EuroEd Foundation www.euroed.ro

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EuroEd Foundationwww.euroed.ro

• EuroEd pathway
• Andreea Cleminte Rodica Ionel
• EuroEd Foundation
• Art as the identity of a country and as a
  universal pattern which all the European
  countries can share
• Kick-off Meeting 25 - 28 November 2009, Lublin

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Mission Statement

• Our motto
• AD ASTRA PER VALOREM! (Towards the stars through
  value!)
• Our mission is to positively contribute to the
  development of the Romanian civil society and of
  an active European citizenship in Romania.

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Departments

• Regional Centre for European Integration
  implementation of local, regional, national and
  international projects
• International Language Centre
• foreign language courses and Romanian as a
  foreign language
• Regional Centre for Education and
  Communication
• lifelong learning, adult education local,
  regional, national and international professional
  training
• Kindergarten and Primary School

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Accreditation and Affiliation

• accredited by the Ministry of Education and
  Research (part of the national education system,
  the section Life Long Learning - MO no.
  4685/28.09.1998 and 2133/4.02.2000)
• accredited by the Ministry of Labour, Family and
  Equal Opportunities (MO no. 594/29.11.2006)
• founder member of QUEST Romania (the Romanian
  Association for Quality Language Services) QUEST
  is an associate member of EAQUALS (the European
  Association for Quality Language Services)
• founder member of FocusEd (an International
  Association that promotes Excellence, Diversity
  and Innovation in education)
• founder member of ELAN (a pan-European
  Association that promotes LWULT languages)

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Awards and Distinctions

• 2001 "WorldAware Business Award", an
  international prize offered by the British
  Council for the successful transfer of language
  teaching competencies to other areas of
  education.
• 2002 "European Label, distinction offered by
  the European Commission for the successful
  implementation of the project "Steps to the
  World".
• 2004 "European Label, distinction offered by
  the European Commission for the successful
  implementation of the project "eLancenet (Lingua
  1 project)
• 2007 "European Label, distinction offered by
  the European Commission for the successful
  implementation of the project Interact
  (Leonardo project)

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Chain stories (2006 2009)

• Lingua 1 project financed by the EC under the LLP
• Partner countries Portugal, Spain, Italy,
  France, Romania
• Objectives Chainstories is meant to create an
  international framework within which children can
  discover what multilingualism is, what it means
  for their particular contexts and how they can
  model it to achieve their goals. Through
  observing the common issues and the differences
  within the same family language children better
  understand the connections between the diverse
  countries. This also includes a cultural
  component helping children acquire new
  information on their international partners.
• Target group children between 8 and 12 years,
  from 500 to 2,000 schools in Europe.
• Results Children write a part of the story in
  the native language, and then send it to other
  school from another country, they decrypt the
  content and write a next part of the story and
  then send it to another school.
• http//www.chainstories.eu

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Chain stories (2006 2009)

• http//www.chainstories.eu

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No Child Left Behind (2007 2009)

• Comenius project financed by the EC under the LLP
  
• Partner countries Lithuania, Poland, Romania,
  Spain and Bulgaria
• Objectives
• No Child Left Behind investigates the provision
  of, and teaching approaches to study support and
  compares strengths and weaknesses to agree on a
  series of good practices which are
  internationally exchangeable.
• Target group
• school children aged 5-18
• Results
• A training programme will be devised for teachers
  and trainers of study support, which offers a
  structure containing imaginative and flexible
  methodologies, including latest ICT technologies,
  and in-built quality assurance mechanisms aimed
  at motivating teachers and trainers into
  producing an enriched and more stimulating study
  support curriculum for their own school.

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TOOL2 - Tool for Online and Offline Language
Learning (2006 2009)

• Lingua 2 project financed by the EC under the LLP
• Partner countries Estonia, Slovenia, Greece,
  Belgium, Hungary, Malta, UK, Spain, Romania
• Objectives
• The project undertakes to create a blended
  learning system, online and offline, with
  materials for learning and teaching in five
  languages Dutch, Estonian, Hungarian, Maltese,
  and Slovene, based on a methodology which is
  readily transferable to the learning and teaching
  of other languages.
• Target group learners of basic A2 level courses
  for work/ study/ leisure mobility purposes
  learners in need of flexibility
• Results
• five Blended Learning basic A2 level courses with
  a strong cultural component to be set up by
  teachers and language centres across Europe
• highly demonstrative dissemination events
• http//www.toolproject.eu/

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ALL - Autonomous Language Learning (2006 2008)

