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EUROPASS Centro Studi Europeo Via Sant’Egidio, 12 50122 Firenze, Italia PIC NUMBER: 947318394
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Contacts: Mr. David Baroni (Director of Training) +39 055 234 5802
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Who we are ................ 3 Courses ........................ 4 ICT ........................................................... 3 Classroom Management .................. 7
Humanities ......................................... 10 Specials editions
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Course locations .... 15
Other services ........ 20
Who we are EUROPASS Centro Studi Europeo is a School of Language and Culture, and a Vocational Training Organization accredited by the Regional Council of Tuscany, based in Florence, Italy. Since 1992, the institute has been dedicated to the teaching of Italian language and culture, as well as building on teachers’ professional skills.
With approximately 30 collaborators, every year the institute welcomes around 600 students of Italian language and culture and approximately 700 teachers from all over the world who attend our teacher training courses.
The EUROPASS Teacher Training School is specialized in planning and providing educational courses and activities for teachers from Europe and around the world. Within the framework of the Erasmus+ Programme, the centre plans and organizes customized courses for schools and institutes specifically designed to suit their staff professional needs. Our main training centre is in Florence (Italy), most of the courses are offered also in other locations such as Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin and Nafplio.
What can we do for you? We provide courses for all educational sectors and we cover the most up-to-date topics
All of our trainers are specialists in their field and from various nationalities and backgrounds
We assist in organising your travel experience abroad (incl. accommodation, free time activities, etc.)
We assist you in applying for Erasmus+ funding for teacher development courses in various EU countries
All the course are offered in English. Courses in French, Italian and Spanish are available upon request.
COURSES ON DEMAND: we design and offer tailor-made courses that meet the needs of teachers, according to Erasmus+ school projects
OTHER LOCATIONS: Not only Florence and Barcelona! new courses have landed in Berlin, Dublin and Nafplio. In addition, Europass organizes courses in other countries upon request.
OUR ERASMUS + TEACHER TRAINING COURSES ICT courses Introducing ICT in Education
The course has been created for teachers and school managers, interested in how ICT can help, integrate and improve the learning experience in the classroom and provide new learning opportunities.
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Social Media in the Classroom
The course has been created for teachers who want to acquire knowledge about using social media as an educational tool, enhance student engagement and improve communication between students and teachers.
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Web Solutions for the Classroom
This course is designed for teachers who would like to further their knowledge of the use of ICT solutions for the classroom. The techniques acquired in the course will enable teachers to make their lessons more engaging for their students, thus making them more eective.
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Build your App
The course has been created for teachers and school sta interested in learning how to build web and mobile Apps. Participants will have the opportunity to build their own App, as well as to engage with students in the amazing adventure of building an App.
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There’s an App for that! Best Apps for Teaching and Student Learning
This course has been created for teachers who want to utilize tablets in the classroom to the best of their ability via educational apps that cover a variety of subjects.
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Tablets and Smartphones: using mobile devices as educational tools
The course has been created for participants interested in Technology Enhanced Learning and M-Learning: they will discover how to use laptops, tablets and smartphones in class.
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Photo & Video in our classroom: creating and adapting visual resources
The aim of this course is to provide participants with tips and methods for the creation and adaptation of audio-visual resources (photos, movies, music clips, documentaries, news, their own videos...) to teach their subjects in a more eective way.
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2 Week ICT Course: How to use Educational Apps and Social Media in your Classroom
This course is designed for teachers who would like to experiment new, easy and enjoyable tools to use with their students. Participants will learn how to properly integrate apps and social technology in the classroom as a tool to support learning.
2 week course: Social Media and Web Solutions
In this 2 week course, participants will learn how to incorporate technology into their lessons. Emphasis will be placed on the most popular social media, as well as on modern teaching platforms and Web based solutions.
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2 week course: Audiovisuals and Social Media
This 2 week course is for teachers who are interested in using audiovisuals (including video making) and social media, to make their lessons more engaging and encourage teamwork (no prior knowledge is required).
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Classroom Management Courses A Satisfactory School Experience: Strategies and Skills for Teachers
This course has been created for teachers who want to foster a more dynamic, creative environment in the classroom. This practical, handson course is designed to help participants understand, identify and combat early schoolleaving, negative school-family relations and the early signs of teacher burn-out.
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Conict Management, Emotional Intelligence and Bullying Prevention
This course has been created for teachers who want to understand group dynamics and how they aect the classroom. They will learn about the various types of conict and how to use them as an opportunity for growth.
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Facing diversity: Intercultural Classroom Management
This course is tailor-made for teachers working in multicultural classes in which diversity challenges traditional teaching strategies. Participants will explore how to manage cultural diversity and how to convert it from a burden to an opportunity.
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The Flipped Classroom
It is a new method of teaching that turns the traditional classroom ‘upside down’. How does it work? Before a module starts, students autonomously analyse educational materials (short online lessons, videos, podcasts, etc.) at home. In class, participants focus on exercises, projects or discussions.
