Project Presentation in University College Dublin, Ireland

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University College Dublin (UCD), one of Europe’s leading research-intensive universities, was founded 160 years ago. Originally known as the Catholic University of Ireland and subsequently as the Royal University, the university became UCD in 1908 and a constituent college of the National University of Ireland (NUI). In 1997, UCD became an autonomous university within the loose federal structure of the NUI and UCD students are awarded degrees of the National University of Ireland.
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From August 22 to 26, 2016, UCD hosted an international conference ECER 2016 "Leading Education: The Distinct Contributions of Educational Research and Researchers". ECER is the leading annual conference in educational research taking place in Europe. Each year it is attended by more than 2 000 participants. This year 2 595 participants registered for the conference. 

The work of the ECER conference is organised in central events (plenary sessions, panel discussions, central workshops, etc.) and in 32 different scientific networks dealing with topical issues in education.

Prof. Ineta Luka attended the conference and presented the project in Network 11 „Educational Improvement and Quality Assurance”. The report is available on: http://www.eera-ecer.de/ecer-programmes/print/conference/21/contribution/36994/

The participants highly evaluated the project outputs and the European added value the project has created.

Dr.paed. Ineta Luka, Professor

Manager of Turiba University team

MULTIPLIER EVENT - E2 - Primrose Publishing Ltd, UK at Edge Hotel School University of Esse

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After much delay and uncertainty, the event finally took place at the Edge School in the University of Essex in Colchester on 17 August 2016.

The Edge Hotel School runs a BA course in Hotel Management. It is completed in 2 years so there are no holidays. They continue for the two years uninterrupted.

It means that the course is very intense and for this reason, languages do not form part of the main course.  However, students are encouraged to follow a language at the university, which is on the same site. 

August is the height of the holiday season in Britain and, despite invitations sent to many hotels, none of them were willing to spare any of their staff.

However the students of the Edge Hotel School do all their training in a real hotel:  the Wyvenhoe House Hotel which is one of the most luxurious and expensive hotels in the East of England. It has no staff of its own, apart for the Hotel Manager and Finance Manager. The students are the staff.

The participants included teachers from Essex University and the Edge Hotel School and some of their senior students. The photographer was only available for a specific length of time.

Each student spends a series of 7-week sessions working in the hotel doing different jobs, so they can be regarded as hotel staff. For this reason those attending the event entered their names on the attendance sheet, along with the vice-principal who was formally a hotel manager.

Since I am alone in Primrose Publishing, I had no option but to present every session on my own, although the vice-principal attended throughout and was as helpful as he could be. He is very enthusiastic about our materials and is keen to exploit them.

A young intern, spending his university vacation working at the Edge Hotel School, was able to take photographs.

The programme outlining the content of the event is attached. It is a real shame that none of the important invitees was able to attend.

I have agreed with the head of the University Languages Department that I will run a training session for them during the coming term so they will be able to see all the language material that we have created and which they will be free to use in their teaching.

David Sephton

Primrose Publishing Ltd

Project presentation in the leading education conference in Europe

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ECER (European Conference on Educational Research) is the leading education conference in Europe organised annually since 1992.

The aim of the ‘European Conference on Educational Research’ is to create an inclusive platform for initiating, reporting, discussing and promoting high quality educational research, that not only acknowledges its own context but also recognises wider, transnational contexts with their social, cultural and political similarities and differences. The conference is organised for emerging, as well as experienced, researchers and builds on and promotes free and open dialogue and critical discussion. It has a comprehensive approach to theory, methods, arguments, findings and research ethics http://www.eera-ecer.de/ecer-2016-dublin/.

ECER 2016 "Leading Education: The Distinct Contributions of Educational Research and Researchers" will take place at University College Dublin from 22-26 August, 2016.

Professor Ineta Luka, Turiba University, Latvia, has written a paper based on the piloting results and course evaluation of the project outputs in the partner countries and the paper is published in the online Conference Proceedings. The paper is available on: http://www.eera-ecer.de/ecer-programmes/print/conference/21/contribution/36994/ and on our project webpage in section for public documents: Project presentation in the leading education conference in Europe

MULTIPLIER EVENT (E2-B1) at Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania June 8, 2016

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The second multiplier event within the Erasmus+ project „Key Skills for European Union Hotel Staff” (Project No: 2014-1-HR01-KA2014-007224) was held in Miercurea Ciuc on 8^th June 2016.

The aim of this seminar at Sapientia University was to show what project partners have achieved to do in the project and to gauge reactions and to help identify any weaknesses or problems in the materials. The “products” of the project have been presented in English but the material demonstrated has covered the full range of twelve languages, in our case, especially Hungarian and Romanian. 

In all, 44 participants attended the event and signed the attendance sheet. Out these participants, 30 stakeholders took part: 18 teachers from the schools and universities of the region and 12 industry representatives.

Dr. Zsuzsanna Ajtony, coordinator of the Sapientia team, introduced each of the partners and their institutions, and explained the different parts of the project in which each partner has taken responsibility. She has outlined the structure of the project, highlighted the work carried out and briefly presented each of the modules that has been created.

In order to offer a practical demonstration of the different “products” of the project, the Internet has been used to display the project web-site and the learning program, also showing how the digital maps can be used to get information requested by guests and how the apps can be integrated into the process to help the front-desk clerk know how to provide answers in the guest’s own language. In this line, the Front Desk computer programmes were presented by Zsuzsanna Dégi, who also explained why these can be helpful not only for those working in the tourism industry, but also for language teachers or anyone interested because the displaying screen allows sentences with the same meaning but in different languages to be compared for linguistic purpose. The smartphone apps were presented by Dr. Tünde Nagy who also urged participants to try out the application on their own phones on the spot. The digital maps were presented in detail by Dr. Enikő Tankó and they were much enjoyed by the invited guests due to their colourful look and available information that can be accessed by clicking on the respective hotpoints. Finally, the learning platform was presented by Dr. Enikő Pál in three languages (English, Hungarian and Romanian), who demonstrated the wide range of topics and types of exercises both in the A2/B1 and the B2/C1 modules of the course material.

Both after each presentation and at the end of the event, the invited stakeholders asked questions and were encouraged to try and later use the various materials. The meeting ended with an open discussion.

Dr. Zsuzsanna Ajtony

Project coordinator of Sapientia University team