Researchers: Luis Guerra, Lili Cavalheiro, Ricardo Pereira, Jean Antunes, Luís Elói (RG5)
Project Designation: European Researcher Development and Engagement for Interculturality and Equity (EUREDIE), 2021-1-TR01-KA220-HED-000029594
Funding Entity: TR01 – THE CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN UNION EDUCATION AND YOUTH PROGRAMMES, TURKISH NATIONAL AGENCY; European Union ERASMUS+
Principal Researcher: Yasemin Oral, ISTANBUL UNIVERSITESI – CERRAHPASA, Istanbul, Turkey
Co-responsible: Luis Guerra (CEAUL/University of Evora)
Research Unit: Department of Linguistics and Literatures, University of Evora
Partners: LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN, Muenchen, Germany; UNIVERSIDADE DE ÉVORA, Évora, Portugal; GIRIFT TEKNOLOJI LIMITED SIRKETI, Istanbul, Türkiye
Duration: March 2022 – February 2024
Funding: 231,680€
Overall description: This project is intended to produce an inclusive, accessible and sustainable researcher development and engagement path for the early-career researchers involved in language education research to address the increasing social and linguistic diversity involved in language education and research, by using an interculturality approach, capitalizing on the resources and opportunities that digital technologies offer today and adopting a participatory and data-driven strategy. This overall result will be achieved through the following specific results:
- Open-access three-parted report gathered from data-driven participatory review of the field, including review of the literature across Europe in the last decade, ECRs’ perceptions of interculturality in language education and analysis of their research- related needs
- Problem/Task-Based Online Study Program including a six-week three-module online intensive summer school
- Digital Platform for Researcher Development & Networking, including a self-directed e-learning component around the issues of interculturality and language education, embedded interactive e-portfolios, an online handbook including a manual, and an interactive space for discussion and networking.
This project is intended to produce the following outcomes:
- a novel approach to address the increasing social and linguistic diversity involved in language education and research, by using an interculturality approach, capitalizing on the resources and opportunities that digital technologies offer today and adopting a participatory and data-driven strategy
- increased capacity for the construction and utilization of a digital ecosystem for sustainable, inclusive, and easily-accessible researcher development and engagement
- increased knowledge and awareness of the role of interculturality in promoting social and linguistic diversity and greater understanding and engagement with inclusive and equitable knowledge production, among the ECRs involved in language education research