As part of the ERGUES Project, during the weeks of September 15 to 26, FCSE teachers and researchers from NICE_lab (CIIS-UCP) trained primary and secondary school teachers from schools that welcome deaf students in São Tomé and Príncipe. 

This second phase of training in Deaf Education and LGSTP aimed to equip teachers with effective bilingual strategies and practices for teaching and learning vocabulary, reading, and writing, through the creation of multidisciplinary bilingual materials for the classroom context. The bilingual context for implementing the materials and practices was developed by deepening knowledge of LGSTP as a language of instruction in a school context, adapting communication to the classroom, and developing strategies for using multimodal resources to support the understanding and learning of deaf students. 

This training was based on and used as examples the 2nd editions of the Official Dictionary of Sign Language of São Tomé and Príncipe and the Portuguese Manual for the Deaf, developed and edited by the Nice_Lab (CIIS-UCP) research team.

This activity was part of the 6th joint mission of the #ERGUES Project, which took place between September 8 and 26 in São Tomé. This mission involved four Portuguese higher education institutions (HEIs) that are partners in the project: the University of Aveiro, the University of Évora, the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém, and the Portuguese Catholic University.

#ERGUES is funded by Portuguese Cooperation, through Camões, I.P. and coordinated and co-financed by #AMVF and IMVF.  Its implementation partners and co-financers are Universidade de Aveiro, Universidade de Évora,  Politécnico de Santarém and Universidade Católica Portuguesa and its implementarion partners and beneficiaries the Ministério da Educação Cultura, Ciência e Ensino Superior - STP and the Universidade de São Tomé e Príncipe.