Category: Project Updates

Cooking Through the Pandemic

Despite a global pandemic we are focusing on our transnational project developing various innovative material to be used by trainers throughout Europe to engage with teaching languages through Cooking and intercultural dialogue.

Training Guidelines on how to deliver the Course

We are currently working on two manuals that will give trainers useful tips and strategies on how to deliver our LLCC language course. Manual 1 is a guide to the delivery including adapting to online teaching, Manual 2 is a supporting manual for supplementary help and guidance.

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EKT – Educational Knowledge Transfer – NEWSLETTER 1 – DECEMBER 2020

EKT – Educational Knowledge Transfer is a three-year project co-funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme.

In the Knowledge Alliance for Higher Education partner institutions from six EU countries with different profiles participate and contribute to the work:  on the one hand, technology companies that offer e-learning services and resources, and on the other hand, educational institutions with a stake in Initial Teacher Education (ITE).

read more – Newsletter 1

NO ALTERNATIVE FACTS – Virtual Conference: Wednesday 2nd December 15.00 – 18.00 CET

Tackling Intentional Misinformation in Digital Technologies through the development of Critical Thinking Skills and Media Literacy.

Young people today are growing up in a globalised world where they are processing information from a wide variety of sources; where ‘Fake News’ is big news and where it’s difficult to tell what is real or deliberately made up to misinform!

We all need critical thinking skills to navigate potential pitfalls when consuming news or searching for information, particularly when using online sources and social media. Media literacy is also crucial for sustaining democracy by knowing which information sources to trust and which media are trustworthy.

Tackling Online Disinformation: An Educational Approach
Virtual Conference: Wednesday 2nd December 15.00 – 18.00 CET
TO REGISTER CLICK HERE

Programme

Invitiation to the CIM Conference: How to avoid a learning lockdown online

Join us at the 10th REVEAL Conference on the 10th and 11th December 2020

It is our pleasure to invite you to the 10th REVEAL conference, this year hosted by the consortia of the projects CIM, PITCH and Job Bridge on December 10th and 11th, 2020.

Accelerated digitalisation has brought challenges and opportunities for activities in all sectors. How can we foster the visual, swift and expansive potential of online tools whilst preserving the collaborative, creative and social prospects that face to face interactions provide? How could those innovative digital formats contribute to solving some of the issues caused by the COVID-19 crisis?

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Updates from our LLCC-project

After almost a year, the project Language Learning through Culture and Cooking (LLCC) has entered a key phase when it comes to the successful implementation of this new and innovative EU-funded project. It tries to combine the topics of language learning, cookery and intercultural dialogue creating a totally new training programme.

Right now, the project partner’s from six partner countries are working on the development of new training materials that will be tested on our first transnational training in January. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we will organise this event with trainers from all partner countries as an online format.

We are looking forward to further developing this interesting project where we try to make language learning more innovative!

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FSEPS – Our second Webinar!

Read the ALTER project’s nationals & transnational reports!

The reports offer interesting insights from the primary and secondary research carried out in all partner countries

Key findings from Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Austria and Spain.

The ALTER project’s Transnational Report has been published on our website, consolidating the results from all partners’ National Reports that are also uploaded on the website’s “reports” section! The reports offer interesting insights from the primary and secondary research carried out in all consortium countries (Turkey, Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Spain) about the existing web-based professional profiling methodologies & practices, as well as the existing level of digital skills & competences of adults attending alternative educational institutions.

More specifically, the transnational report summarizes the desk research and stakeholder’s interviews (50 in total) on how digital and social media are used for job search at transnational level and, in addition, discusses the key findings reached through organized focus groups and online surveys with:

a) educators of adults (58 in total), expressing opinions about their level of digital skills and
b) adults having dropped out of school and attending alternative educational institutions (96 in total).

The Transnational Report is available in English, while its executive summary is translated in all partners’ languages.

Our second Newsletter contains more details.

Join the workshop provided by the CIM consortium during the ERASMUS days 2020!

16th October – 10:00-11:30 CET

On behalf of the CIM consortium we invite you to a workshop on how to make online learning events more attractive, innovative and truly collaborative. We offer this workshop to experience new participatory and collaborative online tools in creative thinking sessions.

CIM is an ERASMUS+ Knowledge Alliance working on how to embed Creativity and Innovation in courses, modules and learning projects in (Higher) Education and in practical informal learning contexts in business. Since the Corona crises our consortium has completely changed to online learning and collaboration and developed and piloted blended learning formats that could at least buffer some of the missing direct encounters in creative learning spaces.

During the session at the ERASMUS days we would like to share our experiences and learn about your ideas, demands and expectations. This workshop is at the same time a warm-up for our large 2-day online conference that we are going to carry out on Dec. 10th and 11th.

If you are interested just join the interactive workshop via the link

For more information please visit the website

Join our free webinar to learn about the Our Time programme – a new approach in supporting families in refuges and places of safety.

Click here for more information about the agenda.

Please register by October 27 at “Webinar Registration” to attend the webinar.

COVID-19 and ageism – the view from outside the UK

Ageism is not just a UK issue, in fact the United Nations has recognised this as an international one with them highlighting the importance of older people in society.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought ageism into the national debate. We’ve seen prominent journalists arguing that a ‘cull of the elderly’ could benefit the economy, sparking necessary debates about attitudes to older people. The horrifying situation in care homes, and the extremely difficult situation facing many older people who are self-isolating, has opened many people’s eyes to the ageism that is rife in our society.

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