The project has been promoted by Federazione Nazionale Insegnanti Centro
di iniziativa per l�Europa � FENICE � Naples, Italy � a non-profit teacher
association which supports any initiative favouring the integration of the
intellectual resources of schools in the cultural growth of society, promotes
and plans initiatives, training projects, refresher courses, the cultural
improvement of teachers as well as research and experimentation in the
teaching field, and takes part in the research and development of technologies
in order to make learning easier. Furthermore it publishes a review called �Scuol@Europa�
sent to all secondary schools in Italy
and a newsletter sent out three times a year in three languages (IT, EN, FR) all
over Europe to institutions and policy makers.
The newsletter contains information on its activities in transnational
partnerships in European Projects (17 until now). The aim is to let a wider
audience know the products and the methods developed by transnational
partnerships, and to encourage the exchange of ideas and experiences.
This project combines two European projects Grundtvig Learning
Partnership, the first, carried out in the two-year-period 2008-2010, was
dedicated to Italian, Romanian and Russian while the second one, to be realized
from 2010 to 2012, is addressed to French and Spanish.
The FENICE�s partners in the first project were
institutions from Bulgaria, Romania and
Slovak:
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Euroinform Ltd � Sofia,
Bulgaria - is a
company concerned with designing and introducing modern teaching methods in
adult training and language teaching. Among the main goals of the
organisation there are development of motivation for language learning among
adults, including learners with special education needs, with the view to
improving their employability, soft skills training, development and
delivery of methodology and training of trainers in language learning and
introduction of innovative methodologies in formal and non-formal education.
The company cooperates with a number of educational establishments, adult
training centres, language schools, etc. The organisation pays particular
attention to the needs of adult language learners with visual impairments
and explores and develops teaching methods to encourage their creativity and
motivation.
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EuroEd Foundation �
Iasi,
Romania - is accredited by the
Romanian Ministry of Education and Research and is part of the national
education system, the Life Long Learning section.
The Foundation is a founder member of QUEST (The Romanian Association
for Quality Language Services) and QUEST is an associate member of EAQUALS
(The European Association for Quality Language Services). EuroEd Foundation
includes now the Regional Centre for Education and Communication (life long
learning - adult education: local, regional, national and international
professional training) and houses, the International Language Centre
(foreign language courses and Romanian as a foreign language), the Regional
Centre for European Integration (the implementation of local, regional,
national and international projects) and the EuroEd Kindergarten and Primary
School. Furthermore EuroEd Foundation has its base in
Iasi, a city near the border with
Moldova and with close
relations with institutions there.
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The E-KU Institute of Language and Intercultural Communication in Nitra,
Slovakia is a language education provider, operating with all age groups
interested in learning any of these languages: English, German, Italian,
Russian, French, Spanish and Slovak for Foreigners. Therefore it is highly
interested in employing new, modern and innovative teaching methods in its
language programmes.
In addition to the above the following institutions played an active role
in the Partnership as ASSOCIATED PARTNERS
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"Galileo Ferraris" (Napoli - Italy): a State secondary technical school
dealing with Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology,
provided with multimedia experts of ICT and technologies of management of
sound and video (technical sound, video technician, web designer, web
master, �) as well as of a laboratory equipped with necessary
instrumentation for the accomplishment of the material sound and video.
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�Ufficio Scolastico Provinciale� (Napoli �
Italy) This institution is the
branch of Ministry of education at provincial level. It coordinates the
schools of each level in the
province of
Napoli (2310 schools) in
Campania Region. It will be involved in
piloting of the developed materials
and disseminating the project results within its Adult education Centres
called CPT together with the other two branches of Ministry of education of
Caserta and Frosinone.
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�Ufficio Scolastico Provinciale� (Caserta �
Italy) the branch of
Ministry of education at provincial level. It coordinates the schools of all
levels in the
province of
Caserta (911 schools) in
Campania Region.
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�Ufficio Scolastico Provinciale� (Frosinone �
Italy) the branch of Ministry of
education at provincial level. It coordinates the schools of all levels in
the
province of
Frosinone (640 schools) in Lazio Region
and a network of institutions for a local project aimed at the integration
of foreigners.
