including from a participating country to others;
3. to contribute to the improving of pedagogical approaches and the management of adult education organizations.
Specific objectives:
1. to provide trainers and other adult education staff from partners' countries with the opportunity to exchange experience and information on the effectiveness of a various modern non-traditional methods like drama techniques (both in theoretic and practice aspects) and other issues related to adults informal education
2. to develop a creative training kit for adults informal education in art and drama, containing methods and approaches which meet the target groups' particular needs (especially for single parents from different disadvantaged groups) and which will make learning more interesting, increase the motivation of learners and their responsibility for learning, improve self-esteem, reduce adult learners anxiety, stress affective component of learning.
3. to test and put into practice new organizational and pedagogical approaches at the level of partner organizations.
Target groups include a wide range of people (with different ethnic, educational, earnings and lifestyle background) having in common a particularity that lead them (more or less, according to their background) to a loss of self esteem and self worth: the status of single parent.
Due to this "label" that is still a stigma, even in this XXI Century global society they are increasingly in danger of isolation even within their own communities and this status became a serious obstruction in their self development and civic involvement.
Activities developed with the learners consist of training sessions in personal development in each partner's country drama courses and a performance integrally produced (from writing screenplay to the final show) by learners, in different ways each partner chooses.
The training modules in developing communication skills, creative writing and drama will combine the skills of trainers and facilitators from all partners' countries, which means that a wide range of tools will be used, including participatory arts, neuro-linguistic programming and other specific tools (role plays, simulations, introspection etc).
The partnership focuses on the active involvement of our learners in all phases of the project, from the analysis of needs to the dissemination phase and to the exploitation of results of the project - on the second place being pedagogical and management issues. The educational approach will be experiential in a non-formal and informal context exploring and using the existing skills and talents of the participants & developing, as necessary, appropriate new skills.
The European element is a key component. For those whose lives have been limited by lack of external experience this European project helps them see that they and their actions have a value well beyond the local. The improved sense of well-being and personal significance develops capacity and produces positive actions of benefit both for the individual and their local society.
At the level of our target groups the project will have a considerable impact, so at the end of the project all learners involved will have:
All participants will also increase their sense of personal control, a greater understanding of the value of creative activity, a greater ability to manage external situations & understanding of specific social & environmental issues. Other concrete results:
IWUE - innovativ wirken und entwickeln - im Bildungsbereich, Austria (co-ordinator)
EVROPAIKO INSTITUTO SHESEON & SYNERGASIAS, Greece
Institute of Technology Tralee, Ireland
LUETEB: European third age University of Basilicata Region, Italy
Foundation Institute for Regional and Entrepreneurship Development, Poland
Asociatia Pro Xpert, Romania
SOS RACISMO GRANADA, Spain
X-Treat: http://www.x-treat.eu
October 2010 - Sep 2012: e-TALIA Innovative Training Approach in Languages and Intercultural Awareness for the Hospitality and Leisure Sectors; EU Lifelong Learning Programme - Leonardo da Vinci (Transfer of Innovation)
The project aims at providing a distinctive curriculum and a flexible mode of delivery to develop language and intercultural training skills within the training constraints facing SMEs, their employees and also trainees in the Hospitality and Leisure sectors. The project also seeks to provide an innovative training model and resources for blended e-learning by flexibly integrating a variety of learning tools and modes into a seamless learning package.
This project seeks to address the need for a greater understanding of specific linguistic and intercultural needs and organisational culture, especially the learning culture within SMEs at European level. The project aims at providing a distinctive curriculum and a flexible mode of delivery to develop language and intercultural training kits within the training constraints facing SMEs, their employees and also trainees in the Hospitality and Leisure sectors.
The project also seeks to provide an innovative training model and resources for blended e-learning by flexibly integrating a variety of learning tools and modes into a seamless learning package. The output will be a language course at A1 level aiming to be certified using ECVET. The partnership will localise and test materials in their national contexts.
The partnership includes organizations from FE and HE, sectoral associations and an Advisory Group formed by SMEs and/or their representatives from the Hospitality and Leisure sectors.
All the target groups will participate in a thorough country-based needs analysis leading to the first outcome of the project: a mapping report of the specific language and cultural awareness needs. They will also be essential in the piloting and dissemination of the project products. All partners have extensive networks for dissemination activities, regionally, nationally and internationally.
