PartnersEuropean programme:
Lifelong Learning Programme
Comenius, Grundtvig, ICT and Languages
call for proposal 2007, Transversal Programme,
Key Activities 2: Languages, Multilater Project
Coordinating Institution:
Edizioni Novacultur, Rome, ITALY
GLOTTODRAMA administrative office:
Via Bocca di Leone 36, 00187 Roma
Tel: +39.06.99700347/+39.06.99701566
e-mail:
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Partners:
2010:
Ankara University Tomer, Ankara, TURKEY
Euroinform ltd, Sofia, BULGARY
Cial Centro de Lìnguas, Lisbon, PORTUGAL
Universidad Politécnica de València, Valencia, SPAIN
Centre de Recherche et d’Etudes Italiennes, Paris, FRANCE
School of Italian language and culture “Perugia ", Athens, GREECE
University of Bucharest, Bucharest, ROMANIA
2008/2009:
University of Rome“Tor Vergata”, Department of Literature & Philosophy, Rome, ITALY
Centro Territoriale Permanente “Nelson Mandela”, Rome, ITALY
Centre de Recherche et d’Etudes Italiennes, Paris, FRANCE
School of Italian language and culture “Perugia ", Athens, GREECE
Universisty of Bucharest, Bucharest, ROMANIA
The partnership was put together based on previous experience in glottodidactic research that centers on the same objectives of methodological renewal. Culturiana, the journal review for teachers, enabled partners to meet each other and gain acquaintance with the Coordinating Institute. On the basis of this collaboration of many years and after an in depth consultation following our participation at the InfoDays of Brussels (January 2006) on the new actions of LLP, it was decided to respond to the announcement with a specific project of a transversal nature, bringing together some of the work ideas and the documentary research developed during these years and published in part both in our journal and in editorial series connected to “The Culturiana Library”. Through this partnership the project wishes to accumulate the experience and the heterogeneous competencies from both in the public and private sectors able to cover an ample range of potentialbeneficiaries, in this way assuring a real transversality of its objectives. All the members of the partnership have a long and consolidated experience in the organisation and/ or in the management of Italian language courses to foreigners, assuring the project with specific competencies, from the sphere of documentary research (the CREI of Paris) to that of university teaching (University of Tor Vergata (Rome) and University of Bucharest); and all have collaborated on various levels in the past with educational programs of the European Union. The working language will be Italian, however, to assure an optimal circulation of the project results on a European level, the Guide to the Method will also be translated into English.
List of Partners
Ankara University Tomer
Sevket kansu binasi, emniyet mah, incitas sok. a blok no:10
06510 Ankara- Turkey
Web site: www.tomer.ankara.edu.tr
TOMER, established in 1984, is the language school of Ankara University and teaches 20 foreign languages mainly to adults, young adults and children . TOMER is famous as one of the first institutions in the world to teach Turkish as a FL and receives thousands of foreign students from abroad in a year. TOMER has 12 branches all over Turkey. The institution has specific expertise in FL teaching, material development for traditional classes and for online learning, writing course books, organizing academic seminars, teacher training (for Turkish as an FL), preparing exams and EU projects management and applications. TÖMER is the only institution in Turkey authorized to issue ELP for adults prepared according to the CEFR having the accreditation number 56-2004, and has been granted the EU Language Label Award in 2006. The institution has 543 employees, 348 of which are lecturers.
Euroinform ltd
Slavyanska 19
1000 Sofia – Bulgary
Web site: www.euroinformbg.com
The company deals with consulting services in foreign language teaching and adult training. Euroinform has been participating in EU project cooperation since 1985. The company is involved both as a promoter and a partner in projects dealing with design and delivery of language teaching materials including interactive language courses and language training to learners with special needs. For the latter the company is recognized at the European level. Its "Listen and Touch" project has been awarded the Silver prize of the European Commission. Main interests of the company are in the development, testing and introduction of innovative teaching methods for various groups of adult learners, promotion of less widely used languages and guiding language teaching and learning process towards the recognized European standards. Currently the company coordinates two language projects (under Socrates Lingua 2 and LLP KA2)
Cial Centro de Lìnguas
Av. da República 41
1050-187 Lisbon- Portugal
Web site: www.cial.pt
Language school. Recognised by the Ministry of Education. Developer of language teaching materials. Teaching Portuguese to foreigners and foreign languages to portuguese students.
