Foreign Language Teacher Training Capacity Development as a Way to Ukraine’s Multilingual Education and European Integration Erasmus Project

Project Title

Foreign Language Teacher Training Capacity Development as a Way to Ukraine’s Multilingual Education and European Integration

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The major reason behind MultiEd is the need for improving language skills of the population in Ukraine through reforming the curricula of the teachers of foreign languages, introducing new foreign language educational approaches and CLIL (content and language integrated learning) methodology, doing a survey and developing multilingual education strategies for universities and consequently developing National Recommendations on Multilingual Higher Education and internationalization in Ukraine. The results of MultiEd are the following:1) 8 new courses designed, 14 courses upgraded, reformed 8 BA and 8 MA curricula for teachers of foreign languages introduced, new teaching practices adopted, National Guidelines on TFL curricula produced;2) content-based instruction offered to BA, MA, PhD students to increase their employability and career opportunities; 3) multilingual education strategies and national recommendations on multilingual higher education and internationalization designed, internationalization level of universities improved;4) e-course “CLIL methodology” delivered; 5) the platform for the introduction of regular trainings for in-service teachers created, lifelong learning efficient practices promoted to the level when they provide sustainable professional development of teachers;6) policy makers made aware of EU strategies and approaches in HE, multilingual instruction and are provided with specific guidelines to support reform of education.The impact envisaged features the support of the educational reform “New Ukrainian School” initiating a long-term impact on UA HEIs due to the multiplication of the project practices on institutional, regional, national and international level.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 900099 Eur

Project Coordinator

TARTU ULIKOOL & Country: EE

Project Partners

• STATE HIGHER EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT ZAPORIZHZHYA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCES OF UKRAINE
• GROMADSKA ORGANISACIA ASSOCIACIA VIKLADACHIV ANGLIJSKOI MOVY TISOL-UKRAINA
• BOHDAN KHMELNYTSKYY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY AT CHERKASY
• POLTAVA V.G. KOROLENKO NATIONAL PEDAGOGIKAL UNIVERSITY
• V. N. KARAZIN KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
• TERNOPIL VOLODYMYR HNATIUK NATIONALPEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY
• STATE HIGHER EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT PRECARPATHIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY NAMED AFTER VASYL STEFANYK