The intended impact of e-TALIA will be a greater understanding and awareness of the language and intercultural needs of two very important service sectors in the partner countries, better skilled industry staff through an innovative training model providing flexibility of delivery and including various learning styles to make it user friendly and motivating. The project will also contribute to the competitiveness of the Hospitality and Leisure industries, support employment opportunities and facilitate mobility by providing non-formal learning accreditation based on ECVET.
Themes
Sectors
Product
Product information Website, Industry survey report and mapping, needs analysis questionnaires, new open and distance learning (blended) template and curricula, learning materials for blended learning in language and intercultural awareness, evaluation methods, user guides, transparency and certification, piloting and evaluation of courses, materials and certification reports, Quality procedures and policies, Brochures, newsletters, workshops, paper/poster publications.
Coventry University, UK (co-ordinator)
SPACE European Network For Business Studies and Languages, Belguim
Zweckverband Volkshochschule Passau, Germany
Institute of Technolgy Tralee, Ireland
Global Village Sp. z o.o., Poland
FLORIDA CENTRE DE FORMACIÓ, CV, Spain
CV One Ltd, UK
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e-Talia: www.e-talia.net
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READY-STUDY-GO-AHEAD (2009-2011) will continue and transfer the innovation of the earlier Leonardo Language project for linguistic and cultural coaching for initial vocational education.
READY-STUDY-GO-AHEAD (2009-2011)
The aim of the READY-STUDY-GO-AHEAD (2009-2011) is to transfer the innovation to three new languages, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. This project will create both general language package in the three languages and sector specific package for Hotel and restaurant field in Spanish and Turkish. In addition the original innovation will be transferred to the vehicle sector. This transfer was planned already during the READY-STUDY-GO 2005-2008 project by monitoring partner. The vehicle package will be created for Estonian, Finnish, French, Swedish and German. As a transfer of innovation, the aim of the project is also to pilot new methods of learning, namely promoting social web (blogs and wikis) which are not platform depending, as well as using interactive tools in project work (WebEx and Moodle).
During the project the main target groups are language teachers and vocational teachers. The language and cultural training material is intended to be used by vocational students for their on-the-job learning period and on-the-job learning coaches and companies which have international employees. Also the employees of the on-the-job learners will be able to use the material in their personnel training.
The material is developed by teams of vocational and language teachers. This enables development of language teaching integrated with vocational content. The partners in the project are experts in their own field of education and all actors have solid experience in trans-national projects and also in the dissemination of the result of the project. The general working language of the project network is English.
The objective of the project is to improve the cross-cultural skills of the people involved in vocational education. At the same time the aim is to increase the volume of mobility creating high quality coaching tools for vocational fields. In this way the project addresses the Life Long Learning and Leonardo programme objectives directly.
X-Treat: http://www.x-treat.eu
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The aim of the MOLAN network is to bring about, on a large scale, a positive attitude among young Europeans in formal education towards the learning of foreign languages as well as towards other peoples and cultures.
The emphasis of the MOLAN network is on
The MOLAN network is based on the assumption that MOTIVATION can be enhanced by institutional and system-based policies, strategies and practices.
MOLAN is built on case studies of successful policies, strategies and practices with a view to sharing good practice across Europe.
MOLAN Stage I (2007-2008)
MOLAN Stage II (2008-2009)
MOLAN Stage III (2009-2010)
The MOLAN Closing Conference will be held in Brussels at the begining of 2011.
The MOLAN network partnership includes
more than 40 higher education institutions and schools in 24 European countries and four major European and national organisations:
The results of MOLAN stage will be presented for discussion at a European conference on the theme of ' Which languages for Europe and Europeans in an era of globalisation? '
Brussels, 5-6 December 2008
Information will be posted on the MOLAN website as well as the website of the CEL/ELC (www.celelc.org).
The MOLAN network project is carried out with the support of the European Commission within the framework of Key Activity 2 – Languages of the Lifelong Learning Programme.
ITT is a project partner.