Polytechnic University of Valencia
Camino de Vera, 14
46022 València- Spain
Web site: http://www.upv.es/
UPV is a HE public institution with 37000 students enrolled in one of the 56 degrees available at one of the University's 15 schools and faculties. It has 2000 members of teaching staff and approximately 1000 members of staff belonging to administration and services. UPV has 44 departments, one of which is the Department of Applied Linguistics, composed of 90 language teachers. The languages taught are: English, French, Italian, Spanish /FL, German, Catalan, Chinese, Japanese. Members of the Department have been involved in several major EU-funded co-operation projects. The University has a yearly average of 1000 outgoing ERASMUS students and approximately 900 incoming exchange students, who are co-ordinated through the centralised International Relations Office. In addition to the Applied Linguistics Department, UPV also has a Language Centre that organises extracurricular language courses for the entire community and an R&D&I Linguistic Assistance Office, devoted to increasing UPV's international visibility in terms of research, development and innovation. One of the University's priorities is Quality Assurance, for which it created a specialised unit that deals with these matters.
CREI – Centre de Recherches et d’Etudes Italiennes
Roi De Sicile 10 – 74004, Paris- France
Web site: http://www.librairieitalienne.com/
CREI is first of all a Teaching Resource Centre for Italian as a foreign language. It is a unique centre in France and collects most of teaching methods on all supports. In 1998 it published a bibliography with 1300 entries and since then it publishes regularly updated catalogues. It established (together with the research lab « CIRRMI » - Sorbonne Nouvelle) the Italian database of the web site "Educasup" (Ministry of Higher Education and Research). With the University of Lyon II, it created a database of teaching activities for sequences taken from different RAI programs. It is one of the founding members of the « Project for Italian Language in France », which promotes the Italian language in France. With a similar purpose it organized for 5 years a literary prize for non-Italian speaking students. It is a consultant for schools, universities, libraries, publishers, etc. and organizes regularly presentations, seminars, conferences, and teachers’ trainings.
Perugia Language School
Londou 8 Solonos 116, Athens- Greece
Web site: www.zogopoulou.gr
Perugia Language School, founded in 1982, has a great experience in teaching Italian to Greek students, in preparing them for the admission exams of the Italian universities. During the last five years we have been teaching Turkish language, representing the University of Ankara - Tomer. Its publishing house, "Perugia", has a great production of Italian and Turkish (in collaboration with Ankara University - Tomer) Language Learning Books, dictionaries, grammars, exercise books, coursebooks for young learners, "simplified literature".
Universitatea din Bucuresti
Faculty of foreign language and literature- Italian language and literature
36-46, M. Kogalniceanu BD, Sector 5, 70709, Bucarest- Romania
Web site: www.unibuc.ro/en/fac_flls_en
In 1694 Constantin Brâncoveanu, ruler of Wallachia, had founded the Princely Academy of Saint Sava in Bucharest with lectures delivered in Greek. In 1859, the Faculty of Law was created. In 1857, Carol Davila created the National School of Medicine and Pharmacy. On July 4/16 1864 Prince Alexander John Cuza created the University of Bucharest, bringing together the Faculties of Law, Sciences and Letters as one single body. Currently the University has 18 departments (faculties). As a result of developing its curricula around the student and emphasizing excellence in teaching, the University of Bucharest is ranked among the leading institutions of higher education in the world, The University is closely engaged with counterparts across the world, and maintains extensive student and teacher exchange programs.
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Via Columbia 00133
Web site: www.lettere.uniroma2.it
The University of Rome “Tor Vergata” is active in the field of Italian language teaching in many directions. It organizes summer courses in Italian Language and Culture for foreign research students of the University for levels A1 to C2. Furthermore, the Faculty offers a didactic program in the teaching of Italian as a foreign language (C2 European Framework) for teachers and aspiring teachers, both Italian and foreign. For the three-year period 2005 to 2007, it organized six month intensive courses in Italian language, from level 0 to level B2, in the sphere of the Marco Polo Project, concerning giving Chinese students access to their own degree courses, on the basis of an agreement made between the Chinese People’s Republic and the Italian Republic, in place since 2nd October 2006. The Distance Learning School of the University has started a Level II Masters Degree in “Theory, Methodology and Routes of Italian Culture for Foreign Students”. The University Linguistic Centre offers courses in Italian to foreign students of the University.
C.T.P. “N. Mandela”
Via dell’Esquilino, 1- 00185 Roma
Web site: http://utenti.romascuola.net/primo-ctp-roma
The First Permanent Rome Local Centre “N. Mandela” is an integral part of the Comprehensive State Institute “D. Manin”. In accordance with the order N. 455/1997 of the Minister of Education, which established Adult Education Centres (EDA), it carries out activities in language teaching and in literacy, both primary and returning, also aimed at an eventual access to higher levels of education and to vocational training. There are 3200 participants, both Italian and foreigners, from the age of fifteen upwards. The main course offerings are Italian course L2 at levels “0”, “1”, “2”, “3”, frequented by students coming from all parts of the planet, above all from Asia and Africa, foreign language courses: Arab, English, French, Spanish; Course in computing of various levels; Workshops in Photography, Art, Painting, Theatre; Courses for the attainment of a Leaving School Certificate.
