PESCALEX partners at Startup meeting in Dublin, November 2005

PESCALEX - NEWSLETTER 1

M.Eleftheriou Mon 7 Jul 2008

The PESCALEX project, a two-year project (IRL/05/B/F/PP-153180) funded by the EU LEONARDO DA VINCI Programme, runs from 1st October 2005 until 30th September 2007.

PESCALEX aims to create content and language integrated learning (CLIL) courses in fish health/disease for the benefit of specific areas of Europe where the aquaculture industry is vital to the economy. Its CLIL language learning methodology will enable users to both teach and learn vocationally-oriented material through the medium of a foreign language.

A virtual learning environment will be constructed with:

* 4 multi-lingual modules in 6 languages (EL, EN, ES, FR, NO, PL). These will form part of a blended learning framework (tutor-led with online ODL materials).

* 4 course modules: Quality Assurance for Fish Health Management, Basic techniques in Fish Haematology, Cost-effective Feeding for Fish, Fish Diseases. The last module is completely new and work has already begun on developing this course in the required basic language structures. The first three exist in English, Norwegian and Greek and will have to be translated into French, Spanish and Polish. On its completion, the Fish Diseases module will also be translated into the above languages.

* A collection of specific scientific terminology concerning fish health/diseases in English, French, Greek, Spanish, Norwegian and Polish.

* Existing basic level language learning modules, which will be used to support the delivery of the CLIL materials (English, French, Spanish, Norwegian, Polish, Greek, Portuguese and Swedish)

There will be a Final Workshop where the deliverables will be demonstrated to a wide audience of interested users, probably in France in June/July 2007.

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