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This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This web site reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Bollettino Itals is an online bimonthly (ISSN 2724-5888) dealing with linguistics and teaching Italian to foreigners. Boillettino Itals is addressed to teachers of Italian language working in Italy and around the world, offering them suggestions to be immediately used in the teaching routine. The September 2022’ issue of Bollettino Itals contains an interview to Jiří Špička (University of Olomouc) who describes the Pastille project and its main results.
The Multiplier Event, entitled "Teaching Italian Language & Culture in the Digital Age”, was organized by the University of Macedonia on 11 July 2022. As part of the event participants had the opportunity to discover the final outcomes of the Pastille project as well as to meet keynote speakers and panelists who have been discussing today’s challenges of teaching and learning the Italian language and culture in the digital age using advanced technologies.
The final meeting of the Pastille project took place on 28 and 29 June 2022 at Pixel premises located in Florence (Italy). During the meeting, the European partners finalized the production of the Didactic Units and defined the structure of the website section addressed to the audiovisual and multimedia materials.
The Staff Training of the Pastille project will be held in Wroclaw (Poland) on 18 – 22 June 2022. The Staff Training will aim at: providing the participants with tools and pieces of advice which could be useful in order to plan a Pastille lesson; providing the participants with general information about Pastille approach, instruments and applications; improving how to manage a lesson; sharing and exchanging previous experiences in learning / teaching contexts; working through students’ motivation. The Programme of the Staff Training is available at the following link: https://pastille.pixel-online.org/files/conference_19_78.pdf.
“Pastiglie di Italiano”: this is the name of the Multiplier Event, related to the Pastille project, organized by the University of Vilnius on 14 June 2022. The event was held at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Vilnius. During the event, the main outputs of the project have been presented to the participants, whoalso had the opportunity to test the platform hosting the Didactic Units. Further information about the event is available here: https://tinyurl.com/mr2ycw8u.
The Multiplier Event, entitled after "Nuove proposte per insegnare l’italiano", was organized on 4 June 2022 by the University of Olomouc. The event was organized at the Department of Romance Languages, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, (Czech Republic).
The Pastille project was presented in the framework of the International Conference entitled after “Medievalia Shakespeariana” which was held on 4 and 5 May 2022. The International Conference was organized by the University of Genova.
“Nuove proposte per insegnare l’italiano”: this is the title of the seminar organized by University of Olomouc in the framework of the Pastille European project. The seminar will be held on 4 June 2022 at the Katedra romanistiky of the University of Olomouc located in Křížkovského 10, Olomouc. The event will be focused on the presentation of the Pastille project and its main results.. The complete seminar programme is available here: https://tinyurl.com/3879dj6h.
As the Didactic Units aim at providing language students with the opportunity to get in touch with the Italian culture, their feedback is crucial. It is now possible to evaluate the Didactic Units filling in the template available at the following link: https://tinyurl.com/3w327bub
The platform hosting the 60 Didactic is now available. The Didactic Units aim at providing language students with the opportunity to get in touch with the Italian culture which stimulates divergent thinking and motivation. In order to access the platform, it is necessary to logion at the following link: https://pastille.pixel-online.org/login.php.
The first result produced in the framework of the Pastille project was the Methodological Guidelines, designed to address to the needs of University teachers / researchers of Italian language and University students (https://pastille.pixel-online.org/methodological-guidelines.php). It is now possible to provide a feedback about the Guidelines at the following link: https://forms.gle/P84pisuWWtfZNaGW6
A transnational meeting took place online on 21 December 2021. During the meeting, project partners presented the state of art related to the upload of the Didactic Unit’s contents. In addition, project partners identified possible solutions to fix the bugs emerged within the Pastille platform.
The Pastille project was presented in the framework of the Conference entitled after “Donna schermo de la veritade". The Conference was held on 22 – 23 November 2021 and was organized by the University of Wroclaw in cooperation with the University of Genova.
The Pastille project will be presented in the framework of the Conference entitled after “Donna schermo de la veritade", organized on the occasion of 700th anniversary from the death of Dante Alighieri, noble father of the Italian language. The Conference will represent an opportunity to discuss about the role of the screen in the past (“schermo de la veritade”) and in the present (the screen within the digital education).
One-to-one meetings between project applicant, University of Wroclaw, and project partners are currently organized to discuss the contents of the Didactic Units. 60 Didactic Units will be developed by project partners (12 Didactic Units to be produced by each University partner), 10 for each of the 6 CEFR Levels. The Didactic Units will offer artistic, social and literature materials to be used for teaching / learning Italian language.
A transnational meeting took place online on 20 July 2021. During this meeting, the draft version of the platform hosting the Didactic Units has been presented to all project partners, who are now in charge of uploading the related contents.
The Pastille project was presented in the framework of a Seminar organized to celebrate the 130th anniversary of Società Dante Alighieri’ foundation and his co-founder Giosuè Carducci. The Seminar was held on 21 – 22 June 2021 by the University of Wroclaw.
The Pastille project was presented in the framework of the 8th International Biblical Conference "Bible in interpretation and exegesis". The Conference was held in Odolanów (Poland) on 27-28 May 2021. The Conference was organized by the University of Wroclaw.
