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Intercultural Language Learning for Illiterate Adults
Start date: Dec 1, 2009,

The project turns to a specific group of learners who, being illiterate or functionally illiterate and not longer engaged in formal schooling, are not adequately addressed by opportunities for foreign language learning (FLL) be it for professional realisation, for social/cultural inclusion or for personal fulfilment. The ILLIAD network provides settings for exchange of information, awareness raising, collection of examples, selection of good practices, elaboration of policy recommendations and planning of future initiatives that contribute to creating of FLL opportunities for the project target group and support the intercultural dialogue in the contemporary multilingual and multicultural society.The project partners will carry out their work focusing on 3 topics which explore the interrelations between language competencies and the sustainable personal realisation in life and society:- Language, Employment and Inclusion- Language Learning Methods for Illiterates and Low Achieving Adults- ILLIAD Good Practices The networking activities will include: describing the state of the art; exploitation of achievements of previous initiatives and estimating the transferability of solutions created for other target groups; information campaigns; elaboration and publishing of reports and program papers. An international conference will be organised each year during the project implementation to highlighting the partnership achievements and to provide platform for planning future practical steps for exploitation of the outcomes.The project is in tune with the European drive for greater social cohesion in Europe and with the priorities of 2010 proclaimed to be the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion.
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