Starlearn

Every year the Pro Scientia Publica Foundation organizes the National Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference TALENTY. This year it was the XIV edition and Foundation didn't lose a chance for disseminating Strarlearn project and talking about the language platform developed🤩

CULTURAL DAY

The second Transnational meeting of STARLEARN PROJECT was held in Nazilli with the participiation of the members of four organisations from Austria,Grece,Poland and Romania
20/21-09-2019

The last project partner is Foundation Pro Scientia Publica (Poland), which has been operating since 2010 in the field of adult education, promoting several initiatives with a focus on elderly citizens and their social inclusion. Our team is experienced in teaching adult and elderly people and we are providing workshops and seminars regarding, among others,: techniques and methods of teaching senior students, autobiography method in elderly people learning, digital storytelling, development of key competencies of seniors’.Our beneficiaries are people aged 65+ and trainers from other organizations in the region of Lower Silesia. The Foundation also stimulates and supports the activity of young scientific talent, allowing them a good start in the world of science and fostering their professional activities. Also makes its own scientific and educational projects that build bridges of understanding between generations involved in the creation and dissemination of science. The symbol of this agreement became the
bridge, which is inscribed in the logo of the Foundation.

Pro Scientia Publica – Foundation About us Pro Scientia Publica Foundation is a Polish private non profit organization. Its main aim is to support the development of young scientific personnel (university students and Phd students) and support all educational initiatives designed to build understanding between communities and genera...

Please meet our Rumanian partner Dimitrie Cantemir Foundation. It is an NGO founded in 1996 having as objects of activity learning, culture, education. It is a regional important organization based in Galati, near the Danube. The city has over 200,000 inhabitants. Galati is known as an important industrial centre, the steel industry is highly developed in this region through the existing steel plant, and marine industry has also a tradition, as Galati is known as a major port. Lately, however, the effects of the global crisis and globalization were felt in our region, the two large shipbuilding and steel industries significantly reducing production, the number of unemployed being above the national average in recent years.
Dimitrie Cantemir Foundation is an accredited centre for organizing courses for completing secondary education and other educational courses.

We develop different types of programs focused on the following areas of expertise:
- ICT;
- Entrepreneurship;
- Careers advice;
- Languages: French and English;
- Romanian language as a foreign language for immigrants;
- Counselling/ career during the economic crisis;
- Mediating conflicts in education: students/teachers, school/family, etc.;
- Sanitary education programs: drug prevention, healthy eating, etc.;
- Technician masseur;
- Innovative methodological approaches in education (science, foreign languages, civic education);
- European citizenship education;
- The social inclusion;
- Any training program at request.

Depending on the topics of the course, the target groups for our courses are:
- Students / youth;
- Socially disadvantaged adults from urban and rural area;
- Immigrants;
- Workers in education, industry, business, trade, etc.

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Between the partners there is a Greek association The Unión Hispano-Helena de Lengua y Cultura (HISHELENA) . It was founded in 2013 in Thessaloniki. It currently consists of 110 members.
The Unión Hispanohelena de Lengua y Cultura is a non-profit organization dedicated to unite languages and cultures in Europe of the 21st century by creating educational and cultural events.
The Unión Hispanohelena de Lengua y Cultura main fields of activity are multilingual environments, cultural acceptance and integration, as well as assessment on teaching foreign languages. The Unión Hispanohelena de Lengua y Cultura aims to multilingualism and cultural diversity as integrating parts of European identities.
The geographic scope is set on Greece and Spain and the countries of the European Union. Within Greece and its second biggest city Thessaloniki, regional capital of Northern Greece, Unión Hispanohelena has a key role in cross-cultural contacts. A key objective for the association is creating links between different cultures cooperating with organizations of Spain, Greece and other countries
The Unión Hispanohelena de Lengua y Cultura offers Spanish and Greek languages classes to everybody interested. Furthermore its goal is to present and inform about Spanish and Greek culture in general.
The Unión Hispanohelena de Lengua y Cultura organizes many events like seminars on the didactics of Spanish Foreign Language, translation and theatre workshops, typical Spanish celebrations and various educational and cultural events together with the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Cervantes Institute in Athens.
The Unión Hispanohelena de Lengua y Cultura experiences e-learning courses as a fundamental tool in modern language education. Moreover, the Unión Hispanohelena de Lengua y Cultura supports various online language learning courses and creates language e-learning content.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/Unión-Hispano-Helena-de-Lengua-y-Cultura-232421456945709/

