Projects
The Two Cities Project
The Summer Semester of 2018 saw us launching the Two Cities Project – a teaching and research collaboration with Herzen State Pedagogical University of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Students enrolled in the MA English & American Studies programme at TU Chemnitz are undertaking their compulsory eLearning module alongside students enrolled at Herzen, with Prue Goredema, MBS and her Russian counterpart Dr Lidia Agafonova taking turns to teach both cohorts synchronously via video conference.
TEFL-ePal: Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Palestinian HEIs: An e-Learning Initiative that Bridges Educational and Socio-Political Gaps
Launched in January 2019, this three-year capacity-building project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, sees us collaborating with nine institutions of higher learning – from across Europe and Palestine – as we work on revamping the English language curricula at four Palestinian universities. Our focus as TU Chemnitz is Quality Assurance, but the all-hands-on-deck character of the project means that our input is required across the five work packages.