Author: felipe

After making the necessary adjustments to the IDM project “Associativity in Spanish Schools” unsuccessfully presented to SERCOTEC in the first IDM 2014 competition last March, the amended project was re-presented for the second call for the competition “Strengthening Trade Associations” in the Metropolitan Region of SERCOTEC. This time we did achieve the desired support from the Chilean government, to revamp […]

At the ACHELE general assembly 2014 important decisions were taken: The disaffiliation of the ‘Instituto chileno de la lengua (ICHIL)’ from the association, was confirmed. The committee remains the same until the end of 2104, as it is elected for a two year period. The President since its foundation and in his second period is Stefan Meffert (Tandem Santiago). Óscar Berdichevsky […]

The association applied with a project to the competition “Proyectos de iniciativas de desarrollo de mercado para la Región Metropolitana” (Market Development Projects for the Metropolitan Region) of SERCOTEC to obtain financing for the design and positioning of a new web portal, www.spanishschoolsinchile.org which will be the common platform for members to promote their Spanish courses in the Spanish, English, […]

Om Saturday 26th October 2013 the first workshop-meeting was held with teachers of Spanish from ACHELE schools and the Spanish Faculty of the ‘Universidad de Chile’. The objective of this event was to initiate mutually useful cooperation, allowing the ELE teachers to be helped by workshops and training courses designed and carried out by academics from both bodies.

In a one hour meeting between ACHELE and PROCHILE in Brazil significant information was exchanged on the theme of how to promote language tourism in Brazil. The director of the PROCHILE office Sao Paulo, Ocar Páez, assured us of the logistical help of PROCHILE in Brazil.

ACHELE, represented by our President Stefan Meffert and Vice-president Fernando Eichin. Was present at the IV International Congress of Language Travel Tourism held in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The four day event gave us contact with associations of schools of Spanish in Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia and Uruguay, and how to develop relations with Brazilian institutions and student travel […]

The portal www.studyspanishinchile.org was deleted from the Hostbig server, without warning nor satisfactory response nor help in recovering the information from the help desk of the US company. We began our exit from this terrible server with a hopeless response after this loss caused by Hostbig itself.

In a fruitful meeting between the ACHELE President Stefan Meffert and the director of the ‘Instituto Cervantes’ in Río de Janeiro an agreement was signed for the granting of scholarships by the ACHELE Association to students of the Instituto Cervantes in Río de Janeiro. With the assistance of 20 students of the IC the portal of the association was presented: […]

Stefan Meffert visited the “Salão do estudante” in Río de Janeiro, an important specialist fair of the language travel industry.

In front of 35 students of the Belo Horizonte IC, our president Stefan Meffert presented the association’s website and promoted the member schools. Later, meeting with the academic coordinator of the Belo Horizonte IC Pedro Navarro Serrano the current agreement between ACHELE and the Belo Horizonte IC was renewed, confirming the award of 6 scholarships for one week’s intensive Spanish […]