We wanted to innovate and use multiple and some new teaching and learning activities. With the help of these diverse activities we aimed at encouraging our students to work in multicultural environments. After all the restrictions due to the covid pandemic we wanted to create a positive change in the attitudes towards others. The returning to normal school life, enjoying learning together, regaining the ability to interact with others were the most important goals when designing the contents of our project. We wanted to give our students the opportunity of knowing and appreciating both their own cultural identity and that of other peoples. The mutual understanding and respect should improve when cooperating with people from different cultures and backgrounds. Mobilities for students would add value to the project. Living in a host family for one week will help students to realise how much they have in common and how their way of life is maybe different from other European countries. Students should participate in international creative workshops during the mobilities. That should encourage them to work together in a foreign language. From the teachers point of view we wanted to compare good practices and evaluation.
"Vision21 - Rebroadening the Horizons" was planned in order to return back to a normal life after the Covid pandemic. The five coordinators all agreed on the fact that we want to support our students to study in the normal social environment again and to enable possibilities to work together with our European partners. We find the ability to communicate in multiple languages important in today's Europe. Also the ability to understand the cultural differences, the knowledge of our cultural background and the mutual understanding are essential for everyone. All these competences can be best improved by cooperating together face-to-face with people from different countries and backgrounds. Our goal was to encourage the participants to use foreign languages in their interaction by offering them possibilities to gain confidence in their oral and written communication. We also aimed at sharing good practices in all teaching. One challenge was to support the learners' motivation to study. We also wanted to innovate new types of activities, which could be carried out with the help of ICT in all participating schools. This would offer the teachers possibilities to reflect on evaluation and assessment of language learning, for example.