On 15 September 2026, a workshop on virtual exchange projects with young learners was held at the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana. The event included a presentation of the INVITED project, as well as practical examples and experiences shared by two...

On 8–9 September 2026, the INVITED team, Mateja Dagarin Fojkar and Tina Rozmanič (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Katarzyna Brzosko-Barratt and Paulina Marchlik (University of Warsaw, Poland) and Yvette Coyle (University of Murcia, Spain), attended the 4th...

The INVITED Project consortium invites (student) teachers, teacher educators and researchers to join its international online conference on 22 October 2026. The event focuses on innovative approaches to virtual exchange (VE) in primary and preschool language...

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...

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...

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...

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...

On 14 May 2026, the Department of Language and Literature teaching (English specialization) at the University of Murcia hosted a training session as part of the Erasmus+ INVITED project (Integrating primary and preschool Virtual exchange projects into language Teacher...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

Katarzyna Brzosko-Barratt & Paulina Marchlik (University of Warsaw) together with Mateja Dagarin Fojkar & Tina Rozmanic (University of Ljubljana) presented their paper "Virtual Exchange in Foreign Language Teacher Education" at the ATEE (Association of Teacher...

Kirsten Birsak de Jersey and Nurjona Pinguri from Freiburg University of Education presented the talk Successful tasks for virtual exchange projects with young learners at ATFLY  (Advances in Teaching Foreign Languages to Young Learners) Conference 2025. The program...

Annika Kolb, Kirsten Birsak de Jersey and Nurjona Pinguri from Freiburg University of Education, and Sandie Mourão from CETAPS, with the invitation of APPI (Associação Portuguesa de Professores de Inglês - The Portuguese Association of English Teachers) delivered a...

What a fantastic webinar with Paola Schettin, eTwinning Ambassador and primary school teacher. We had 116 participants, mainly students interested to learn how to support young learners in virtual exchange projects. Ms. Schettin shared two excellent eTwnning projects...

The INVITED consortium gathered in sunny Murcia, Spain 🇪🇸 for the 3rd in-person project meeting! Over two productive days (April 3–4, 2025), partners shared updates on project progress, planned upcoming steps for the Teacher Education Module, and engaged in insightful...

Annika Kolb and Nurjona Pinguri from the University of Education Freiburg presented at the IATEFL conference in Ediburgh the talk "Virtual exchange in the young learners´ language classroom", as part of the Forum on collaborative online student learning. They...

The Online Partner Finding Fair organized by the INVITED project in collaboration with eTwinning Germany was a success! Participants were introduced to the INVITED project and the benefits of implementing virtual exchange projects in their classrooms, as well as...

Earlier this week, on March 10th, Kirsten Birsak de Jersey and Annika Kolb from the University of Education Freiburg spoke at the eTwinning im Fremdsprachenunterricht Conference in Bonn, organized by the National Agency of Germany. Their presentation, "Lernaufgaben...

INVITED Talks 2: "Collaborative Storytelling with Artificial Intelligence in eTwinning" - 5th February, 18 CET - Mari Carmen Montoya Martínez, primary school EFL teacher and eTwinning Ambassador. The webinar showcased the platform's ability to foster a strong network...

Mateja Dagarin Fojkar from the University of Ljubljana attended the conference: Fostering citizenship education through eTwinning for future teachers in Budapest 28. - 30.11.2024. This was a great opportunity to disseminate INVITED project activities, particularly...

At the TEFL9 Conference in Lisbon, Annika Kolb, Kirsten Birsak de Jersey, Harriet Jeeves, and Nurjona Pinguri from the University of Education of Freiburg presented the talk titled "Successful Tasks for Virtual Exchange Projects with Young Learners". The presentation...

Webinar “Once upon a STEAM” combining STEAM and storytelling in preschool virtual exchange” We had the pleasure of having Magdalena Dybiżbańska, an eTwinning preschool teacher, present a webinar for the community. The event had 133 attendees. This webinar focuses on...

Florentina Nicolás-Conesa, Yvette Coyle, and María Encarnación Carrillo García presented a paper on the findings of a questionnaire distributed to both pre-service and in-service teachers. Their presentation emphasized the benefits of Virtual Exchange (VE) in...