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In Brussels, EuroCatering Language Training has received the European Language Label for innovative projects on 25 September 2009. LINGUAPOLIS was responsible for the pedagogical design and technical development of the product.
The jury describes the course as user-friendly, multi-lingual and accessible for a wide target audience. Innovative for the jury was the fact that the course also focuses on non-verbal communication. According to the jury EuroCatering Language Training encourages European mobility and concentrates on the students' needs.
In Oslo, EuroCatering also received the European Language Label for innovative projects in November 2009.
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| In Slovenia the EuroCatering Language Training has received on 28 November 2008 the European Language Label as one of the best language projects with Slovenian participation. The European Label is an award that encourages new initiatives in the field of teaching and learning languages, rewarding new techniques in language teaching, spreading the knowledge of their existence and thereby promoting good practice. |
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In Belgium, the National Agencies of the French and German Community have nominated the language course on 4 December as one of the best Leonardo-projects promoting intercultural dialogue in the framework of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008. |
About EuroCatering.org
In the web-based language course, students learn the basic vocabulary and communicative functions needed for placement abroad in a kitchen or restaurant. Realistic interactions with an animated chef and/or manager are the main ingredients of this course. The language course also contains a portal which students may use to consult extra reference material about their placement, or to report on their stay abroad by means of a blog, photo album or video material.
The target group consists of trainees and/or professionals in the catering industry. Available languages are English, French, Spanish, Galician, Dutch, Norwegian and Slovenian. All developed materials can be used independently or as an add-on to any language course in the professional sector. The complete product is available for free from http://www.eurocatering.org.
LINGUAPOLIS was responsible for the pedagogical design and technical development of the product.
On 16 October LINGUAPOLIS and the Haute Ecole Roi Baudouin presented the EuroCatering Language Training in Antwerp. 
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