For many years the heads of department at alpha beta piccadilly, together with an international team of experts and partners, have been involved in research and development in the fields of language learning and interculturalism.

ELTAE

European Lingua Trainer in Adult Education - Transnational Grundtvig project (Germany, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lithuania) for the development and testing of a training course with a completion certificate for language teachers who teach or who would like to teach adults.

Adult literacy

Teaching of basic writing and literacy skills to members of the immigrant population and other disadvantaged groups who are illiterate to a primary or secondary grade in cooperation with the Provincial Department of Further Education.

Tandem International Conference

At a congress in Bolzano the results of the "Tandem Cocktail" research, which compared the various Tandem placement and advisory models, were presented. The conference also provided the opportunity to gain some practical experience through Tandem simulations.