Annual Report 2024 - Flipbook - Page 121
Collaboration and Meetings:
•
PPLI had a meeting with the
Brazil-Ireland Chamber of
Commerce (BICC) in September
to explore collaboration
opportunities, including work
experience for Transition Year
students.
•
In December, PPLI held a
meeting with embassies and
cultural institutes to discuss
their involvement in key
projects such as the English
Language Assistant (ELA)
Scheme, the Foreign Language
Assistant (FLA) Scheme,
language upskilling and
mobility, and #ThinkLanguages.
•
During 2024, there were also
meetings involving the
sending agencies for FLAs
e.g. Der Pädagogische
Austauschdienst (PAD).
Awareness Raising
•
PPLI collaborated with many of the embassies on awareness-raising efforts, to increase awareness of the
languages of these embassies, and also of the supports provided by PPLI for these languages. Culture
Night, #ThinkLanguages, and information sessions provided by PPLI, are all examples of this work.
Next Steps:
•
Continue to meet regularly with relevant embassy and cultural institute representatives to discuss context
and progress, and develop further appropriate collaboration
•
Continue to explore mechanisms for increasing provision of and access to the more recently introduced
curricular languages in particular
•
Seek to leverage opportunities to develop more language capacity in schools and in society by
encouraging more uptake in the English Language Assistant scheme
•
Continue to explore how to better support and leverage the FLA scheme for language education in
Ireland, particularly in the context of the introduction of Modern Foreign Languages in the Primary
Language Curriculum.
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