MOLAN Management Committee
Wolfgang Mackiewicz, Freie Universität Berlin, DE (coordinator)
Marc Durando, European Schoolnet, BE
(deputy coordinator)
Anne-Claude Berthoud, CEL/ELC
Arthur Mettinger, Universität Wien, AT
Ineta Savickiene, Vytauto Didžijo universitetas, LT
Daniel Toudic, Université de Haute Bretagne, Rennes II, FR
Piet Van de Craen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE
MOLAN Evaluation Board
Maurizio Viezzi, Università degli Studi di Trieste, IT (chair)
Brian Fox, European Commission, DG for Interpretation
Annie Lhérété, Ministère de l’éducation nationale, FR
Régis Ritz, European University Association (EUA)
Richard Whewell, University of Strathclyde, UK
MOLAN project office
ZE Sprachenzentrum
Freie Universität Berlin
Habelschwerdter Allee 45
D-14195 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 838 53718
Fax: +49 30 838 53717
MOLAN coordinator
Wolfgang Mackiewicz
erasmspr@zedat.fu-berlin.de
MOLAN deputy coordinator
Marc Durando
marc.durando@eun.org
MOLAN manager
Dieter Jirmann-Heidl,
jirmann@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Web Addresses:
www.molan-network.org
Summary of case studies about how to motivate learners to study languages:
http://www.molan.info/
http://www.languagesinireland.ie/
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ITT was the coordinator of this project with a very large partnership.
The VOCAL project (www.vocalproject.eu) follows the method and structure of the earlier successful EU project entitled Problem SOLVE (www.problemsolve.org). The main topics included are Travel, Accommodation, Socialising, Emergencies, at Work. The new feature in the VOCAL materials is an additional LSP (Language for Specific Purposes) component relating to Business, Tourism, Banking & Services, Engineering. The easily accessible and user-friendly materials are web-based and users are provided with both general and technical language relating to the virtual situations they may encounter. Useful logistical and cultural information for each host country is also provided.
Learners preparing for mobility placement in vocational settings are the main target group addressed. The VOCALproject is based on preparation for student mobility placement abroad. The preparation offered is on the level of both practical language skills and cultural awareness related to vocational training settings. This linguistic and cultural preparation is achieved by means of a virtual journey which can be undertaken by prospective mobility students accessing the materials on the user-friendly website.
The web-based packages take cognisance of the various learning styles and the interactive materials provide an autonomous learning environment incorporating authentic contemporary situations in an outside classroom environment.
In advance of designing the on-line materials, the VOCAL partners issue various student work placement cohorts with questionnaires in order to gain feedback from mobility students. The purpose is to ensure that the materials generated are relevant and based on student needs. The content, virtual tours, questions and quizzes are thoroughly researched and prepared by native speakers and tested by mobility cohorts.
The on-line materials generated by the project are bilingual (i.e. designed in the target language of each partner country and also available in English). These materials consist of language and cultural exercises which require students to actively engage in practical problem solving via a virtual journey of a placement abroad. This preparation tool encourages students to interactively troubleshoot any potential challenges they may encounter while training in a different country. A principle aim of these pre-departure modules is to facilitate improvement of student language skills as well as enable acquiring cultural and practical knowledge of their host country, with specific reference to the topics of Travel, Accommodation, Socialising, Emergencies, Working abroad and the LSP components relating to Business, Tourism, Banking & Services, Engineering.
This project is a practical and innovative pedagogic response to the need for language and cultural preparation in advance of placement abroad. It aims to provide mobility beneficiaries with a practical and useful preparation tool for their placements and contribute to a successful integration process whereby learners can maximise linguistically and culturally. Knowledge of modern languages means greater mobility, multilingualism being a core value in Europe and one of the unique qualities contributing to its richness and diversity.
The VOCAL project partnership consists of 10 European countries, 12 partners, 11 languages including Irish.
Ireland (3 partners), Bulgaria, Germany, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovakia, Switzerland.
Details of the partners may be located on the VOCAL website
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READY-STUDY-GO 2005-2008 was a LEONARDO DA VINCI: Language project which planned and created e-learning packages for language and cultural training for an on-the-job learning period. The project was initiated by Omnia – The Joint Authority of Education in Espoo Region in Finland. The coordinating partner had six educational partners in six countries, one monitoring partner and company partners in target countries. The language and cultural training material package were produced in Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Italian.
The material created during the project consists of general language training package related to each participating country’s culture and of sector specific language and culture training package. The sector specific language and cultural training material was developed for the hotel, restaurant and bakery sectors. The material consists of several different types of exercises combining professional and general vocabulary with cultural coaching and information on the work culture.
The on-line material created in the project will consist of different learning, writing, pronunciation and listening exercises. Different learning styles (VARK=visual, auditive, reading/ writing, kinestetic) are considered by the material.
The language and cultural training material will be developed for the Hotel, Restaurant, Tourism and Bakery Sector. There is also a monitoring partner for the Automotive Sector in this project. This partner will monitor and report on the possibilities of adapting the on-line material to the various sectors.
