SDE
is one of the
largest technical
colleges in Denmark.
The college has
5,000 FTE students
and the number of
staff is about 830.
The college consists
of a vocational
school, a senior
high school and an
academy of higher
education. The
vocational school
covers nine branches
(production, ICT,
transport,
logistics,
construction, media,
health, service and
service industry).
The
students of the VET
school have a diverse
cultural and educational
background due to an
allocation of different
nationalities, ethnic
minorities, different
cultures, in the area.
SDE
has done a lot in order
to integrate students
with different
backgrounds into
vocational education
e.g. mentor
arrangements, flexible
training models,
cooperation with other
schools, parents,
enterprises and social
partners. Further, the
college has carried out
comprehensive competence
development of teachers
and managers.
Since
1992, the college has
participated in a large
number of national and
international projects
as partner and in many
cases as coordinator.
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Role and main tasks in
the project
SDE
will coordinate the
project and is
responsible for the
instructional videos,
dissemination of results
outside the partnership,
overall dissemination,
website, promotion
material, compiling and
editing newsletters,
brochures, graphical
layout, running the
pilot courses in
Denmark, running online
courses through WebHeads,
and testing outputs with
students.
SDE
has an international
department, which is
responsible for running
the economical
management of projects.
In the proposed project
the department manager
Ole Bech Kristensen will
be in charge of the
project financial
management checking
documentation and
eligibility of occurred
costs from the project
partnership. The
department will set up a
dedicated project
account system within
the SDE administration
so all cost types can
easily be retrieved,
documented, and
monitored.
SDE
will exploit key
technical development
competencies of
computing and teaching
staff in the college for
assisting SMO, the
Scottish partner with
the software development
SDE
teacher trainers
experienced in action
learning principles and
computer assisted
language learning will
together with our
associated partner NCE (Nationalt
Center for
Erhvervspædagogik) offer
courses across Denmark
on how to use the
project outputs in a
CLIL context with
participants from VET
colleges, but also from
language centres
(immigrant and refugee
courses).
Together
with UCL (University
College Lillebaelt) we
will run courses for
teacher students, and
in-service course for
teachers from Grundvig
and Comenius sectors.
We will
in cooperation with
EUC-Lillebaelt run VET
teacher courses covering
Funen, Southern- and
Middle Jutland.
SDE
will through our network
ensure national
dissemination of the
project results and
findings and will make
use of our international
dissemination networks,
e.g. EfVET and EuroCall.
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Contact persons
Kent
Andersen
ka@sde.dk
Tel. +4540797720 +45
63126500
Website:
www.sde.dk
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University of Southern
Denmark (SDU) is an
institution of higher
research and education
with more than 20,000
students and
approximately 4,000
employees. It has five
academic faculties,
offers teaching and
research at 6 campuses
and is cooperation
partner for both public
and private businesses
and organisations for
providing qualified
labour.
The
Faculty of Humanities is
the largest faculty at
the SDU with more
than 640 full- and part
time staff and more than
5.000 students on roll.
As a part of its
teaching portfolio, the
faculty offers three
joint degrees in Arabic,
combined with
business administration,
communication studies
and intercultural
pedagogy, respectively.
After graduation the
students of Arabic have
a wide number of options
for continuing their
studies at the masters
level, be it in the
field of their
specialization or new
programs such as e.g.
Middle Eastern Studies.
The number of
students of Arabic at
the SDU has risen
considerably since
1999-2000, and today
Arabic is one of the
major foreign languages
taught at the
university, next only to
English. The Arabic
programs attract
students with a very
diverse cultural
background: roughly, one
third of them are Danes,
one third are of Arab
descend and one third
are of various immigrant
background, such as
Turkish, Pakistani,
American or Scandinavian
origin. The diverse
student body is due,
among other things, to
the communicative
profile of the programs,
which focuses on
proficiency skills and
contemporary Arab
societies, and thus
corresponds closely to
the demand of the labor
market.
The teaching of Arabic
lacks far behind other
foreign or second
languages when it comes
to language tools such
as dictionaries,
encyclopedias or even
basis language teaching
material, be it in print
or digitalized.
Therefore, it will be
most useful to adapt the
proposed tools of the
project to the field of
Arabic.
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Role and main tasks in
the project
The Arabic staff at SDU
will test the tools
developed by the
project, and once they
are operative, integrate
them into the
pedagogical approach of
teaching and learning
communicative Arabic,
not only at the SDU, but
also to a range of
Scandinavian and
European universities,
as described in the list
of associated partners.
This includes
dissemination of
produced information
material to the Arabic
profession in general,
presenting the tools and
the pedagogical approach
at a number of
workshops, and writing
articles in relevant
journals and
newsletters.
SDU
has participated in more
than 100 EU-projects
over the last years and
has
therefore an extensive
experience in
implementing and
administration of such
projects. Each
international project is
given a specific account
number so all expenses
are stored under that
account and can easily
be retrieved for
documentation and
reporting. The person in
charge of running the
economical management of
the project at SDU will
be Mrs. Kirsten Dige
Larsen at the Institute
for History and
Civilizations.
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Contact person
Helle Lykke Nielsen
email:
hln@language.sdu.dk
Website:
www.sdu.dk
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UPV is one of the 4
technical universities
in Spain and offers
degrees in all branches
of Engineering,
Architecture,
Agriculture, Computer
Science, Business
Management, etc. as well
as Fine Arts. UPV is
composed of 15 Faculties
covering 41 degrees with
over 37.000 registered
students, and 44
departments with
approximately 2500
members of teaching
staff. It has a body of
1500 staff members in
administration and
services. The project
will be ascribed to the
Department of Applied
Linguistics to which the
staff members
participating in this
project belong. The
Department is composed
of 101 members of
teaching staff covering
7 modern languages
(English, Spanish as a
Foreign Language,
German, French, Catalan,
Italian, Chinese) that
are taught at all 15
faculties. It has its
own dedicated CALL
multimedia labs. with
over 100 networked
computers as well as an
audiovisuals room to
watch over 1000
available DVDs and
videos.
The
Department also has a
Master’s Degree and
Doctorate Programme,
“Languages and
Technology”, comprising
a range of 20 subjects
dealing with various
fields in the area of
Applied Linguistics,
including CALL.
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Role and main tasks in
the project
The
CAMILLE Research Group*,
led by Prof. Ana Gimeno,
which has 18 years’
experience in CALL
research, development
and practice, will
provide its expertise in
ICT and language
learning. Additionally,
as Dr. Gimeno is
currently President of
the European Association
for Computer-Assisted
Language Learning
(EUROCALL)
https://www.eurocall-languages.org,
this professional
association will provide
channels to disseminate
the project outcomes
amongst its membership
and beyond. The project
outcomes will also be
advertised and
disseminated through the
EURODIS website,
a website that has been
created specifically to
disseminate ICT-based
KA2 – Languages
projects. As Ana Gimeno
is also editor-in-chief
of EUROCALL’s
peer-reviewed online
journal, The EUROCALL
Review, the project
and its outcomes will be
widely advertised and
announced via the
journal, as well as
through the EUROCALL
website and discussion
list.
Financially, UPV’s share
will be managed by the
University’s Innovation,
Research and Technology
Transfer Support Centre.
A dedicated Cost Centre
will be established to
receive and administer
the project funds.
Expenditure from the
Cost Centre will be
supervised by UPV’s
Central Finance
Department.
*CAMILLE stands for
Computer-Assisted
Multimedia Interactive
Language Learning
Environment
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Contact person
Ana Gimeno
email:
agimeno@upvnet.upv.es
Website:
https://www.upv.es
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Marijampole VET Centre
is the biggest
vocational institution
in the South of
Lithuania, taking in all
5 Municipalities of the
region. The centre was
made after joining up
five independent
Vocational Training
schools, which nowadays
function as five
departments, preparing
specialists of different
kinds. They vary from
secretaries, florists,
cooks, waiters,
bartenders, dressmakers
in Services Department
to specialists in the
field of construction,
metal mechanization,
vehicle fitting and
etc. The main activity
of the centre is
vocational education and
training of young
people, but we are
involved in adult (or
unemployed) training and
re-training as well.
Marijampole VET Centre
has a Department in
prison, where it is
involved in training
people who are serving
their sentence. At
present there are more
than 2000 students whose
age varies from 15 to
20.
