project acronym: Practise Makes Perfect
project fullname: Promoting European Citizenship Through Language
lifetime: 2002 – 2004
programme: Socrates/Grundtvig2
email: [email protected]
about: The project examined how the command of foreign languages could help promote the intercultural awareness and active participation of European Citizens, and therefore, break personal, cultural and social frontiers. It searched for possibilities to put adult European students in contact with eachother, so they could practice the target languages authentically.
The strategy involved the procedures of language practice, investigation and analysis of the impact of learning on the adult students, assistance to the students, implemented by modern ICT means: e-mails, chats, discussion boards, video conference, as well as visits and exchanges, and through magazines, newspapers and leaflets.