Outstanding projects were honoured at the national networking meeting in the field of Erasmus+ school education: three schools received the European Innovative Teaching Award 2024 and the European Language Label was awarded ten times. These included the Economica project Talking Tactile Books for Visually Impaired Children.
Economica Researcherin Miriam Groß nimmt gemeinsam mit unserer slowakischen Projektpartnerin Ildikó Gúzikova von Arno G,s.r.o die Auszeichnung entgegen.
Foto: OeAD – Agentur für Bildung und Internationalisierung/APA-Fotoservice/Rastegar
The European Language Label is awarded to projects that have shown exceptional commitment to teaching foreign languages. It was awarded at the networking meeting of the Erasmus+ School Education programme, as was the Innovative Teaching Award. Promoting language learning and linguistic diversity is one of the aims of the Erasmus+ programme, said OeAD Managing Director Jakob Calice. The OeAD is very keen to promote understanding and appreciation of linguistic diversity in Europe. Ten organisations and projects were awarded the Language Label. The ‘TaTaBooks – Talking Tactile Books for Visually Impaired Children’ project from the Economica Institute for Economic Research was also recognised in the special category of school education – cooperation projects. The RSA FG’s Studio Data Science was also involved.
The TaTaBooks project focussed on creating an entertaining, inclusive and high-quality learning tool for blind and visually impaired children and their teachers. A multilingual and multisensory approach was integrated from the outset. All content (digital, text, audio) is available in five languages (Czech, English, German, Hungarian, Slovakian) and the centrepiece of the learning tool is the tactile TaTaBook, a box created using a 3D printer. The project was completed at the end of 2023.More on this and more photos on the Economica-Website.