The
teaching staff consists
of 200 persons, which
are profession teachers
and general subjects’
teachers. In December
2006 after the
accreditation procedure,
Marijampole VET Centre
was given the status of
gymnasium. 28
professional teaching
programs are run at VET
centre. Marijampole VET
Centre is constantly
involved in activities
concerning raising
literacy of our
students. The Centre is
specifically interested
in high level of
language knowledge for
students, because this
is needed for their
placement abroad.
Marijampole VET Centre
is a member of the EfVET
and is part of many EU
networks. During ten
years of existing Centre
participated in 35
international projects.
MPRC has Development
Department, which is
responsible for EU
funded projects. It has
been involved in several
projects under LLP label
each year and has good
experience in managing
both- content and
financial part. Rasa
Zygmantaite, who is Head
of this Department will
a member of staff in
this application. The
department cooperates
very closely to the
Accountancy office of
MPRC, which is
experienced in dealing
with the financial
requirements of
international projects.
The project “Stop the
War on the Roads”,
implemented by MPRC
Development Department,
won the Quality Award
2008 by Lithuanian
Leonardo da Vinci
National Agency and was
presented in Leonardo da
Vinci 15th
Anniversary conference
in Brussels in November
2010.
All inner orders and
work agreements are run
by the Personnel office
of MPRC, all work hours
are calculated by a
specially appointed
accountant, which is
responsible for wages
calculation (Mrs. Lilija
Gumauskiene).
The staff of Development
Department is competent
in language teaching,
management and IT, and
they are part of the
foreseen staff of the
project. Jolita Lepsiene,
a teacher/expert of the
English language as well
as other teachers will
be actively involved in
updating as well as
testing the methods.
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Role and main tasks in
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In this project
in-service courses will
be offered by Lithuanian
partners to teachers of
MPRC and to Marijampole
English Teachers’
Methodology Council. The
material will be
disseminated to our
associated project
partners and networks in
Lithuania:
LIPRIA
(Lithuanian Association
of Innovative Schools,
75 schools); Marijampole
College Pedagogical
Department, which
educates English
language teachers for
secondary schools; The
Language Teachers'
section of Department of
Education of Marijampole
and
Marijampole English
Teachers’ Methodology
Council.
The material will be
presented in its Monthly
meetings, participation
in various seminars,
etc.
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Contact person
Rasa Zygmantaitė
email:
rasazyg@zebra.lt
Website:
www.mprc.lt
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EUROCALL (https://www.eurocall-languages.org)
is a professional
association that was
formally established and
launched in 1993 with
the support of the
European Commission. In
September that year,
EUROCALL gathered CALL
practitioners,
developers, and
researchers from over 30
countries at its first
international
conference, which was
hosted by the University
of Hull in the UK.
Since 1993, EUROCALL has
become a
well-established leading
organisation whose main
aims are primarily to
aid in advancing
education by promoting
the use of foreign
languages within Europe
and by providing a
European focus for the
promulgation of
innovative research,
development and practice
in the area of
computer-assisted
language learning, and
technology-enhanced
language learning in
education. EUROCALL is
highly committed to
facilitating knowledge
transfer through special
interest meetings,
annual conferences and
staff mobility
arrangements, as well as
disseminating
theoretical and
practical findings
through its two
publications, The
EUROCALL Review
and the ReCALL
Journal -published three
times yearly by
Cambridge University
Press. Over 300 academic
articles have seen the
light in the existing 23
volumes.
Since its launch in
1993, EUROCALL has
organised 18 conferences
in 15 different
countries throughout
Europe; from France to
Hungary, and from
Finland to Spain. The
conferences have
attracted a regular core
of participants normally
ranging between 300 and
350. Our membership,
which has steadily
grown, is comprised of
individuals and
institutions from 35
different countries from
the five continents. The
diversity of languages
and cultures represented
within EUROCALL
contribute towards its
true assets, i.e.
richness in scope,
international
co-operation and belief
in progress and
advancement. EUROCALL is
therefore an excellent
means of channelling
synergies leading
towards setting up joint
ventures.
EUROCALL is run by its
11-member Executive
Committee although its
membership contributes
to the association’s
policy and business
through its Annual
General Meeting.
