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, 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.
News & Events
INVITED Talk 5
What a fantastic webinar with Joanna Mach! The event was attended by around 76 participants from all over Europe, mainly student-teachers, in-service teachers, teacher trainers, and NSO staff. The webinar focused on how eTwinning projects can effectively support...
Project meeting in Ljubljana
The INVITED consortium met in Ljubljana on 4–5 December 2025 for two intensive working days. Partners from Spain, Germany, Poland, and Slovenia came together with a clear focus: finalising the Blended Intensive Programme (BIP), refining the Professional Development...
Online Workshop at the ITE Conference
Harriet Jeeves and Nurjona Pinguri from the University of Education Freiburg (PH Freiburg, Germany) led an online workshop at the ITE Conference on 28 November 2025. Their session introduced INVITED Project, and spotlighted the newly developed teacher-education module...
Interview at ORM
Recently, the INVITED project received some welcome visibility in the Spanish media. Pedro Ferez and Yvette Coyle, our project partners at the University of Murcia, were invited onto the airwaves of ORM (Onda Regional Murcia), one of the region’s key news...
ELLRA Webinar
Annika Kolb, from The University of Education Freiburg in Germany, Mateja Dagarin Fojkar, from The University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, María Encarnacion Carrillo García, from The University of Murcia in Spain and Katarzyna Brzosko-Barratt, University of Warsaw in...
INVITED Talk 4
Another exciting webinar on virtual exchange, another successful INVITED Talk. We were very happy to host Mateja Todorovski, an experienced primary school teacher from Slovenia, to share her expertise on how to prepare young learners for online meetings. Over...