SMIIM

The first partner meeting for the project  took place from the 12th until lthe 15th of January 2018 in Hemel Hempstead (England). All the representatives from the different projects attended that meeting. During the course of the meeting the different partners discussed the precise concept, the goal of the projects and the results to be achieved. All the partners presented strategy sugestions for the implementation of their own outputs, and the tasks and reponsabilities were delegated. Also, the working agenda/plan and the next partner meeting were discussed and established.

Second Partner Meeting in Berlin

At the Second Partner Meeting in Berlin in September 2018, the partners came together to discuss the progress of the project. We discussed the materials fort he training course and the structure of Blended Learning. For this ACP, is responsible for the technical expertise and has built a web platform to hold our course materials.

Additionally, we discussed the dissemination tactics to share and spread this project with our target audience.

All in all, it was a successful and productive meeting that got us ready and excited for the C1 training in Palermo.

C1 Joint Staff Training in Palermo

In October 2018, all partners met in Palermo, Italy, for the C1 Joint Staff Training Week. We had a busy week with many informative presentations and practical exercises.
iberika led a workshop to create teaching videos for language learning. All participants had to make video clips and photos all week and on Friday we practiced making a finished video.
The partners discussed the importance of the SMIIM course in their local environment and all partners look forward to the effective and successful course of their courses in 2019.

The First Day of the Course, Friday 15.02.

On Friday, February 15th, we had the first day of our interpretation course. Our students were excited to start the course and get an introduction to the topic, interpreters and cultural mediators. They discussed the difference between interpreters and translators and shared their previous experiences as interpreters for friends and family. They did practical exercices interpreting simple texts about tourist information and reflected on the difficulties. The participants were tired after the 3-hour course, but they all said they're excited for the continuation of the course.

Partner Meeting #3 - Sofia, Bulgaria

On February, 18th-19th, all partners met in Sofia at our partner, Runi Centar, to discuss the next steps of the project. The meeting focused on the online platform, the course curriculum in each country, dissemination and sustainability plans for the project. There's a lot of demand for this Interpreter Course in each country and we are diligently working to create a video and speech repository to boost the resource for online learners.

Joint Staff Training in Athens

For our final joint staff training, we traveled to Athens to our partners Active Citizens Partnership. As part of the training, we saw our work of our project in action. ACP organized a visit to the Greek Asylum Service in Athens for us to see where cultural mediators and interpreters are essential assets. At first, we were introduced to the general functions of the centre and learned about the asylum application process. With the head of communication and two interpreters, we also discussed different approaches to translation and cultural mediators relative to the specifiv target group. It was a very moving and intense experience that concluded the work of our project.