On 15 - 16 October 2018 we presented our school and its educational programmes at the study fair in Kolín. We used this opportunity to present the outputs of the project to the general public, potential secondary students and representatives of VET institution.
Pavel Kluh
Czech project manager
On 26 April, 2019 XX international scientific conference „Human values in the Digital Age” was held at Turiba University. This year the conference organisor was the Faculty of International Tourism.
The main topic discussed at the conference was the pros and cons of digitization looking at its various aspects - impact on business, the labour market, the knowledge provided by universities, interpersonal relations, etc. An afternoon session was devoted to language learning/teaching aspects as well.
A project team member of Turiba University Anda Komarovska introduced the audience with the projects the Language Department has been implementing recently. Anda presented the “Unity in Diversity” project – overall aims, the main outputs as well as students’ feedback after the course piloting done in all partner countries in 2018.
Prof. Ineta Luka
Latvian project team manager
“In the contemporary world under the conditions of a severe competition the development of tourism is rapidly growing and creates new challenges: one of these is to acquire not only new foreign language skills, but also intercultural skills that play a particularly important role in the everyday life of those providing efficient customer service. Therefore, an idea was created to develop and design easy to use and contemporary study material that offers a possibility to acquire and practice various language skills, based on the existing language level”.
Based on the results gained during the course piloting team members of Turiba University have written an article on how to learn new languages for occupation using the created blended-learning course.
The article by Viola Ēvele and Anda Komarovska “Effective Professional Language Learning” has been published in the Scientific Journal of Turiba University “Acta Prosperitatis 10”. You can read the article on: http://www.turiba.lv/f/2019/Acta_Prosperitatis_No.10_FINAL.pdf
Prof. Ineta Luka
Latvian project team manager
On April 30, 2019 Vakaris Šaulys from Vilnius Business College had a workshop with his students, where they used an online language learning platform created under the Unity in Diversity project. The students were from study programmes like Tourism and Events, Business Management and Marketing, Logistics Business. They found the platform very useful as the tasks and topics are directly related to their study subjects.
Vakaris Šaulys
Lithuanian project team manager
On 10th April 2019, Zsolt Garda-Mátyás, technician of Sapientia team, held a webdesign course at Kalot Association, an institution dealing with adult education. During the course, the participants learned wordpress, which is a CMS (Content Managment System) system. Zsolt presented the Unity in Diversity project, which is also in CMS.
Zsuzsa Ajtony
Romanian project manager team
On 20 March 2019, Ingrid Tomonicska from Sapientia University had a dissemination workshop with 1st year students of Engineering and Management in Catering and Agrotourism studying at Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Faculty of Economic, Socio-Human Sciences and Engineering. The curriculum provides the opportunity for Romanian Communication classes. On this occasion they were introduced to the Romanian version of the A1Hotel module of the e-learning platform created under the Unity in Diversity project.
Zsuzsa Ajtony
Sapientia project manager, Romania
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