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

Several links to the online platform were tweeted. They were retweeted by Erasmus+ (over 2000 followers) and several other profiles related to employment.

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

Final conference of the Erasmus+ project "School&Work", dedicated to vocational guidance. Inforef presented its other projects, including VGCLIL.

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

Posting of Newsletter in premises (up to 13.000 learners and up to 150 educators p.a.)

National Dissemination Event, Project presentation

International Meeting, Project presentation

Meeting, Project presentation

International project Meeting, raise awareness of the project

National Dissemination conference, Project presentation

posting of Newsletter in premises, up to 13.000 learners and up to 150 educators p.a.

International project Meeting, inform about the project

International project Meeting, inform about the project

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.

On 12th November 2017, Apricot held an event at their offices in Loughborough for the benefit of local companies who had expressed an interest in language learning for their employees. The event was well attended and the content, with its focus on employability, useful particularly for delegates with an HR remit. The employers who attended were encouraged to promote the project through their business networks.

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.

The project was presented at a convention of employability trainers held at 2 local Colleges of further education. One of these events was held on Thursday 2nd March a.m. and repeated at the 2nd venue in the afternoon of the same day. Both events were well attended by trainers, representatives from local authorities and 9 local companies. 3 of the attendees (trainers) expressed an interest in piloting the modules in Italian and one company expressed an interest in piloting the Spanish resources.

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

International Project Meeting

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

The project was presented at an exhibition for local employers.

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.

The third newsletter was sent to ASTERES's relevant contact in Italy and Europe. 200 people and organisations received it.

Our newsletter reaches all our European Erasmus+ partners, who operate in the field of Education, Training, Inclusion, Employability. At local level our contacts are mainly local authorities, schools, companies and associations.

Our newsletter reaches all our European Erasmus+ partners, who operate in the field of Education, Training, Inclusion, Employability. At local level our contacts are mainly local authorities, schools, companies and associations.