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Happy School: positive education for well-being and life-skills learning
This course will introduce participants both to Positive Psychology fundamentals, presenting the most relevant international theories and references, and to Positive Education theories and techniques. Participants will be involved in an active learning process also focusing on personal experience and self-reflection.
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Classroom Management Solutions for teachers: new methodologies, effective motivation, cooperation and evaluation strategies
This course has been created for teachers who want to learn more about managing an effective and up- to- date classroom. Through interactive and engaging activities, you will share classroom strategies, and gain tips for encouraging students to reflect on their own classroom behaviour.
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Project-based learning
In this engaging and hands-on course, participants will gain an understanding about which tools are best for integrating PBL into their lessons and about how to monitor and assess students using PBL. Participants will take away fresh ideas on how to integrate PBL into their classrooms and school curriculum.
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Foster Entrepreneurships & Creativity through easy ICT tools
The aim of the course is to broaden the participant's knowledge of some digital tools that can be used to facilitate and develop the students' entrepreneurial spirit and foster creative approaches to problem solving and ideation.
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2 Week: Teaching strategies, conflict management and emotional literacy
This 2 week course has been created for teachers who want to foster a more lively, creative environment to encourage interest in learning, as well as to understand group dynamics and how they affect the classroom.
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Life coaching for teachers: happy teachers for better students
In this course, participants will learn how to set healthy boundaries to cope with overworking, how to regulate emotions, how to use assertiveness to respond properly to colleagues, students and families’ demands, and how to maximize their strengths in order to minimize hurriedness and time wasting.
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2 Week : Behaviour and conflicts new methodologies, motivation and cooperation strategies
This practical 2 week course has been created for teachers who want to learn more about managing an effective and upto-date classroom that encourages participation, motivation and engaged learning, using the latest techniques and classroom tools.
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Humanities Active Art: Art in the Classroom and Beyond
This course takes a multidisciplinary approach to art psychology, introducing participants to different ways of understanding and teaching arts, dealing with the students’ creative process and taking the best of the positive impact of artrelated activities on our well-being.
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Teaching Contemporary Art in Florence
This course offers the opportunity to discover the contemporary side of Florence and at the same time to reveal an experiential approach to teaching and learning about contemporary art. Participants will learn how to teach contemporary art in a playful meaningful and creative way.
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Discovering Renaissance Art in Florence
The Renaissance in Florence is one of the most intriguing cultural manifestations. In this course participants will have an opportunity to explore the artistic, historical, and cultural milieu into which Renaissance art was born. Museum visits and field trips are an integral part of the course.
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Art as therapy: self-expression and special needs in art education
This course presents the therapeutic power of Visual Arts through first-hand experimentation of various art techniques such as painting, 3D, collage, mixed media, photography. In addition, teachers will be involved in group and role-playing activities to apply arts for students with special needs.
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Modernism and Avant-Garde: Teaching Contemporary Art in Barcelona
This course offers the opportunity to discover Modernism and Avant-garde movements in Barcelona, as well as to reveal an experiential approach in learning and teaching Contemporary Art. Participants will learn how to teach Contemporary Art in a playful and significant way.
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The Creative Classroom: Tools and Tips for Language Teachers (English or Other Languages)
This course has been created for English language teachers and teachers of other foreign languages, who want to incorporate more creative language teaching methods in their classrooms and share their knowledge and experiences with other language teachers from around Europe.
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Advanced English Language Teaching (ELT) Certificate Course for already practicing ESL/EFL/ESOL teachers
A course for language teachers who want to update their teaching skills and meet other language teachers from around Europe. Course participants will engage in the creation and sharing of effective student centered teaching methods through fun activities and tasks with the intention of developing their current knowledge and language teaching approach.
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TEFL / TESOL English Teacher Refresher Course
The course has been created for English language teachers and teachers of other languages who want to learn more about effective student centered teaching methods and develop their knowledge about current language teaching approaches.
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Weekend TEFL Course
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A 20 hour workshop for English Language Teachers. In just one weekend, you will learn how to prepare lessons, create interactive and engaging activities, manage your classroom and develop tasks based on your students' proďŹ ciency levels.
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CLIL: Introduction to theory and practice of Content and Language Integrated Learning
This introductory course takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the CLIL approach, introducing participants to how theory can relate to their classroom practice, including CLIL lesson planning and creation of classroom materials.
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Italian Language and Culture for Teachers and Learners
The Italian Language and Culture course will give you the chance to have a taste of real Italian language and will also bring a gust of fresh air into your profession by observing new methods and critically evaluating your professional attitudes.
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Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) & ICT Tools
This course takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the CLIL approach, introducing participants to how theory can relate to their classroom practice. Participants will also learn more about incorporating social technology into their lessons by working in pairs and in small groups.
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Italian Language Teacher Course
The course is designed for teachers of Italian as a foreign language (Italian LS or L2) seeking to refresh their professional practices. The course will help to update their didactic methodology and provide materials and tools to enable them to create their own stimulating and eective lessons.
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Experimental Florence or Barcelona: Experiential travel for education, creative tourism and wellbeing
These courses take a contemporary approach to travel and discovering a new environment, introducing participants to Environmental and Tourism Psychology, Eco Psychology, Sustainable Tourism and Experiential Travel. The main part of the course will be experiencing Florence/Barcelona in a dynamic way, drawing on our attention, memory, perception, movement and feelings.
