Dissemination & Exploitation

Noradica Kick-off meeting

Inforef is a partner in Noradica, an Erasmus+ project to promote interreligious dialogue and prevent the radicalisation of young people. The other partners are: Università degli Studi di Catania (applicant, Italy), Spoleczna Akademia Nauk (Poland), Inspectoratul scolar judetean Iasi (Romania), PMF SRL (Italy) and RenaSup (France). During the kick-off meeting organised by the Polish partner, Inforef presented "Vocational guidance in CLIL" to the project partners and distributed the project folders.

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Final multiplier event in Belgium

“Demain je serai diplômé” was a thematic day organised by HELMo for its third baccalaureate (last year) students. It was an information day about entering the labour market, with sessions about such topics as writing a CV and entrepreneurship. INFOREF took the opportunity to introduce students to European mobility and the opportunities offered by ERASMUS+. The session was attended by HELMo 3^rd BAC students and ERASMUS students spending the semester at HELMo.

The session started with a presentation of the ERASMUS+ programme. People usually know about student mobility initiatives, but not all are aware of the other opportunities offered by the programme. INFOREF focussed its presentation on the first two key actions: Mobility, and Cooperation for innovation and good practices.

This was followed by a presentation of Inforef’s activities, and particularly its ongoing educational projects, most of which are funded by ERASMUS+. Some time was also dedicated to science projects as most attendants studied laboratory techniques. The presentation with an introduction to “Vocational Guidance in CLIL”.

The project was outlined: its objectives, target groups, partners, the main topics addressed in the training platform and how these were addressed. Then, the platform was shown, explaining how its section and it works, and showing a selection of videos from all five languages and examples of exercises based on them. The presentation finished showing what the platform looks like on a smartphone and displaying the links to it VGCLIL social networks.

To conclude the session, Alice Cecchellero, an intern from Italy currently working in Belgium, told participants about her experience as an Erasmus student in Scotland and Spain and as a worker in Belgium. She explained what she had gained from those experiences, not only in terms of specific skills (languages, professional skills) but also soft skills and social interactions. She also explained how using the VGCLIL platform helped her improve her command of French.

"Salon de l'éducation" is an education faire held every year addressed to teachers. This 24th edition involved over 230 exhibitors and 200 conferences. More than 20,000 visitors attended. Inforef was there to inform visitors, mostly teachers, about the project and to distribute brochures.

I Have Rights 3rd partners' meeting

The "I Have Rights" European project has the objective to provide secondary school teachers with the skills to deal with multicultural classrooms through the acquisition of intercultural competences based on the understanding of human rights and non-discrimination values.

During the third meeting, organised by Inforef, the VGCLIL project was presented to the partners: RENASUP (France - project promoter) Pixel Associazione (Italy - project coordinator), Siena University (Italy), Klaipeda University (Lithuania), Ius Gentium Conimbrigae (Portugal) and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece).

Brochures were also given to Pixel to be distributed to the participants in their current Master in European project management.

SimuCarePro - 4th partners' meeting

SimuCarePro is a European project aiming to create simulation scenarios in health for learners and professionals in medicine. The project is promoted by Haute Ecole Libre Mosane - HELMo-paramédical and coordinated by Inforef. The other partners are: Institut supérieur de soins infirmiers Galilée - ISSIG (Belgium), Université de Paris Descartes - ILUMENS (France), Escola Superior de Enfermagem de COIMBRA - ESENFC (Portugal) and Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie "Iuliu Hatieganu" Cluj-Napoca (Romania). During the fourth meeting in Coimbra, Inforef described the projects it participates in, including Vocational Guidance in CLIL. http://simucarepro.eu/

Participation in the fair "Reedukado" organised by Simila ASBL, addressed to teachers and other people who work with children and teenagers. The project activities were explained to participants and about fifty project flyers were handed out.

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Inforef attended the inauguration day at HELMo-Gramme, an engineering college. The project was mentioned to various people and brochures were attended.

Further contact will be taken again by email with some people.

