July 4-8 in Krakow, Poland, there was last project TeaCamp partners meeting organised, in order to discuss project results and share the experience. During the International Conference STHESCA[http://www.sthesca.eu/](Science, Technology, Higher Education and Society in the Conceptual Age) TeaCamp project partners held a workshop, where partners presented the idea, course and the technologies of the course.
30th -31st of May in Lisbon there was UnderstandIT project partners meeting, where partners reviewed the major activities of the project, organized. One of the major highlights of the meeting was a VITAE course, which will be applied to a wider audience. There were discussed the main aspects of the course, as well as an overview of the market and the situation in countries that will provide VITAE rate (Italy, Portugal, Norway and Lithuania). This course plans to attract as many vocational and secondary schools' teachers as possible. During the meeting, there was also introduced a platform on which the course participants will be able to communicate (CoP). Project coordinators and participants of the meeting were glad about the productive work and achievements of the two-days meeting.
25th-29th of May, in Antalya, Turkey, the transnational VOCA Extended Project workshop was organised. There were partners from Romania, Turkey, Slovakia and Lithuania, which were sharing their experience while working in the Project. Partners also reviewed the results, which were already achieved by the Project.
All educational games are divided into seven groups: 1. Auditory discrimination 2. Auditory memory 3. Auditory Sequence 4. Visual discrimination 5. Visual Memory 6. Visual sequence 7. Spatial position Educational games are available and free of charge. Games can be found at www.dys2.org. Anyone can register and try the games out, but if you want to sign up as a specialist and see the results of children or young people you are working with, please send a request by e-mail: julita.piguleviciene@ktu.lt
21st-23rd of March, 2011, VOCA Extended Project partners from Spain, Turkey, Romania and Lithuania gathered for the meeting, which was organized by partners from Slovakia. During the event, there was presented VOCA mentoring handbook, where are teaching tools and methods of helping disabled people integrate in jobs market, described. What is more, mentors training course was discussed, partners shared their experience of piloting studies. They have also discussed the steps towards the successful implementation of project results.
Finding a job has always been more difficult for disabled person than for healthy one. There is an intense competition at labor market and employers prefer less troubled employees. Virtual work from home can be a solution for both sides. They can do job which they used to do before but they won't work in office but at home. To do this they need to communicate by e-mail or telephone. Requirements for this work are higher than for casual work.
20th-21st of December 2010, E-IM training meeting took place in Baltic Education Technologies institute in Vilnius. There were participants from three different countries - Lithuania, Latvia and Finland. The project team developed the pattern of the E-IM course structure, discussed the ways of the module methodology preparation. All the development processes were based on interactive discussions and workshops. What is more, the coordinator of the project Gundega Lapina was very happy about the progress of the ongoing activities, because everything is going on time.
29th October 2010 the first E-IM project meeting took place in the Institute of Physical Energetic, Latvia, where partners from all five countries (Latvia, Lithuania, United Kingdom, Finland and Malta) participated. In the first meeting the responsibilities of every partner were discussed, there was also introduced a web page of the E-IM project, which was created by Baltic Education Technology Institute. What is more, the hints for the second meeting in Vilnius were defined.
The new project SIMOLA, where Baltic Educational Institute of Technology participates, has started on the 1st of November 2010. Project activities were divided by partners from 6 European countries, such as United Kingdom, Netherlands, Lithuania, Belgium, Norway, Hungary and partners from Japan.
13-14th of May, 2010 Baltic Education Technology Institute together with Faculty of Humanities at Kaunas University of Technology organized Helps Transfer project partners meeting. At the same time project partners had the possibility to participate in the international conference "New roles for academic staff: from tradicional teaching to e-learning". Conference was recorded. Conference video records are available by adress: http://distance.ktu.lt/vips/join.php?sr=647
VOCA Extended - Increased accessibility to vocational training and increased attachment to the labour market for disabled people through the VOCA Europe 2 Mentor model project has been started in November 2009 by relisation of the kick-off meeting in Antalya, Turkey.
On 25-26th of February ReMark project partners meeting was held in Poprad, Slovakia.
MW-Sonet project kick- off meeting was held on 19-20th of November, 2009 in Lithuania, hosted by Institute of Agriculture Engineering.
12 of November, 2009 Education Exchanges Support Foundation organized an international event Baltic EXPRO+ in Siauliai arena. During this event the exhibition of the Baltic countries educational institutions executed international projects took place, and the Baltic Education Technology Institute presented project TuCoDe.
On 30-31st of October, 2009 LLL Erasmus program Multilateral Virtual Campuses project TeaCamp (Teacher Virtual Campus: Research, Practice, Apply) kick-off meeting was hold in Vilnius and it was organized by Baltic Education Technology Institute.
The second Leonardo da Vinci Innovation Transfer Project Remark Partner's meeting was held in Vilnius on 01/02-10-2009.
International online conference "It's all about learning the rest is technology: promoting active learning" was hold on Friday, 11th of September.
Higher education is undoubtedly one of the most valuable things in modern society, but at enormous graduates and the number receiving higher education, it often becomes, therefore, to become an excellent professional, especially those who have not only theoretical, and practical skills needed this more. Why should the start of another school?
The fifth ELVIRE project meeting took place on 25th and 26th September in Lisbon. All the partners from participating countries came to Portugal to discuss ELVIRE project, which is based on virtual industrial system for reducing energy consumption and environment pollution.
On 1st of October, 2009 a new Erasmus program project TeaCamp “Virtual Campus Teacher: Research, Practice, Apply” starts. Project coordinator is Vytautas Magnus University. Baltic Education Technology Institute together with the Innovation Centre -Vicerrectorado-de-Informatica Univ. Oviedo (Spain), University of Jyvaskyla (Finland), Augstakas Izglitibas kvalitates novertesanas centrs (Latvia), Jagiellonian University (Poland) and Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal) are partners in this project.
Education Exchanges Support Foundation announced Leonardo da Vinci programme Transfer of Innovation project tenders grant recipient list. One of the beneficiaries there is Baltic Education Technology Institute which coordinates the project "Mentoring Rural Woman through Social Networking" (MW-Sonet).
Vilnius Computer User's Academy offer professional computer training and a comprehensive preparation for future studies and invite students to study!
July 20-24, project VOCA Extended partners meeting was held in Vilnius. Partners from Romania, Turkey, Spain, Slovakia and Lithuania tested the project VOCA Extended site and discussed the learning course for mentors and dissemination of project results. During the meeting they discussed the further use of project results and dissemination of the project.
October 20-22nd in Turkey there was held the final project VOCA Extended partners meeting, where there was tested http://www.vo-ca.net site.
October 27-28th in Kaunas there was organised the international conference ALTA 2011. *The conference aim* is to promote international cooperation and to invite specialists, teachers and trainers, participants of virtual communities, and business sector participants to discuss about advanced learning technologies and applications in e-education.