Unión Hispano-Helena de Lengua y Cultura Unión Hispano-Helena de Lengua y Cultura

One of the STARLEARN partners is ‘Nazhayat’, an an association founded to create a bridge among generations and cultures. A very recently created association founded by the leadership of teachers working at a governmental institution. Nazhayat aims to bring adults back to life after retirement, over the age of fifty. We are also a course provider for teenagers and adults. Our aims are to adopt mostly the retired, integrating them back into society again to get them active and help them in the process of active ageing. To do this we are offering them opportunities in various activities. The facilities that can be managed at Nazhayat are;
ITC courses for adults (usage of pc and smartphones)
Language courses for both adults and teenagers (English and French)
Jogging (mountainous areas at weekends)
Cultural events at historical places (daily tours)
Seminars at specific days/celebrations.
The organisation targets to take part in EU projects and is ready to take over the responsibilities of running any partnership.
The general mission of the organisation is to expand education in the town.
Nazilli is a very large town with a population of over 120.000. It is well-known all over Turkey and in some cities of Europe Nazilli is known as the place where people live the longest. Approximately, thirty citizens are now over 100 years old. Nazilli is a town of agricılture. The most outstanding ones are fig, olive (oil) and cotton.The average life span is thought to be higher than other parts of the country and the reason for having a longer life span is thought to be having a diet of organic foods through regular daily life.

The organisation mostly deal with the educational topics of society. We guide The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and try to enlighten especially university youth living in the city. On special days, groups of participants are invited to conferences organised by organisations. Well-known figures give out the general outlines on the topic.
Key persons having a role in the foundation of the organisation have a great deal of experience in adult education and European projects. The founders are all active civil servants working at a local public education centre and in cooperation with that governmental institution.

Web: http://nazhayat.org/index_eng.php

Link:
https://www.facebook.com/nazhayatdernegi

Hayat Boyu Öğrenme Derneği Nazilli - NAZHAYAT

The Project Co-ordinator is IASIO.
The Institute for Applied Language Integration Ottakring is a non-profit organisation dedicated to meet the challenges of different languages and cultures in Europe of the 21st century by creating solutions based on information technology.

The Institute's main fields of activity are multilingual IT applications, cultural acceptance of software, as well as efficient e-learning systems for foreign languages. The Insitute wants multingualism and cultural acceptance to become a benefit of IT applications.

The geographic scope is set on Austria and the countries of the European Union. Within Austria the capital Vienna and its sixteenth administrative district, Ottaking, are of special importance.

Cooperating with organisations of other countries and their different cultures is a key task for the Institute.

The Institute is set up as a registered association. Its registered office is located in Vienna.

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Today we have started our 1st Transnational Partner Meeting in Thessaloniki :) Detailed agenda on: http://starlearn.project-website.org/index.cgi?content=gr_eve-ev1_age.pub&former_content=home&expand_part=n&expand_agen=y&expand_repo=n&expand_eval=n&action=&language=en&df_user=&df_password=

The goal of this Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership is to create a new multilingual language learning platform for older adults - the STARLEARN platform. This language learning platform will be very user friendly and will use innovative approaches especially to address the needs of older language learners (age group 50+), like efficient interactive learning sessions, large fonts, a strong focus
on repetition, a self explaining user interface and a simple - but powerful - concept.
The new language learning platform will be available for speakers of German, Polish, Romanian, Greek and Turkish. Moreover, the partners will jointly create English, German, Polish, Romanian, Greek and Turkish language courses using and exchanging their expertise, knowhow and experience. All of them will be available for speakers of the mentioned five languages (DE, PL, RO, GR, TR).
After a period of presenting the platform to older learners (age group 50+) and checking it, the language learning platform as well as the courses will furthermore be improved. There will be a lot of dissemination activities with a goal to achieve 25.000 active learners three years after the end of this strategic partnership.
The partner organizations want to continue their cooperation after the end of the funded 27 month project period and to maintain the new STARLEARN platform in the future as well as to invite new organizations to join this project. This future cooperation will be funded with income from online advertising. An income which can be substantial if the intended number of learners can be
achieved. Using the new STARLEARN platform will always be free of charge for everybody.