Presenting the HELPSec Project at the Royal Military Academy in Brussels

English Teaching and Testing Week was organised by the Royal Military Academy in Brussels, Belgium, from 20 to 24 March 2023. Experienced English teachers and testers from European higher military educational institutions participated in it. The activities were conducted in two separate panels: 1/ for teaching and exchanging methodological experience by visiting colleagues’ classes; and 2/ for discussing and moderating tests according to STANAG 6001, focusing on skills for levels 2 and 3.

Senior Lecturer Dora Kasaliyska from Rakovski National Defence College participated in the event. She had classes with cadets on improving their reading and listening skills for level 3, and participated in the discussions on STANAG 6001 tests. Her participation was funded by the Erasmus+ program of the EU .

Senior Lecturer Kasaliyska presented the HELPSec platform to the participants and gave the Belgium colleagues as a present a copy of the textbook with the HELPSec materials, created by lecturers from the Language Training Department of RNDC in collaboration with colleagues from the Military Academy of Portugal and the Swedish Defence University. The interactive training materials on specialized military English were met with interest and were highly assessed.