Dissemination & Exploitation

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.

During the final multiplier event of the "E-Learning from Nature" project, Inforef's other ongoing projects, including "Vocational Guidance in CLIL", were briefly presented to an audience of teachers and students (future teachers).

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....

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.

An article about VGCLIl was added to the European platform "Open Education Europa". The project and the training platform are described in English and French.https://www.openeducationeuropa.eu/en/resource/voc...

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

Erasmus+ retweet

Not Only Fair Play - Final meeting

"Not Only Fair Play" is an Erasmus+ project aiming to support athlete students and to promote sport at school and an ethical practice of sports among students. It gathers eleven partners from Belgium (Inforef), Italy (including the coordinator), Bulgaria, Finland, France, Poland, Romania,Turkey and United Kingdom. During the final partners' meeting organised by the promoter Datini, Inforef presented the project to the partners.
http://notonlyfairplay.pixel-online.org/index.php

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.

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

Conference on Bullying, as part of the "Sonet-Bull" project.

Information about VGCLIL were available for the participants.

"Salon SIEP"

SIEP is a fair dedicated to education and career guidance. Dozens of stands of schools, colleges, training centres and public services are there to inform students about studies and careers. Hundreds of teachers, students and parents visit or attend it. Inforef had a stand to present its activities. Project folders were distributed and school stands were visited to try to involve new schools.

V.I.S.I.ON is an Erasmus+ project that aims to create 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 fourth meeting, Inforef presented its recent and current projects, including "VGCLIL".

Posting of Newsletter in BEST premises - up to 11,000 learners and up to 150 educators p.a.

Project platform testing and dissemination

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.)

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

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

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.

Several meeting were organized in order to let people know about the ME to be held on January 23rd and encourage people to participate in it.

The Spanish version fo the fourth newsletter was widely distributed among students, professional associations, language centres, etc.

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

Several meetings with the Director and teachers of the SIDI, Language Centre of the University of Murcia to let her know about the project and the piloting of the materials produced by the partners in English, Italian, French and German.

Meeting with people of the Centro de Orientación e Información de Empleo of Murcia University to let them know about the project.

The newsletter and brochure have been sent to several professional associations

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

Sociolinguistics Symposim 21.

The newsletter has been sent to several profesional associations

The Newsletter has been sent to the Internacional Association AESLA to be distributed among its members.

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 VGCLIL platform was presented to a group comprising 10 learners studying English as a second language at a local VET institution. They tried out a number of modules and found them useful as an aid to job searching. The materials also improved their 'functional' skills in English.

Presentation of project at regional event for Colleges of Further Education, East Midlands

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.

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

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 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.

The Sapienza University in Rome, the biggest Italian public University, published in its Facebook page the course Vocational Guidance in CLIL, offering the training opportunity to all its students.

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 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.