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office@learnwell.fi
+ 358 45 130 1114
Skype: veronica.gilhooly/bianca.biro
office@learnwell.fi
+ 358 45 130 1114
Skype: veronica.gilhooly/bianca.biro
Projects
We have plans to collaborate in different international projects.
Learnwell is looking for schools or insitutions in different countries to become possible partners in international language projects starting summer/autumn 2011.
If you would like your school or insitution to participate in language projects, please contact us at office@learnwell.fi with information on why your insitution would be a good candidate, what sort of projects you are interested in and your past experience in participating in international projects.
SWEDISH CULTURAL FOUNDATION IN FINLAND project: Vårdsvenska 2009-2011 - internet-based courses in Swedish for Russian health care personnel
Website www.vardsvenska.fi
Learnwell Oy is starting to offer internet-based courses in Swedish for Russian health care personnel. When the number of foreign caretakers increases, so does the need for their ability to speak Swedish. For some time now, The Swedish Culture Foundation has studied how they could offer internet-based courses for foreign health care personnel. A possible target group for the development project has turned out to be the Russian-speaking health care personnel who are interested in working in the health care for the elderly in Finland.
The pages are free of charge, and contain healthcare-related material that the nurses can use to study Swedish independently. In addition to Swedish courses, the website contains information on how to apply for work in Finland, links to official pages, information about the Finnish-Swedish community and the elderly care services in Finland. With the help of a CV-tool, you can send applications directly to hospitals, nursing homes, and other care facilities. The registered users may create an applicant profile through which the employers may contact the individual, and there will be a list of job openings on the website.There is material in Swedish, Russian, Finnish, and in English.
The project started during the early fall of 2009 and the website will be launched in the end of 2011.
Download the press release here.
CIMO – LEONARDO DA VINCI project, business_mail, 2010-2012
Partners: Finland, Italy, Germany, Bulgaria
Visit the project website for updates on our work: http://businessmail.communicationproject.eu/
The project business_mail addresses the needs of marketing/sales personnel of small enterprises (SE) having or wishing to establish business contacts with foreign partners. Staff in charge of business communication in SEs do not usually have adequate skills in terms of practical knowledge of a foreign language or intercultural competence needed to establish and maintain business contacts. Very few of these firms can afford to employ professional import/export staff, in most cases these tasks are taken by personnel not properly trained. Language schools offer mostly general foreign language courses; tailor-made courses for businesses are few, expensive and usually inaccessible to personnel of SEs: the courses organised at work place are usually run for larger enterprises. A busy schedule of work in SEs usually excludes their staff from participation in on-site courses at language schools, which require regular attendance over a long period of time.
The business_mail project involving foreign language teachers, intercultural/ communication skills trainers and e-learning experts develops appropriate measures to address the above situation through:
- setting up an e-learning platform for the design and delivery of foreign language business courses
- designing a set of on-line modules aimed at teaching foreign business language and communication skills answering the identified communication problems
- delivery of a pilot on-line course in English business correspondence to a group of employees of SEs representing all the partner countries.
The final product of the project will be a validated on-line course in English business correspondence covering the actual communication problems encountered in import/ export practice of SEs.
The business_mail project involving foreign language teachers, intercultural/ communication skills trainers and e-learning experts develops appropriate measures to address the above situation through:
- setting up an e-learning platform for the design and delivery of foreign language business courses
- designing a set of on-line modules aimed at teaching foreign business language and communication skills answering the identified communication problems
- delivery of a pilot on-line course in English business correspondence to a group of employees of SEs representing all the partner countries.
The final product of the project will be a validated on-line course in English business correspondence covering the actual communication problems encountered in import/ export practice of SEs.
NORDPLUS project, Nordic Network For Empowerment Of Immigrant Women Without Prior Education Experience, 2010-2011
Partners: Lithuania, Sweden, Norway
The overall objective of the project is to form a Nordic network consisting of VET organisations, Adult Education organisations, NGOs working with integration and gender equality, Social Welfare Offices and Public Employment Centres for pooling experience and knowledge in order to elaborate a strategy for assistance of immigrant women without prior education into the vocation/professional education system in the participating countries. Members of the above-mentioned network will produce a report on strategy based on methodology of Liberal Adult Education as the most flexible form of education for “smooth” start taking into consideration needs of the target group.
NORDPLUS/HORIZONTAL project, Language On The Move 2008-2010
Partners: Lithuania, Denmark, Sweden, Estonia
The main purpose of the project was to reach people who use public transport (PT) to travel to Baltic and Nordic countries to work, to study or for other purposes and help them to realise the importance of learning the language of a destination country and to accept norms of courtesies and behaviour they should follow while in a country.
Watch the final product of the project DVD and see the phrase-book here.
