This project aimed to improve teachers’ language skills and make teaching more attractive for pupils. It also supported teachers to be creative, to incorporate new activities in frontal teaching, to get feedback from the pupils and from colleagues in teaching, to strengthen cross-curricular collaboration, teacher cooperation, collegial support and good relationships between pupils and teachers, considering that working in teams is positive for a good social climate in the school. The project offered teachers a training abroad and motivated other colleagues to work on their education and self-education. Thus, the improvement of teachers' professional and linguistic training leaded to the improvement of pupils' language skills. Language teachers’ aim was to improve their pedagogical competences, to acquire modern and effective teaching strategies and techniques. Non-language teachers’ aim was to implement an intensive language course, to further develop their language skills and to strengthen the language competences of the teachers of the same subject, thanks to the subsequent planned activities. From the school's point of view, the main objective was to prepare and motivate teachers to participate in international projects.
The basic need for the application of the project "Inspiration, Internationalisation and Creativity at Gymnázium Litovel" was to strengthen the school’s internationalisation by joining the international cooperation of European schools, to support foreign languages, to get inspired abroad and to bring new topics. Our need was to improve English of teachers of non-language subjects and to strengthen inter-subject relations. Other needs included training an experienced English language teacher to focus on the development and use of the CLIL method in the methodological part of the course. As far as the Spanish teacher was concered, their need was to gain information in the field of current political events relevant to understanding the historical background of current events in Spain and to introduce new non-traditional forms in teaching, including on-line platforms. In terms of English teaching, there was also a need to develop and initiate language activities and activities, to bring students to study and improve their knowledge of a foreign language. There was also a need to maintain the current number of students and experienced teachers at our school in the competitive environment of other schools around Litovel.