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The report on the EVALUATE European Policy Experiment is now available in five languages. Download the different versions from our ‘project outcomes‘ page.

The definitive programme for the EVALUATE conference on VirtualExchange in Teacher Education is online now in pdf format: https://sites.google.com/unileon.es/evaluate2019/programme

The Erasmus+ European Policy Experiment Project on the Impact of Virtual Exchange on Initial Teacher Education has been published online. You can download the full report and the executive summary directly from the EVALUATE website: http://www.evaluateproject.eu/results/

Robert O’Dowd presented the EVALUATE project in this online presentation at the event “Innovation pédagogique, numérique et apprentissage des langues” organised by le laboratoire ELLIADD de l’université de Franche-Comté, France in November 2018. You can watch the webinar presentation here:

Members of the EVALUATE consortium were invited by MEP Yana Toom to present at the European Parliament on 6 February 2019. They spoke there with key stakeholders about Virtual Exchange and the initial findings of the EVALUATE project. 

The call for papers for the final EVALUATE conference on the theme of Virtual Exchange and Initial Teacher Education is now available on the conference website. We have also announced the keynote speakers for the conference.

Call for papers: The EVALUATE project has published the call for papers for the project’s final conference which will take place at the University of León, Spain on 4-6 September 2019. The conference is called “VIRTUAL EXCHANGE AND 21ST CENTURY TEACHER EDUCATION” and you will find more details on the conference website: https://sites.google.com/unileon.es/evaluate2019/home At the […]

On the September 7th 2018 at the Opening ceremony of the University of León, the Minister of Education for the Junta de Castilla y León in Spain, D. Fernando Rey Martínez, mentioned the EVALUATE project as an example of collaboration between research and policy making. Here is an extract from his speech (translated from Spanish): […]

Save the dates: The final conference of EVALUATE will take place at the University of León, Spain in collaboration with the UNICollaboration Organisation for Telecollaboration and Virtual Exchange on 4-6 September 2019. The conference will have NO attendence fees and welcomes presentations and discussion groups on the theme of Virtual Exchange and Initial Teacher Education. […]

The EVALUATE team presented its progress with their European Policy Experiment looking at the impact of Virtual Exchange on over 30 international partnerships at the UNICollaboration conference in Krakow, Poland recently. You can find the powerpoints here on our dissemination page: http://www.evaluateproject.eu/results/