Top EU language award for GMIT lecturers

TWO lecturers in Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) have won a top European award for developing a free innovative language learning kit as part of a European team.
The web-based language kit called EuroCatering, caters specifically for workers and trainees in the hospitality and tourism industry. 
GMIT’s French lecturer Anne Brindley and Hotel lecturer Colin Gilligan represented Ireland on the seven-country EU project which won the European Language Label of the Labels, a prestigious European Commission award.
They were presented with the award in Cyprus by the European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, Androulla Vassiliou and the Vice-President of the European Parliament Miguel Angel Martinez. www.eurocatering.org is now available in seven languages – English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Slovenian and Galician with five additional languages German, Irish, Italian, Finnish and Polish beginning this month.
The website includes realistic language training with virtual scenes in the kitchen and restaurant, illustrated glossaries of professional terminology in each of the languages, a pedagogical tool with interactions and exercises for reinforcements, a glossary of pertinent cultural work-orientation facts and a video of pertinent gestures.