About our project

The main goal of the project is to enhance the employability of students through the implementation of relevant eLearning LSP (Language for Specific Purposes) teaching materials, including needs-based recommendations from employers and enhancement elements that pertain to cross-cultural awareness.

The project is divided into two parts:

• YEAR ONE – teacher training – devoted to:
  • developing the digital skills of language teachers that will enable them to create eLearning materials autonomously and collaboratively;
  • studying the needs of employers concerning the LSP skills required by graduates from higher education institutions entering the 21st-century labour market
  • enhancing cross-cultural awareness;
  • drawing up a list of recommendations for LSP teachers concerning skills to facilitategraduates’ employability.
• YEAR TWO – LSP for employability eLearning course – devoted to:
  • creating, testing and implementing a 21-hour multilingual [EN/PL/LV/FR] eLearning course including video content, audio podcasts, reading comprehension, glossaries and exercises – each 7-hour unit will be created by a different partner. Teaching materials will be generated for students whose English language target level is B2/B2+ CEFR and will be accompanied by subtitles/translations in French, Latvian and Polish;
  • creating a teachers’ manual the aim and function of which is to provide recommendations and guidance concerning the course and guiding principles in teaching/learning LSP for employability.

With regard to outcomes of the project, the participating universities:

• acquire teaching materials that enhance the English/multilingual LSP skills necessary for the job market and conform to the learning needs of new generations of “digitally native” students;
• develop a team of teachers with digital skills enabling them to create eLearning materials independently and collaboratively,who will also serve as ambassadors/subject matter experts (SME)for digital literacy among teachers in higher education institutions (HEI), within and outside their organisations;
• implement the elements of cross-cultural communication that are crucial to (a) internationalisation in HEI, one of the key pillars and driving forces common to the strategic plans of HEI across the world, (b) a dynamic job market, and (c) intensive mobility within and outside the EU.

Throughout the duration of the project and at the project’s conclusion, it is assumed that, beyond the intellectual outputs cited, the following results have also been achieved:

• international cooperation among universities with diverse levels of experience and different areas of specialisation, but which are all teaching LSP;
• exchange of good practices and expertise in the field of project management, communication and organisation of the study process;
• dissemination of the project results among students who are now using and will use the course for self-study, teachers/peers from other HEI or vocational schools, in-company course participants and companies.

The project team: