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DICA-lab: scientific partner of RoboTEC Sud 2012

Charles — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:28:22 +0000

A l’instar des années précédentes, le projet RoboTEC-SUD 2012 se tiendra pendant 3 semaines au cours du troisième trimestre (du 4 au 22 juin 2012) et s’adresse aux élèves du cycle d’apprentissage 4.

L’objectif du projet, initié par le syndicat intercommunal proSud en collaboration avec le FNR, l’Université du Luxembourg (SnT) et le Science Club du Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, consiste à sensibiliser les élèves de façon ludique, active et positive à la technique et d’éveiller en eux la joie de l’expérimentation et de la créativité.

Les élèves de 15 classes scolaires des 12 communes de la Région SUD sont invitées pour la durée de 4 heures au Pavillon 5 à Esch-sur-Alzette où ils pourront construire eux-mêmes, par groupes de deux, des robots qui, en fonction de la rapidité des raisonnements et du degré de la créativité, pourront plus ou moins vite bouger et se déplacer. À la fin de la demi-journée les performances des robots seront testés sur un parcours d’obstacles.

Cette année-ci, l’atelier est organisé en collaboration avec le laboratoire de recherche DICA-lab qui

prendra en charge l’organisation des activités
entamera une documentation scientifique des performances créatives des élèves.

Dica-lab at the workshop “The Multilingual Web – The Way Ahead”

Charles — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:23:17 +0000

Gudrun Ziegler is participating at the Limerick Workshop of the MultilingualWeb project in Luxembourg on March 15 & 16, 2012. This project is exploring standards and best practices that support the creation, localization and use of multilingual web-based information. Through a series of W3Cworkshops open to the public and various communication channels, the multilingual web project intends to spread information about what standards and best practices currently exist, and what gaps need to be filled.

http://www.multilingualweb.eu/

See the program page with the speakers’ slides and the relevant parts of the IRC logs.

http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/luxembourg-workshop/luxembourg-program

Project LS6 at Expolangues in Paris

Charles — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:02:10 +0000

The project “Language Learning and Social Media: 6 key dialogues”(LS6) was offered the possibility of disseminating its innovative approach and ongoing work in the field of language learning at a workshop the Euproean Commission is organising at Expolangues 2012. The Expolangues fair is an international event in the field of language learning and takes place in Paris from February 1st to 4th.

On the 2nd of February, the European Commission is organising a full day of events about its ongoing work in language learning which will include presentations on the future programme, the various initiatives of the Multilingualism unit, a round table with a panel of experts and last but not least a workshop with projects. The workhop will take place between 13h and 14h15 and present

- a short introduction
- three projects presenting their results, pedagogical approach, methodologies, and impact
- a session of questions and answers

Moreover, beyond the workshop contribution, the LS6 project will also be present at the official EC stand the four days of the fair and initiate interactive activities concerning language learning and social media. The idea is to invite expo-visitors and interested volunteers to share their thoughts, stories, testimonies… about meaningful language learning processes and social media (as promoted within the LS6 project). The object is to move the visitor from a viewer to a contributor through

- tweets or blog posts (text-based),
- 60 second video clips,
- short audio comments
- screencasts as commented activities on a website

All these contributions are disseminated instantly via our dica-lab LS6 Blog with the request/option for further commenting and extending the contributions on the site.

It would be great meeting you in Paris or on our blog. Please find the programme attached to this post

Expolangues_programme_overview

Workshop on “Co-operation and partnership solutions with working life in multilingual contexts”

Charles — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:50:27 +0000

On November 8, the University of Luxembourg will organise an open workshop, which might be of interest for all actors, who are in charge of initial and lifelong learning programs in the various areas of professional life (program coordinators, teachers, professional partners and students).

Two major topics of the Luxembourg economic context and the related challenges will be addressed in particular during this day, i.e.

Innovation and/from diversity in Luxembourg
Multilingual and -cultural issues of the Luxembourg working context

The workshop is part of an international project, which brings together experts from Finland, Austria, the United Kingdom and Luxembourg in order to collect, reflect and disseminate knowledge and best practices of diverse co-operation and partnership solutions between educational institutions and working life. The aim of the project is to improve students’ possibilities to make quicker/easier steps into working life from higher education as mentioned by the project title “QUICKER STEPS FROM EDUCATION TO WORKING-LIFE”. The project is funded by the European Social Fund and the Finnish Centre for Economic Development, Transport and Environment (Central Finland ELY-Centre).

