SOCRATES is Europe's education programme and involves around 30 European countries. SOCRATES seeks to promote language learning, and to encourage mobility and innovation.
Hariduskoostöö keskus was formed on the basis of the Estonian National Socrates and Leonardo Agencies in connection with the launch of the new Life-Long Learning Programme.
This eEuro Inclusion portal gives less widely used less taught (LWULT) languages in Europe a stronger voice by bringing together LWULT Language Resource Centres (LRC) from a large number of European countries. This is necessary if LWULT languages are to contribute fully to the future educational and cultural heritage of Europe. eEuro Inclusion gives LWULT LRCs greater visibility at the European level. The online exchange of knowledge, expertise and experience between LRCs is a first step towards the founding of a pan-European Association of LWULT LRCs.
eEuro Inclusion has two main target groups: LRCs that provide LWULT language services and potential seekers of these services.
Lingua Connections / European Cultural Interactions
Lingua Connections is a network of Lingua co-ordinators whose goal is to collect useful tools and methods for the successful dissemination of language products while creating a forum for all Lingua promoters to meet online and exchange ideas about their experiences.
ASSET - Adding Support Skills for European Teachers
ASSET is a Transnational Co-operation Project funded through the European Union's Socrates Grundtvig programme.
It aims to enhance the effectiveness of European Adult Education teachers across a wide range of curriculum areas by providing a self-help tool-kit developing skills in: Learner Centred Methodologies Learner Support Valuing Diversity
EuroIntegrELP is a European project aiming to contribute to the promotion of language learning at high quality standards among adults belonging to various social and professional groups, through the use of the European Language Portfolio (the EAQUALS / ALTE version for adults) as a quality instrument. It seeks to enhance opportunities for social integration and professional development through language learning, including less widely used and taught languages.
The project starts from the premise that in a multicultural and multilingual Europe it is necessary that language learners should be encouraged to value their already existent partial competences in various languages and to develop new ones, to take responsibility for their own learning and to develop self-evaluation skills. Learning foreign languages increases the learners’ chances of social integration in their own country and in an international (European) environment, as well as their opportunities for personal development.
LRC project: Improving support for language learning through Language Resource Centres (LRCs)
This project was co-ordinated by CILT, the National Centre for Languages (UK) and received support from the European Union Socrates (Lingua 1) programme from 2001 - 2003.
The LRC project aimed to improve and support language teaching and learning by sharing expertise between Language Resource Centres throughout Europe. It brought together a network of 17 partners from 13 countries.
One of the main results of the project was the publication:
LRC handbook: Guidelines for setting up, running and expanding Language Resource Centres (LRCs).
A special portal to give EU citizens more information about their rights and opportunities in the EU and also advice how to use these opportunities and rights.
The portal is in 20 languages, the Estonian version can be found at http://europa.eu.int/citizensrights/index_et.cfm
