Phase 0 -

Preparation
(October 2004 –
January 2005)

0/1 Kick-off-Meeting with the persons responsible for the project and the colleagues at the various locations, Set up the working groups

0/2 Research materials that will serve as a basis for further project work (linguistic-intercultural and vocational standard requirements for job training placements abroad)

0/3 Discussions with the relevant target groups (persons responsible in the companies and educational facilities, guidance counsellors, interns)

0/4 Summary of the results

completed

Phase 1 -

Development of the Framework of Reference
(January 2005 -
September 2005)

1. Transnational Partner Meeting in
Hamburg (12.-14.01.2005) with all project partners and the advisory board (Coordination of and agreement over the time and work schedule)

1/1 Determine a common method for the framework of reference; Determine the evaluation procedure

1/2 Development of the framework of reference with in the working groups (national), Consultation with the project advisory board

1/3 Transnational exchange and compilation of the results

1/4 Revision, preparation of an English version

1/5 Set up a project web site

completed

Phase 2 -

Interim evaluation of the project work and results
(October 2005 -
November 2005)

2. Transnational Partner Meeting in
Bratislava (23.-26.10.05) with all project partners and the advisory board (Determine the outline and the content of the language modules, Evaluation of the completed target group questionnaires

2/1 Final editing and production of the framework of reference (PDF, 200kB)

2/2 Write the interim report (PDF, 800kB)

2/3 Interim evaluation of the project (PDF, 130kB)

completed

Phase 3

Development of the language materials and modules
(January 2006 -
October 2006)

Transnational Workshop in Helsinki (01.-04.6.2006) with all project partners and the advisory board (Coordination of the development of the modules and the learning programmes)

3/1 Determine the basic methodological-didactical principles for the development of the language modules

3/2 Begin the development of the language materials, modules and the learning programme in collaboration with the software developer

3/3 Test the intermediate and partial results

3/4 Completion of the modules, scripts and user references3/5 Feedback from the project partners and advisory board

completed

Phase 4

Make the materials and modules available
(October 2006 -
December 2006)

Transnational Workshop in Odense (20.-22.11.2006) with all project partners and the advisory board (Coordination of the production of the modules and the learning programmes, Evaluation of the first test phase)

4/1 Final editing and production of the modules

4/2 Write the interim report

4/3 Interim evaluation of the project

4/4 Implementation and dissemination of the compiled project results

completed

Testing of the modules
(October 2006 -
June 2007)

Transnational Workshops in
Wuppertal (18.-20.01.2007) and
Hamburg (22.-25.03.2007)
to gather all project results together

5/1 Determine the parameters to prepare for the development of the portfolio

5/2 Test the language learning modules and the learning programmes on site with the project partners in the pilot courses

5/4 Compile all project results

5/5 Feedback and revision

completed

Phase 6

Dissemination of the project results
(August 2007 -
December 2007)

3. Transnational Partner Meeting (September 2007) with all project partners and the advisory board to coordinate the dissemination and implementation of the projects results

6/1 Make the digital portfolio available

6/2 Dissemination, implementation of the project results

6/3 Final conference meeting with the project partners, target groups, associations and European network partners

6/4 Final report to the EU-Commission

6/5 Ex-post Evaluation

completed