Funding Awarded for Erasmus Key Action2 Project EU-MADE4LL

Funding Awarded for Erasmus Key Action2 Project EU-MADE4LL

The University of Leeds will participate with other 5 EU universities in the Erasmus Key Action 2 project 'EU-MADE4LL - European Multimodal and Digital Education for Language Learning'.

Dr Elisabetta Adami (Centre for Translation Studies) has been awarded an Erasmus Key Action 2 project worth 436,000 Euros involving Leeds and other 5 EU Universities. The project, “EU-MADE4LL - European Multimodal and Digital Education for Language Learning”, aims to design, implement and test a transnational joint syllabus for the development of transversal skills combining digital technologies and language learning. It will integrate multimodal digital literacy and English for international communication through innovative teaching/learning practices that include teachers’ and students’ online collaboration, mobility and inter-institutional peer-assessment. The project outputs will be made available as open educational resource for adoption by other EU and non-EU HE institutions. The University of Messina (Italy) will lead the project, and the University of Leeds is participating together with the  University of Florence (Italy), University of Roma-Tor Vergata (Italy), University of Hannover (Germany), University of Aarhus (Denmark), and Rocca Creative Thinking LTD (Private sector partner, UK).  The project scored 95/100 and ranked second for the amount of funding awarded in the scheme.