About us: Ilpo Halonen
Ilpo Halonen born Nov 19, 1945
M.A., language teacher
Vihti upper secondary school
Finland, 1996-2009
Journalist, author, translator
M.A., language teacher
Vihti upper secondary school
Finland, 1996-2009
Information secretary of the National Social Security Institution Finland 1972-1980
Language teacher of Helsinki Rudolf Steiner school 1980-1995
Senior lecturer of Vihti Upper Secondary School 1996 - 2009
Author of lesson books and online material of German as a Foreign Language, WSOY 1995-99, of online material, Otava 2005-08
Project coordinator of the European Schools Project in Finland 1998 - 2007
Coordinator of Dafnord, the network of teachers of German as a foreign language (DaF) 2002 – 2005, chair person of Dafnord Association 2005 – 2006, Dafnord board member 2005 -
Co-trainer in-service training courses of head-teachers at OPEKO, the National Centre for Professional Development in Education, Tampere Finland 2002-03.
Lecturer and course coach of teacher-in-service courses "Learn Internet Projects By Doing - LIP 1 - LIP6 Live Online", National Center for Professional Development in Education, OPEKO Tampere Finland 2002-2008
Consultant of teacher-in-service online training course Teletutors , OPEKO Tampere Finland 2004-05
The Language Teacher of the Year 2005, nominated by SUKOL, the Federation of Foreign Language Teachers in Finland
Lecturer and course coach of the course for internationalization of schools, OPEKO Tampere Finland, Nov 23-24, 2006
Lecturer and workshop coach of the course "Blended Learning in German", OPEKO Tampere Nov 21-22, 2007
Lecturer about WebCEF at SUKOL training days in Lappeenranta, February 6-7, 2009
Trainer of "Many languages - one Europe" training about live online moderation, Helsinki January 19, 2012
International activities
“Das Bild der Anderen” project coordinator in Finland 1995 - 1998
Board member of the European Schools Project ESP 1998 -
Baltic-Nordic seminar trainer for language teachers, Lohusalu, Estonia, 1998
Lecturer at the conference Telemaatika 2000, Tartu Estonia, November 17-19, 2000
Baltic-Nordic preparatory seminars for Dafnord in Stockholm and Jyväskylä 1999 - 2002
Lecturer at the Conference of Baltic teachers of German, Tallinn Estonia, October 10-12, 2002
Organiser and leader of 1st International DaF Workshop, ITK conference Hämeenlinna April 9, 2003
Dafnord and Das Bild preparatory meeting, Copenhagen, September 12-14, 2003
Trainer in Netcoach seminar Cracow Poland, October 24-26, 2003
Lecturer in the workshop "Whole day school", Bonn Germany, December 1-2, 2003
Organiser and leader of 2nd International DaF Workshop, ITK conference Hämeenlinna April 21, 2004
Participant of Innovative Teachers Forum, London, April 29-30, 2004
Board member of the European Schools Project Association 2005 -, organiser of 19th ESP conference in Järvenpää Finland March 10-13, 2005
2nd leader of section E4 of XIII IDT (13th International Meeting of Teachers of German), Graz Austria, August 1-6, 2005
Lecturer and workshop coach at 8th conference of Schoolnet Iran, Neishabur Iran, September 13-16, 2005
Workshop coach at SVIT05 conference in Ronneby Sweden Nov 1, 2005
Lecturer at Baltic Sea meeting of Deutsche Auslandsgesellschaft Luebeck Germany Nov 17-20, 2005
Lecturer and workshop presenter at 2nd symposion "Zukunft neuer Medien in der Schule" Sankt Augustin Bonn Germany Dec 9, 2005
Lecturer at the seminar of teachers of German in Uppsala Sweden March 25-26, 2006
Initiator and co-moderator of the standing Tuesday Round of DaF Community (Teachers of German as a foreign language) since May 16, 2006 -
Lecturer at the seminar of teachers of German in Stockholm Sweden Oct 6, 2006
Lecturer and live online moderator at the Asian workshop of Comenius 3 network COMP@CT in Jämsä Finland Nov 6 , 2006
Workshop coach at the meeting of teachers of German in Brussels Belgium Nov 18, 2006
Live online moderator of the Virtual Bridge between the workshop in Brussels and the 4th International DaF Workshop IDW4 in Helsinki Nov 18, 2006
Lecturer and course coach of the Language Educator Awareness course at OPEKO Tampere Finland Dec 14-15, 2006
Lecturer at the meeting of a delegation from Georgia in Järvenpää Finland Sept 5, 2007
Lecturer at the meeting of teachers of German in Helsinki Finland Oct 20, 2007
Trainer of moderating skills at the course Learn Internet Projects By Doing - LIP 6 Live Online Oct-Nov 2007
Lecturer and workshop coach at the seminar of Deutsche Auslandsgesellschaft in Luebeck Germany August 10-12, 2007, 25-27.9. 2008, 26-28.3. 2009, 22-25.9. 2009, 22-24.9. 2010, 28-30.9.2011
Lecturer and workshop coach at the seminar of Deutsche Auslandsgesellschaft in Kaliningrad Russia February 9-12, 2012
Comenius and other EU activities
Workshop coach Baltic-Nordic seminar (Comp@ct) Tallinn Estonia April 24-25, 2003
Trainer at IPM Tools conference (Comp@ct) La Coruña Spain, June 4-6, 2003
Lecturer at GEH-MIT conference Athens Greece, September 25-27, 2003
Workshop coach at Comp@ct conference Linz Austria, November 26-29, 2003
Lecturer at IPM Tools final conference Maribor Slovenia, June 2-5, 2004
Lecturer and workshop coach at IPM Tools Comenius 2.2 course in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, 20 - 26 September 2004
Co-organiser and leader of 3rd International DaF Workshop (a joint event of the Comenius 3 -network DaF Südost and of Dafnord), Kerava, Finland, March 10-11, 2005
Staff member of Euneos partner in Comenius 2.1 project EFELCREN, 2006-09
Workshop coach at Comenius 1 contact seminar of the 20th ESP-COMP@CT-ECOLE conference in Amsterdam Netherlands March 8-12, 2006
Initiator and staff member of Euneos partner in EU Minerva project WEBCEF 2006-09
Staff member of Euneos partner in EU projects LETHE, Learning Through Emotions 2006-09, Bridging Insula Europae, 2007-09 and PATCH-WORLD, 2007-09
Staff member of Dafnord partner in EU Multilateral project SimSafety, 2008-10
Lecturer and workshop coach at the Comenius 2 courses "Midnight Sun" about eJournalism in Inari, Lapland Finland April 17-24, 2006, June 10-17, 2007, June 5-12, 2008, June 14-20, 2009, June 6-12, 2010, June 12-18, 2011, June 10-16, 2012
Staff member of Euneos partner in EU Multilateral project CEFcult 2009-2011
