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Our reading habits have drastically changed in the XXI century: we are now reading e-texts as often as print ones, which makes e-reading an inalienable part of our lives. But such popularity of digital reading poses a problem for teaching, as approaches to developing e-reading skills may differ from traditional ones. The Erasmus+ eRead project was initiated to bridge this gap. Zaporizhzhia National University joined the partnership. ZNU team includes the teachers from the Faculty of Foreign Philology and the Philological Faculty, who specialize in methods of teaching languages.

On December 13, 2023 the Erasmus+ eRead project teams met online to have a detailed discussion of the BA Module “Teaching reading digitally” that is one of the project targets. ZNU team was represented by M. Zaluzhna, N. Venherska, N. Nadtochii, I. Bakalenko and O. Stadnichenko.

 On November 3, 2023, a meeting of managers and coordinators of the international project "Erasmus+ KA2 MultiEd" "Foreign Language Teacher Training Capacity Development as a Way to Ukraine’s Multilingual Education and European Integration” took place. Its purpose was to discuss the results of the project, which is finishing on November 14, 2023.

From September 26 to October 30, 2023, a number of seminars were held in the framework of the project "Foreign Language Teacher Training Capacity Development as a Way to Ukraine’s Multilingual Education and European Integration" with the aim of spreading experience based on the results of the project implementation. This time, the partners focused on the positive impact of the project on the educational activities of universities at the current stage and in the future, the development of programs at different levels, the specifics of their implementation, the main difficulties and ways to overcome them. An important topic remains the teaching method, the use of online learning technologies, the CLIL methodology, as well as the specifics of teaching new courses developed during the period of cooperation of the consortium: "Language, culture, society", "Academic writing", "Information literacy and critical thinking".

From October 2 to 6, 2023, the representative of the consortium from Aston University, Sue Garton, organized a study visit to Birmingham, Great Britain for all partners of the "MultiEd" team.

The representatives of Zaporizhzhia National University Olga Stadnichenko, professor, head of the Department of Ukrainian Studies, and Iryna Bakalenko, associate professor of the Department of the Ukrainian Literature presented ZNU team during LTT visit within the framework of the Erasmus+ project 2022-1-EE01-KA220-HED-000089331 eRead “Developing Reading Skills With and Through Digital Technologies”. The event took place on October 9-13, 2023 in the city of Koper (Slovenia). As eRead aims at popularizing national languages (Ukrainian, Estonian, Latvian, Slovenian) through the development of reading skills on digital platforms, the purpose of the visit was to share experiences in teaching reading with the use of digital technologies.

Representatives of the Zaporizhzhia National University took part in a cluster event on the modernization of educational programs, organized by the National Erasmus+ office in Ukraine, entitled "Ensuring the quality of educational programs in the context of European integration: environmentalization, recognition, digitalization, inclusion."

Online training seminars were held for three weeks from June 12 to June 29, 2023 under the auspices of the “MultiEd” project “Foreign Language Teacher Training Capacity Development as a Way to Ukraine’s Multilingual Education and European Integration” of the Erasmus+ KA2 program. The webinars were held in Ukrainian, examples were given from other languages.

On June 16, 2023, a meeting of managers and coordinators of the international Erasmus+ KA2 project MultiEd “Foreign Language Teacher Training Capacity Development as a Way to Ukraine’s Multilingual Education and European Integration” took place. The project ends on November 14, 2023, and it is necessary to sum up the preliminary results. The partners presented package reports on the performed activities, commented on the changes that were inevitable under the conditions of martial law, and discussed the prospects for solving the problems.