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).

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....

"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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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).

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.

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...

In the April-June issue of its three-monthly magazine, AEDE-EL (European Association of Teachers) published a call to pilot users for the VGCLIL platform. The paper version is sent to about 130 teachers in French-speaking Belgium and is available online (p.18):

http://aede-el.be/uploads/documents/BI/BI-2017-06....

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

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).

In the January-March issue of its three-monthly magazine, AEDE-EL published a call to pilot users for the VGCLIL platform (the French version of this one). The paper version is sent to 136 teachers in French-speaking Belgium and is available online (p.21): http://www.aede-el.be/uploads/documents/BI/BImars2...

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

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).

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.

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

V.I.S.I.ON fifth partners' meeting

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 fifth meeting, Inforef presented its recent and current projects, including "VGCLIL".

"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.

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 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".

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.

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".

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

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.

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 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.

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.

International Project 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.

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 Click lavoro portal published the course Vocational Guidance in CLIL in its Facebook page and website, offering this opportunity to all its followers. The Click lavoro portal is one of the biggest italian website for job search and it is visited every day by thousends of people looking for a job and used by many employment agencies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Information about the project development are being constantly issued by ASTERES through its website and Social Media profiles.