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"European forestry has gone through a rapid change during the recent decades. Manual work of unskilled staff with chainsaw has been replaced by modern computerized harvesters, forwarders and skidders. This development has increased the request demand for competent and well trained operators of forest machines as well as the demand of mobility of such work force.The increasing mobility of forest machine operators is a partly a result of frequent storms throughout Europe causing large areas of storm felled forest in a random distribution between countries. English is the most frequently used language in manuals, spare part catalogues and computers and it is necessary to have a basic level of English to operate a forest machine and work in another country.Service staff is a special case that sometimes without forestry experience must communicate with the drivers and understand the situation to be able to order the spare parts in English and in another language. Language learning tends not to be the first priority for young forestry students in vocational training and it is necessary to promote increased motivation for language learning through innovative teaching methods and better links to practical use of language skills required by the labor market. These teaching methods must be developed transnationally since the forestry sector in most European countries is small and the market for teaching material in each country is limited.ObjectivesThe objectives of this project were: to increase motivation for language learning through innovative teaching methodsto enhance the use of content and language integrated learning methods by providing a teachers manual and teachers trainingNumber and profile of participating organisations7 organisations from countries have with broad experience formed a strategic partnership of this projectMain activitiesThe activities, methodology and results can be described as1 A teachers manual on - how to work with interdisciplinary team teaching and content and language integrated learning with forestry students - - how to use the tools for skills products and how to work with the case studies2 Updated Tools for skills products: forest workers glossary, forest workers online training tool (www.cd.dictyon.net) . 3 The textbooks ""working in harvesting teams 1 and 2"" published as e-books 4 Training of partner teachers 5 Multiplier events Teachers training seminars has been held in 7 countries 6 Blended mobility learning for students of partner institutions 7 Dissemination activities where 5000 end user has been reachedResultsVocational college teachers and students from the respective vocational schools, university students from the faculties of Forestry and Wood Industry, large number of professionals in SMEs and migrant workers in the forest industry has been affected through the access of a high quality training material with a clear teachers manual that facilitates the content and language integrated learning by introducing Interdisciplinary Team Teaching. This will increase the effectiveness, productivity and competitiveness of all parts of the European forest industry and related businesses. The tools for skills products are already widely spread over Europe and North America, Russia and other parts of the world which is continuously followed up by web statistics. The creation of a teachers manual increases the use of the material and have an impact on the competitiveness of European forestry work force but also on stakeholders from other parts of the world."
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