The project aimed at expanding the participants' theoretical and practical knowledge on multilingualism in order to enable them to be better prepared for or even successfully cope with multilingual situations in classrooms. The teaching staff from both countries were to collaborate and develop a teacher training module that can be used at teacher training colleges and university to raise awareness for multilingualism at an early stage. The students and trainee teachers were to form teams or groups during the online conferences and mobilities and work together on visual presentations and the two school and education systems and to design an observation sheet as well as collect best practice examples. It would have been ideal to also develop concepts for multilingual lessons. Due to a lack of time and changes in the participations of the students, there was a lack of continuity. Therefore no concepts have been developed yet.
Self-reflexivity can best be achieved by thinking outside the box. Our objective was to initiate an institutional cooperation betwee INSPÉ Lille and ZfsL Hagen, i.e. to promote European collaboration both for the teaching staff and the students/trainee teachers. Connecting people from different countries and different education and teacher training systems seemed a fruitful way in order to benefit from each other's ideas and concepts and raise a greater awareness for the topic.