Action Langues is a language centre for adults. The platform was shown to a group of adult immigrants who are learning French and searching employment in Belgium.

Inforef was invited by the French-speaking Belgian National Agency (AEF-Europe) to present the VGCLIL website to other European project managers. The focus was on the management and dissemination sections, as many project coordinators do not know how to collect their partners dissemination activities. About forty people attended.

Presentation VGCLIL

Meeting of the board of directors of Inforef. They were presented the current project and activities of Inforef, including the "VGCLIL" project.

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/

19th of February 2016 – Brussels (BE): Participation in a training day organised by AEF-Europe

The project coordinators (INFOREF) participated in the training “How to disseminate and exploit the results of my ERASMUS+ project?” organised in Brussels by AEF-Europe, on the 19^th of February 2016.

This event gathered all project promoters of Key Action 1 (Mobility) Key Action 2 (Strategic Partnerships) selected in 2015 by AEF-Europe (Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles). About a hundred people (primary, secondary and higher education, adult training) participated in the training session.

During the workshop, Christine CLOES and Zlata SELAK (INFOREF) presented the VGCLIL project activities to other participants and distributed the brochure (in French and in English). They also emphasised the importance of the website (the address of which is mentioned in the brochure) to build intellectual outputs and share project results.

http://www.aef-europe.be/

15th of February 2016 – Liège (BE): Presentation of the project and distribution of brochures during the general assembly of CRIG (100 participants)

CRIG is the research centre of the grouped institutes of HELMo (Haute Ecole Libre Mosane), which aims to coordinate the projects of the different categories of the college: technical, paramedical, social, pedagogical and economic categories.

INFOREF is a member of the general assembly of CRIG and this meeting of the 15^th of February gave us the opportunity to present the project objectives during a workshop. The brochure distribution was an opportunity to explain the project activities and to seek the involvement of teachers, researchers and students of higher education.

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A multiplier event was organised by the UM team. There were more than 80 people initially enrolled but in the end 60 attended the event. There were four presentations on the project itself by the UM Coordinator of the project, the working opportunities abroad for Spanish graduates by the representative of the COIE, CLIL in professional contexts by Prof. P. Pérez-Paredes, and the Head of the Department of Relaciones Internacionales as a representative of the UM academic authorities. At the end there was a turn of interventions on the part of the participants and the discussion was very fruitful.

Distribution of the Spanish versión of the 3er. Newsletter among different profesional association of the region

Distribution of information about VGCLIL in the TaLC 12 conference held in Giessen (Germany)

Brochures were distributed among the attendants to the XV International Conference of AELFE, held at the University of Alcalá de Henarés (Spain).

A brochure in English has been distributed individually to all the participànts in the

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Distribution of brochures at the XXXIV AESLA International Conference held in Alicante 14-16 April 2016

Apricot presented the training platform to key members of a large nationally funded Job Centre in Genova. The learning materials were then further disseminated at the bi-annual regional jobs fair run by the agency. The estimated audience was in the region of 300 delegates. These included employers, VET institutions, local and regional authorities as well as students and young job seekers. They were all encouraged to register on the platform, try out the learning modules and further promote the project through their own networks.

The latest newsletter was distributed to 78 institutions with an estimated audience of over 150. We received feedback from 2 language centres that inquired as to the feasibility of using the CLIL resources with their migrant students. We are currently assessing their language levels to see if they reach the required level to benefit from B2 materials.

The project was presented at a conference in Meppel, Netherlands to an international audience comprising 35 delegates. Flyers were distributed in addition to a short presentation on the purpose of the CLIL project and a description plus samples of the materials and resources imminently available in 5 languages.

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

The project was presented at a careers open day where local colleges were recruiting young people and adults on full and part time vocational courses for the next academic year. Apricot participated in the programme and took the opportunity to promote the benefits of CLIL to prospective students especially those with an interest in languages and EU internships. There were also a number of adult job seekers who expressed interest in the CLIL approach and would be keen to pilot the new learning materials.

