Dissemination & Exploitation Activities

E-Spices: Best Practice in Intercultural & Institutional Communication

​09/07/2010

Koffi Mahouley Dossou - Presidente Key and Key Communications, Deruta / Italy

XIV° EDIZIONE DELL’UMBRIA FILM FESTIVAL - Tavola Rotonda

Cittadini del mondo: come condividere diritti e doveri nella nuova Italia multiculturale

Oratorio S. Fedele Montone/Italy

Intercultural communication in Bureaucratic-Institutional Contextes

The SPICES training methodology

​12/06/2010

Gabriella B. Klein - Università degli Studi di Perugia

Koffi Mahouley Dossou - Presidente Key and Key Communications, Deruta / Italy

LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY WITHIN EUROPEAN LEARNING COMMUNITIES: CROSS-CULTURAL AND TRANS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

The Second International Conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education (CLIE2) Herceg Novi / Montenegro (10-12 June 2010)

ENIEDA Programme

  27/05/2010

Final Conference of the e-SPICES GLP held at the University Language Centre CLA - Università degli Studi – Perugia/Italy.

Programme / Poster / Paper and submission form / Presentations 

​22/05/2010

Gabriella B. Klein - Università degli Studi di Perugia

2° GIORNATA DELL'INSEGNAMENTO DELL'ITALIANO L2 - Conferenza

Italiano L2 a scuola: dall'orizzonte dell'integrazione alle buone pratiche in classe -Università per Stranieri di Perugia / Italy

http://www.unistrapg.it

  22/10/2009

Following the below reported e-SPICES training course, a special Conference on the Let Me Learn Process, used in e-SPICES, is held at the Faculty of Education, Università degli Studi of Perugia.

  17-21/10/2009

An e-SPICES training course is held in Perugia for e-SPICES partners and their associates. This event, which takes place at the Hotel Ilgo, Perugia, is also an occasion for further networking meetings.

25-27/06/2009

The First Malta International Forum on Learning will take place at the Dolmen Resort Hotel, Qawra, Malta, between 25-27th June 2009. Partners from e-Spices will participate with a workshop on Intercultural Communication. After the forum (28-30/06/2009), Maltese Partner Colin Calleja and his LML team meet with e-SPICES partners to transfer the results from former meeting in Perugia (14-17 May 2009) to the whole e-spices team.

SPICES in Maastricht / The Netherlands 

05-06/03/2009

SPICES and e-spices are invited by Prof. Hilde van Schaeren to: 

1) A SPICES workshop on non-verbal communication is held by Koffi M. DOSSOU (Key & Key Communications) for students of the Faculty of Faciliteits Management (Heerlen).

2) SPICES and current e-spices are presented at the Faculty of Social Work (Sittard) by Koffi M. DOSSOU (Key & Key Communications) and Gabriella B. KLEIN (Università degli Studi of Perugia) to students, colleagues and stakeholders from the local administrations within the EMOL network.

3) They attend a meeting at the Raadszaal Municipality of Maastricht about hidden barriers for integration.

The counsellor mr J. Costongs is very interested in the e-spices project, as well as other local welfare organisations and public servants.

SPICES in exhibition at the European Commission in Brussels 

02-03/03/2009

SPICES is among the first 20 projects which have been chosen to participate in the exhibition on Creativity and Innovation. The exhibition will take place in Brussels from 2 to 3 March 2009 and which will run alongside the conference called "Creativity and Innovation – Best practice from EU programmes".

From the 200 projects invited to compete to take part in this exhibition, SPICES was chosen by a panel of 10 independent experts as an example of best practice in the field of creativity and innovation, helping to illustrate how DG Education and Culture supports this important subject which is at the heart of European Union policies.

Publication of the Proceedings of the SPICES Final Conference

Dec. 2008

Gabriella B. Klein and Sandro Caruana (eds.): Intercultural Communication in Bureaucratic-institutional Contexts (Proceedings of the Final Conference of the European Project SPICES – Social Promotion of Intercultural Communication Expertise and Skills - 224945-CP-1-2005-1-IT-GRUNDTVIG-G11, Perugia/Italy, 21.09.2007), Conversarii. Studi linguistici del CLA. Didattica, vol. 2. Perugia: Guerra Edizioni, 2008. 415 pp.

Events occurring in daily life show that we do not possess enough communication tools in order to interact adequately and constructively in European contexts which are becoming increasingly multicultural. Furthermore, through these situations one also gains awareness of the fact that the tools that we do possess may not necessarily be adequate. This is particularly evident – sometimes in a dramatic fashion – in bureaucratic-institutional situations in which foreigners, i.e. ‘adults-in-mobility’, interact with service providers, i.e. ‘adults-professionally-in-contact-with-mobility’. The European Project called SPICES – Social Promotion of Intercultural Communication Expertise and Skills (224945-CP-1-2005-1-IT-GRUNDTVIG-G11, co-financed by the European Commission) dealt with these issues. It was held between 2005 and 2007 and the contributions that are presented in this volume are, directly or indirectly, the result of this project.

SPICES Training Course in Malta                      

21-28/09/2008