The third meeting took place online on 08 April 2021. During the third meeting, the template for the production of IO2 - Didactic Units was described: this template will be used for the production of the 60 Didactic Units to be uploaded on a specific e-learning platform, which will be soon ready.
The Pastille project has now a Facebook group addressed to lecturers and students interested in the Italian language. Lecturers of Italian language as L2 will find here interesting inputs to be used in their daily teaching routine. Students, interested in developing their skills in Italian language, will find here useful tips and suggestions on how to better express themselves in Dante' language. The Pastille Facebook group is available here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wloskiwroclaw.
With the finalization of the Methodological Guidelines, Pastille project partners are now focused on the production of the Didactic Units. The purpose of the Didactic Units is to provide language students, at the university level, the opportunity to get in touch with the culture, which, especially for Italy, stimulates divergent thinking and motivation. A specific e-learning platform is currently under construction: it will host the 60 Didactic Units produced by the partners.
The final English version of the Methodological Guidelines is now available at the following link: https://pastille.pixel-online.org/methodological-guidelines.php. The most innovative aspect of the Guidelines is related to the implementation of a new teaching praxis that enhances the use of original cultural and artistic material as a mean to teach and learn Italian.
The second meeting took place online on 20 November 2020. During the second meeting, the European project partners discussed the translation of IO1 - Methodological Guidelines. In addition, the European project partners discussed the production of IO2 - Didactic Units and proceed to the redistribution of the Didactic Units to be produced.
The final Italian version of the Methodological Guidelines is now available at the following link: https://pastille.pixel-online.org/methodological-guidelines.php. The Methodological Guidelines offer practical methodologies on how lectures should be organized to make reference to cultural topics. Practical techniques are suggested to memorize as well as indications related to inter-comprehension that facilitate the teaching and learning process.
The Interim Report of the Pastille project has been officially submitted. The Interim Report aimed at summarizing up the activities carried out in the framework of the Pastille project after 9 months. The Interim Report presents the activities carried out by project partners with reference to both the production of the Intellectual Outputs and the project management and will be evaluated by the Polish National Agency.
The Pastille network is increasing as associated partners (Universities, language centers, research centers, and institutions involved in teaching Italian language) decided to get involved in the project as they are interested in cooperating in the development of the project outputs, participating in the testing and providing feedback to improve their quality. Associated partners are available at the following link: https://pastille.pixel-online.org/associated-partners.php.
A first draft of the Methodological Guidelines is now available on the project website: https://pastille.pixel-online.org/methodological-guidelines.php. This work is the result of project partners’ desire to provide University teachers with a useful tool and an innovative teaching methodology.
The kick-off meeting took place online using Skype on 18 May 2020. During the first meeting, the European project partners introduced themselves as well as their project’s related experiences and expertise. The main activities to be carried out were presented and discussed. The main intellectual outputs to be produced were examined and the templates for the production of the expected deliverables were analyzed and jointly discussed.
Prior to the online kick-off meeting, it was decided to have a preliminary online meeting focusing the financial issues related to the meeting. Andrea Peraldo from Pixel (IT) presented the main documents to be used as official reference for the Administrative and Financial Management, with a specific reference to the administrative and contractual provisions, the agreement with the National Agency, the Agreement between the coordinator and the project partners. A representative of each project partner participated in this online meeting.
Despite the spread of COVID19, European project partners are currently working to the production of the Methodological Guidelines designed to address to the needs of teachers of Italian language and university students. Teachers, especially the youngest ones, who will use the Guidelines as a new method orientation will improve their skills of classroom management and motivation. Students will have the opportunity to understand the unbreakable link between the Italian language and the Italian culture, declined in all its aspects.
The preliminary steps of the Pastille project are almost finalized, as project partners will soon sign the contracts with the project applicant, putting their know-how and experience at the service of the Pastille project. The partnership is mainly composed by Universities distributed around Europe: Poland – University of Wroclaw; Italy – University of Genova; Lithuania – University of Vilnius; Czech Republic – University of Olomouc; Greece – University of Macedonia. The technical management of the project is entrusted to Pixel.
During the transnational meeting of the Together project, held in Florence (IT) on 28/10/2019, Elisabetta Delle Donne presented Pixel activities and, among these, the Pastille project. The aim of the Together project is to develop social responsibility of higher education students, raising their awareness on integration of refugees’ issues and promoting a more inclusive University. In this field, the knowledge of a foreign language like Italian can have a pivotal role in promoting integration.
The Pastille project is funded, by the European Commission (http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus-plus_en) through the Polish National Agency for the Erasmus+ Programme (https://erasmusplus.org.pl), with the aim to create an innovative teaching method for Italian as a foreign language. The objectives of the Pastille project are: to offer a new, high-level, educational teaching method for Italian as a foreign language, which is focused on an interdisciplinary approach; to enhance the motivation of Italian language’ learners to improve their linguistic skills, cultural competences and communitarian, European, Mediterranean awareness; to increase the chances of Italian language’ learners on the local and international labour market.