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Three projects

Working together: Lessons to be learned in European collaboration Graham Davies Thames Valley University, UK. Three projects. EUROCALL 1 year project Airline Talk Phase 1: 3 year project Phase 2: 1.5 year project ICT4LT 2 year project. EUROCALL: aims & budget. EUROCALL 1993-94

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Three projects

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  1. Working together: Lessons to be learned in European collaborationGraham DaviesThames Valley University, UK

  2. Three projects • EUROCALL • 1 year project • Airline Talk • Phase 1: 3 year project • Phase 2: 1.5 year project • ICT4LT • 2 year project

  3. EUROCALL: aims & budget • EUROCALL 1993-94 • Setting up a professional association • SOCRATES Programme Lingua 5a • 15 000 euros • Spin-off project • CALL courseware development handbook: 20 000 euros

  4. Airline Talk: aims & budget • Airline Talk 1997-2001 • Production multimedia vocational language training materials on CD-ROM • LEONARDO Programme • Phase 1: 544 500 euros • Phase 2: 310 000 euros

  5. ICT4LT: aims & budget • ICT4LT 1998-2000 • Production of ICT training materials for language teachers • SOCRATES Lingua A • (Now SOCRATES Comenius 2.1) • 465 900 euros

  6. Project websites • EUROCALL • http://www.eurocall.org • ICT4LT • http://www.ict4lt.org • Airline Talk • http://www.airline-talk.com

  7. EU Programmes • SOCRATES website • http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/socrates.html • LEONARDO website • http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/leonardo.html

  8. Other projects • European Language Council (ELC) 1996- • SOCRATES ERASMUSComplementary Measures • http://www.fu-berlin.de/elc

  9. ELC spin-off projects • DIALANG 1996- • http://www.dialang.org • Thematic Network Projects 1 & 2 1996- • See ELC site: http://www.fu-berlin.de/elc

  10. Bad news (1) • Organising academics is like herding cats • Forms, forms, forms… • Reports, reports, reports… • Meetings, bloody meetings...

  11. Bad news (2) • Alice in Wonderland schedules • Pernickety bureaucrats • Business partners (SMEs) can go bankrupt! • EU staff can get dismissed!

  12. Good news • Intellectual challenge • Spirit of transnational collaboration • Personal development • Satisfaction of achieving a successful outcome • You get to meet all kinds of interesting people in beautiful places...

  13. The ICT4LT team in Finland

  14. A view from our hotel in Venice

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