The language and cultural training material package will be produced in English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Italian.
End users of the material
The language and cultural training material is intended for use by vocational students preparing for their on-the-job learning period, on-the-job learning coaches and companies which have international employees.
For further information please contact:
Kristin Brogan
Leonardo Co-ordinator
Email: - Kristin.Brogan@staff.ittralee.ie
http://www.readystudygo-project.net/
http://www.rsgo.eu/
http://www.languagesinireland.ie/
ITT was the Quality Manager in this project.
The P R O B L E M S O L V E project will design and test a multi-lingual, multi-cultural preparation module for students undertaking mobility placements in vocational training. The module will consist of language and cultural exercises in problem solving via a virtual journey of a placement abroad. This preparation tool will encourage students to interactively troubleshoot potential challenges they may encounter while training in a different country. The pre-departure module will facilitate students in increasing language skills as well as cultural and practical knowledge of their host country. The partners of this project are from Germany, Spain, Italy, Slovakia, Sweden & Ireland.
Background
This project has been developed through feedback from Mobility Co-ordinators at Hibernia Learning Partnership’s Mobility Meeting in September 2002. Representatives of a network of 21 institutes of higher education participating in mobility placements indicated a need for a preparation tool for students undertaking placements abroad. Deficiencies in language skills relating to practical issues and culturally biased problem-solving abilities were identified as key areas for development. National Priorities reflect the need for these tools through Priority 2, citing national focus for language competency projects concentrating on “Vocationally Oriented Learning�. At European level, the need for projects such as this one is described in the e-learning aims for 2004-2006.
A Learning Environment: The CD-ROM
PROBLEM SOLVEwill address the mobility-preparation needs described above through a virtual journey developed on a user-friendly CD-Rom. Users will be led through a variety of real life problematic situations relating to: travel, accommodation, socialising, working abroad and emergencies. The programme will be interactive as the student will be required to employ and develop problem-solving skills relating to each category. The programme will also provide technical language relating to the virtual situations as well as useful logistical and cultural information for each host country.
Mobility co-coordinators in each partner country will survey their current group of students on placement. The survey will question students on the following:
The research will ensure that problems used in the virtual circumstances cover a variety of challenges. In addition to the surveys, each partner country will research orientation, cultural and language preparation for their country. This will lead to the provision of logistical information relating to each sub-topic. Partners will then meet to develop a tutorial for each country. The tutorial will be tested by Leonardo Da Vinci Mobility students in each partner country.
Prior to departure for a placement abroad, the test students will be guided through a learning environment specific to their host country, including virtual circumstances and background information on each of the sub-topics. Under each sub-topic (travel, accommodation, socialising, working abroad and emergencies) the student will be required to complete a tutorial, including essential practical vocabulary in the language of the host company.
The students will be required to overcome a variety of problematic situations with added cultural nuances. The student will have to solve the problems using the language skills gained in the tutorial. Some problems will emphasise the use of language while others will highlight cultural differences with specific focus on differences in work cultures.
Students will complete a post-placement questionnaire to assess the impact of the preparation module. Feedback from test students will be incorporated into the tutorials.
A dissemination plan will be developed to the greatest possible no. of people to use the CD Rom and to identify potential users outside the partnership. A sustainability plan will be drafted to incorporate use of the CD-Rom into formal preparation procedures for mobility placements. It has been shortlisted by Leargas for the "European Award for Languages 2004"
The partners of this project are from Germany, Spain, Italy, Slovakia, Sweden & Ireland. European Language Award 2006.
Quality management of foreign language teaching at third level institutions within the European framework
The aim of this project is to put together teaching material in different languages, and shall also take European cultural diversity into account. It further aims to cover more than one discipline of study. Quality assurance and quality improvement are targeted by this study within the context of language teaching which is at least of European standard.
Within the framework of this project the following aims are targeted:
Specifically learners with some knowledge of foreign languages, who wish to continue their language learning within third level institutions or adult education. The acquisition of the target language (German or English) should be made easier with the help of the developed teaching material. Lecturers, who are teaching within the area of history, economics and political science, should also benefit from using this material.
Analysis of the requirements of the current situation of each partner institution, collection of teaching material, development of innovative teaching material, testing of material in foreign language classes, partner meetings and tandem meetings, setting up of a website.
Expected results: Teaching materials for foreign language classes, handbook, CD-Rom, worksheets, project documentation and evaluation.