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International Projects

Our language school has participated / is participating in several EU Transnational Cooperation and NORDPLUS Projects:

*Euro Languages Net // Euro Languages Net Plus (SOCRATES/LINGUA1) - these projects are meant to encourage the general public to learn the less widely used European languages, as well as provide information about new and already existing best practices and opportunities to learn them.

*Linguapeace Europe (LEONARDO DA VINCI) - this project is meant to design and pilot language training materials for military and police servicemen and women. For more information please see www.linguapeace-europe.net

eEuroInclusion (European Commission programme DG EAC/45/2003) - this project intends to develop a pan-European Network of Language Resource Centres for LWULT Languages.

*Languages on your Screen (SOCRATES/LINGUA1) - the objective of this project is to raise awareness and promote the learning of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian as a means of motivating European tourists to visit these countries.

*DissMark II is a Socrates Accompanying Measures project aiming to address the issue of insufficient dissemination and marketing skills within teams involved in(Socrates) educational projects via organising an international Dissemination, Marketing and Networking Conference and Fair for project coordinators and partners from different Socrates Actions (Comenius, Erasmus, Grundtvig, Lingua, etc).

*TOOL2- TOOL for Online and Offline Language Learning - the objective of this project is to design combined language courses for Estonian, Hungarian, Maltese, Slovenian and Dutch (level A2). For more information please see www.toolproject.eu

*Don't Give Up (SOCRATES/LINGUA1) - the objective of this project is to find ways how to motivate adult language learners to complete their courses (and not give up ... ). For more information please see http://dontgiveup.eu 

*NORDPLUS Horizontal programme project 'Language on the Move' aims to provide cultural information and basic survival phrases for people traveling on public transport to /within Nordic or Baltic countries. Knowing the basics of the language and culture of the country concerned can make people's life easier, increase mobility, and help to integrate into the local community. 

*PRIMALINGUA - an educational project, part of the EU LLP programme, whereby primary school children work on multimedia-based, interactive learning units.

*NORDPLUS Adult programme project 'Still Active' aims to provide senior citizens from vulnerable groups with a communication tool - the English Language - that will encourage them to continue being part of the changing world, and thus improve quality of their life.

*NORDPLUS Adult programme project 'Nordic-Baltic Cafe Lingua' that aims to promote informal language education through language cafés. For more information please see www.nbcl.eu

*NORDPLUS Adult programme project 'Seniors On-Line' that focuses on ICT and English language learning for active ageing. The project aims to strengthen English language and ICT skills of the seniors from Nordic and Baltic countries in order to help them overcome the challenges arising from the fairs of cultivating these skills in practice, foster communication between different cultures as well as create a solid background for seniors to apply newly gained competences in their everyday lives after the end of the project. For more information please see www.seniorsonline.eu   You can download the PDF file with project details by clicking here and look at the e-book that was compiled by the project team by clicking here  

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*ERASMUS+ programme project 'ICT Based Methods for Teaching Less Widely Used Languages' (ICT4LWUL) logo_ICT4LWUL aimed to enhance the use of ICT in language teaching. The focus was on 3 different types of ICT-based methods: e-learning, web platforms & social media and using mobile and smartphone devices in teaching. Languages schools and universities from 6 different countries - Romania (Bridge Language Study House, Cluj-Napoca), Poland (Studium Jezykow Obcych, Lodz), Estonia (Tallinn Language Centre), Italy (Europass Centro Studi Europeo, Florence), Hungary (Debrecen Summer School) and Check Republic (ITC International Training Center, Prague) - took part in the project. 

The partnership pursued the following objectives: Increasing the knowledge about 3 different types of ICT based methods within the partnership during the lifetime of the project; empowering the partner language schools and teachers to be able to adapt and integrate the transferred ICT based methods for teaching the target LWUL as a foreign language; improving the knowledge of min. 120 language teachers from outside the partnership by the creation and dissemination of a Handbook containing at least 90 LWUL teaching exercises. You can download the Handbook here.

For more information please look at the ICT4LWUL project FB page ICT4LWUL and webpage ict4lwult.wordpress.com/    

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"Sharing Best Practices in Teaching English for 50+" is an *ERASMUS+ programme/Action 2 project that aims to give teachers of English for 50+ age group an improved understanding of their students’ needs and equip them with a set of tips & guidelines. Language schools from 3 different countries - Poland, Romania and Estonia - participate in the project and exchanged their experience in teaching English to senior learners. For more information please look at the project page Best for 50+ The project partnership compiled a downloadable  The Set of Tips & Guidelines for teaching English in 50+ groups

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