BULGARIA- 2007/2009,
LLP TRANSFER OF INNOVATION MULTILATERAL PROJECTS
The project title is "DINOCROCS TRAVEL TO THE BALKANS - TRANSFER OF INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGY FOR TEACHING YOUNG LEARNERS"
The coordinator is Bulgaria, Partners are Italy, Germany, Romania and Turkey.
Hocus and Lotus are two extravagant characters, two dinocrocs, created by a group of researchers of various European Universities with the aim to get children love them and, through a process of child - characters identification, facilitate the learning of a second language. Hocus and Lotus are already well known to the children of Nursery and Primary schools of various European Countries: Sweden, Portugal, France, Spain, Italy, UK, Poland, Bulgaria, Germany, Romania and Turkey. So far the aim of the cartoon series was learning languages at an early age as part of the educational materials for language teaching within a series of Socrates-Lingua European projects.