Presenting the HELPSec Project at the BILC Conference

On 12 May 2021, Dr Valentina Georgieva from Rakovski National Defence College – the Project Coordinator, gave a presentation about the HELPSec project at the annual conference of the Bureau for International Language Cooperation (BILC) at NATO which was held online from 10th to 14th May 2021. The conference was attended by 82 participants from 37 countries and 5 NATO structures. The topic of the conference was „Keeping Pace with the Times: Providing Flexible and Timely Training Solutions”. 13 presentations on the topic of the conference were given by representatives of 14 countries.

The title of Dr Georgieva’s presentation was „Joining Efforts for Designing Online Materials for the Military (Erasmus+ Project for a Hybrid Language Course)”. The purpose of the presentation was to promote the work of the English teachers  and IT specialists from Rakovski National Defence College and the partner universities – the Military Academy of Portugal and the Swedish Defence University, aimed at designing interactive learning content for hybrid specialized English language training. The presentation stressed the fact that the cooperation between the three military educational institutions is possible thanks to the Erasmus+ Programme funding of the project. It also informed the conference participants about the project goals and objectives, its activities (i.e. transnational meetings and multiplier events), the intellectual outputs and the structure of the Modules which contain the learning tasks.