Hybridisation of specialised English learning for security professionals

01/01/2024

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/acp/article-abstract/2939/1/050010/2929126/Development-of-a-platform-for-hybrid-English?redirectedFrom=fulltext
You can read the article by Col. Assoc. Prof. Petko Dimov and Assoc. Prof. Valentina Georgieva in a Scopus indexed publication

The report presents the results of the work on the Erasmus+ project № 2020-1-BG01-KA203-079117 of the EU aimed at design and development of a joint web-based pl

03/07/2023

🤝HELPSec and Military Gender Studies Projects multiply their results

🎯Members of the Portuguese HELPSec team have been involved in Military Gender Studies (MGS) Erasmus+ Project. The MGS Project culminated in its Multiplier Event held at Academia Militar, Amadora, Portugal, on 19-20.06.2023.
⚔️Each of the four MGS project teams presented the results they achieved throughout the 30 months partnership, with innovative teaching methods and techniques, within the scope of Gender Perspectives, in military and civilian institutions, for students and trainers.
🥁Assist. Prof. Sofia Menezes showed examples of how to use the activities designed for the HELPSec Module 4 "Gender Integration in Missions and Operations" in order to offer more appealing ways of getting in contact with gender concepts and topics and at the same time to enhance gender vocabulary in the English language of the trainees. Thus, the two Erasmus projects enhance and complement each other by offering innovative ways for deepening both the English language proficiency and the gender awareness of military members.

25/06/2023

🥁On 14-15 June 2023 the Swedish HELPSec project team participated in the NORDEFCO Language Seminar in Stockholm. The theme of the conference was “Creating and Collaborating in Nordic and Baltic Armed Forces Language Networks”.

🎯This was the perfect occasion to promote the materials from the HELPSec project! The Swedish team held a Poster Presentation giving background to the project and allowing participants from Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and Latvia to try out the modules.

👩‍🏫The interactive activities, especially the quizzes which incorporated military terminology and acronyms, were very much appreciated.
The Finnish and Swedish Armed forces will be using materials from module 5 and 6 with their cadets in the autumn. Wonderful that HELPSec is gaining more and more users! 🇸🇪

18/06/2023

🥁The HELPSec Project Manager Dr Valentina Georgieva was on an Erasmus visit at the General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania from 12-16 June 2023. 🇧🇬⚔️🇱🇹
👩‍🏫She had classes with 2nd year cadets and introduced them to the materials from the HELPSec project. They did some of the activities and expressed their appreciation of the interactive learning materials👏
🎯Dr Georgieva also had working meetings with the colleagues from the English Language Centre, presented the HELPSec project to them and gave them as a present one of the printed HELPSec books with Modules 1 and 2📚
⚔️HELPSec gets more and more users!🤝

11/04/2023

📯English Teaching and Testing Week was organised by the Royal Military Academy in Brussels, Belgium, from 20 to 24 March 2023.
👩‍🏫Experienced English teachers and testers from European higher military educational institutions participated in it. The activities were conducted in two separate panels: 1/ for teaching and exchanging methodological experience by visiting colleagues' classes; and 2/ for discussing and moderating tests according to STANAG 6001, focusing on skills for levels 2 and 3.
🇧🇬Senior Lecturer Dora Kasaliyska from Rakovski National Defence College participated in the event. She had classes with cadets on improving their reading and listening skills for level 3, and participated in the discussions on STANAG 6001 tests. Her participation was funded by the Erasmus+ program of the EU.
🥁Senior Lecturer Kasaliyska presented the HELPSec platform to the participants and gave the Belgium colleagues as a present a copy of the textbook with the HELPSec materials, created by lecturers from the Language Training Department of RNDC in collaboration with colleagues from the Military Academy of Portugal and the Swedish Defence University. The interactive training materials on specialized military English were met with interest and were highly assessed.🎯

21/03/2023

🥁On 20 March 2023, the commandant of Rakovski National Defence College MG Dochev awarded a jubilee medal dedicated to the 110th Anniversary of the Military Alma Mater to the HELPSec Project Manager Assoc. Prof. Valentina Georgieva and to Col. Assoc. Prof. Petko Dimov - the IT designer of the project's platform and Director of the Department for Distance Learning at RNDC.🥇

🎯MG Dochev underlined the benefits of the HELPSec project for all the servicemembers of the Bulgarian Armed Forces and for the academic members of RNDC who wish to improve their language skills. He added that the joint project work with the partner institutions contributes for the internationalisation and higher quality of education at RNDC. 🇧🇬 🇸🇪 🇵🇹

16/03/2023

The emotional address to the participants in the final Multiplier Event in Sofia by the Swedish HELPSec Project coordinator Karolina Karlstrom:

07/03/2023

The Multiplier Event is in the news of the ESDC

The 57th Implementation Group Meeting of the European Initiative for the Exchange of Young Officers inspired by Erasmus took place at the Rakovski National Defence College in Sofia on 1 and 2 March 2023. The

03/03/2023

🥁 The final Multiplier Event was held at Rakovski National Defence College (RNDC) on 28 Feb 2023.
It was opened and moderated by the Project Manager Assoc. Prof. Valentina Georgieva. The commandant of RNDC addressed the participants underlying the importance of the HELPSec project for enhancing the specialised military English proficiency of the security professionals.
🎯 The designers of the learning content presented their modules. The printed books with the activities of the 3 partners were also shown. 📚
🌍 36 foreign and 34 Bulgarian participants took part in the event. They also had the opportunity to trial the tasks on the HELPSec platform.
🎓All the participants expressed their appreciation of the project Intellectual Outputs, their high quality and applicability and usefulness for the target group. The way forward was also charted. The project products will be disseminated in the partner military EU HEIs 🇧🇬🇵🇹🇸🇪.

28/02/2023

24/02/2023

The final project product is ready! 🇧🇬📚🇵🇹📚🇸🇪