The FENICE�s partners in the second project are
institutions from Romania
and Spain:
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The
University of
Bucharest is one of the most
important institutions for higher education in
Romania and every year it involves
in its activity more than 30,000 students specializing in various fields of
learning. As it has been directly involved in the reorganization
of the Romanian teaching
system, the University has taken
measures and conceived several projects leading to the elaboration
of new curricula, national laws and regulations. In 2000 the
University received a special award from the Ministry of Education,
Research, Youth and Sports because of its great merits which make this
institution one of the first 500 universities in the world. Being interested
in national and international collaborations, considered a priority, the
University has concluded many professional agreements (international masters
and courses, doctorates) and has taken part in various European programmes,
such as Erasmus, Lingua, Comenius, Leonardo da Vinci, Unica, Amos, Tempus,
Tempra, etc).The Department of French in the Faculty of foreign Languages
and Literatures, with its 50 members, offers great opportunities of training
in linguistics, literary studies, translation and translation studies,
applied modern languages, teaching methodology and anthropology. The
students specialising in French must attend a course of methodology and a
six-month teaching stage and during them they have to hand out teaching
projects. The University is also in charge of the teachers� in-service
training. A hundred a year follow the courses planned for them.
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IES �Ribeiro do
Louro� is a secondary high school giving general
education, vocational training and courses for lifelong learning. It
is situated in Porrino (Pontevedra),
Spain and has 68
teachers and about 600 hundred students. Among its specialised courses it
has advanced training courses in International Trade, Management,
Telecommunication Systems and Computer Science. It has a great experience in
planning and teaching European courses and has been both a partner and a
promoter in projects within the Socrates, Leonardo and Youth programme and
Sudoeste Interreg. Many of these projects are focused to language learning
and contribute to the social and economic integration of minorities.
In addition to the above mentioned, the following institutions will act
as ASSOCIATED PARTNERS and will have an active role in the project:
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ITIS "Galileo Ferraris" (Napoli - Italy): a State secondary technical school
dealing with Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology,
provided with multimedia experts of ICT and technologies of management of
sound and video (technical sound, video technician, web designer, web
master, �) as well as of a laboratory equipped with necessary
instrumentation for the accomplishment of the material sound and video.
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The �Anastasia Popescu� School (Bucharest �
Romania) is a private
institution certified by the Romanian Ministry of Education, Research and
Sports. Beside the usual teaching work, the curriculum includes several
activities to train and develop
the learners� artistic skills. According to their inclinations, the students
attend drama classes, instrumental or vocal music classes, visual arts
classes, sports, dance sessions. Foreign languages (French, German and
English) are one of the main focuses in this school. Their intense
teaching/learning activity leads to the organization of performances, arts
exhibitions and to participation in many competitions, both inside and
outside the school.
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The �Stefan Luchian�
School of
Arts (Botosani �
Romania) is an institution
specializing in arts and music. It is a kind of comprehensive school going
from primary to high school. The school organizes several artistic
activities such as recitals, concerts, individual or group exhibitions,
school competitions for all the school subjects and contests to assess the
learners� interpretative and creative skills. The students are also trained
in voluntary activities organized by the local community.
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The
National
College �Ion Neculce� (Bucharest �
Romania) is a leading institution
for the high level of education given to its students. The senior high
school offers a variety of
possibilities to carry out very diversified classes. This institution is
Point of European documentation, Training Centre of the teachers, Centre of
Documentation and Information, of the National Program carried out in
partnership with the
France embassy,
authorized centre of evaluation
ECDL, CISCO, ECL. The presence of a very competent and
demanding teaching staff has meant excellent results of the students in the
national and international school contests and a gold medal for the
international contest of projects "Informatix."
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The IES Pedra da Auga (Ponteareas �
Spain) is a state
school extremely active in developing projects to improve the language
skills of their students. Currently they are performing three different
projects: PROA Project, sponsored by the Spanish government, whose aim is to
improve the educational results of students with learning difficulties; a
workshop for improving the motivation to learn languages and the creativity
of the students by using songs, and, the third one, which consists in
improving multilinguistic skills by the use of songs. The last one, called,
YOGOTE, is a long term programme involving a number of students who are
learning several different languages. Its website is
www.es.yogote.net and is becoming very popular
as a new approach for teaching languages. They are members of UNESCO
Associated Schools (ASPnet) networking, whose
aim is to reinforce the humanistic, ethical, cultural and
international dimensions of education.