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Role and main tasks in
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EUROCALL’s role in this
project will
fundamentally be related
to dissemination
activities both for the
project, as well as its
outcomes. The funding
received will be managed
from the association’s
headquarters at the
University of Ulster (Coleraine,
Northern Ireland).
EUROCALL’s accounts are
audited each year by an
external auditor.
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Contact person
Toni Patton
email:
eurocall@ulster.ac.uk
Website:
https://www.eurocall-languages.org/
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Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (www.smo.uhi.ac.uk)
is a cross-sectoral
educational and cultural
institution with a
specific remit for
Scottish Gaelic. It
offers a range of
Further Education
courses and summer
schools, and supports
uncertificated Gaelic
learning opportunities
at community level. As
Scotland's Gaelic
College it is the main
provider of distance
learning courses and
materials to students
across the
world. Although
Skye-based it works with
partners to support
Gaelic and community
development in other
locations, including
technical and applied
linguistic expertise to
aid Cothrom's (www.cothrom.net)
bilingual training
programme in the Uists.
In partnership with the
University of the
Highlands and Islands (www.uhi.ac.uk),
it also delivers Higher
Education programmes at
undergraduate and
postgraduate level.
The
college has a record of
successful participation
in European partnership
projects, having worked
alongside SDE in the
POOLS and POOLS-T
projects in which
precursor methods,
materials, and software
programs were developed
and trialled, winning a
2007 European Award for
Languages and a 2009
Award for Innovation and
Creativity in Lifelong
Learning.
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Role and main tasks in
the project
The
main responsibility of
the college in this
project is software
development, utilising
the expertise of
Caoimhín Ó Donnaíle
(SMO
expert on PHP and
JavaScript programming,
and original developer
of the online Wordlink
and Multidict tools). In
addition the college
will integrate the
project outcomes in its
programme of community
partnership with a local
training provider (Cothrom)
and community newspaper
(Am Pàipear –
www.ampaipear.org),
building on its
award-winning Island
Voices project (https://guthan.wordpress.com).
Administratively, the
project will be placed
within the college’s
Department of Teaching,
Learning, and Quality
Improvement and overseen
by the Head of
Department, with the
college’s Finance
Department taking
responsibility for
financial reporting.
A dedicated Cost Centre
will be established to
receive and administer
SMO's share of the
project funds.
Expenditure from the
Cost Centre will be
clearly documented
through the college's
Prior Approval System.
The college publishes
monthly summary accounts
for all Cost Centres
which are signed by the
designated budget
holder.
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Contact person
Gordon Wells
email:
sm00gw@groupwise.uhi.ac.uk
Website:
www.smo.uhi.ac.uk
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Ulster is a university
with a national and
international reputation
for excellence,
innovation and regional
engagement. Its core
business activities are
teaching and learning,
widening access to
education, research and
innovation and
technology and knowledge
transfer. Ulster’s
course provision is the
largest on the island of
Ireland, with a staff of
over 3,000 serving c.
15,600 full-time and
4,760 part-time students
on four campuses in
Belfast, Derry,
Coleraine and
Jordanstown.
The School of
Languages, Literatures
and Cultures at Ulster
provides language
training at
undergraduate diploma &
degree level and
postgraduate diploma &
degree level. The
School’s main languages
are Irish, French,
Spanish, German and
Chinese, with Irish
being the largest, in
terms of both student
and staff numbers.
A dedicated Cost Centre
will be established to
receive and administer
Ulster’s share of the
project funds.
Expenditure from the
Cost Centre on
dissemination activities
will be clearly
documented through the
University’s Prior
Approval System. The
University publishes
monthly summary accounts
for all Cost Centre’s
which are signed by the
designated budget
holder.
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Role and main tasks in
the project
During the project
Ulster will be involved
in: the development and
testing cycle for the
authoring and hosting
service; the creation of
learning units for Irish
Gaelic-Scottish Gaelic,
and Irish-English;
dissemination within the
UK and ROI; and the
design of a pedagogical
model with UPV to
support integration of
the materials into
language curricula at a
range of learner levels.
