KONECT kids get 880€ and make the local news!

After five days of donation campaign, the second grade students from CEIP St. Jordi earned 880€ (and 50 cents!). They were also featured on the local news – and they handled their fame with great aplomb. You can see a summary video of the project-in-process here: http://ceipsantjordimollet.cat/intranet/?p=1129 GREIP’s insight Quins resultats més impressionants pel final d’aquest […]

KONECT kids kick-off solidarity campaign

As part of the KONECT project, students at St. Jordi school in Mollet del Vallès, under the tuition of GREIP member, Maria Mont, began their solidarity campaign to help out four Syrian refugee teen-agers. The aim of the interdisciplinary project is to help develop students’ sense of civic responsibility, social awareness and critical and creative […]

Viva for Luyan Teng

Luyan Teng has successfully defended her doctoral thesis in front of a prestigious international viva examining board. Her thesis, entitled “English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learning and capital in rural China: A case study of a group of secondary students” was supervised by Dr. Melinda Dooly and Dr. Emilee Moore. Examining Board members were […]

Clark & Torretta invited by GREIP to hold a conference and workshop on Language Learning in the Wild

On May 4  2017, Dr. Brendon Clark from RISE Interactive Stockholm and Nicholas Torretta from Umeå Institute of Design, gave the Master lecture & workshop “Co-creating the classroom as a navigation system for language learning in the wild”, sponsored by GREIP & KONECT research project. Both lecturers are design researchers focused on language learning outside the classroom, […]

La Dra. Luci Nussbaum, convidada a Paris-3 i Paris-10

El dia 2 de maig de 2017, la Dra. Luci Nussbaum, del grup GREIP, va donar la conferència inagural ‘De la collaboration avec les acteurs du terrain à la recherche collaborative’, a l’École de printemps PETALE 2, Réseau MELangE, de la Universitat de París-3. Uns dies abans, el 28 d’abril, va impartir el seminari per […]

GREIP’s supported candidate for Marie Curie fellowship is awarded with a Seal of Excellence

Anna Turula’s proposal, supported by GREIP, has been awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence. This quality label is awarded to all proposals submitted to the MSCA Individual Fellowships Call that scored 85% or more but could not be funded from the call budget. Due to funding cuts, less than 15% of the proposals were […]

Charla magistral sobre investigación colaborativa y educación plurilingüe en Argentina

El martes 18 de Abril de 2017, la Dra. Virginia Unamuno y Carolina Gandulfo, del CONICET y la Universidad de Buenos Aires, ofrecieron una charla magistral titulada “Investigación en colaboración y educación plurilingüe en Argentina: enfoques multidimensionales”. La ponencia estuvo organizada por el grupo GREIP y los programas de máster y estudios doctorales en investigación […]

Translanguaging & Plurilingualism Roundtable is a Round Success

In celebration of 15 years of our research centre and as part of the programme of celebratory events of the 25th anniversary of the Faculty of Education, UAB, GREIP has organized a 2-day international roundtable on Translanguaging and Plurilingualism. With approximately 50 attendees both days (Thursday and Friday before Easter holidays!) the event has been […]

Joan Ploettner presenta en les XXI Jornades Interuniversitàries

L’alumne doctoral, Joan Ploettner, va presentar la seva recerca en les XXI Jornades Interuniversitàries de Recerca en Didàctica de la Llengua i la Literatura que es va celebrar a la Universitat de Barcelona els dies 21 i 22 de març. Ella va presentar ‘Col·laboració interdisciplinària per English Mediated Instruction (EMI) en el àmbit universitari’ dins del […]