• Lingua 2 Project financed by the EC under the LLP
• Partner countries Spain, Lithuania, Bulgaria,
  Romania, Turkey
• Objectives
• to create materials at Level A2 for 4 LWULT
  languages Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Romanian and
  Turkish
• to apply the Common European Framework to
  Level A2 where the descriptors do not already
  exist
• to use online technologies in a blended
  learning course
• to transfer the methodology of blended
  learning to other providers in the four target
  language countries.
• to create courses which are flexible for
  online activities, so that the course can be
  updated and adapted to the needs of different
  users
• to develop learner autonomy
• Results
• 4 blended learning courses for Romanian,
  Turkish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian
• www.allproject.info

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ELSTI - European Languages for Secretaries (2008-
2010)

• Leonardo da Vinci Transfer of Innovation project
  financed by the EC under the LLP
• Partner countries Italy, Lithuania, UK, Romania
• Objective
• developing the communication skills ( linguistic
  cultural) in four languages English, Italian,
  French and Spanish
• Target group
• office staff (A2/ B1)
• Results (available on the online platform)
• 1. Business language courses (2 levels, 4
  languages)
• 2. Training package aiming at facilitating
  personal development
• 3. Business culture modules (9 1 European
  cultures)
• 4. Student motivation module
• http//www.business-languages.net/

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The Dinocrocs travel to the BalkansLeonardo da
Vinci Transfer of Innovation project financed
by the EC under the LLP

• How children learn to communicate effectively in
  a foreign language?
• The foreign language is learned through the
  creation of a context in which we speak, live and
  act exclusively in the new language it is the
  fantastic world of Hocus Lotus.
• With Hocus Lotus the children engage in a
  variety of activities characterized by love and
  emotional involvement and structured in such a
  way that they respect the rhythm, time and skills
  of each and every one of them, by going through
  the different stages of foreign language
  acquisition process.

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Partner countries Bulgaria, Romania, Italy,
TurkeyTarget group Teacher-trainers (? train
other teachers)Primary school children

• Objectives
• support improvement of the quality and
  attractiveness of the BG, RO and TK vocational
  systems of pre-school and primary school
  education
• integrating the Innovative model for training the
  pre-school and primary school trainers and
  teachers (The Adventures of Hocus and Lotus)
  implemented in IT, UK, DE, FR, ES into the BG, RO
  and TK national and sectoral training systems
• Results
• A new teaching and training method (paper-based,
  CD-ROM, website)
• www.hocus-lotus.edu

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Office InterActors (2009 -2010)

• Leonardo da Vinci - Transfer of Innovation
  project
• Partners Romania, Spain, Lithuania, France,
  Bulgaria, UK
• Objectives
• communication in a foreign language (English
  French, Spanish, Dutch, Lithuanian, Bulgarian
  and/or Romanian
• negotiation and team work (including for
  international cooperation)
• ICT skills
• knowledge and awareness of different office
  practices in other countries
• Target group office managers, secretaries
• Focus on
• develop skills auxiliary to the work domain of
  the beneficiaries
• encourage international awareness
• create a flexible structure
• Results
• site and customized moodle platform
• analysis of needs
• methodological harmonization
• two rounds of courses
• conference and project kit that would support
  blended teaching/ learning
• www.officeinteractors.eu

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EAT - Eating Abroad Together(2007- 2009)

• KA2 project financed by the EC under the LLP
• Partner countries Romania, Bulgaria, Italy,
  Netherlands ,the UK
• Aims
• to raise awareness on the importance of healthy
  eating
• to improve the quality, attractiveness and
  accessibility of language learning by developing
  and promoting methodologies that are innovative
  and fun
• to share traditions and customs
• Target group children aged 7-12 (20 committed
  primary schools )

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ActivitiesResearching healthy eatingKeeping
food diariesMaking presentations on family
habitsWriting lettersCooking Writing
recipesInvolving the family
LETS COOK!!!

• Results
• Workshops in schools with the children
• Online data bank with healthy eating information
  collected by the children

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LIS - Language and Integration through Singing
(2008 2010)

• Grundtvig Learning Partnership
• Producing, testing and evaluating teaching
  material for IT, RU and RO explicitly using music
• Objectives
• to develop innovative ICT-based content,
  techniques and practice
• to transfer the methodological approach of the
  project
• to strengthen the capacity for teacher training
  and development
• to improve quality and co-operation among
  organisations involved in adult education
• to raise cultural awareness
• to promote integration of migrants

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VIVACEThe Lingua 1 project was financed by the
EC under the LLP

• Partner countries
• UK, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Czech Republic,
  Austria, Hungary
• Objective
• The VIVACE project promotes languages and
  language learning to disadvantaged, marginalised
  and reluctant groups, working in close
  collaboration with those agencies and
  organisations which support them.
• Target group
• disadvantaged, marginalised and reluctant groups
• Results
• foreign languages sessions with members of the
  targeted groups

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Thank you!

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• www.euroed.ro