This project is part of a strategic partnership in the field of education. It is promoted by three educational institutions showing extensive experience and reliability in the field of language teaching and international education. The project aims to contribute to the dissemination and support of multilingualism and multiculturalism (and more specifically French, Spanish and Italian language and culture). Regarding the students taking part in the project, the main goals will be to improve their foreign language skills and to improve their digital skills. As far as the teaching staff is concerned, the aim is to achieve a pedagogical update and to improve professional training, as much in language teaching as in using diverse and innovative digital materials. Moreover, the participating schools will thus gain experience that will allow them to improve their coordination and their internationalization strategy. The suggested activities are guided and sequenced. The participants will start working in small groups at a local level, focusing on cultural and linguistic contents (they will use first the language spoken in the country of their own school, and then the other two languages of the project). These groups will generate valuable didactic documents, mainly in digital format (multimedia texts, audio material, audiovisual documents, etc). Peer to peer learning will be essential in handling virtual mobility events: virtual encounters will take place before each of the three scheduled transnational meetings (one in each country). These meetings will be short but intense not only as regards training, immersion and learning, but also in terms of culture and social interaction. As a result, innovative materials will be generated, mainly in the form of Open Educational Material (OEM) usable in formal and informal learning environments, fully accessible on the web and integrated in the open digital environment GNU/Linux. This will ensure the relevance and durability of the materials beyond the end of the project. Before, during and after the project, a dissemination plan will be set up: it will include a website, paper and electronic brochures, and a publication giving an overview of the project. The results will be disseminated at length in the educational communities of the participating schools and in their local environment, and communicated to the relevant provincial and regional educational authorities. The financial support received from the European Union project Erasmus+ will be expressly and publicly acknowledged at all times.
Our project has relied on the solid foundations provided by the three participating establishments, which have very different backgrounds and natures but share a common interest in languages, a desire to improve their methodological resources and teaching practice. Pedagogical innovation is inscribed in the DNA of the Lycée International, the coordinating school which has set the theoretical tone of the project. The extensive experience in Eramus and Comenius projects gained by IES Lucia de Medrano has been decisive in the logistical organisation and in the proper planning of all activities with pupils. The Liceo Margherita de Castelvì, also a centre of excellence in languages, has provided a broader cultural approach, based on the territory, traditions and popular culture. The long term planning, initially 36 months and finally 40 months for the Lycée International with the extension granted by the Erasmus+ France Agency, has proved to be appropriate and has allowed an enriching evolution of working methods, communication tools and final contributions. Our trajectory was already very well defined at the time when the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, so its impact was limited in relation to the final achievements and lasting contributions of the project, although we regret the cancellation of the last mobility scheduled in Saint-Germain-en-Laye for March/April 2020. Our initial objectives, as will be seen more extensively in later sections, have been maintained in the actual development of the project. Internally, we are very satisfied with the improvement in teaching methodology and practice that can be derived from this project. The involvement of the teaching staff has exceeded our initial forecasts and the conclusions reached have an important theoretical and methodological weight. It is difficult to summarise them, but we can say that from now on we have the resources to go beyond the learning of several languages and to deepen the training of intercultural agents, multicompetent and aware of the value of the richness that diversity brings. From the beginning, we have considered the direct involvement of our pupils as a key element and we have achieved an enormous response, with a direct participation of more than 1700 pupils from the three schools. In each school year, each school has organised workshops and working groups (literary creation, reading club, web radio, video...) which have developed their work in small groups over several months. At the international meetings, the representatives of each establishment presented the results achieved, which was very satisfactory, enriching and motivating for everyone. Discussions, proposals and suggestions from the pupils were taken into account (for example, they gave the name "SLinguix", with "S" for Sassari, Salamanca and Saint-Germain-en-Laye and "linguix" as a derivative of the Latin languages, with an "x" alluding to the open source Linux code. The exchanges and the cultural and convivial activities that have accompanied them have marked us on a personal and indelible level with very positive experiences of openness and tolerance. In addition, we have managed to generate original and innovative digital multimedia resources, distributed under a Creative Commons licence and created with free and open source tools. It was our great challenge and we are frankly satisfied with "SLinguix", developed with eXelearning. We are also proud of "Linguix Erasmus+", a trilingual Linux operating system for teaching in French, Spanish and Italian, which will be operational and kept up to date until 2024. Both are resources that we propose for free and universal distribution from the following websites https://erasmusfie.wixsite.com/erasmusfie https://lyceeinternational.wixsite.com/linguix With these resources, we have edited 600 USB keys that have been distributed to educational centres in Europe (mainly in France, Spain and Italy) and Latin America. Dissemination has been an important part of our work, with a well-established plan that has allowed us to communicate our actions to the entire educational community of our schools (we estimate that more than 18,000 people have been informed). We have also had a significant impact in the written press and on social networks (Twitter), which has reached more than 200,000 people. As the project has progressed, we have gained confidence and improved in some aspects. Although we did not initially plan to participate in the "Erasmus Days" events, we have finally actively participated in the 2018, 2019 and 2020 editions, which has been positive and enriching. We have also managed to present our project to the Sedec commission of the Regionen Committee in Brussels, reaffirming the dimension and commitment to European values of our project. The dissemination of its results through the "Erasmus+ Project Result Platform" will hopefully help and encourage other future actions. We are also already developing and planning new actions.