SOCRATES LINGUA 1 EURO LANGUAGES NET Reference No'89856CP120011LtLinguaL1

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SOCRATES / LINGUA 1 EURO LANGUAGES
NETReference No.89856-CP-1-2001-1-Lt-Lingua-L1
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EURO LANGUAGES NET www.euro-languages.net

• OBJECTIVES
• Will be designed to create an Internet resource
  of less widely used European Languages for the
  general public
• The best high quality practices, language
  learning and teaching resources as well as new
  language learning possibilities will be provided
• International conference will be organised in
  Lithuania in 2004

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EURO LANGUAGES NETPARTICIPATING COUNTRIES
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EURO LANGUAGES NETPARTNERS

• LANGUAGE SCHOOLS
• UNIVERSITIES
• CENTRES FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING
• The VOCATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE
• PUBLISHERS
• TRADE UNIONS

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EURO LANGUAGES NET BUDGET APPROVED

• TYPE OF COSTS APPROVED BUDGET IN EUR
  COMMUNITY GRANT
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• STAFF COSTS 145,345 26,460
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• TOTAL FOR DIRECT COSTS 175,000 168,540
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• GENERAL COSTS 20,000
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• TOTAL 340,345 195,000

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EURO LANGUAGES NET PROGRESS REPORT

• Annual meeting of project partners organised in
  Vilnius ( 14-16 February 2002)
• System development monitoring tool launched (25
  April 2002)
• Project logo created and announced on the website
  (10 June 2002)
• The first FORUM/CONFERENCE organised (
  June-September 2002)
• Internal and external evaluation done (May-June
  2002)
• Experts recommendations discussed with all
  partners and those changes introduced ( August-
  September 2002)

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EURO LANGUAGES NETPROGRESS IN LITHUANIA

• Dissemination
• Seminar organised - 26 April 2002
• EU projects presented at the Baltic IATEFL
  Conference in Riga , Latvia (16-18 August, 2002)
• Articles in Europos inios , Informacinis
  Leidinys and Baltic News published

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EURO LANGUAGES NETPROGRESS IN LITHUANIA

• Gathering of information on the Lithuanian
  language providers both in Lithuania and abroad
  done
• Group of experts to create National website
  established, the first meeting organised ( June
  2002)
• First Lithuanian on-line Conference organised

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Progress in other participating countries

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PROGRESS IN BULGARIA

• 2 ACTIVE PARTNERS- ECET and INTEGRA
• Briefing of the parties and the Ministry of
  Education about the project
• Establishing local networking groups in Plovdiv
  and Sofia
• Dissemination of the project at Plovdiv
  University, Institute for Teaching Foreign
  Students, private language schools, distance
  learning providers etc.
• Interview with INTEGRA Chairman of Managing Board
  on the National radio station about the projects
• Preparing and publishing an article in the
  Europe School Magazine
• Development of Current Practises Analysis
  questionnaire.

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AUSTRIA Berufsforderungsinstitut Osterreich

• Desk-based data gathering and needs analysis
• Austrian target group profile established and
  assessed
• Ideas for national website logo collected
• Work on initial Austrian database commenced

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ROMANIAEuroEd and Prosper

• Project teams identified
• National action plan designed
• Project dissemination- project presentation at
  the Romanian National Meeting of the Teacher
  Training Network Institutes, interview on the
  radio channel Cultural Romania, presentations
  at international conferences- Lifelong Learning
  Policies in the New Millenniumand Way to
  Proficiency, organised by RATE
• The Romanian language identity card created

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PORTUGALFLEP

• Information about the Portuguese language
• Local group formed
• Information on language providers gathered
• Meeting to discuss the creation of the website
  organised
• Briefing local institutions about the project.

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POLANDAMU

• Project presentation and dissemination done at
  the conference in Warsaw organised by National
  Socrates Agency
• Briefing the University authorities
• Project team identified,networking done
• Project coordinators meeting in Poznan
  organised to work on project development in
  Poland

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ESTONIA

• National Project team training
• Establishing local network group
• Development of Current Practices Analysis
• Meetings with Estonian language providers
• Information gathering

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FINLAND

• Local project team establishing and training
• Data gathering, discussions with local providers
• Planning the web-site techniques
• Work on national web-site contents.

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SLOVAK REPUBLIC

• Project team establishing and training
• Project team building and briefing
• Local network group meeting organised
• Briefing the National Socrates Agency
• Local monitoring and evaluation of the ELN

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HUNGARY

• Project team formed and training program
  organised
• Information about the Hungarian language
  gathered
• Information about best language practices and
  local providers.

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PASSIVE PARTNERS

• Austrian Trade Union Confederation - will not be
  able to work on the project. (TUC is being
  re-organised , change of priorities)
• SIENA UNIVERSITY-ITALY- Rector is not in Italy.

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QUALITY CONTROL

• INTERNAL
• PARTNERS EVALUATION
• LOCAL COMPUTER SPECIALISTS EVALUATION
• EXTERNAL EVALUATION
• Dr. Dangle Rutkauskiene, Expert of EU programmes,
  Director of Kaunas Regional Distance Education
  Study Centre

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CHALLENGE

• Team building, networking teacher development
• Management skills being improved
• Quality benchmarking
• Innovative ideas, modern technologies