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English summaries of Estonian Round Table discussions

MEDAL has been actively involved in creating recommendations for policy makers and language teachers in Estonia. During the project, we had a total of three round tables. English summaries of these round tables can be found below. Roundtable #1: Digital ...

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A GoLD MEDAL update

As you might know, the MEDAL project also involved a collaborative research component. Our project may have come to an end, but our research collaborations will continue. Here are the latest updates on the three research projects. Project 1: The ...

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Wrapping up: a MEDAL documentary

Our efforts have not gone unnoticed! A short documentary has been made about the MEDAL project by the Communications department at the University of Tartu. It features interviews with some of the Steering Committee members (Virve Vihman (MEDAL’s brainmother), Dagmar ...

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MEDAL has made a difference: Results of the final evaluation survey

Thank you everybody for partaking in the final evaluation survey! We can now check off all our documents for the European Union, whose funding, along with UKRI, has made our project possible. But what were the final results? Let’s take a ...

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Interviews with ‘Star ECRs’

More medals were awarded during MEDAL’s final conference ‘New Challenges, Novel Approaches’. Keit Mõisavald of the University of Tartu interviewed these recipients of the ‘Star ECR’ medal. The bronze medal went to Magda Matetovici (MPI) for her talk How similar are ...

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Happy reunions and full circles at the MEDAL final conference

PhD candidate at the University of Tartu Adele Vaks attended MEDAL’s ‘New Challenges, Novel Approaches’ conference. Here is what she had to say about it! The MEDAL final conference last October in Tartu was a nice full circle moment for ...

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ECRs in the spotlight: Laura Patrizzi (University of Basel)

Encountering difficulties in your PhD does not mean you’re doing something wrong, but it’s simply part of the journey. 1. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your research interests? I am a third-year PhD student at ...

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ECRs in the spotlight: Dorjderem Byambasuren (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau)

One of the best parts of the MEDAL summer schools was building friendships and collaborations. I’m a doctoral student in psycholinguistics, and my research focuses on how young Mongolian children acquire early vocabulary and grammar. In my doctoral project, I ...

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ECRs in the spotlight: Sho Akamine (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)

Setback turned out to be a blessing in disguise. 1. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your research interests? Hello there! I’m Sho Akamine, a final-year PhD candidate at the MPI for Psycholinguistics. I was born ...

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