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AQUA-TNET NEWSLETTER
NEWSFLASH MARCH 2009
This is a free e-mail news service provided by AQUA-TNET for the AQUA-TNET network and its partners. Please forward this newsletter to your colleagues and students. Please submit any relevant information for dissemination in the newsletter to aquatnet@aquatt.ie
In the AQUA-TNET Newsletter you will find an update of AQUA-TNET and its activities. AQUA-TNET is the European Thematic Network in the field of aquaculture, fisheries and aquatic resource management, funded under the European Commission Socrates Erasmus Programme.
PESCALEX PROJECT NEWS UPDATE
Presentation at the 1st international Conference on Language for Specific Purposes, March 8-10 2009, Crete
The PESCALEX Coordinator, Mrs Margaret Eleftheriou, gave a presentation of the PESCALEX project and Language Game at the 1st international Conference on Language for Specific Purposes which took place at the University of Crete on March 8-10. The Game was greeted with great enthusiasm by all participants. Click here to see the poster version of the Language Game.
PESCALEX 2 Partner meeting, 19-20 March 2009, Stirling
At the meeting between AQUARK and the University of Stirling partners, The need for the adaptation of the Fish/Shellfish Pathology materials and the difficulties caused by the loss of Prof. Okumu?s expertise in fish haematology, led to discussions as to how the Diagnostic Tool could be used. New software could make it possible to run the Diagnostic Tool/Language Game online. The possibility of developing the Language game as a cellphone tool was also raised.
Presentation at AQUATNET meeting, 24-25 March 2009
On March 24-25, there was a meeting of the Language WP of the SOCRATES Thematic Network AQUATNET, at which the PESCALEX Language Game was again presented and suggestions made as to how it could be further adapted as an induction tool for student exchanges. More work will be carried out on this aspect.
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