Innovation projects
The members of INNOVALingua-EIA — Andreea Rosca, Ana Sevilla-Pavón, and Dina Pedro Mustieles — have a strong track record of collaboration in educational innovation. Their projects focus on the teaching of English as a foreign language, intercultural learning, cognitive linguistics, employability, and the use of innovative technologies and methodologies.
Below is an overview of the main projects they have developed or contributed to, organized chronologically.
2017 - 2018
Social Entrepreneurship and Online Intercultural Exchange for 21st-Century Skills (UV-SFPIE_RMD17-583559)
Coordinator: Ana Sevilla-Pavón
Team member: Andreea Rosca
This project promoted the development of 21st-century competences through intercultural collaboration and social innovation.
Problem-Based Learning for Business Challenges (UV-SFPIE_RMD17-587547)
Coordinator: Andreea Rosca
Team member: Ana Sevilla-Pavón
Applied Problem-Based Learning (PBL) to address real business challenges, combining active methodologies and foreign language teaching.
2018 - 2019
Project-Based Learning for Creativity and Persuasion in Social Awareness Campaigns (UV-SFPIE_RMD18-842236)
Coordinator: Andreea Rosca
Team member: Ana Sevilla-Pavón
Integrated Project-Based Learning (PBL) to foster creativity and develop persuasive skills through the creation of social awareness campaigns.
Interuniversity Telecollaborative Networks: Dissemination, Transfer, and Internationalization in Teaching (UV-SFPIE_GER18-850079)
Coordinator: Ana Sevilla-Pavón
Team member: Andreea Rosca
Expanded intercultural learning through telecollaborative networks, focusing on knowledge transfer and internationalization of teaching practices.
2019 - 2020
3D Virtual Worlds in Interuniversity Telecollaborative Networks (UV-SFPIE_PID19-1095669)
Coordinator: Ana Sevilla-Pavón
Team member: Andreea Rosca
Used immersive 3D virtual environments to enrich language and intercultural learning in online telecollaborative settings.
Building Bridges between Cognitive Linguistics and English Language Teaching (UV-SFPIE_PID19-1095772)
Coordinator: Andreea Rosca
Team member: Ana Sevilla-Pavón
Introduced cognitive linguistics principles into the teaching of English as a foreign language to enhance learners’ acquisition and conceptual understanding.
2024 - 2025
DenTrad: Designing Teaching Materials for English in Health Sciences (UV-SFPIE_PIEE-3324568)
Coordinator: Dina Pedro Mustieles
Team member: Andreea Rosca
An Emerging Educational Innovation Project (PIEE) focused on creating specialized teaching materials for English in dentistry and translation studies. DenTrad addresses the lack of resources for English for Health Sciences, preparing students of Dentistry for international professional environments and students of Translation and Interlinguistic Mediation to meet the growing demand in medical translation.
Voces (des)silenciadas: Decolonial Pedagogies, Languages, Gender, Entrepreneurship, and SDGs (DECOLANG) (PIEE 3898116)
Coordinator: Ana Sevilla Pavón
Team member: Andreea Rosca and Dina Pedro Mustieles
This project explores decolonial pedagogies through the lens of languages, gender, intercultural learning, entrepreneurship, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It seeks to empower silenced voices, foster inclusive practices, and link language education with social justice and global citizenship.
Broader Collaborations
In addition to the joint initiatives above, members of INNOVALingua-EIA have also participated in external innovation projects led by colleagues at other universities:
- Vocabulary Acquisition in English through Lexical Blends Mediated by Artificial Intelligence (2024–2025)
Coordinator: Sandra Peña Cervel (University of La Rioja)
Team member: Andreea Rosca
Explores how AI-supported lexical blends can foster English vocabulary learning. - Methodologies for Motivation in the Language Classroom (2015–2016)
Coordinator: Beatriz Oria Gómez, University of Zaragoza
Team member: Andreea Rosca
Evaluated cooperative learning, war films, and military documentaries as experimental tools to increase motivation in English classes at the Centro Universitario de la Defensa.