NANO TECHNOLOGY SCIENCE EDUCATION (NTSE)
ref. № 511787-LLP-1-2010-1-TR-KA3-KA3MP

NTS aims to use ICT as a tool to make the learning of science subjects more attractive and accessible. The project target groups are students from the general and vocational schools aged 13 to 18; teachers in science subject, plus college & university students attending science education courses (prospective school teachers in sciences). The project will establish a Virtual Lab, as an experimental virtual aid to science learning. This will serve as a platform for science lessons, as a database of teaching materials and as a hub for science-learning-related graphic aids and recorded and illustrated appealing experiments on Nano-Tech. It will include a Nano-Science Center, presenting to learners and their in-service or future teachers the miracles of the nano-technologies. A program for a week Science Camp training including hands-on experiments and demonstrations will be developed and delivered through the VL, this is a good step as an approbation of the contents and functionalities of the virtual lab.

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Tell Me How (ELPBVI+)
ref. No: 511622-LLP-1-2010-1-BG-KA2-KA2AM

‘Tell Me How!’ project promotes and disseminates the European Language Portfolio for the Blind and Visually Impaired (ELPBVI). The ELPBVI is an electronic model of the European Language Portfolio created for the blind visually impaired language learners by a consortium of European partners in 2008-2009.The European Language Portfolio for the Blind and Visually Impaired has been accredited by the ELP Validation Committee at the Council of Europe (Accreditation No 108.2010). The ELPBVI is a multilingual language portfolio: the user can choose between English, German, Bulgarian and Greek languages. In the ‘Tell Me How!’ project in addition to these four languages, we will make the ELPBVI available also in Italian.The project encourages blind and visually impaired people to use the ELPBVI. We want to explain and to practically show how they can use this tool to achieve better results in learning languages. For this purpose we organise a series of special training seminars in the countries of the project partners - Bulgaria, Greece, Germany, Malta and Italy.

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eSIMTRA – e-Simulation Environment for training on Interaction with Children
ref. № 505299-LLP-1-2009-1-BG-KA3-KA3MP

The project’s goal is to create a web-based simulation environment, which will be of help through active training mostly to the teachers, but also to the children and to some extent to their parents to deal with conflict situations, to avoid aggression and to produce balanced reactions that lead to peaceful resolution of problems that have occurred in the process of teaching, studying and communication in the school environment. The focus is on the relation teacher-student, student-student and to some extent student-parent.

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Intercultural Language Learning for Illiterate Adults
ref. № 505226-LLP-1-2009-1-BG-KA2-KA2NW

The project is aimed at a specific group of student – illiterate adults that are not a part of the process of formal education and because of that don’t have the possibility to learn foreign languages, be it in relation to their professional realization or cultural integration.
The Illiad project (of the type of network projects) aims to provide the means for the realization of an analysis of this problematic in an European context, exchange of information and good practices, as well as the accumulation of recommendations and the planning of future initiatives and policies for the support of this target group in its bid for an effective intercultural dialogue.
The project will focus on three main subjects that aim to investigate the relation between the language competences and the sustained personal development and social behavior – 1) Language, work engagement and participation; 2) Methods and techniques for foreign language education of illiterate adults; 3) Good practices. Every year an international conference is planned and organized. It brings together key players from each of the afore-mentioned subjects that are the focus of the project.

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ICT4LLL – Action plan for ICT-support of the lifelong learning

ref. № 167225-LLP-1-2009-1-BG-KA1-KA1ECETA

The project ICT-4-LLL is aimed at the development of an action plan for the successful introduction of ICT in education in the context of the newly adopted in Bulgaria National strategy for lifelong learning. The project’s focus includes pedagogic, content and functionality that all can be improved through ICT within a suitable framework of management of the change and not of the infrastructural aspects of the implementation of technologies in education.
Six work teams of key players will be formed for the project to investigate in-depth the situation in various sectors of the lifelong learning. This will bear the responsibility to point of specific problems, to create a scenario for growth, to plan strategies and to develop an action plan for the realization of the National strategy for lifelong learning, supported by ICT that would make possible a change in all levels and forms of education.
The culmination of the project will be the International conference and Educational fair in Sofia that will bring together all interested parties, those who practice and study, giving them the possibility to discuss and contribute to the shaping of the Action plan for the ICT-supported realization of the National strategy for lifelong learning.