The EULALIA project, coordinated by Pasquale Sabbatino and drawn up together with Prof. Vincenzo Caputo and Ing. Raffaele Di Fuccio, was funded as part of the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership KA2 - Higher Education program. Based on data collected from EU reports, University Language Centres are key to teaching and learning the language of the country where students are housed. The EULALIA project aims to improve/integrate the learning methodologies of the Centres of European Countries (Italy, Spain, Poland, Malta) for Erasmus students through the development and provision of innovative tools focused on the mobile learning paradigm, the game-based methodology and the application of tangible user interfaces. Mobile Learning starts from the ability for students to access learning resources on their mobile devices (smartphones or tablets). In this way you are able to organize your own learning program regardless of the time and place limits. The game-based approach is a common practice widely applied in language teaching. A huge number of smart device APPS, some very popular, apply gamification models to attract students. The EULALIA project aims to include a new aspect in this framework: an approach based on learning/teaching processes with tangible (reference) interfaces. The EULALIA project aims to fill the virtual environment of most game-based learning tools with the physical and tangible world of real objects, providing a hybrid approach (digital and physical at the same time)
The network of partners includes:
- UNINA, University of Naples Federico II- University Language Centre coordinator and leader - role: head of scientific research and training.
- UAL, University of Alicante (Spain) role: trial management in Spain and collaboration in the production of the EULALIA model.
- AMU, Uniwersytet Im. Adama Mickiewicza (Poland)- role: trial management in Poland.
- SMART, Smarted srl - role: technological development of the APP and the system.
- EUF, European University Foundation (Belgium) - role: definition of project guidelines and exploitation manager.
- OOM, University of Malta - role: trial management in Malta and coordination of platform inclusion aspects.
The Department of Humanities (University of Naples Federico II) and the Department of Letters and Philosophy (University of Florence) have approved a collaboration agreement, signed by the respective Directors.
The Departments undertake to collaborate with each other to realize by the end of the project (February 28, 2022) the contents of the EULALIA App through scientific advice and focus groups.
The activity includes:
a) the development and delivery of innovative teaching tools, based on Tangible User Interfaces (MobileLearning), for the study of Italian language, literature and culture;
b) the creation of a multi-linguistic and multi-cultural library: all apps, created by the University of Naples Federico II, in collaboration with the University of Florence, and by European partners will be made available on google play store in order to have an international digital library.
Scientific director at the Department of Humanities is Prof. Pasquale Sabbatino, Principal Investigator of the European project Eulalia. The scientific manager of activities at the Department of Letters and Philosophy (DILEF) is Prof. Simone Magherini.
