ARIDLL: Augmented Reality Instructional Design for Language Learning

Erasmus+ KA2

The ARIDLL project aims to develop a cooperation partnership and a professional community in Augmented Reality (AR) instructional design for language learning.

Website: https://aridll.eu/

Project Coordinator: Dr Antigoni Parmaxi

TDP4HE: Transformative Digital Pedagogies for Higher Education

Erasmus+ KA2

The TDP4HE project proposes a transformative pedagogical model for the development of pedagogical competences of academic staff, that makes integral use of digital technologies. The digitalization of teaching and learning processes is not simply the application of digital technologies to enhance traditional teaching methods. Digitalization in classrooms is revolutionary in that it makes it easier to adopt radically different and innovative student-centred approaches. By adopting transformative pedagogical approaches, this project aims to develop a model that links transformative pedagogies (learner-centred, opposed to transmissive, teacher-centred, approaches) to the use of digital technologies and to develop a transdisciplinary training programme to foster innovative ways of teaching and learning for academic teaching staff from different disciplines.

Website: https://transformative-pedagogies.univ-tech.eu/

Project Coordinator: Dr Elis Kakoulli Constantinou

DigiTREE: Enriching youth digital, media, and soft skills using virtual mobility experiences in Sub-Saharan Africa and the EU

Erasmus -EDU-2023-VIRT-EXCH, ERASMUS-LS

DigiTREE facilitates intercultural exchange between countries in the EU and Sub-Saharan Africa, fostering mutual understanding through virtual exchanges wherein youth must work collaboratively, using popular social media and digital platforms. Through DigiTREE, young people will learn to understand and respect differences and develop a more complex worldview.  

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Project Coordinator: Dr Anna Nicolaou

DRFLEMP: Digital Reality in Foreign Language Education for Medical Professionals

Erasmus KA2

The research project aims to support digital transformation in foreign language education in the EU, whilst focusing on filling the existing gaps and raising efficacy of foreign language education by nursing and caretaking students, as well as already qualified professionals, through immersive learning environments that can address the challenges of digitization in educational systems.

Website: https://drflemp.eu/

Project Coordinator: Dr Antigoni Parmaxi

Openlang: The OPENLang Network

Erasmus+ KA2

This project aims specifically at developing ‘The OPENLang Network’, which envisages to connect all the Erasmus+ KA1 Mobility Participants (HE students and staff, VET (at least 1 month mobility), Adult and School education staff, Youth learners, Youth Workers, Youth Entrepreneurs) in an OPEN informal and highly interactive online environment which could support more efficiently their effort to develop their language skills of the target mobility EU languages. In parallel, it will support their cultural understanding and integration in the host EU country as well as their success in their specific subject field of study and/or work.

Website: https://www.openlangnet.eu/

Project Coordinator: Dr Antigoni Parmaxi

DE-TEL: Doctoral Education for Technology-Enhanced Learning

Erasmus+ KA2

Doctoral Education for Technology-Enhanced Learning (DE-TEL) project will establish and deepen a strategic partnership for doctoral education in Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL). DE-TEL brings together 9 internationally renowned universities and the European Association of TechnologyEnhanced Learning to reflect their expertise in doctoral education into a new internationally validated program in TEL, extended with rich and professionally produced Open Educational Resources. The project grounds the design of the new program in the best practices in TEL doctoral education across Europe as well as institutional and national requirements.

Website: https://ea-tel.eu/de-tel

Project Coordinator: Dr Androulla Athanasiou

DC4LT: Digital Competences for Language Teachers

Erasmus+ KA2

The DC4LT project aims at empowering EU Language Teachers with Digital Competences in order to strengthen them with open and innovative tools and methodologies, and be able to teach online and mobile to a worldwide audience. The project will also target organisations that deliver language training, providing them with clear guidance on deploying and using ICT and changing their practices to be more sustainable.

Website:https://www.dc4lt.eu/

Project Coordinator: Dr Elis Kakoulli Constantinou

VALIANT: Virtual Innovation and Support Networks for Teachers

Erasmus+ KA3

VALIANT’s first objective is to test the efficiency of Virtual Innovation and Support Networks as an approach which will contribute to overcoming teachers’ sense of isolation and low motivation in rural areas and isolated contexts and also to developing teachers’ ability to operate effectively in online international networks of professional collaboration. The second objective of the experimentation is to test the efficiency of this form of Virtual Exchange for providing students of Initial Teacher Education with access to the realities of the teaching profession through regular interaction with in-service teachers integrated into their study programme.

Website: https://valiantproject.eu/

Project Coordinator: Dr Anna Nicolaou

EUt+: European University of Technology

Erasmus+ European Universities

The European University of Technology, EUt+ is the result of the alliance of eight European partners who share in common : the “Think Human First” vision towards a human-centred approach to technology; the ambition to establish a new type of institution on a confederal basis.

Website: https://www.univ-tech.eu/

Members of the research team: Dr Antigoni Parmaxi, Dr Elis Kakoulli Constantinou, Dr Anna Nicolaou

Dokiglo (Δοκιγλώ): Language Proficiency Tests

Research and Innovation Foundation in collaboration with the MCD Beyond Speech Clinical Framework

The research programme aims at identifying linguistic behaviours in typically developing children. The philosophy of this project lies in Evidence-Based Testing.

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Member of the research team: Dr Androulla Athanasiou

Global TALES: Global TALES: Talking About Lived Experiences in Stories

Child Language Committee of the International Association for Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP)

The Global TALES project was initiated by the Child Language Committee of the International Association for Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP) in 2018. In this project, an international team of researchers (including Australia, New Zealand, UK, USA, Russia, Israel, Cyprus, Greece) set out to investigate methods for eliciting and analyzing children’s personal event narratives, with the ultimate aim of developing global tools and approaches to support interventions for this important skill in children with significant challenges in their learning, including those with language disorders. During 2018/2019, an elicitation protocol (the Global TALES protocol) was developed and conducted a pilot study, in which we used the protocol to elicit personal narratives from 10-year-old children from a range of countries. The protocol has been registered and interested parties are kindly asked to contact the project leader (A/Prof Marleen Westerveld) for permission to use the protocol for research purposes.

Website: https://osf.io/ztqg6/

Member of the research team: Dr Androulla Athanasiou

ENIS: European Network on International Student Mobility: Connecting Research and Practice

COST Action

This Action responds to the pressing need for systematic interdisciplinary and international exchange of knowledge on theoretical frameworks, research methodologies, findings, and best practice examples, and for translating scientific findings into recommendations for ISM practice.

Website: https://www.cost.eu/cost-action/european-network-on-international-student-mobility-connecting-research-and-practice/

Member of the research team: Dr Anna Nicolaou

LITHME: Language In The Human-Machine Era

COST Action

LITHME has two aims: to prepare linguistics and its subdisciplines for what is coming; and to facilitate longer term dialogue between linguists and technology developers.

Website: https://lithme.eu/

Member of the research team: Dr Antigoni Parmaxi