ICEPELL is an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership project which aims to support practitioners to confidently integrate intercultural citizenship education into English as a foreign language (EFL) lessons and library sessions with children aged 5 to 12 years using picturebooks. The target group is the school community – teachers of English, teacher librarians, student teachers, children and teacher educators. The project runs from September 2019 to August 2022.
Intercultural citizenship education (ICE) is a combination of the intercultural communicative competence in language education and civic action in the community in citizenship education. You can find more information about ICE here.
Who are the project partners?
ICEPELL is made up of a consortium of six partners from five European countries – Portugal, Germany, Italy, Norway and the Netherlands – with expertise in early language learning, teacher education, picturebooks in language learning and materials development. You can find more information about the partners here
AWARDS!
In 2022: ICEPELL was awarded the EUROPEAN LANGUAGE LABEL in Italy and in Portugal.
* The EUROPEAN LANGUAGE LABEL is awarded to projects and initiatives in the field of teaching and learning of foreign languages of excellence in Europe. The competition is associated with the European Commission and awarded by countries participating in the Erasmus + programs.
In November 2024: ICEPELL Open Access Resources received the ELTons Award for Innovation in Teacher Resources. It also received a Commendation for young learner courses and materials.
* The ELTons (English Language Teaching Innovation Awards) are international awards given annually by the British Council. They recognise and celebrate innovation in the field of English Language Teaching and reward educational resources that help English language learners and teachers to achieve their goals using innovative content, methods or media.
Open Access Resources 1: The ICEKits – Teaching packs for practitioners
An ICEKit is a teaching pack for practitioners (teachers, teacher librarians and student teachers) and their students. It supports them in using a picturebook to develop intercultural citizenship in early language learning. There are 18 ICEKits on this website, 15 were co-created by practitioners for practitioners during the ICEPro Professional Development Course. These ICEKits have been piloted in real classrooms in the partner countries.
Click here to reach the ICEKit page and download the collection.
Click here to download the ICEKit Template.