In the period from 17- 21 September 2018, Gordana Ignjatović (ESP teacher/Legal English lecturer at the Law Faculty in Niš) participated in the EU-funded ERASMUS + KA107 Teaching Staff Mobility program, organized through institutional cooperation between the University of Niš (Serbia) and Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) in Vilnius, Lithuania.
The mobility program was carried out in collaboration with the Institute of Humanities at MRU, and it was primarily aimed at: exchanging good teaching practices and experiences in English for Specific Purposes (ESP); dissemination of knowledge on different aspects of ESP instruction, with particular focus on using digital technologies in classroom settings, developing professional competences in an intercultural teaching context and promoting further development of ESP teaching at local and national levels; creating links and networking opportunities for prospective professional cooperation and research; fostering life-long learning, innovation, modernization and internationalization of ESP programs at both receiving and sending institutions.
1. Mykolas Romeris University (MRUni), Vilnius, Lithuania
2. ERASMUS + International Teaching/Training Week: "Social Innovations Week at MRU" (17-21. 9. 2018)- Opening ceremony and participants (professors, teaching staff, master and doctoral students, and researchers in the fields of law, social policy, communicology, educational lingustics, ESP)
3. MRUni Library /*Erasmus+ Teaching Staff Mobility participants (17-21 September 2018): Gordana Ignjatovic, ESP/LE Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Niš, Serbia, Danica Piršl, ESP Lecturer, Faculty of Sports and Physical Education, University of Niš, Serbia
4. MRUni Faculties
5. Meeting at the MRU Institute of Humanities with Erasmus+ program participants: Dean, Assoc. Prof. Liudmila Mockienė, Vice-Dean, Viktorija Mažeikienė; Danica Piršl and Gordana Ignjatović, University of Niš, Serbia
The ERASMUS + Teaching Staff Mobility program included 8 hours of teaching ESP-Legal English to three different groups of ESP students: ESP for Public Administration, ESP for Public Policy studies, and ESP for Philology and Translation studies.
6. MRU Institute of Humanities: Teaching ESP for Public Administration and ESP for Public Policies students, hosted by Assoc. Prof. Liudmila Mockienė;
7. MRU Institute of Humanities: Teaching ESP for Philology and Translation students, hosted by Assoc. Prof. Nijolė Burkšaitienė;
The organisational framework of ERASMUS + International Teaching/Training Week: "Social Innovations Week at MRU" (17-21. 9. 2018) provided additional opportunity to participate in a large number of teaching, educational, social and cultural activities. It included visits and observation of classes given by Lithuanian teachers (ESP for Business and Customs Logistics, ESP for Psychology), lectures given by the visiting Canadian professor Esther Enns (Educational Linguistics, Experiential Learning) and other guest lecturers (Academic English, Academic Writing in ESP).
8. MRU Institute of Humanities: Observation Classes: ESP for Business and Custom Logistics, hosted by Alvyda Liuoliene; & ESP for Psychology, hosted by Viktorija Mažeikienė.
9. MRU Institute of Humanities: Lectures by Prof. Esther Enns, Halifax, Canada (on Educational Lingusitics and Experiential Learning), and classes by Danica Piršl, University of Nis, Serbia (on Academic English and Academic Writing in ESP)
One of the highlights of this program was also the opportunity to visit the Equal Opportunities Ombudsman Office and learn more about the work performed by this institution. The social events provided a chance to meet visiting professors and researchers in the field of law, social policy, and communicology.
10. Visit to the Equal Opportunities Ombudwsman Office, Vilnius, Lithuania
The ERASMUS + Teaching Staff Mobility program has been well-organized and fully supported by all relevant institutions and individual participants at the sending and receiving institutions alike. It has been a memorable and professionally and personally rewarding experience, which will contribute to improving the ESP instruction both at the Law Faculty in Niš and at the university level through the dissemination of knowledge and experience from this valuable program with other ESP colleagues.
Report submitted by: Gordana Ignjatović, ELP/LE Lecturer Faculty of Law, University of Niš, Republic of Serbia Submission date: 28. 9.2018.
