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.

Project website

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....

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.

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).

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).

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).

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

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".

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

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".

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.

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

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 regional meeting organized by the regional department for vocational guidance and job policies the project Vocational Guidance in CLIL has been presented to an audience made of counselors, vocational guidance experts, job centres operators.

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.

During the partner's meeting in Senigallia the project's consortium has been received by the Major and his collaborators, that asked for information about the project activities. This activity has been reported by the local online newspaper.

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 Informagiovani Agency of Alessandria published the course Vocational Guidance in CLIL in its Facebook page and website, offering this opportunity to all its followers. The Informagiovani network is present in every Italian region and supports students and young workers in their academic, professional and cultural development. The Alessandria's agency has a network of followers and affiliated associations active in northern Italy.

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 e-course was published by the Eures Agency of the province of Ascoli Piceno, which counts on thousands of followers among people looking for job experiences abroad, employment centres, associations and local insititutions.

The e-course was published by the Eures Agency of the province of Macerata, which counts on thousands of followers among people looking for job experiences abroad, employment centres, associations and local insititutions.

The e-course was published by the Eures Agency of the province of Ancona, which counts on thousands of followers among people looking for job experiences abroad, employment centres, associations and local insititutions.

The platform and the e-course was presented at the "Consulta della cultura" meeting, at the presence of the Responsible for cultural activities of Senigallia's Council, Mrs Simonetta Bucari, and of the representatives of all the cultural associations of the town.

We also gave a dimonstration of the use of the platform.

The project and the e-course has been presented to the Eures representative for the Marche region. The link for accessing the platform and information about the project will be published on Eures website (accessed at national level) and all the users visiting Eures offices in the region will be informed about the opportunities offered by it.

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

On Tuesday May 23rd Dr Ea Polonara had the oportunity to meet Dr Alessandra Cerioni, responsible for all EURES agencies of the Marche Region. The project and the e-course was explained to her, in order to be then disseminated to all the Eures regional network.

On the 11th April 2017 the project “Vocational Guidance in CLIL” was presented during a meeting of the Culture Associations Committee in Senigallia. The Committee in composed of 94 associations of the town, active in the fields of culture and active citizenship.

During the presentation, the training opportunity offered by the project was explained and advertised.

Furthermore we offered the representatives of the associations the chance to collaborate with ASTERES for the organization of an event inspired to the theme of the European citizenship, to complement the project’s final conference foreseen in February 2018.

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On the 5th April 2017 the project "Vocational Guidance in CLIL" was presented to the local Employment Centre and the Eures local centre.

The aims and the output of the project have been explained to the responsible of the centre that support and train the unemployed of all the aerea (Including not only Senigallia, but also 5 smaller towns, for a total amount of 60.000 users).

Furthermore the Centre hosts the local Eures Centre, that from today will start distributing the projects materials and proposing the e-course to all those interested in working in another European country.

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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.

In January 2016 the project was presented to the virtual community of the e-learning course “Techno CLIL for EVO 2016”. This course aims at spreading CLIL methodology, combining teaching strategies and technical tools and eliciting reflections and discussions among teachers from all over the world.

The project objectives and expected results have been shared in the platform forum, and raised a great interest among the over 5000 participants.

ASTERES is member of Senigallia’s Council of Culture, that gathers more than 90 City Associations active in the field of culture. During the last Council meetings the project’s staff had the opportunity to present the project to all the members.

The project was presented during the development of a Training Course for Vocational Guidance Trainers and operators called “Formaorienta”.

The course was organized by the local government of Le Marche Regionand involved 250 participants that have been informed about the project and the expected outputs and impact by Prof. Ea Polonara, which was one of the trainers and which is part of the project’s team in Italy.

Furthermore the seminars were carried out in 10 different cities of the region, ensuring a vast diffusion of the information within the regional area.

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