Illustrative Multilingual Dictionary for Architects, Builders & Contruction Workers (ARCHIDICT) project has been emerged from the partnership of various institutions that includes the following profiles: an architectural association of practising architects, a VET-provider SME acting in the construction sector, two language schools, an ICT application developer company, a computing department of a university, an educational centre and a governmental VET-provider labour market institution. The main objective of the project is to assemble an illustrative multilingual dictionary for the use of learners and workers of the construction industry, summarising European building traditions and modern building technologies. Innovative educational solutions and most up-to-date software technology is planned to be used in order to make the web application a useful resource for educational and work purposes. Its illustrative representation and digital form realisation will result in an effective tool in developing both architectural technical competences and equally required language skills in 9 languages: English, German, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Greek, Polish and Portuguese. The learning tool will also include interactive tests for measuring gained knowledge and skills. Further outputs of the project are planned to be offline, trilingual form publications of the digital content and two handbooks for promoting the dictionary as an educational tool for VET and universities and for providing guidelines for extending the digital content with further languages. The project also includes a specialised language centered training programme that helps testing educational concepts of the main product while participants of the blended mobilities will give important feedback on the usability and design of the planned dictionary. As a result of the successfully realised project individuals and enterprises acting in the construction industry will gain a freely accessible tool that will help learning the technical terminology of architecture in national, global or in other foreign languages while easing international trade co-operations as well with the help of its outstanding usability.
Illustrative Multilingual Dictionary for Architects, Builders & Contruction Workers (ARCHIDICT) project has been emerged from the partnership of various institutions that includes the following profiles: an architectural association of practising architects, a VET-provider SME acting in the construction sector, a language school, an ICT application developer company, a computing department of a university, two further associations focusing on the creation of European educational materials and a governmental VET-provider labour market institution. The primary result of this multinational cooperation is an illustrative multilingual dictionary for the use of learners and workers of the construction industry, summarising European building traditions and modern building technologies. Innovative educational solutions and most up-to-date software technology was applied in order to make the platform - archidict.com- a useful resource for educational and work purposes too. Its illustrative representation and digital form realisation makes it in an effective tool in developing both architectural technical competences and equally required language skills in 9 languages: English, German, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Greek, Polish and Portuguese. The learning tool also include interactive quizzes for measuring the gained knowledge and the acquired vocabulary. Further outputs of the project are the multilingual print-form book version of the online dictionary's content and two further print-form handbooks for promoting the dictionary as an educational tool for VET and universities and for providing guidelines supporting the extension of the digital content with further languages, illustrations and quizzes. As a result of the successfully realised project individuals and enterprises acting in the construction industry could gain a freely accessible tool that will help learning the technical terminology of architecture in national, global or in other foreign languages while easing international trade co-operations as well with the help of its outstanding usability.