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 6: “Tweet and Meet”: A virtual exchange project between an Austrian and a Portuguese preschool, connected through the theme of birds – with Kirsten Birsak de Jersey. Sign up here.
YOU’RE INVITED:
Virtual Exchange in Primary and
Preschool Language Education
Conference 2026
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
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...
Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) week at the University of Warsaw
Around 50 students from the University of Education Freiburg, the University of Ljubljana, and the University of Murcia, spent an inspiring and highly productive week in Warsaw as part of a BIP (Blended Intensive Programme), working together on Virtual Exchange...
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...