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.

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.

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

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.