Co-ordinator of the sub-project                            sub-project's web page

Valère Meus                                                                             New learning environments - the European learning space
Universiteit Gent (BE)
Talencentrum
email: valere.meus@rug.ac.be

Deputy co-ordinator of the sub-project

Anne Räsänen
Jyväskylän yliopisto (FI)
Kielikeskus
email: rasanen@cc.jyu.fi

In general terms, TNP2 will seek to work towards a break-through in language learning in higher education - as regards number of learners, range of languages, and learning modes. Among the aims and objectives under this theme are:

• exploration of the potential of new learning environments, in particular of ICT, for the learning of the less widely used and less taught languages, for developing self-learning abilities, and for achieving multilingual competence;
• identification, description, and assessment of new and promising developments at institutional level in the participating countries;
• identification of elements essential to a successful use of new learning environments for language learning;

NB. The above issues will be considered against the background of a changing constitution of the learning body.

• identification of pertinent developments in (private) institutions of adult education and in language units of international corporations;
• reflection on the issue of the assessment and certification of language proficiency acquired through independent learning and on the role ICT can play in assessment and certification.

In addition, TNP 2 is to explore ways of integrating new learning environments into language study programmes - from the point of view of course objectives and course content, of new learning modes, of the requirements in continuing education, and of European co-operation - by describing and analysing the use of new learning environments for the said purposes at national and at European level. Ultimately, TNP 2 is to

• promote awareness of good practice in the use of new learning environments for language learning, for the acquisition of knowledge, for life-long learning, and for European co-operation in the delivery of programmes;
• initiate European co-operation, specifically in the fields of staff development, materials development, curriculum development, and action research.

• Isabel Landsiedler, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, AT
• Valère Meus, Universiteit Gent, BE
• Vania Simeonova, Universitetsko informatzionno obsluzhvane, BG
• Ina Maneva, Universitetsko informatzionno obsluzhvane, BG
• Brigitte Forster Vosicki, Université de Lausanne, CH
• Doris Flischikowski, Universität Potsdam, DE
• Ole Helmersen, Handelshøjskolen i København, DK
• Birute Klaas, Tartu Ülikool, EE
• Ana Gimeno Sanz, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, ES
• Anne Räsänen, Jyväskylän yliopisto, FI
• Bridget Francillard-Whiddon, Ecole Supérieure de Chimie Physique Electronique, FR
• Panagiotis Panagiotidis, Aristoteleio Panepistimio Thessalonikis, GR
• Bill Richardson, Dublin City University, IE
• Franca Poppi, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, IT
• Jurate Zdanyte, Kauno technologijos universitetas, LT
• Ilze Kangro, Latvijas Universitate, LV
• Alessandra Corda, Universiteit Leiden, NL
• Sake Jager, Rijsuniversiteit Groningen, NL
• Tove Jacobsen, Universitetet i Bergen, NO
• Boguslaw Marek, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski, PL
• Fatima Ferreira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PT
• Karina Vamling, Lunds Universitet, SE
• Teodor Petric, Univerza v Mariboru, SI
• Marina Mozzon-McPherson, University of Hull, UK

• Workshop "New Learning Environments": Copenhagen, DK, 7-8 June 2002
• Third meeting of the Scientific Committee: Valencia, ES, 9-10 November 2001
• Second meeting of the Scientific Committee:  Ghent, DE, 31 March 2001.
• First meeting of the Scientific Committee:  Berlin, DE, 18 November 2000.