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EuroEd: pathway

Andreea Cleminte & Rodica IonelEuroEd Foundation

Art as the identity of a country and as a universal pattern which all the European

countries can shareKick-off Meeting 25 - 28 November 2009,

Lublin

Mission StatementMission Statement

Our motto:

AD ASTRA PER VALOREM! (Towards the stars through value!)

Our mission is to positively contribute to the development of the Romanian civil society and of an active European citizenship in Romania.

DepartmentsDepartments

Regional Centre for European Integration: implementation of local, regional, national and international projects International Language Centre:

foreign language courses and Romanian as a foreign language Regional Centre for Education and Communication:

lifelong learning, adult education: local, regional, national and international professional training Kindergarten and Primary School

Accreditation and Affiliation Accreditation and Affiliation

accredited by the Ministry of Education and Research (part of the national education system, the section Life Long Learning - MO no. 4685/28.09.1998 and 2133/4.02.2000)

accredited by the Ministry of Labour, Family and Equal Opportunities (MO no. 594/29.11.2006)

founder member of QUEST Romania (the Romanian Association for Quality Language Services); QUEST is an associate member of EAQUALS (the European Association for Quality Language Services)

founder member of FocusEd (an International Association that promotes Excellence, Diversity and Innovation in education)

founder member of ELAN (a pan-European Association that promotes LWULT languages)

Awards and DistinctionsAwards and Distinctions

2001: "WorldAware Business Award", an international prize offered by the British Council for the successful transfer of language teaching competencies to other areas of education.

2002: "European Label”, distinction offered by the European Commission for the successful implementation of the project "Steps to the World".

2004: "European Label”, distinction offered by the European Commission for the successful implementation of the project "eLancenet” (Lingua 1 project)

2007: "European Label”, distinction offered by the European Commission for the successful implementation of the project “Interact” (Leonardo project)

Chain stories Chain stories (2006 – 2009)(2006 – 2009)Lingua 1 project financed by the EC under the LLP

Partner countries: Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Romania

Objectives: Chainstories is meant to create an international framework within which children can discover what multilingualism is, what it means for their particular contexts and how they can model it to achieve their goals. Through observing the common issues and the differences within the same family language children better understand the connections between the diverse countries. This also includes a cultural component helping children acquire new information on their international partners.Target group : children between 8 and 12 years, from 500 to 2,000 schools in Europe.

Results: Children write a part of the story in the native language, and then send it to other school from another country, they decrypt the content and write a next part of the story and then send it to another school.

http://www.chainstories.eu

Chain stories Chain stories (2006 – 2009)(2006 – 2009)

http://www.chainstories.eu

No Child Left Behind (2007 – 2009)

Comenius project financed by the EC under the LLP

Partner countries: Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Spain and BulgariaObjectives:No Child Left Behind investigates the provision of, and teaching approaches

to study support and compares strengths and weaknesses to agree on a series of good practices which are internationally exchangeable.

Target group:school children aged 5-18

Results: A training programme will be devised for teachers and trainers of study

support, which offers a structure containing imaginative and flexible methodologies, including latest ICT technologies, and in-built quality assurance mechanisms aimed at motivating teachers and trainers into producing an enriched and more stimulating study support curriculum for their own school.

TOOL2 - Tool for Online and Offline Language Learning (2006– 2009)

Lingua 2 project financed by the EC under the LLPPartner countries: Estonia, Slovenia, Greece, Belgium, Hungary, Malta, UK, Spain, Romania Objectives:The project undertakes to create a blended learning system, online and offline, with materials for learning and teaching in five languages: Dutch, Estonian, Hungarian, Maltese, and Slovene, based on a methodology which is readily transferable to the learning and teaching of other

languages.Target group : learners of basic A2 level courses for work/ study/ leisure mobility purposes; learners in need of flexibility

Results:

five Blended Learning basic A2 level courses with a strong cultural component to be set up by teachers and language centres across Europe;

highly demonstrative dissemination events;

http://www.toolproject.eu/

ALL - Autonomous Language Learning (2006 – 2008)

