Projects

 

 

PELLIC

The project aim is to promote language learning practices by developing a Practice Enterprise environment and making it available as an easily accessible open source virtual language learning space for tertiary level education, advanced vocational education and training, and adult continuing education.

 

PELLIC aims to create a virtual learning environment (VLE) and course materials for language courses. Project outcomes include teacher support material in order to facilitate adaptation of results for other European languages.

The project integrates tertiary level, advanced and continuing vocational as well as lifelong language learning into authentic multicultural working life and business contexts and increases the motivation for language learning, whatever age the learners are.

PELLIC is coordinated byTurku University of Applied Sciences.

 

 

AVALON:

Access to Virtual and Action Learning LIve Online

This project focuses on facilitating language learning in virtual 3D worlds.

 

DeafPort:

The main objective is to develop a multilungual European Language Portfolio for the Deaf and Hearing- Impaired

 

DEW:

Diverse Europe at Work

The project aims to advocate intercultural communication as a key competence of lifelong learning for all in the European workplace.

 

 

Completed Projects:

ICC INTERACTIVE

Christel Schneider, ICC, presents Project activELP at VHS Open Day in Hamburg 14/09/08Christel Schneider, ICC, presents Project activELP at VHS Open Day in Hamburg 14/09/08

ICC holds up with the latest technology, introducing its Project activELP on an Interactive Whiteboard.

An Interactive Whiteboard is a large board that connects to a computer and digital projector. When connected to both it displays the desktop of the computer on the board's surface. With the special Interactive Whiteboard software that comes with the board, you can upload files, quizzes or presentations. You can navigate the computer from the board's surface with a special pen.

 

 

In the activELP project the Interactive Whiteboard plays a special role.

Part of the project is to train language teachers to implement the European Language Portfolio via Interactive Whiteboard in their classes. The classroom tasks prepared by project partners for the teacher training include quizzes,  webreferences, internet research and access to various resources as video clips, sound tracks etc. which can be most effectively dealt with via Interactive Whiteboards.

 

We'll keep you informed about further developments in this very exciting project.

The ICC promotes participation of member organisations within the ICC in relevant national and international projects and developments.


A lot of useful and valuable teaching/training material has been developed in past projects. These materials are obtainable at the ICC head office (free copies for member organisations).

Helsinki Award 2006Helsinki Award 2006


Linguapeace Europe: Winner of Helsinki Awards 2006

Great news from Boian Savtchev, ECET Bulgaria, ICC Treasurer and Coordinator of the Linguapeace Europe Project (LPE). The LPE has received one of the 10 'Helsinki Awards 2006' for best practice.
The ICC- The European Language Network had a central role in this project, being responsible for the design and delivery of the European Language Portfolio designed for peacekeeping English. The prize was announced at the meeting of the European ministers by the EU Commissioner Ján Figel and the Finnish Minister of Education and Science Antti Kalliomäki, who presented the awards on 4 December, and the 10 awarded projects were then presented at the Conference "From Copenhagen to Helsinki" held on 5 December 2006 in Helsinki, Finland, which supplemented the Ministerial Meeting. The project is also included in the Best Practice Projects Compendium (2000-2006), a special publication of the European Commission. More info can be found at http://www.minedu.fi/vet2006
You can find the conference materials (e.g. presentations, photos) on the following website: http://www.leonardodavinci.fi/index-eng.html

A list of the Helsinki Award 2006 winners can also be found on the following website: http://www.leonardodavinci.fi/index-eng.html