After the short welcoming of the participants by Mrs. Athena Bazou and Mrs. Eleni Malliou on behalf of Ellinogermaniki Agogi, the participants in the Ad-hoc.com kick-off meeting introduced themselves and presented the institutions that they were representing.

Following the presentation of the partners Mrs. Malliou presented the general framework of the project (short description of the project’s objectives, aims, main activities, target groups and outcomes). A discussion about the language-learning tool that will be the main outcome of the project followed. Special emphasis was given to the fact that this innovative advanced multimedia language-learning tool should be flexible and user friendly in order to be adapted to the needs of the modern "mobile" European. The proposed pedagogical method of autonomous self-directed learning was also emphasized.

Mrs. Bazou continued with the issue of the implementation of the project and the workplan of the activities. In the discussion that followed a lot of interesting questions were put forward.

Mr. Andrea Gaggioli (acts as an observer to this meeting and comes from the Instituto Auxologico Italiano) focused on the different stages of the project’s implementation.

He proposed seven different stages:

1) user profile
2) user needs analysis
3) user tasks analysis
4) prototype design and adaptation
5) implementation
6) evaluation
7) test of the evaluation -does the selected implementation of the project work in a large scale?-

Mrs. Bazou emphasized the fact that the heart of the project is the user centered analysis and that the implementation will be focused on this specific aim.

In the afternoon the meeting continued with a very important conversation between all the partners about the content collection.

Mrs. Bazou presented an example of how the content should be like. She mentioned the specific modules of every unit of the content and she proposed to use questionnaires in order to analyze the users’ needs. Mrs. Bazou also presented examples of the questionnaires to the partners. The presentation was completed by a demonstration of a video for language learning created by the project Artemis.  Mrs. Malliou mentioned that the tool aims to present linguistic content embedded in its cultural context furthering the understanding of European’s cultural diversity. From this it was concluded that the communication should be effective and not only technological. Mrs. Luisa Viglietta from COREP suggested that for the content collection questionnaires but also previous experience and interviews are very important. Mrs. Yvonne Katsabi representing MEWCAT said that questionnaires are not always the best approach for tourists. She proposed discussions as a better solution. Mrs. Gudrun Goetz from the University of Graz proposed to use questionnaires but also to film one day’s activities of the students. Mr. Robert Erber representing Ernst Klett Verlag mentioned that they could use their previous experience to determine the users’ needs.

After the conversation Mrs. Yvonne Katsabi presented a video for language learning in which special emphasis was given to the intercultural element.

The evaluation of the project was the next presentation by Mrs. Malliou.

Mrs. Malliou emphasized the need to have reports from all the partners every week.