Researcher: Cláudia Martins (RG 6)
Project Designation: QuILL-Quality in Language Learning
Funding Entity: Erasmus+ – Strategic Partnership Key Action 2
Principal Researcher: Elisabete Mendes Silva
Research Unit: Polytechnic Institute of Bragança
Website: https://quill.pixel-online.org/contractual-partners.php
Duration: March 2021 to February 2023 (24 months)
Funding: 299,970.00 EUR
Overall description: Language skills are a key element in the process of creation of a European Education Area. However, language proficiency levels among students are still unsatisfactory across the European Union with discrepancies between the different EU countries. The QuILL project objectives are: Provide language lecturers with the skills to identify, assess, use, create digital and ICT based language teaching sources. Provide decision makers and policy makers with the information and skills to enhance the implementation of digital and ICT based language teaching sources and method in the higher education systems. The direct project target groups are: Language lecturers focusing on LSP (language for specific purposes) in Higher Education Institutions. Decision makers in HEIs and policymakers in the field of education. Database of Learning Sources addressed to Higher education students. Guidelines addressed to managerial staff of Higher Education Institutions, policy makers as well as language lecturers.