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Special Editions Developing Inclusive Educational Environments
Inclusive education can be seen as a process of strengthening the capacity of an educational system to reach out to all learners in the community. Participants in this course will carry out activities aimed at enhancing every student’s participation and achievement.
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Team building for school: play and fun building educators communities
Our Team Building Program for school will make participants know funny and motivational activities that can help develop a sense of belonging, tolerance and team spirit. Team building activities also contribute to collaborative problem-solving, to the development of empathy, trust, and self-esteem.
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Teachers’ energizer: innovative methods, student motivation and teacher wellbeing
This course is designed for teachers who wish to put into practice fresh teaching ideas in the classroom and beyond. Participants will enrich their toolbox with new interesting, eective, motivating and satisfying strategies.
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Outdoor Education: Discover Unspoiled Tuscany
Outdoor education not only raises awareness about environmental issues, it also supports personal development and the acquisition of social, creative, spatial and problem-solving skills. This course includes outdoor excursions, medieval villages, old towns, as well as visits to art and craft museums, local producers, agriturismi (farm holidays).
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Refresh your toolbox: motivation, new ideas and innovative teaching methods
This course has been created for teachers who want to close the school year with a productive reflections and learning experiences. Participants will acquire basic stress management strategies, experiential learning and positive communication skills.
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Open Educational Resources
This course aims to give participants a deeper understanding of the world of Open Educational Resources (OER). It is also designed to help and support educators who are looking for OER to supplement and support their teaching.
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Maker Spaces in Education Getting Started
Makerspaces are a place in which students can experiment and create things in schools, as they are a combination of science labs, woodshops, computer labs and art rooms. Makerspaces boost students’ creativity as they engage in the STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) courses.
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Project Design and Management Course
In this course participants will learn how to design, write and manage all different types of ERASMUS+ projects. They will also be introduced to important Project Management Tools, funding opportunities and EU priorities.
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Main Course Locations Florence This city is the capital of the Italian region of Tuscany and is widely considered to be the birthplace of the Renaissance. As a result, it hosts some of the world’s best museums and art galleries showcasing the city’s history. Well known for its rich culture and important historical ďŹ gures, this city is high up on every traveler's must-see list.
Barcelona
It is the capital city of the autonomous community of Catalonia and it is the second most populous municipality in Spain after Madrid. As well as being considered one of the culture capitals of Europe, it also oers a Mediterranean climate and a collection of some of the best museums and galleries in the world.
Dublin
The Republic of Ireland’s capital city is a modern, thriving, affluent, and youthful European city. As Joyce, Yeats, Swift, and their modern counterparts have eloquently demonstrated, every corner pub, emerald green, and Georgian square of Ireland’s largest city holds a story waiting to be shared. Well known for its alcoholic beverages and friendly atmosphere, even though the weather might not be idyllic, it is a city worth visiting.
Berlin Berlin is a vibrant city, combining the signs of its signiďŹ cant history, with a present made of world-renowned universities, orchestras, museums and entertainment venues. The city is well known for its festivals, diverse architecture, nightlife, contemporary arts and a high quality of living. It is a very green city: 1/3 of the city is made up of forests, parks, gardens rivers and lakes, where Berliners as well as the tourists enjoy the contact with nature all year around.
Nafplio It is one of the most beautiful towns in the area of the Argolis Gulf in eastern Peloponnese as well as one of the most romantic cities all over Greece. Most of the old town is on a peninsula which forms a natural protected bay. It was the ďŹ rst capital of the Greek state between 1823 and 1834. According to mythology, the town was founded by NĂĄfplios, the son of god Poseidon and the daughter of Danaus (Danaida) Anymone.
Other services Erasmus+ Application Assistance
Are you interested in applying for an Erasmus+ Mobility Project? Contact us and we will be happy to guide you through it. We will send you our recently updated Erasmus+ Key1 Grant Application Guide which will be a useful reference for writing down a succesul project. In addition to that, we are able to assist you step by step in completing each part of the application form.
Courses on Demand
Europass offers customized courses that meet teachers’ ACTUAL needs. Our tailor-made courses cover a variety of areas (including Ict, soft skill development, non-formal education, diversity in school, stress management, job satisfaction, and many others). If you wrote an Erasmus+ project on a specific topic, Europass can design a course exclusively for you, according to your project goals and objectives.
Other Locations
Does your funding cover training courses in other locations? No problems, we can set up courses in any other destination in Europe! Examples of former destinations of our courses include: Budapest, Gdańsk, Malta, Lisboa, Rotterdam, Seville, Tampere and the Tuscan coast.
Call for Partners
Being part of a united Europe, Europass believes in the importance of a constant dialog and exchange among schools. If you are also interested to bring your school to Europe, we can work together to a common ERASMUS+ partnership project, to improve and enrich our schools' environments and teaching approaches.
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For more information as well as to plan training courses that are relevant to you and your institution, contact us at teachertraining@europass.it