Starlearn

Every year the Pro Scientia Publica Foundation organizes the National Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference TALENTY. This year it was the XIV edition and Foundation didn't lose a chance for disseminating Strarlearn project and talking about the language platform developed🤩

CULTURAL DAY

Please meet our Rumanian partner Dimitrie Cantemir Foundation. It is an NGO founded in 1996 having as objects of activity learning, culture, education. It is a regional important organization based in Galati, near the Danube. The city has over 200,000 inhabitants. Galati is known as an important industrial centre, the steel industry is highly developed in this region through the existing steel plant, and marine industry has also a tradition, as Galati is known as a major port. Lately, however, the effects of the global crisis and globalization were felt in our region, the two large shipbuilding and steel industries significantly reducing production, the number of unemployed being above the national average in recent years.
Dimitrie Cantemir Foundation is an accredited centre for organizing courses for completing secondary education and other educational courses.

We develop different types of programs focused on the following areas of expertise:
- ICT;
- Entrepreneurship;
- Careers advice;
- Languages: French and English;
- Romanian language as a foreign language for immigrants;
- Counselling/ career during the economic crisis;
- Mediating conflicts in education: students/teachers, school/family, etc.;
- Sanitary education programs: drug prevention, healthy eating, etc.;
- Technician masseur;
- Innovative methodological approaches in education (science, foreign languages, civic education);
- European citizenship education;
- The social inclusion;
- Any training program at request.

Depending on the topics of the course, the target groups for our courses are:
- Students / youth;
- Socially disadvantaged adults from urban and rural area;
- Immigrants;
- Workers in education, industry, business, trade, etc.

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The Project Co-ordinator is IASIO.
The Institute for Applied Language Integration Ottakring is a non-profit organisation dedicated to meet the challenges of different languages and cultures in Europe of the 21st century by creating solutions based on information technology.

The Institute's main fields of activity are multilingual IT applications, cultural acceptance of software, as well as efficient e-learning systems for foreign languages. The Insitute wants multingualism and cultural acceptance to become a benefit of IT applications.

The geographic scope is set on Austria and the countries of the European Union. Within Austria the capital Vienna and its sixteenth administrative district, Ottaking, are of special importance.

Cooperating with organisations of other countries and their different cultures is a key task for the Institute.

The Institute is set up as a registered association. Its registered office is located in Vienna.

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The goal of this Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership is to create a new multilingual language learning platform for older adults - the STARLEARN platform. This language learning platform will be very user friendly and will use innovative approaches especially to address the needs of older language learners (age group 50+), like efficient interactive learning sessions, large fonts, a strong focus
on repetition, a self explaining user interface and a simple - but powerful - concept.
The new language learning platform will be available for speakers of German, Polish, Romanian, Greek and Turkish. Moreover, the partners will jointly create English, German, Polish, Romanian, Greek and Turkish language courses using and exchanging their expertise, knowhow and experience. All of them will be available for speakers of the mentioned five languages (DE, PL, RO, GR, TR).
After a period of presenting the platform to older learners (age group 50+) and checking it, the language learning platform as well as the courses will furthermore be improved. There will be a lot of dissemination activities with a goal to achieve 25.000 active learners three years after the end of this strategic partnership.
The partner organizations want to continue their cooperation after the end of the funded 27 month project period and to maintain the new STARLEARN platform in the future as well as to invite new organizations to join this project. This future cooperation will be funded with income from online advertising. An income which can be substantial if the intended number of learners can be
achieved. Using the new STARLEARN platform will always be free of charge for everybody.