Better language skills for migrant construction workers is the focus of the CoLa-project (construction-related language learning for low-skilled migrant workers).
This project, co-financed by the European Commission, supports migrant workers’ professional career and social integration. It also aims to improve health and safety at European construction sites.
Construction is staffed by high levels of migrant workers. In many cases migrant workers lack host country and work-related language skills. Experts consider language deficiencies as a barrier to career development, to improving safety in the workplace and to a successful social integration. The CoLa project   started in 2011 and is co-financed under Key Activity 2 Languages of the EU Lifelong Learning Programme. More...

The MERLIN corpus project seeks to provide language teachers, textbook authors and testers with empirical data for exploring second language competence levels.
The MERLIN project (2012-2014), co-financed in the framework of Key Activity 2 Languages of the Lifelong Learning Programme , is developing a didactically motivated online platform to enable users of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) to explore authentic written learner productions for Italian, Czech, and German. More...

Students and young professionals make the idea of a transcultural Europe reality.
Despite EU enlargement and an increasing transculturation of European societies, the cultures of Central- and Southeast Europe are still insufficiently positioned on the mental map of Europe. Many EU citizens lack adequate understanding and knowledge of these cultures.
TransStar - developed with the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme (Key Activity 2: Languages) - fosters transcultural competences by training and qualifying students and young professionals from eight European countries in the field of literary translation and European cultural management in shaping Europe through cultural exchange. More...

Are you willing to innovate and enrich your teaching by making telecollaboration a central part of your pedagogic agenda?

TILA introduces intercultural telecollaboration as a key topic for secondary school language (teacher) education. It promotes professional development by addressing pedagogical, technological and organizational concerns for the successful integration of telecollaboration practices in intercultural language education in secondary schools.

TILA is co-financed under KA2 Languages (Lifelong Learning Programme) and it started in January 2013 until June 2015. More...

A new methodology for the acquisition of second languages through Reflective Intercultural Competence.
EUFICCS is a project co-financed by the European Union through the Lifelong Learning Programme – Key Activity 2 Languages, and developed by four institutions with long experience in providing language training in their national languages and strong pedagogical, intercultural and teaching expertise: