Our project is developing a language course as a cultural and historical game. In terms of priorities it is focused on 4 areas, bridging them together and supporting each other. The 1st area is European culture. The purpose of the project is to make participants aware of how difficult it was for Europeans to come together, join their cultures and build a unified Europe. We want to show participants that we have a common history, we had to face huge problems and conflicts but we have managed and created unified Europe which brings us many advantages. It is very important to stress it nowadays as there are many tendences to make Europe weaker and distabilise EU, there are many efforts to persuade people that it pays off to leave EU (e.g. Brexit). The 2nd area is language learning as languages are crucial for our mutual understanding and the language skills in the project countries are not very high. The 3rd area is innovation and creativity. The language course will have a new form of a game which is unusual and it will motivate students to participate and experience language learning in a totally different way: they will be playing a game and meanwhile they will have to practice and learn the language and think about cultural aspects. The 4th area is digitalisation and on-line learning. The resulting course will have a full on-line version, which will help on-line language learning to become more advanced and attractive.The objective of this project is to develop a language course of English (in face2face and online versions) based on a cultural game supporting awareness about our European culture and unity to prevent break of European values and unity. The game would be based on a strong story. The participants would choose characters (like in a video game) and the characters would come from different European countries. They would have a time machine sending them to different history periods in Europe and they would have to solve tasks in particular historical situations. The situations and tasks to be fulfilled in these situations would always be linked to the present day, having its aim and a clear message for nowadays. The game tasks would make the participants think about the historical experience, influence on present day and value our European cultures and what we, as Europeans, have created.The course will be developed for 4 language levels (A1, A2, B1 and B2) and each of 4 levels will be divided into 10 historical and cultural situations. The historical situations will show the course participants how difficult it was to reach European unity and they will deliver a message of that historical episode for nowadays. Each historical situation will be for 3 lessons per 90 minutes, so each language level will include 10 x 3 = 30 lessons per 90 minutes + individual work for participants. As we will develop the course for 4 language levels, the total number of lessons will be 4 x 30 = 120 lessons per 90 minutes + individual work for participants.Outcomes of the project:-Course curriculum – overall game rules, structure of the whole game, aims and messages of each historical situation and also individual episodes and tasks-Teaching materials placed on a digital platform for the course in two versions – face2face and online, always for 4 language levels (A1, A2, B1, B2).- On-line version would offer all materials in one platform. The materials for face2face version could also be downloaded from this platform.-Testing – trial for each language level-Guide for teachersThe project will by carried out by 3 partners: a language school from the Czech Republic as the project coordinator, a language school form Italy as a partner responsible for development of contents and Polish University as a technological partner responsible for digitalisation of all teaching materials.The project will include 3 project meetings, one joint staff training for teachers developing intellectual outputs, and multiplier events to disseminate this project.The result will be an innovative language course of English in a form a cultural game, which will have a big impact on participating organisations as they will be able to enhance their offer of courses with this innovative, fully on-line course. The participants in the course will be attracted by the game to learn and practise the language in a course which is also fun and entertainment. And teachers working on development will have a unique opportunity to develop a highly creative course.The course is very inclusive: as it is a language course (not a history or political course) it will reach a broader audience because much more people are interested in studying a language than history. Few adults join voluntarily a history/cultural course but many adults join a language course. So the course will teach language through culture and at the same time culture through language.

COVID-19 influences the daily work at all schools. In the current situation, In the current situation, which is strongly characterized by the effects of the contact restrictions due to the corona pandemic, it is clear that schools at all levels, i.e. primary, lower and upper secondary, are faced with the challenge of teaching in online formats.The Erasmus+ project SAFE addresses this new and innovative way of learning and teaching in the age of digitization and COVID-19. It is settled in the programme field of school education. The partnership creates awareness concerning the needs to of a didactic approach to eLearning. The approach of SAFE focusses on the use of streaming within school education. The project works on a basic concept for the integration of elearning in daily teaching work. In this basic concept, teachers use tablets or laptops on which, for example, a blackboard application such as LiveBoard, Doceri, or Explain Everything is streamed, with the information on this board and the teacher's language being streamed directly to the learners. This enables the teachers to implement familiar forms of teaching, such as writing on the blackboard or on an overhead projector, in almost the same way and to provide explanations and explanations. Participation can optionally take place online via a live stream or by creating a recording that is later available on a server as a preserve or film for viewing at any time.The SAFE-Streaming concept will be created on the basis of the DISK-Online model. DISK-Online stands for Didactic Interactive Streaming Know-how and this approach is designed for dealing with the challenges of COVID-19 and the technologic challenges at schools and education.The DISK-Online model of Beutner/Pechuel was already presented at the Ministry of Education (NRW) in October 2020 and which will be presented at Deutscher Bundestag (Enquete Commission for Digitisation) in November 2020. The DISK-Online Approach was developped and tested in 2020 under the restrictions of COVID-19 and was also succesfully presented at SITE Interactive Conference USA and Innovate Learning Conference USA in 2020. The feedback was excellent and first implementations at school came to excellent results and support on the sides of the teachers and learners. The DISK-Online approach comes in its basic setting with an increasing level of interaction. Interaction is described from DISK 1 (low teacher-centred interaction) to DISK4 (learner-centred interaction) and can be used at different schools to adjust the teaching to technical restrictions and digital teaching competences. Teachers need an approach which can be used in the classroom with learners who are (a) all are not present in the classroom, or whose learners (b) are only partially present in the classroom or (c) who want to add eLearning elements to their lessons now and in the future.The SAFE project creates an approach using Streamlabs OBS and the streaming platform twitch to enable teacher to deal with the challenges of COVID-19 and to integrate eLearning in a sustainable and transferable way in school education and their lessons. The teachers will be trained on using Streamlabs OBS and the streaming platform within the SAFE project and also multipliers will be trained. This is a way to deal with elearning where learners only need to have a browser and no specific technical or eLearning knowledge and the teachers have a quite easy approach deal with new approaches.SAFE aims to create the streaming concept, to provide an implementation at various schools, to write a handbook for teachers as well as a SAFE-Streaming in School education book and provides an evaluation of the implementation. Moreover, SAFE comes up with a policy paper and a layman´s report to provide recommendations for further school education.SAFE-Streaming in School education book will bel created in English language and provides information on the project, the implementation, a checklist for teachers, hints for teacher, the survey and the evaluation results and insights in the innovative SAFE concept.A part of SAFE will also be an acceptance study in the partner countries to get a European view on acceptances, experiences, problems and chances in the fields of eLearning and streaming in school education. Target groups are teachers, learners and educators.

The aim of the project is to develop and launch a system of peer observation for development of language teachers of the participating organisations. The participating organisations are institutions focused on language teaching in adult sector - 3 language schools from the Czech Republic (coordinator), Malta and Italy. The participants have already co-operated together and now they would like to extend their co-operation, develop a system of peer observation for teacher development they are missing.This project is focused on improving the quality of teachers' skills and the competences of teachers. Under the project the teachers will get an opportunity to get and adopt feedback to their teaching and thus their skills and competences will increase. The excellence of teachers will be rewarded and recognized because they will get an opportunity to give feedback to their international colleagues. The school will create a system of international and also internal (national) peer observations, which will support the overall quality of the participating institutions as educators. The project will support internationalisation of our institutions as both teachers and students will be involved into lesson observations.The project is innovative because it will include virtual observations through a distant access to the observed calls (e.g. through Skype or another technology).Context: Our institutions teach languages, mainly (but not only) to adult students. All institutions have an internal system of quality control, teacher control and development. The system of control and teacher development involves provision of feedback to the teachers by methodologist, director, students, questionnaires of satisfaction etc. None of our organisations has a system of peer lesson observation - that means that teachers get feedback from their colleagues (peers) who observe lessons and then comment on them. Peer observations have benefits for both parties - the teaching teacher gets feedback to his/her style of teaching and particular lesson and the observing teacher has an opportunity to contemplate about the observed lesson, its targets and results, and be inspired by strengths and weaknesses of the teaching student. Moreover, when the peer observation is done internationally, all institutions will benefit from the opportunity of observing the differences, strengths and weaknesses and mainly best practices practised in the partner´s institutions and foreign countries. The observations will be done in regular lessons of our institutions, so not only teachers but also students will get an opportunity to meet international colleagues, which will strongly strengthen the internationalisation of our institutions.The needs addressed by this project are:A. The need to improve the quality of language teaching through development of teachers, by sharing best practises and creating a system of peer observations.B. Increase internationalisation of participating organisations so that the students and teachers are involved into international co-operation and have an opportunity to share their experience internationally.The objective of this project is:1. to build a system of peer observations. Create Framework, instructions, tools and materials (GUIDEBOOK) for language teachers to enable them to perform peer observations of high quality in local and international context, face2face but also with a distant, virtual access. Observations would be run in a local and also international context both in face2face and distant forms (video recordings of lessons or access through technology like Skype etc.). The teachers will get a guidebook and tools for performance and evaluation of peer observations.2.Perform 108 international face2face peer observations 3. Perform 24 virtual observations. 4. The created system of peer observation will be used internally by the participating organisations after the project ends to ensure sustainability.Target group:The main target group for this project is teachers of languages of the participating organisations. Each organisation will send 6 language teachers to the other partnering organisations and receive 6 + 6 teachers of the partners, so in total 18 teachers will participate. The project will be managed by two project leaders and coordinators on the side of every participating organisation.

