On June 23-24, 2018 Deimantė Vilčinskaitė from Vilnius Business College disseminated Unity in Diversity project in Nida Culture and Information Centre, Nida, Lithuania. There was an event “Let’s get acquainted”, where people from various countries had an informal discussion, during which local people communicated with student guests from countries like Nigeria, Pakistan, Ghana and Azerbaijan. They discussed national celebrations and traditions, sang Lithuanian songs. Foreign students were very happy about the warm welcome, praised the nature of the Curonian Spit and Lithuanian St. John’s day.
During all these activities UID project was introduced and demonstrated to the students. They were glad to hear that such online tools are being created and said that it should attract the younger IT-minded generation to learning languages in a new and engaging way.
Vakaris Šaulys
Lithuanian project manager
On June 15, 2018 Vakaris Šaulys from Vilnius Business College conducted piloting with teachers from various higher education institutions, including VBC. The teachers are practicians. They have their own consultancy companies, business enterprises, translation bureaus or work directly with partners and customers. Therefore they took great interest in the UID learning tool and said it is a really innovative way to approach languages and their studies.
Vakaris Šaulys
Lithuanian project manager
The multiplier event of the the Erasmus+ project “Language skills and intercultural issues in the hospitality industry: unity in diversity in the EU labour market”, was held in Yoncalı Practice Hotel on 21 June 2018.
The seminar was organized as one day event from 09.00 to 17.00. 46 teachers especially language teachers and 7 people from the representatives of tourism sector in Kütahya.
All the participants are willing to use the learning platform, especially representatives from the industry asked as to organise seminars at their institutions. Teachers said they immediately want to share these information with their students.
Ozcan Turan
Turkish project manager
TUSDU team took a chance and disseminated the project on 17 April 2018.
On 24 June 2018 Hilarija Lozančić Benić disseminated and piloted the project Unity in Diversity. Staff attended the piloting were mainly staff employed in President hotel.
All participants were present and after having got acquainted with the learning platform. Detailed results of the feedback forms will be analysed in the course piloting report at the end of the semester.
Hilarija Lozančić Benić
Project team
member at TUSDU, Croatia
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