Dissemination & Exploitation

Europlan is an intensive training in European project management organised by Pixel Associazione in Florence. It is followed by a three-month internship in one European organisation. Most participants are adults between 20 and 30 with previous education; they come from all over Europe and sometimes beyond.

The Skype meeting was meant to present to the students the organisations that agreed to receive interns, including Inforef. Inforef presented its activities and ongoing European projects, with special focus on "Vocational Guidance in CLIL" since Inforef is its coordinator and the platform is likely to interest those students, who seek international experience. Brochures had been previously provided to Pixel to be distributed to the participants (see event of the 19th-20th of October).

Participants in the 2017 edition of Europlan: https://europlan.pixel-online.org/MST_crs_summary....

In September 2016, the language center « Action Langues Verviers » (http://www.vervierslangues.be/) started to experiment the first exercises in French with a group of learners (young and adult immigrants living in Belgium). The feedback from these “end users” will be very useful to adapt accurately the content and the language level of the exercises.

School&Work final meeting.

School&Work is an Erasmus+ project aiming to promote synergies between school education and the labour market.

During the fourth transnational meeting, Inforef presented its projects, including VGCLIL, to the project partners.

Meeting with a member of "Action Langues Verviers". The project was presented and the first draft of the production of CLIL exercises template was shown. Inforef and ALV discussed the project activities and future cooperation.

http://www.vervierslangues.be/

SONET-Bull 4th partners' meeting

SONET-Bull is an Erasmus+ project that aims to use ICT social networking tools with peer learning and crowdsourcing to train school communities to counter student bullying. The fourth partners' meeting took place in Rome and gathered partners from Greece ("Hellenic Open University" and "Computer Technology Institute and Press"), Ireland (Dublin City University) and Italy (Fondazione Mondo Digitale). Inforef presented "VGCLIL" to the partners.

School&Work is an Erasmus+ project aiming to promote synergies between school education and the labour market.

During the third transnational meeting, Inforef presented its projects, including VGCLIL, to the project partners.

http://schoolandwork.pixel-online.org

V.I.S.I.ON 3rd partners' meeting

V.I.S.I.ON is an Earsmus+ project thaim aims to creat a website intended for the training of people with visual impairment through theatre and artistic activities. The project is coordinated by the Foundation for development of the cultural and business potential of civil society (FDCBPCS) in Sofia (Bulgaria). Inforef is the technical partner and the other proejct partners are Nadezhda za vsichki (Bulgaria), School for visually impaired children “Louis Braille“ (Bulgaria), Music’Arte (Italy), I Bohemiens (Italy), Dante Alighieri Society (Luxemburg) and UCAN /Unique Creative Arts Network (United Kingdom). During the third meeting, Inforef presented its recent and current projects, including "VGCLIL".

Project platform testing and dissemination

Posting of Newsletter No. 3 in premises (up to 13.000 learners and up to 150 educators p.a.)

Inform teachers and learners on learning training coming up (pilot)

Present and discuss project

Present and discuss project and piloting participants

Present and discuss to raise awareness and find piloting participants

Display project Flyer in BEST’s training centres (up to 13.000 learners and up to 150 educators p.a.) to raise awareness of the project

Short Project description in EN and DE on our Website to inform about the project

This event focused on Learning Networks (discussion groups for organisations funded through Erasmus+).The meeting provided an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas and project information with a number of key stakeholders as well as peers.Apricot attended and contributed to a workshop focused on employability where the VGCLIL project was discussed in some detail.A number of project managers were enthusiastic about the concept, especially with respect to mobility projects and there were fruitful discussions on synergy and complementarity.Useful contacts were also established with language centres trainers who had previous experience of developing and delivering CLIL materials.

Apricot had the opportunity to network extensively at the Annual Erasmus plus conference held in Cardiff last month. The event was well attended (over 300 delegates) and provided and ideal opportunity to showcase the project amongst interested parties. The VGCLIL project leaflets were distributed to a large number of attendees and there were a number of vocational centres that expressed an interest in piloting the platform when available. We also had productive discussions with Employability Agencies to whom the CLIL approach was a new concept. They felt that there would be possibilities for their clients to trial the materials and they agreed to disseminate information across their networks. Between sessions the Apricot team took advantage of the E+ Community hub and discussed additional dissemination channels with National Agency staff. This included access to new Video booth to record project results and impact. This will provide a valuable dissemination tool for the future promotion of VGCLIL

Apricot was asked to present the project at a local VET institution interested in using the CLIL methodology to improve the career prospects of adult job seekers wishing to improve their language skills in order to work in other EU countries.

The project was presented at a local careers event for college leavers

The aims and objectives and progress to date were presented at an international meeting.

During the partner's meeting in Senigallia the project's consortium has been received by the Major and his collaborators, that asked for information about the project activities. This activity has been reported by the local online newspaper.

On the 5th April 2017 the project "Vocational Guidance in CLIL" was presented to the local Employment Centre and the Eures local centre.

The aims and the output of the project have been explained to the responsible of the centre that support and train the unemployed of all the aerea (Including not only Senigallia, but also 5 smaller towns, for a total amount of 60.000 users).

Furthermore the Centre hosts the local Eures Centre, that from today will start distributing the projects materials and proposing the e-course to all those interested in working in another European country.

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The project was presented during the development of a Training Course for Vocational Guidance Trainers and operators called “Formaorienta”.

The course was organized by the local government of Le Marche Regionand involved 250 participants that have been informed about the project and the expected outputs and impact by Prof. Ea Polonara, which was one of the trainers and which is part of the project’s team in Italy.

Furthermore the seminars were carried out in 10 different cities of the region, ensuring a vast diffusion of the information within the regional area.