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This week the Erasmus Days 2023 are being celebrated all around Europe. Our recently approved project, COMMUNIKITE, whose website will be soon available, invites you to participate in an interesting poll concerning the first approach to a new language. Given that our sociolinguistic target is people whose knowledge of a new language is zero, your […]

Unfortunately, the project is due to end soon and many things have to be prepared and revised before it is finished. Today, Tuesday 5 September, most of the Salamanca team members have met in person or online to discuss many details of the last actions of this project. However, we will continue to fight together […]

Last week, on the 31 August, a member of our project and teaching staff at the Spanish Language Department of the University of Salamanca (USal), Helena Belío Apaolaza, presented to the audience in the International Congress of the Association of Spanish as a Foreign Language, held this year in Burgos, Includeed project, its aims, and […]

During these three days of June, several members of each university of Includeed project’s consortium and dozens of other attendees met in Poitiers in order to hold, on the one hand, Includeed’s second Multiplier Event, in which different conferences and activities on applied linguistics are being conducted. On the other hand, Includeed member will also […]

The international congress on the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language, promoted by the Community of Castilla y León, started yesterday in Salamanca. This event is organised every year and focuses on theoretical and practical linguistic aspects in ELE, Español como Lengua Extranjera (‘Spanish as a Foreign Language’). Several members of our project, such […]

Some days ago, one of our external partners, the Sierra Pambley Foundation (León, Spain), has started its own dissemination campaign to spread Includeed’s Intellectual Outputs. Given that they work with refugees and migrants, it is really important to cooperate with them, because they can use first-hand the materials created by our project. In fact, apart […]

The Principal Investigator of Includeed project, Carmen Fernández Juncal, professor of Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics and Semantics at the University of Salamanca (Department of Spanish Language), today 15 June, at the I Coloque International d’Applications de la linguistique de corpus dans la didactique de langues, held at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Paris), presented Includeed’s Second Intellectual Output, […]

Finally, after many months of hard work, we are deeply proud and happy to announce the publication of the second Intellectual Product of  Includeed Project. As we have already said, it is a course containing the most relevant topics of basic linguistic pragmatics in the six languages of the consortium (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese […]

Next week, on Tuesday 30 May at 18:00, a member of the Includeed project, Dr. Olga Ivanova (University of Salamanca, @Dr_Olga_Ivanova) will give a lecture in Spanish at the University Camilo José Cela (Madrid) entitled ‘When learning is not a choice: teaching Spanish as a foreign language to refugees’. It will be an open and […]

We are deeply proud to announce to all that Includeed project’s Second Intellectual Output will be soon added to our official YouTube channel. Our videos, focused on the most important aspects of basic linguistic pragmatics, will be available in the six languages of the consortium (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish) during the coming […]

Today, 9 May we celebrate the International Day of Europe and, given that Includeed Project was born in the framework of the European projects Erasmus+, it is a good opportunity to highlight the importance of international and European collaboration in order to achieve a more peaceful and valuable world. From Includeed Project we aim to […]

Today, May 2nd, as part of the dissemination plan and strategies of the project, a member of Includeed and professor at the University of Salamanca, Carmen González Gómez, has introduced to her students of Semantics and Pragmatics (Spanish Philology) the two Intellectual Outputs developed during these years of work. By doing this we aim to […]

Yesterday 26th of April some members of Includeed Project have attended an interesting meeting with the developers of a useful app called Nextlingua (https://nextlingua.com/). This app was created by a local company with funding from the provincial and European governments with the aim of helping to learn new languages, like English German, Russian, French, Portuguese, […]

This week, on April 23, the International Day of the Spanish Language is commemorated around the world on the occasion of the anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616). The Spanish language is spoken by some 493 million people, making it the second most widely spoken mother tongue and the fourth most widely […]

The Community of Castilla y León organises every year several activities around Spanish as an international language, its internationalisation strategies and its teaching as a foreign language. This year 2023, between 26-28 June, the University of Salamanca will host one of these important conferences (ELE, ‘Español como Lengua Extranjera’), in which some members of the […]

We have great news! The second Intellectual Output of our Includeed project is progressing successfully and we will soon be able to start disseminating it through the different social groups. It is a complete foreign language learning course created by linguistic experts and developed in the six languages of the consortium (Spanish, English, Italian, French, […]

A few weeks ago, an article was published about the main challenges faced by refugees from Ukraine in their new host countries. Not surprisingly, one of them is the language barrier. Despite the fact that many of them are attending courses to learn the language of the country, the lack of knowledge of the language […]

Today, 21 March, is World Poetry Day. Includeed members, as philologists, recognise and underline the importance of literature in difficult times. And so does UNICEF: check out this beautiful initiative in which war-affected children from all over the world, including Ukrainian refugees, send in their poems for peace: https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/world-poetry-day-hundreds-children-affected-conflict-and-war-share-poems-peace

A few weeks ago this book written by R. de Luque Esteban appeared on the web. It is intended for Ukrainians who want or need to learn Spanish. You can find the following link to download it for free:🌏👇🏻 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k_JHsrmcyontelK0mfSYDI5r29Xjzmsp/view

Includeed is pleased to announce the approval of a new teaching innovation project at the University of Salamanca in which several members of our colleagues will participate. Its name, as is obvious, refers to the well-known places of debate and public life in the cities of Ancient Greece, where the people gathered for the most […]

Yesterday, December 18, International Migrants Day was celebrated around the world. The entire Includeed team is absolutely committed to the cause of migrants and refugees, fighting for their rights and trying to contribute to improving their lives through our linguistic and philological skills.

