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County professional board in Metković,Croatia

On 19 November 2016 in Metković  at the meeting of County professional board dissemination of the project Unity in diversity was held. Project team member introduced English teachers with preliminary activities and the start-up of the project. The members of meeting were surprised with the ideas and outcomes of the project and they supported it in the further work. The promotional material was handed out and teachers were interested to test the results of the previous project as well. Information was also distributed via social media – Facebook project page.

Hilarija Lozančić Benić

Project team member of TUSDU, Croatia

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Project dissemination for international students in Lithuania

On 12 November 2016 Valerija Malavska from Turiba University visited Vilnius Business College and gave lectures to international students on Intercultural Communication and also presented the “Unity in Diversity” language project. 39 local (Lithuanian) and international students studying at Vilnius Business College attended the lectures and learnt about the new project and its end products. They were also introduced with the Learning platform created in the previous „Key Skills for the EU Hotel Project”. The students enjoyed the lectures a lot and expressed their wish to use intercultural materials to be created.

Ineta Luka

Project manager of Turiba University, Latvia

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Primrose second DISS Kurzras Italy November 2016,6-11 November 2016

The second dissemination activity took place at the Piccolo Hotel Gurschler in Kurzras, Alto Adige, Italy, over several days from 6-11 November 2016.

Since Kurzras is a famous skiing centre at the foot of a high glacier dividing Italy from Austria and, since November is the start of the high season for the hotel, it was not possible to give presentations to groups of hotel staff. Instead, it was agreed to give individual presentations and training to one staff member at a time, as and when they could be spared from their duties.

This has happened on previous occasions and has proved very successful as each person receives individual attention and is able to ask questions and learn quickly.

Many of the staff are related to the family that owns the hotel and they have all shown extreme interest in the materials that we have created in previous EU projects. Consequently they are eager to learn what the new project is creating. 

Half the staff speak Italian and half speak German as the area was formally part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Few speak English so I have to do my presentations and training in their two languages. Our materials are helping the German speakers improve their Italian and the Italian speakers improve their German, as well as helping them all to improve their other languages.

The glacier is famous for Ötzi, the 5000-year-old “iceman” whose body was discovered in 1991 close to the start of the main ski-runs at the top of the glacier. His DNA was analysed by the Professor of Genetics at Oxford.  He has since analyzed my and my families’ DNA and to everyone’s astonishment the DNA of my wife and children is identical to that of Ötzi so they are directly related to him and probably descended from him. That is another reason why those that run the hotel feel that I am one of the family.

David Sephton

Manager of Primrose Publishing Ltd., UK

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This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.