On the 23rd February 2018 ASTERES organized the Italian multiplier event of the project. For the occasion we had the support of the Government of the Marche Region (Department for job policies and career guidance). The conference title was "Vocational and Career Guidance and ICT". During the day the project implementation and output were presented to a large audience of school leaders, teachers, career guidance operators, placement officers from the main Universities of the Region and citizens. The event was also the occasion to present the global policies of the regional Government in the field of vocational and career guidance, and to reflect on the possible integration between regional, national and European actions.

On the 9th and 10th November 2017, Professor Marianna Memè, on behalf of the cultural association ASTERES, the Italian partner of the project, presented the project's rationale, implementation and outputs at the international conference "ICT for Language Learning" in Florence at the presence of over 150 among university and college lectures, school teachers, representatives of European Agencies (including Nathalie Baidak from EACEA), private companies active in the field of e-learning, cultural associations members.

The presentation rose a great interest among the audience and the opportunity of a follow-up received extremely positive comments.

During a regional meeting organized by the regional department for vocational guidance and job policies the project Vocational Guidance in CLIL has been presented to an audience made of counselors, vocational guidance experts, job centres operators.

During a lesson within a course for unemployed funded by the European Social Fund (FSE), Dr. Ea Polonara explained the project and the relating training opportunities to the participants.

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 20/06/2017, the project “Vocational Guidance in CLIL” has been presented in Senigallia at “Caffè delle Lingue”. This is a group of people that meet on a weekly base to practice the speaking of foreign languages. They meet in a cafeteria in Senigallia and, with the help of native speakers, have a chat in a language of their choice (English, Spanish, French or German). The typical participants to this initiative are young workers who needs to develop language skills, or students thinking about an experience abroad.

We presented the training opportunity created by VGCLIL partnership, and some of them have already subscribed to the e-course.

The platform and the e-course was presented at the "Consulta della cultura" meeting, at the presence of the Responsible for cultural activities of Senigallia's Council, Mrs Simonetta Bucari, and of the representatives of all the cultural associations of the town.

We also gave a dimonstration of the use of the platform.

The project and the e-course has been presented to the Eures representative for the Marche region. The link for accessing the platform and information about the project will be published on Eures website (accessed at national level) and all the users visiting Eures offices in the region will be informed about the opportunities offered by it.

On Tuesday May 23rd Dr Ea Polonara had the oportunity to meet Dr Alessandra Cerioni, responsible for all EURES agencies of the Marche Region. The project and the e-course was explained to her, in order to be then disseminated to all the Eures regional network.

On friday 28th April an important event took place at "La Fenice" Theatre in Senigallia. The Committees of all the associations of the town (Culture, Sport, Youth, Migration, International exchange and twinnings) met up together in order to present their most interesting activities. ASTERES took part in the event, and we had the opportunity to distribute the project flyers and relevant information to many young workers interested in working abroad.

On the 11th April 2017 the project “Vocational Guidance in CLIL” was presented during a meeting of the Culture Associations Committee in Senigallia. The Committee in composed of 94 associations of the town, active in the fields of culture and active citizenship.

During the presentation, the training opportunity offered by the project was explained and advertised.

Furthermore we offered the representatives of the associations the chance to collaborate with ASTERES for the organization of an event inspired to the theme of the European citizenship, to complement the project’s final conference foreseen in February 2018.

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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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Monday 24th October 2016 Dr. Ea Polonara, on behalf of the association ASTERES, had the pleasure to take part in an event organised by Senigallia’s Rotary Club.

The event was dedicated to all those students and young workers who are wishing to experience studying and/or working abroad.

Local politicians, School leaders, job policies experts discussed about how to create more opportunity to foster the free mobility of students and workers within the EU.

During the event many youngsters had the opportunity to talk about their experience abroad.

The project VGCLIL was presented and raised a remarkable interest among the 60 stakeholders.

ASTERES is member of Senigallia’s Council of Culture, that gathers more than 90 City Associations active in the field of culture. During the last Council meetings the project’s staff had the opportunity to present the project to all the members.