During these days (December 6-8) some Includeed members of the six universities met in Heidelberg to discuss and share the improvements and developments in our Intellectual Output 2 and other important aspects of the project. Hard work and fruitful meetings will soon lead to the second milestone of Includeed. Stay tuned for more news!

On Monday 7th November 2022 Includeed Dissemination Working Group held a meeting to share our views on the upcoming dissemination activities of our Intellectual Product 2. In addition, we discussed other ways to innovate our dissemination channels.

Great news for Includeed Project! This week on Thursday 14th we will be holding in Salamanca (USal) this year’s multiplier event. Check out the posters below and the information on our social media. We will keep you posted! In this multiplier event really interesting and diverse activities will be held and we will count on […]

The students of the Master’s Degree in Teaching Spanish as Foreign Language at the University of Salamanca have produced videos for teaching Spanish to immigrants and refugees. This activity has been developed as part of the teaching innovation project: “E-INTEGRA. Development of audiovisual materials for the preparation of the CCSE test” (test of constitutional and […]

On June 20, we celebrated internationally the World Refugee Day, a day on which the visibility of refugees, conflicts and wars is crucial. Includeed Project is fully committed to this struggle. Photo: © UNHCR in Bangladesh

Great news! We can already publicly announce the date and details of our first Includeed Workshop of 2022, which will take place from the 25th to the 27th of May in Bologna! The main topic of the workshop will involve the study and presentation of materials and methods for linguistic integrationof migrants and refugees, focusing […]

Our partners in Bologna have organized a webinar on the didactics of written Italian through an interdisciplinar approach. Keep tuned for further news!

  Next Thursday and Friday, the VIII Doctoral Conferences of Classical Philology will be held in Salamanca. One of our members, Marcos Medrano Duque (USal), will participate with a conference about Indo-European linguistics. Below you can find the program and the links to get access. We hope to see you there!    

Today, Bologna, Coimbra, Dublin, Heidelberg, Salamanca, and Poitiers came again together and held a delightful and productive meeting regarding the past and future events of our project. It was such a pleasure to see everyone again, despite the circumstances. New things are coming soon, so stay tunned!  

Recently, Prof. Teresa Rodríguez, from the University of Salamanca, gave a introductory talk about Includeed project to two groups of Hispanic Philology students at the University of České Budějovice (Czech Republic). In this session, the objectives of the project and the main activities were explained, as well as the dissemination channels of the project and […]

We are proud to present the app 7Ling developed by our project, Xceling, thought to be useful for immigrants and refugees. Give it a look and share it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o9rJx-X7oQ

And now is our Italian partners’ turn! Here we have their survey about immigrants and linguistic inclusion. What do you think about it? That is another part of our contribution to ErasmusDays. Give it a try!   https://forms.gle/YqKtBrQB8kL6uAor7

Today Thursday 14th, we kindly invite you all to participate in our survey about the linguistic integration of immigrants and refugees within our society. It is anonymous and will take less than 5 minutes, and you will help with our research! https://forms.gle/fDNcGGGrzZXZ3aTx8

This morning the second online project meeting organised by the Trinity College Dublin team took place. The meeting has served to exchange points of view and to continue advancing in the development of the different tasks. Thank you all for your participation!

USAL team presented INCLUDEED project at the virtual conference “Movilidad, comunicación policéntrica y acomodación lingüística” organised by the University of Düsseldorf on 22 and 23 June. It was a great opportunity to disseminate the objectives pursued by this project and to present the two main intellectual outputs (IO) to be developed: a guide for te […]

Yesterday Prof. María Herreros, from University of Salamanca, gave an introductory talk about Includeed project to the students of Linguistics at the University of Salamanca. In this session, the objectives of the project were explained, as well as the dissemination channels of the project, social networks and website (https://includeed.usal.es/), so that all interested people will […]

On March, 22  the University of Coimbra INCLUDEED team held a meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to distribute tasks related to the project’s outputs.      

The kick-off meeting of the project will be held this Friday, 29 January. Due to the pandemic, this meeting will be held online. All partners from the 6 European universities will attend to discuss the work plan for the next activities of the project.

The webinar “Challenges and technologies in the teaching of Spanish to immigrants” has been successfully developed. Some relevant questions related to this topic have been presented and the app 7Ling has been introduced. In addition, the INCLUDEED project has been presented and its objectives and upcoming activities have been explained. A total of 245 people has […]