Ulster will offer
training workshops to
key language
practitioners in the
primary, post-primary
and Further/Higher
education sectors in the
UK and Ireland and
present research papers
at major language/CALL
conferences. Outreach to
all sectors in Ireland
will be achieved by
utilizing Ulster’s
excellent links with
colleagues in the main
university and teacher
training colleges. These
links have been
established through a
related collaborative
project i.e. the
creation of a syllabus
and support materials
for Irish at third level
(hosted online at
www.teagascnagaeilge.ie).
Editorials relating to
TOOLS will be targeted
at teachers in the
primary and post-primary
sectors through trade
union and professional
body magazines e.g.
InTouch, AISTIR and
Termtalk. Dissemination
in the UK will be
bolstered by offering a
workshop at the
University of
Southampton’s annual
eLearning Conference
which is attended by a
broad range of language
teachers.
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Contact person
Caoimhín Ó Dónaill
email:
c.odonaill@ulster.ac.uk
www.ulster.ac.uk
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Universidade de Évora
is a Higher Education Institution with around 8.000 students
and 500 teachers and 500
administrative staff.
Évora University is a
university with a
national and
international reputation
for excellence,
innovation and regional
engagement. Its core
business activities are
teaching and learning,
widening access to
education, research and
innovation. In the south
of Portugal, Evora’s
course provision is the
largest one.
Our history dates back
to 1559, when we were
founded as the second
Portuguese University.
After being closed from
1779 to the XX century
due to religious and
political reasons, it
was reopened in 1974.
Since 1974 we form
future teachers
(Languages, Sciences,
Arts, Music, etc) and
provide a wide range of
courses on Informatics,
Mathematics, Biology,
Arts, etc. We have
recently created a
University for Senior
Citizens, called Túlio
Espanca Universidade
Popular inside our
structures. We also work
now with Gundtvig
programme.
Teaching foreign
languages to all courses
of Évora University has
been a reality since
1979. Students can
choose, English, French
or Spanish. We also
teach Portuguese as a
foreign language to
Erasmus students and
Comenius Assistants that
teach in neighbour
schools.
Since 2005 we teach VET
courses level IV. We
have the European
Charter Erasmus.
The Department of
Linguistics and
Literatures at Évora
provides language
training at
undergraduate diploma &
degree level and
postgraduate diploma &
degree level. The
Department main
languages are
Portuguese, French,
Spanish and English.
We also offer free
courses to the community
(Alentejo is a poor
region in the interior
of Portugal) cooperating
with NUFOR ( Centre for
continuous long life
learning).
We are used to work with
European partners since
1990.
A dedicated Cost Centre
(with a dedicated and
assigned staff member)
is always established to
receive and administer
funds from a new
project. Expenditure
from the Cost Centre on
dissemination activities
will be clearly
documented through the
University’s Prior
Approval System (under
the Portuguese general
Law System). The
University publishes on
line for each project
coordinator the summary
accounts for all Cost
Centre’s which are
signed by the designated
budget holder.
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Role and main tasks in
the project
During the project Évora
University will be
involved in: the
development and testing
cycle for the authoring
and hosting service; the
creation of learning
units for
Spanish-Portuguese;
dissemination within the
PT and SP; and the
design of a pedagogical
model with project
partners to support
integration of the
materials into language
curricula at a range of
learner levels that can
be used in the
Portuguese teaching
community. The
partnership will run
in-service
methodological courses
on the use of the online
service in a task based
and / or CLIL context.
Evora University will
offer the training
workshops to key
language practitioners
in the primary,
post-primary and
Further/Higher education
sectors in Portugal,
specialy rural areas,
far away from big
centres and main cities
like Porto and Lisboa,
end present papers at
major language
conferences.
Outreach to all sectors
in Portugal will be
achieved by utilizing
Évora’s University
excellent links with
colleagues in the other
Portuguese universities
and teacher training
colleges. These links
have been established
through a related
collaborative project at
teachers in the primary
and post-primary sectors
through common research
centers, like CEL:UE,
UTAD, ISMAI and
professional body
magazines e.g. “The APPi
Journal” (www.appi.pt).
Dissemination in
Portugal will be
bolstered by offering a
workshop at the
University of Évora
fifth annual Conference
on Languages and
Translation which is
attended by a broad
range of language
teachers from Portugal a
Spain.
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