Language on the go Erasmus Project

Project Title

Language on the go

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 : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Integration of refugees; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

Considering troubled political situation in the Middle East and Asia , immigration has grown rapidly in recent years in Turkey and Europe.
Therefore, additional tools are needed in order to integrate the immigrants and refugees arriving in Europe .
The core of successful integration is language learning, herein, mobile applications are successful educational resources that can be targeted at the immigrants as a large percentage of them are digitally literate and interested in new opportunities in their new countries. In the framework of this project, we focus on establishing a language-learning solution, this enables the refugees/immigrants to study and learn said language and get familiar with the culture and conception of their new country.

This mobile application will be ready for download on the application markets free of cost. Our target group will be the immigrants in Turkey and European countries. LanGo smartphone application will provide refugees and immigrants the advantage of learning the native language of the country in advance after the residence permit has been granted. Other immigrants who have already been living and working in their new home country will benefit from the LanGo applications as well. The application will consist of 5 target languages ( Turkish, English, Dutch, French and Greek ) and at least 6 support languages. These languages will be the most widely spoken by the immigrants in each of the partner countries.

The LanGo phone app will include the subjects that are necessary for the first adaptation in the new country including illustrated vocabulary to facilitate recognition and audio visual content to engage users in innovative ways. The topics will involve country-specific concepts to assist integration in each of the partner countries. Our intention is to generate a free basic language course that is easy and fun to use and can be marketed towards end useres with smart effective and creative forms of dissemination.

The major impact of the app on the project partner countries is based on prospect. The impact will be significant on region, nation and European-wide scale.The ratings of the applications on the app markets and amount of downloads will measure the projected impact, and the feedback from users is essential to ongoing improvements.

Project LanGo is divided in key phases in order to organize and plan project activities and events, and implement the project outputs. Project meetings and other project management activities are anchored in the phases according to topic, expertise of the partners and goals. General phases of implementation are:
Project monitoring and Evaluation
Quality Assurance & Evaluation
Financial reporting and
Dissemination

LanGo will also go through the following phases specifically:
Intellectual Outputs
Multiplier Events
Pilot Sessions
Transnational meetings and
Online meetings

All 5 project partners have extensive expertise working with projects, both language- and immigrant-related, and all have a large network of contacts that will be utilized.

Project Website

http://www.lango.app

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 282160 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stichting Vrouw en Welzijn & Country: NL

Project Partners

• Bursa Education and Youth Association
• Welcome Home International
• Innovation Frontiers IKE
• Learnmera Oy