Inter+ Enhancing plurilingualism and interculturality in an European educational context In society as in the world of education, plurilinguism and interculturality are more and more part of Europeans' every day life. Those two types of situation can be problematic but are, at the same time, a source of richness to manage and, moreover, to enhance. The Inter+ project seeks out experienced and probational teachers of all levels and subjects, together with education and cooperation staff. It offers to know and understand the cultural codes of pupils and education partners, to approach foreign languages and foreign cultures without fears. It also aims to enable proficiency of plurilinguism situations, to develop every linguistic and cultural skills for pupils and education staff. These objectives will especially make possible an enhancement of “inheritated languages” and foster pupils inclusion, helping them to build their identity and helping to avert school failure. Therefore, a training journey will be implemented during three years with the support of an European team of experts, gathered for the project, from France (including French Guyana), Spain, Portugal, Austria, Greece and Romania. The training journey will last two years, for two different groups (the first group will end its training in year 2, whereas the second group will start it in year 2). The journey will provide certifications delivered by education authorities or training partner organisations. It will begin with training seminars organised in six territories where the members of the experts group will go. One thousand people will attend these seminars during the programme. Seminars will be followed by distance training modules, practises exchanges courses, and mobilities. These activities will enable outputs like transferable tools, training modules, but also activities notebooks or partnerships practises notebooks, aggregating teachers' outputs. A multilingual and digital library will also be created. Recorded readings made by pupils' parents or education staff will insitute bridges between schools and families. All these outputs, founded on a reflexion at a European scale, will be accessible from a dedicated website and from the digital project platform. It will be possible to include them in other trainings. For these purposes will be organised, during the third year, the project's final meetings. Local authorities and management staff, from the training organisations involved, will form the priority audience of this event.
Context In european societies as in the educational world, plurilingualism and interculturality are part of the everyday life of Europeans. These two types of situations can cause problems but are at the same time a source of wealth that must be managed and, even more importantly, valued. Aims and Objectives The Inter + project was designed for pre-service and in-service teachers of all levels and specialties, as well as other educational employees. It proposed to learn and understand the cultural codes of learners and educational partners, to understand without fear the practice of foreign languages and other cultures, to allow the trainees to deal with a diversity of situations of plurilingualism and to value all the linguistic and cultural skills of learners and staff. These objectives were to enable the development of "heritage languages" and to promote the inclusion of students, helping them to build their identity and preventing school failure. Number and profile of participating organizations 12 partners located in 6 different countries (Austria, Spain, France, Greece, Portugal, Romania). The partners of the project are public institutions active in the field of initial and lifelong training and learning and confronted to problems of plurilingualism and interculturality. The participating institutions are active at different scales of the training systems: schools, vocational training centers, education authorities, training schools for teachers, universities, research centers recognized in the fields of interculturality and plurilingualism. Description of the main activities implemented A training course was to be set up within the framework of the project: - preparatory training seminars organized by various partners bringing together specialists, - short-term mobilities, - long-term mobilities, - the creation of on-line training modules on a platform. This training course was originally planned for two cohorts over two years. Due to the difficulty of management and implementation of the project, only 3 preparatory training seminars for a single cohort were organized in France at the College ointernational in Noisy-le-Grand, Portugal (Almada) and In Austria (Graz). Results and impacts The Noisy-le-Grand seminar was attended by 99 trainees from all the académie de Créteil. Almada Seminar (June-July 2015) was attended by about 100 participants and the Seminar in Graz (Austria) was attended by 35 participants. Altogether, almost 230 staff (teachers in initial or in-service training, supervisory staff, trainers) from the three institutions were trained during the seminars.Other actions have not been implemented due to the major difficulties the management has encountered , It is difficult to assess the actual impact of training actions on field practices.