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Participating institutions AJŠ ČR, os. (CZ), NYESZE (HU), OPTIMA (BG),PASE (PL), QUEST (RO) are invloved in adult language education at naional level in the respective countries and represent members who directly provide foreign language training.
This Partnership Project aims at facilitating the development and implementation of innovative practices in adult education and at fostering lifelong learning, sharing experience internationally. The applicants are national associations with member language centres providing adult education. Through this project, a wide pool of educators and adult learners, representing local communities, will have access to cutting-edge developments at European level.
Priorities include:
o enhancing mobility opportunities of adult learners through effective integration of practice-oriented language learning and cross-cultural competencies
o benchmarking quality assurance approaches for higher professional standards in adult education institutions
o effective implementation of language competence descriptors for adult learners' objective self-evaluation, to enhance their performance in foreign language communication
o effective management of Quality Control Associations as non-profit legal entities
o awareness-raising – among adult learners and teachers/trainers, the general public and decision makers - regarding the role of quality assurance systems in the field of language education.
These will be achieved by providing a platform for cooperation, exchanging institutional experience and sharing best practice among partners, disseminating locally and internationally through their networks, creating synergies and putting into practice effective approaches to adult language education in a multilingual and dynamic Europe for better career opportunities and international mobility.
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