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 Top-up grants are available for group taster trips and visits to Germany for young people. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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Exciting way for UK children learning German at primary school and their counterparts in Germany learning English at Grundschule to join up for a short-term bilateral project. The Bears arrive in the form of real soft toys, and come with a suitcase of easy to use materials designed to introduce young pupils to learning some basic German and interesting facts about Germany. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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The British Council website 'Schools Online' provides an interactive partner-finding database to link schools and colleges worldwide, as well as advice and guidance on joint projects, funding and programmes. Please note: This website was formerly known as 'Global Gateway'. If you have previously registered with Global Gateway, you can use your existing log-in details. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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eTwinning is the European Union's eLearning platform which enables schools to get together virtually with partner schools in other European countries to carry out joint projects, exchange information and share learning materials. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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Achievers International is an online enterprise project for students, encouraging them to understand international trading. A group of students and their teacher form a company, and import and export goods with a partner school overseas. Students gain an insight into how businesses are formed and managed, and increase their awareness and understanding of other cultures and citizenship. It provides a practical learning context for teaching business studies and modern languages, and promotes development of ICT skills. |
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The Eridge Trust is a charitable trust whose purpose is to encourage young people to enjoy and appreciate visual art, especially painting. The Eridge Trust makes grants to schools, colleges and others for school trips to museums, galleries and centres of art at home and abroad. Grants are also made to UK museums and galleries for projects aimed at young people. The Trust hopes that its grants will help to give students, from primary school to college and university, new and exciting encounters with art, and awaken them to the lasting pleasures to be had from pictures and sculpture. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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A competition to translate a poem from any language, classical or modern, into English. There are cash prizes for winners as well as the best entry being published in The Times. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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24 May 2013 | |
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Grants for a wide range of cross-curricular and subject-based activities, with or without a language element. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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31 May 2013 | |
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The new Youth Challenge Fund is designed to give young people the opportunity to enhance their international experience and intercultural awareness in a creative, practical and enjoyable way and to maximise the impact and sustainability of UK-German youth contacts. This pilot programme is open exclusively to youth groups (and their leaders) in the UK and Germany and is aimed at children and young people up to the age of 25. Funding can go towards project resources, joint activities and costs for the visit to Germany. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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31 May 2013 | |
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This fund is designed to help you and your partners celebrate your link and to give you the opportunity to tell the world about your collaboration and joint activities. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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31 May 2013 | |
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The British Academy is again offering a series of awards throughout the UK for the encouragement of excellence in language learning. The focus this year is on activity that encourages larger numbers of students to take languages to advanced and degree level. Applicants must demonstrate innovative and attainable plans for improving take-up and enthusiasm for language learning beyond the age of 16 (S5/S6 in Scotland). Projects which involve collaboration between sectors (e.g. between schools/colleges/universities, or with business or employers), or which target learners from less advantaged social groups or areas of the country, are particularly welcomed. A total of 15 Awards of £4,000 each will be distributed to successful applicants throughout the UK. One UK national winner will receive £8,000. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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The Goethe-Institut London invites German teachers and their students to take part in this unique competition series. German and IT is THE combination! Fun and steep learning curves guaranteed when you take on one of these tasks:
… and all you need is a computer. Six categories for different levels of language skills are provided. Primary teachers and secondary teachers can choose which competition they think suits their students best. Please register your interest with roma.schultz@london.goethe.org by 3rd June 2013 and you will be sent an USB-stick. All the categories are explained and the relevant materials are provided. The materials are also suitable for offline work. Additional teaching material by the Goethe-Institut will be uploaded on the sticks to support your German programme. Every student taking part will receive a prize. Big prizes for the winners in each category include cash prizes, Arsenal footballs and tickets to a concert of the German Band Irie Révolté in November in London. Hurry up to register – 50 places to be taken! Open to applicants from: all-uk
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The Goethe-Institut London is cooperating with the Association for Language Learning (ALL) to put on a day conference for teachers of German. The day will include seminars, advice and tools for German teaching as well as providing an excellent networking opportunity to exchange tips and project ideas. The German Teachers' Day offers you many workshops and interesting new information about the Goethe-Institut. You will meet Sabine Uibel, who will show you how to make the best of German films in the classroom. Rene Koglbauer will take you on a journey through the GCSE Website of the Goethe-Institut London, while Roma Schultz is giving an introduction to the world of fairy tales as an inspiring topic for German classes. This conference will take place on 22 June 2013 at Manchester High School for Girls. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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Network for Languages London are running a serious of courses and workshops during the summer months. These include topics such as the new primary lnagugaes framework, motivation and language learning and long-lasting learning at A-level. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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Language Show Live returns this October as the event for people passionate about languages. Free to attend, it's your chance to join over 10,000 language learners, teachers, translators, linguists, jobseekers and language professionals for three days. It is a chance to sample the latest language products, experience different cultures and discover a wealth of opportunities to enrich your language skills. There's an incredible line-up of speakers and exhibitors, more classes and seminars than ever before and networking opportunities to satisfy every language enthusiast. The event is held at Olympia, London from Friday 18 - Sunday 20 October 2013. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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Support for initial and in-service training through providing training bursaries for teachers, trainee teachers and other school staff. Grants are available for staff involved in school education to attend training courses for between one and four weeks in participating European countries or to undertake a job shadowing activity with a partner school. There are three deadlines per year: 16 January, 30 April and 17 September. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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Apply to host a German Comenius assistant to enhance the European and cultural dimension within your school. The assistants work 12-16 hours per week, and must teach a minimum of 2 hours of their native language. They receive a monthly grant from their home National Agency and come at no cost to the host institution. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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Comenius Language Assistants work in schools and colleges across Europe to teach English or a foreign language, which is especially relevant for people who want to pursue a career as a modern languages teacher. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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This platform promotes the development of national and local initiatives involving young people through providing an opportunity to meet potential partners organisations from Europe, providing information on the Youth in Action programme and delivering the latest news in the youth sector. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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The European Voluntary Service (EVS) provides young Europeans with the unique chance to express their personal commitment through unpaid and full-time voluntary activities in a foreign country within or outside the EU. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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popKultur is a project by the Goethe-Institut London to help secondary level students learn German with pop music! You can become part of the popKultur community and comment on recent popKultur competition video entries. With regular competitions and information on the German music scene. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE) offers short-term vocational training for 2 to 3 months in the summer. Placements are available in industrial and commercial organisations, research institutes, local government bodies, state enterprises, consultancies, laboratories and academic institutions. Aims to foster the exchange of technical knowledge and help to globalise tomorrow's workforce of scientists and engineers. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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Mission Berlin is a interactive radio production that can help you learn German in a fun way and gain some insight into the culture of Germany. It offers extensive audio, print and internet material. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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Europe-wide network of organisations giving young people access to information on opportunities to work, study, travel and volunteer abroad, as well as European funding. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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Youthbridge is a charitable initiative of the British-German Association to provide support for making German learning in English schools more relevant, interesting and fun, and to foster bilateral communication. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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Leonardo supports national training strategies through funding a range of transnational partnership projects aimed at improving quality, fostering innovation and promoting the European dimension in vocational training. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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Initiatives managed by Learning and Teaching Scotland in partnership with Scottish CILTNews blog. It provides a stock of professional development topics for teachers in Scotland including sections on weblogs, creative teaching, primary languages and careers with languages. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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Framework for better transparency of qualifications and skills. It is designed to encourage mobility and lifelong learning in an enlarged Europe, helping citizens to better communicate and present their qualifications and skills throughout Europe. Open to applicants from: all-uk
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