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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

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/

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.

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 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.

Publication of the project summary in the three-monthly information report (p. 16) (July - August - September 2015 issue) of AEDE-EL (European Association of Teachers - Catholic education - French-speaking Belgium) : Report no 3.

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.