The workshop (see documents attached) will take place on Tuesday, November 8, from 09.00 to 17.00 h at the Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (Campus Kirchberg).

It is free of any charges and the project group would be very pleased to welcome you amongst the workshop participants. You can enroll for the event using the link below

http://www.quickersteps.net/

Download: flyer and workshop program

Call for contributions: International Workshop on collaboration between academic context and working life

Charles — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:10:40 +0000

On November 8 – 9, 2011, DICA-lab at University of Luxembourg will organise a workshop (1,5 day), which brings together coordinators, teachers, students and professional partners of academic programs from Luxembourg (UL and other training institutions) and the greater region. This workshop is the UL part of an international project with members from Finland, Luxembourg, Austria and the United Kingdom which join their efforts to collect, disseminate and reflect knowledge and best practices of diverse co-operation and partnership solutions between educational institutions and working life. The aim of the project is to develop students’ possibilities to make quicker/easier steps into working life from higher education as mentioned by the project’s title “QUICKER STEPS FROM EDUCATION TO WORKING-LIFE”. The project is funded by the Transnational Projects program of the Finnish European Social Fund.

The Luxembourg workshop, which is run under the overall command of the vice-president for academic affairs, concerns all BA or MA programs, which prepare for a professional career in the various areas of working life. It addresses three core topics, closely related to the challenges of the Luxembourg economic context, i.e.
- Innovation and/from diversity
- Multilingualism in the working life
- Integration & participation of workforce with migrational/mobility backgrounds

The workshop will offer the opportunity to present and discuss specific forms of collaborations between university and professional partners so that all participants can learn from each other’s experiences and approaches. The international partners will contribute to this process as well by presenting initiatives from their home institution.

The project group would be very pleased to welcome members of academic institutions of the greater region amongst the workshop participants. When you are interested in contributing actively to this workshop, e.g. via a short presentation of 15 minutes, please send a mail to
charles.max(at)uni.lu

First workshop of the “Quicker steps”-project in Espoo (Finland)

Charles — Sun, 01 May 2011 10:06:42 +0000

Disseminating knowledge and best practices
of the diverse co-operation and partnership solutions between higher education institutions and working life in Finland, Luxembourg, Austria and the United Kingdom

Charles Max and Nadja Weber participate in the first workshop of the International Project ”Quicker Steps From Education To Working-Life” at the Laurea University of Applied Sciences in Espoo (Finland) from May 2 to 6, 2011.

This first benchmarking-workshop is related to “Teacher-ship and cooperation with working-life in universities of applied sciences to facilitate students’ transition to labour market”.

The next workshop will be held in November 2011 at the University of Luxembourg with national partners/agencies and will focus on ”Pedagogical solutions to support employability of students with immigrant backgrounds”

LS6 project – Webinar 3 on ‘Language learners using social media: What is happening in Latvia, Poland and Romania?’

Charles — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:18:49 +0000

This Friday, 11.02, at 12h30 the third webinar of the LS6 network (language learning and social media) will be broadcast live from Riga. Topics that will be discussed

How, and for what purposes, do language learners use the Internet in their everyday life and to learn languages?
What are learners’ perceptions and attitudes in relation to social media?
What motivates learners to become active users and contributors in social spaces on the Internet?

Broadcast live via Elluminate. Register now for free: webinar.riga@gmail.com

The next webinar will be held in Luxembourg in June 2011 and will be organised by Gudrun Ziegler with some top experts from the US and Spain. Have a first look here.

webinar poster

LS6 project: annual meeting in Brussels

Charles — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:35:53 +0000

Charles Max is attending the annual meeting of EU project coordinators at the EACEA in Brussels on February 7 and 8, 2011

http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/ka2/languages_en.php

LS6 project: Eve platform LS6 website

DICA-lab met MINE-research group

Charles — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:57:57 +0000

On Tuesday, October 19, the DICA-lab researchers met Prof. Dr. Christophe Schomer’s MINE-research group located at the Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC).

In this meeting, both teams confronted and discussed boundary-crossing research approaches based on current PhD research work.

To know more about the MINE-group : http://wiki.uni.lu/mine/Mine.html

Leonardo Summer School 2010

Charles — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:04:14 +0000

Dica-lab members Prof. Charles Max and Ass-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler are running two workshops at the 2010 LEONARDO Summer School of the University of Luxembourg.

A. Parlez-vous English hei zu Luxemburg?

B. Web 2.0 – Wer spricht/schreibt, wer nutzt’s, wer “lernt” damit, wo, wie und wann?

For further information, look at the Leonardo webpage of