“Teachers in the Distance” was an Erasmus+ KA2 project.There were 5 Project participants from five diverse educational institutions from five Middle and Northern European countries: Pärnu Adult Gymnasium from Estonia, Ventspils University of Applied Sciences from Latvia, The University of Information Technology and Management Rzeszów from Poland, KURZY ZEBRA s.r.o. – a private language school from the Czech Republic, Oulu-opisto - a community college from Finland. The participants met in an Erasmus+ contact seminar in Tallinn 2017 and created the initial idea of the project. At the time of planning the project the freedom of movement and its impact to education in the emerging necessity of distant learning was found as the most important factor to dedicate this project to the development of teaching languages in a distant way, to raise the ICT competences of foreign language teachers and to support the lifelong learning of language learners and teachers.As a first step, a large-scale survey of language teachers was conducted in all project partner institutions examining the experience of online synchronous and asynchronous foreign language teaching and various aspects of language teaching. On the basis of this, a methodological manual “Methodology for Online Synchronous Foreign Language Teaching” was completed under the leadership of the Czech partners.The next activity was foreign language lessons between the partners in different web-based conference environments, in which focus was on the possibilities of different environments in foreign language learning. Based on the recordings of the lessons and the research, instructional material on the possibilities, advantages and disadvantages of different web environments (Guidebook for Distant Online Language Teaching) was compiled under the leadership of the Latvian partners.In the middle of the Project Covid-19 pandemic broke out and the changed situation in education brought increased demand for distant teaching and online learning with it. The difference in the current needs of teachers for support and additional material was slightly different in different countries, so the project and its outputs were adapted to the current situation and the needs of the participants. The Partners in Latvia and the Czech Republic prepared translations of the Methodology into Latvian and Czech to use and spread it among the colleagues and partner institutions. Due to lockdown and travel restrictions the project was prolonged and teaching-training activity postponed. As it was impossible to organise a face-to-face training because of the restrictions in Finland for foreign travellers (quarantine for 14 days), the training activity was changed to an online training with the same duration. Led by Finnish partners, a five-day intensive training event took place in January 2021 in various video conference environments with the active participation of 21 teachers from all participating organisations, 170 web tools for language teaching were presented and many of them practised in international groups during the training for teaching different skills. Experiences with using different conference tools for teaching and possible solutions for arised technical problems were gathered.The results of the training activity and all previous materials and experiences were used for preparing the online platform where all materials would be in one place, systematized and updated. Our Finnish partners proposed to create an additional tool browser on the platform. Project partners divided the tasks among each other and all gave their input by the revision of already compiled material, specifying the topics and unifying them in bigger meaningful steps, developing a structure for the self-running online course, specifying the conditions for passing the course and obtaining the certificate, by compiling the texts and revision questions. The technicians from Polish partner implemented the technical solution of the platform with the online course, intuitive search tool for web-based tools and the former created methodological manual and Guidebook, also the translations of the Methodology into Latvian and Czech.On the completion of the project, following results were achieved:increasing of number of online courses and teachers providing online language courses;improvement in the quality of distant language teaching;improvement in the quality of foreign language training in distant language learning by making project’s outputs accessible to all teachers and trainers, by increasing the number of teachers and trainers educated in the use of ICT;creation of solid base for future cooperation and sharing good practices between project partners as well as all project partners and organizations taking part in the dissemination activities;increasing partners’ capacity for future international projects thanks to the lessons learned during this project.