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 involving 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, as well as the collaboration of Strathclyde University in the UK.

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.

Partner Finding Fair for preschools and primary schools // 19.03.2025 // 16:30-18:00 CET. Apply for the event here.

Webinar: INVITED Talks 3 // 06.05.2025 // 18:00 CET //  “Scaffolding language use in eTwinning projects with young learners”. Sign up here.

News & Events

Guest talk at the University of Erfurt, Germany

Guest talk at the University of Erfurt, Germany

Prof. Dr. Annika Kolb of the University of Education of Freiburg held a talk titled “Virtual Exchange in the young learners´ EFL classroom”, as a guest speaker at the University of Erfurt. Prof. Kolb, among many things, shared the ongoing project progress of

Presenting at the ELLRA

Presenting at the ELLRA

The project team, led by Dr. Mateja Dagarin Fojkar of the University of Ljubljana and Dr. Katarzyna Brzosko-Barratt of the University of Warsaw, as well as with Tina Rozmaric and Nurjona Pinguri, presented the project and the ongoing results of the survey at the ELLRA...

Guest Talk 4

Guest Talk 4

INVITED had the pleasure to host a talk from Magdalena Dybiżbańska-Klinkosz, who is an award-winning preschool teacher from Gdańsk (Poland) involved in many eTwinning projects. The talk was attended by interested students and teachers from Germany and Poland.

Guest Talk 3

Guest Talk 3

On the last day of the Kick-Off meeting, Seda Hava AK, a recent graduate of the MA programme E-LINGO at the University of Education of Freiburg, shared her experience conducting a Virtual Exchange project with preschool learners in Turkey and Nigeria.

Guest Talk 2

Guest Talk 2

On the last day of the Kick-Off meeting, Prof. Dr. Rafaelle Beecroft (PH Karlsruhe) presented a classroom example of a Virtual Exchange Project with learners in Germany and Japan.