FIESOLE Group
The FIESOLE group is a network of language professionals from a number of higher education institutions in Europe. FIESOLE stands for ‘Fine-tuning Innovative European Strategies to Orient Language Education’
Aim
The network is concerned with developing and disseminating best practices in the field of academic communication, with particular reference to the needs of doctoral and post-doctoral researchers and junior faculty in today’s multilingual Europe.
Activities
The group collaborates through face-to-face interaction, teaching exchanges and (in the pipeline) a virtual platform in order to share teaching and learning practices which have proved successful in the members’ home institutions.
Through its activities, the group is dedicated to developing teaching materials, methodologies, and curricular guidelines particularly suited to multilingual settings in which English functions as an academic lingua franca. Specific areas of expertise include teaching and learning in university classrooms (with particular attention to issues of cultural diversity), academic literacy, writing for publication, para-academic communication.
Members
- European University Institute (Fiesole)
- London School of Economics
- Institute of Education (University of London)
- Humboldt University (Berlin)
- Collège d’Europe (Bruges)
- Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona)
- Central European University (Budapest)
- University of Siena
- Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use (University of Copenhagen)
More information
https://www.eui.eu/ProgrammesAndFellowships/MaxWeberProgramme/FiesoleGroup.aspx