The APATCHE project aims at adding plurilingual approaches to higher education. (4-hour Module 1)
Why is it needed in HE? (6 hour Module 3)
The APATCHE project is grounded in a clear need, in the partners’ institutions and all over Europe, to prepare for the challenges of increasingly international student audiences by developing the plurilingual competence of Higher Education staff to foster and develop a multilingual and multicultural ethos, as a prerequisite for the EU diversity and inclusion policies. The project aims at adding pl
21/12/2023
🗣️ On 27 November Daiva Pundziuvienė presented the APATCHE project and the best practices at Vytautas Magnus University Institute of Foreign Languages to foster plurilingual competence development.
Target group: language teachers at Europass Teacher Academy, Florence, Italy.
13/12/2023
📸 Some moments from the APATCHE Multiplier Event 3 at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, organized on the first day of 2023 CEL/ELC conference “Languages at Higher Education: plurilingual approaches and competences enhancement at AI time”.
The event took place on November 23rd in Milan, Italy 🇮🇹
10/12/2023
🗣️ On 21 October Anna Murkowska, Jacek Romaniuk and Joanna Fituła participated in a conference organized by the University of Warsaw Coordination Council for Foreign Language Teaching and Language Proficiency Certification and delivered a presentation devoted to the APATCHE project and Module 3. How?
28/09/2023
A roundtable discussion THE IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGES IN HE TEACHING took place during the Sustainable Multilingualism International Conference in Kaunas, Lithuania on 9 June, 2023. We invite you to watch its recording here ➡️ http://www.apatche.eu/?page_id=394
The panelists Manuel Celio Conceição (University of Algarve), François Grin (University of Geneva), Enrica Piccardo (University of Toronto) and Maria Teresa Zanola (Catholic University of Sacred Heart) engaged in a fruitful discussion on how to use plurilingual approaches in HE and develop teachers' plurilingual competences. The discussion was moderated by Kris Peeters, University of Antwerp.
22/08/2023
📸 Some moments from the Multiplier Event 2 at Vytautas Magnus University “THE APATCHE PROJECT: RESULTS AND EXPECTED IMPACT”.
The event took place on June 9th in Kaunas, Lithuania 🇱🇹
15/06/2023
🗣️ APATCHE project members Dr. Kris Peeters, Prof. dr. Nemira Mačianskienė and Assoc. prof. dr. Vilma Bijeikienė organized a Workshop Adding Plurilingual Approaches to Language Teacher Competences in Higher Education during the BIP, held by VMU on 8 June 2023.
The participants of BIP were acquainted with:
🔸 plurilingual approaches in teaching languages in higher education;
🔸 the latest developments in the European language policy;
🔸 a new tool Descriptive Scale of Plurilingual Competence created by APATCHE project team.
The participants were also challenged in a discussion on monolingual versus plurilingual approach to language learning.
Next BIP event - a post-program online call will be held by Nemira Mačianskienė on 20 June.
08/06/2023
🔜 2nd Multiplier Event of the APATCHE project will take place at Vytautas Magnus University (Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas) tomorrow, June 9, during the Sustainable Multilingualism International Conference 2023. Join us!
www.sustainablemultilingualism.com
03/05/2023
🗣️ On 27 April Nemira Mačianskienė and Vilma Bijeikienė organized a discussion “Adding Plurilingual Approaches to Teachers‘ Competences in Higher Education” for the multilingual and multicultural participants of International Staff Teaching Week '23 at Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania).
23/04/2023
🗣 On 10 March Vilma Bijeikienė (VMU) visited ADA University (Baku, Azerbaijan), where she delivered a presentation on the implementation of VMU language policy.
Much attention was paid on the Apatche project as one of the best practices in VMU international cooperation to foster plurilingual competence development and internationalization.
12/04/2023
🗣️ Daiva Pundziuvienė (VMU) introduced the APATCHE project and presented its expected outcomes in an online seminar “The Use of Mediation Strategies and Activities in Language Lessons”, organised on 11 April 2023.
Target group: Lithuanian primary and secondary school language teachers.
23/03/2023
MULTIPLIER EVENT OPENING 👏
On March 17, Centre for Foreign Language Teacher Training and European Education of the University of Warsaw hosted the 1st MULTIPLIER EVENT of Apatche project.
The even was attended by a number of experts from language disciplines representing higher education institutions, including teachers, educators and project experts. The aim of the event was to present the created project results and promote the use of plurilingual approaches in HE.
26/02/2023
🗣️ Daiva Pundziuvienė (VMU) introduced the APATCHE project and presented its expected outcomes in a seminar “The Use of Mediation Strategies and Activities in Language Lessons”, organised at VMU on 21 February 2023.
Target group: language teachers at the Institute of Foreign Languages, VMU.