Lingua 2 Project financed by the EC under the LLP

Partner countries: Spain, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, TurkeyObjectives: to create materials at Level A2 for 4 LWULT languages: Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Romanian and Turkish to apply the Common European Framework to Level A2 where the descriptors do not already exist; to use online technologies in a blended learning course to transfer the methodology of blended learning to other providers in the four target language countries. to create courses which are flexible for online activities, so that the course can be updated and adapted to the needs of different users; to develop learner autonomyResults: 4 blended learning courses for: Romanian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian

www.allproject.info

ELSTI - European Languages for Secretaries (2008- 2010)

Leonardo da Vinci –Transfer of Innovation project financed by the EC under the LLP

Partner countries: Italy, Lithuania, UK, RomaniaObjective:developing the communication skills ( linguistic + cultural) in four languages:

English, Italian, French and SpanishTarget group:office staff (A2/ B1)Results: (available on the online platform)1. Business language courses (2 levels, 4 languages)2. Training package aiming at facilitating personal development3. Business culture modules (9 +1 European cultures)4. Student motivation module

http://www.business-languages.net/

The Dinocrocs travel to the Balkans

Leonardo da Vinci – Transfer of Innovation project financed by the EC under the LLP

How children learn to communicate effectively in a foreign language?

The foreign language is learned through the creation of a context in which we speak, live and act exclusively in the new language: it is the fantastic world of Hocus & Lotus.

With Hocus & Lotus the children engage in a variety of activities characterized by love and emotional involvement and structured in such a way that they respect the rhythm, time and skills of each and every one of them, by going through the different stages of foreign language acquisition process.

Partner countries: Bulgaria, Romania, Italy, Turkey

Target group: Teacher-trainers (→ train other teachers)Primary school children

Objectives:

support improvement of the quality and attractiveness of the BG, RO and TK vocational systems of pre-school and primary school education

integrating the Innovative model for training the pre-school and primary school trainers and teachers (‘The Adventures of Hocus and Lotus’) implemented in IT, UK, DE, FR, ES into the BG, RO and TK national and sectoral training systems

Results:

A new teaching and training method (paper-based, CD-ROM, website)

www.hocus-lotus.edu

Office InterActors (2009 -2010)

Leonardo da Vinci - Transfer of Innovation project Partners: Romania, Spain, Lithuania, France, Bulgaria, UKObjectives:communication in a foreign language (English + French, Spanish, Dutch, Lithuanian, Bulgarian and/or Romaniannegotiation and team work (including for international cooperation)ICT skillsknowledge and awareness of different office practices in other countriesTarget group: office managers, secretaries Focus on: develop skills auxiliary to the work domain of the beneficiariesencourage international awarenesscreate a flexible structureResults:site and customized moodle platformanalysis of needsmethodological harmonizationtwo rounds of coursesconference and project kit that would support blended teaching/ learning

www.officeinteractors.eu

EAT - Eating Abroad Together(2007- 2009)KA2 project financed by the EC under the LLP

Partner countries: Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, Netherlands ,the UK Aims:to raise awareness on the importance of healthy eatingto improve the quality, attractiveness and accessibility of language learning by developing and promoting methodologies that are innovative and fun to share traditions and customsTarget group: children aged 7-12 (20 committed primary schools )

Activities:Researching healthy eatingKeeping food diariesMaking presentations on family habitsWriting lettersCooking Writing recipesInvolving the family

Results: Workshops in schools with the childrenOnline data bank with healthy eating information collected by the children

LET’S COOK!!!

LIS - Language and Integration through Singing (2008 – 2010)

Grundtvig Learning Partnership

Producing, testing and evaluating teaching material for IT, RU and RO explicitly using music

Objectives: to develop innovative ICT-based content, techniques and practice to transfer the methodological approach of the projectto strengthen the capacity for teacher training and development;to improve quality and co-operation among organisations involved in adult educationto raise cultural awarenessto promote integration of migrants

VIVACEThe Lingua 1 project was financed by the EC under the LLP

Partner countries: UK, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Czech Republic, Austria,

Hungary Objective:The VIVACE project promotes languages and language

learning to disadvantaged, marginalised and reluctant groups, working in close collaboration with those agencies and organisations which support them.

Target group: disadvantaged, marginalised and reluctant groupsResults: foreign languages sessions with members of the targeted

groups

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