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Campus Europae continues to strengthen its language policy activity, firstly through the participation in the Lanqua project and, perhaps more importantly, through its own project to facilitate language learning for the exchange students in the network.

Campus Europae, who is present both directly and indirectly (via the Universities of Luxembourg, Aveiro, Latvia and Trento) in LANQUA, was at the meeting of the Subgroup on Language Learning held in Leiden on 4-5 July. The Language Network for Quality Assurance (LANQUA) project, co-financed by the European Commission through its LLProgramme, requested from its 64 partners working in 5 different subgroups to identify cases studies susceptible to illustrate quality assurance topics relevant to the area of languages.

Campus Europea expects to make its contribution within the topic of “Effective Language Delivery through the integration of study abroad into the language programme and by using CMC (computer mediated communication) tools, both asynchronous and synchronous”. These two innovative tools which potentially increase the effectiveness of language programmes are addressed because they add value to the language learning experience. The task of the group will be to identify those processes which guarantee their quality and enhance their effectiveness. It is hoped that the lessons learnt will be rapidly put into practice with the implementation of Hook up!, a foreign languages  learning gateway to be developed by Campus Europae with EU support.

Language professors and teachers, foreign language teaching experts and CE movers involved in Campus Europae are warmly encouraged to take part in Lanqua.