Dissemination & Exploitation

The fifth newsletter was sent to Inforef's relevant contact in Belgium and Europe. 150 people and organisations received it. The newsletter is available here.

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.

Project website

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.

Meeting at the French-speaking Belgian Agency, AEF-Europe to inform European roject applicants about the 2018 application. The VGCLIL project was presented to participants.

The fourth newsletter was sent to Inforef's relevant contact in Belgium and Europe. 150 people and organisations received it. The newsletter is available here.

Contact taken with HELMo (Haute Ecole Libre Mosane) to organise the final multiplier event and invite participants (teachers, future teachers, ERASMUS students).

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).

"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/

E-Learning From Nature 3rd partners' meeting

The E-Learning from Nature project is funded by the European Commission and the Italian National Agency for the Erasmus+ Programme with the aims of:
Promoting a proactive students’ approach to scientific subjects learning
Propose innovative teaching methodologies to scientific teachers
During the third meeting in Limerick, Inforef presented VGCLIL to the project partners: Istituto F. Enriques (Italy), Pixel Associazione (Italy), Epimorfotiki Kilkis SM LLC (Greece), Limerick Institute of Technology (Ireland), Trakai Educational Assistance Authority (Lithuania), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (Portugal) and Fundația EuroEd (Romania).

Presentation of the project and distribution of brochures during the general assembly of CRIG (20 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 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.

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

The third newsletter was sent to Inforef's relevant contact in Belgium and Europe. 152 people and organisations received it. The newsletter is available here.

E-Learning From Nature 3rd partners' meeting

The E-Learning from Nature project is funded by the European Commission and the Italian National Agency for the Erasmus+ Programme with the aims of:

• Promoting a proactive students’ approach to scientific subjects learning
• Propose innovative teaching methodologies to scientific teachers

During the third meeting in Limerick, Inforef presented VGCLIL to the project partners: Istituto F. Enriques (Italy), Pixel Associazione (Italy), Epimorfotiki Kilkis SM LLC (Greece), Limerick Institute of Technology (Ireland), Trakai Educational Assistance Authority (Lithuania), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (Portugal) and Fundația EuroEd (Romania).

"I Have Rights" second 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 second meeting, 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).

The second newsletter was sent to Inforef's relevant contact in Belgium and Europe. 156 people and organisations received it. The newsletter is available here.

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

E-Learning From Nature 2nd partners' meeting

The E-Learning from Nature project is funded by the European Commission and the Italian National Agency for the Erasmus+ Programme with the aims of:

• Promoting a proactive students’ approach to scientific subjects learning
• Propose innovative teaching methodologies to scientific teachers

During the second meeting in Liège, Inforef presented VGCLIL to the project partners: Istituto F. Enriques (Italy), Pixel Associazione (Italy), Epimorfotiki Kilkis SM LLC (Greece), Limerick Institute of Technology (Ireland), Trakai Educational Assistance Authority (Lithuania), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (Portugal) and Fundația EuroEd (Romania).

"I Have Rights" kick-off 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 kick-off meeting, 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).

SimuCarePro 2nd meeting

The SimuCarePro project is funded by the European Commission and the Belgium National Agency for the Erasmus+ .

http://simucarepro.eu/

During the second meeting in September 2016 in Paris, Inforef presented "VGCLIL" to the project partners.

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.

http://schoolandwork.pixel-online.org

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.

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.

"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 third parrtners' meeting organised by the Finnish partner OMNIA, Inforef presented the project to the partners.
http://notonlyfairplay.pixel-online.org/index.php

"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.

The first newsletter was sent to Inforef's relevant contact in Belgium and Europe. 171 people and organisations received it.

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.

The E-Learning from Nature project is funded by the European Commission and the Italian National Agency for the Erasmus+ Programme with the aims of:

• Promoting a proactive students’ approach to scientific subjects learning
• Propose innovative teaching methodologies to scientific teachers

During the kick-off meeting in Florence, Inforef presented VGCLIL to the project partners: Istituto F. Enriques (Italy), Pixel Associazione (Italy), Epimorfotiki Kilkis SM LLC (Greece), Limerick Institute of Technology (Ireland), Trakai Educational Assistance Authority (Lithuania), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (Portugal) and Fundația EuroEd (Romania).

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 third partners' meeting took place in Dublin 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.

The SIMUCARE project is funded by the European Commission and the Belgium National Agency for the Erasmus+ .

http://simucarepro.eu/

During the kick-off meeting in november 2015 in Belgium Inforef presented "VGCLIL" to the project partners.

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.

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

Skype meeting with different experts in CLIL to discuss their participation in the Multiplier Event to be held on January the 23rd at the University of Murcia

Presentation of "Vocational Guidance in CLIL" at the 16 International AELFE conference "LSP in multi-disciplinary contexts of teaching and research" in Merida (Spain) 16 June 2017.

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

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

Sociolinguistics Symposim 21.

the newsletter has been sent to the International AELFE association to be distributed among its members

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

The UK Multiplier Event was held on 28th February 2018 as a showcase in a national event for providers of adult learning. A wide cross-section of organisations, including public sector organisations, VET training providers, vocational support agencies, regional colleges and universities, voluntary sector organisations attended. Approximately 400 people were registered for the event and 60 expressed an interest in coming to the CLIL showcase event.In the event 41 delegates attended.

Out of the 60 who had expressed an interest in the VG-CLIL Showcase, 41 attended the event which included presentations about the project and its objectives plus a demonstration of the Training Platform. Delegates were given the chance to experience the activities on the platform.

There was positive feedback and a genuine interest in the topic. Many of the audience were not familiar with this approach to employability/language training and thought that the integrated content added a new dimension that made the learning programme more interesting and challenging. They felt that it would be especially useful for language students seeking job opportunities abroad thus contributing to greater economic and social mobility. There were several enquiries likely to result in exploitation and sustained use of the product (particularly from language tutors). There were also a number of requests for a similar tool to be developed at lower language levels eg. A2

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.