INVITED – Integrating Primary and Pre-school Virtual Exchange Projects into Language Teacher Education
The INVITED project – Integrating Primary and Pre-school Virtual Exchange Projects into Language Teacher Education, is an Erasmus + project that has started in 2023. It involves the University of Education in Germany, the University of Murcia in Spain, the University of Warsaw in Poland and the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.
Project Aims
Objectives:
1. Promote VE projects in primary and pre-school language education
2. Develop teachers’ competencies regarding VE by integrating VE projects with young learners into pre- and in-service language teacher education.
Impact:
The project creates opportunities for pre- and in-service teachers to connect through an online eTwinning community offering support for their Virtual Exchange (VE) projects. It also includes the development of a teacher education module (TEM), which will be integrated into partner universities curricula and offered as an online professional development course. The project aims to promote VE in early language education, enhance teachers’ VE skills, and strengthen cultural, linguistic, and digital competences for both teachers and young learners.
INVITED TALK 7 – “The 5 Global Cs in Classrooms: Creativity, Collaboration, Communication, Citizenship and Change” with Maite Valencia & Rachel Johnson.
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YOU’RE INVITED: Virtual Exchange in Primary and
Preschool Language Education Online Conference 2026.
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ITE eTwinning session: Integrating virtual exchange projects into language teacher education with Annika Kolb, Mateja Dagarin Fojkar, María Encarnacion Carrillo García and Katarzyna Brzosko-Barratt.
The event will take place on October 14, 4:00 PM. Sign up here.
News & Events
Teacher Training Course: VE with Young Language Learners
The INVITED consortium is very happy to announce that the free Teacher Training Course: VE with Young Language Learners is now online! The course takes approximately 25 hours to complete and guides the participants step by step through the process of bringing Virtual...
Virtual Exchange Workshop at the International Centre for STEM Education event
Harriet Jeeves presented the INVITED project, including its goals and educational materials, at the International Centre for STEM Education event “Ideas for Tomorrow’s Education: European Projects on Sustainability, Digitalisation and Innovative Education” at the...
INVITED Talk 6
What a fantastic webinar with Kirsten Birsak de Jersey! The participants had the opportunity to learn more about the preschool virtual exchange project that took place between an immersion bilingual preschool in Austria and a preschool in Portugal, which includes...
VE Symposium at the ELLRA Conference
At the second ELLRA conference, held at the Autonoma Universidad de Barcelona from 3- 5 June, 2026, the INVITED consortium hosted the themed symposium “Implementing Virtual Exchange in the Early Language Learning Classroom”, convened by Kirsten Birsak de Jersey and...
Workshop in collaboration with eTwinning Kosovo
INVITED project in collaboration with eTwinning Kosovo organized a workshop titled "You're INVITED: Integrating Virtual Exchange Projects into Teacher Education in Kosovo", aimed at pre-service teachers and teacher educators of universities across Kosovo. Nurjona...
Virtual Exchange Workshop at Fremdsprachentag (Foreign Languages Day)
Annika Kolb and Harriet Jeeves from Freiburg University of Education hosted a workshop on Virtual Exchange (VE) in the foreign language classroom during the Foreign Languages Day organized by Seminar Freiburg. During the workshop, participants were introduced to the...