Objectives

This strategic partnership has been established on the basis of a common interest in the issue of minority languages. We wanted our students to be aware that Europe is not only an administrative, economic or political body, but also a union of people, where each community of speakers has its own language for communication, which should definitely survive. In that given context, English is the tool which enables those different people to communicate with each other.

These were the main objectives of this strategic partnership at the beginning of the project. We wanted our students:

1. to improve their linguistic competence in English by giving them the opportunity to get involved in a project with an international and European dimension which will definitely imply using English with a communicative and practical aim.

2. to improve their digital competence by using and creating ICT tools to collaborate with their foreign partners. Moreover, working collaboratively in order to create a multilingual (minority languages included) quick guide of expressions for travelling has definitely contributed to the objective of enhancing creativity and innovation, including entrepreneurship, which is one of the objectives identified in the European Strategic Framework 2020.

3. to know what other minority and/or endangered languages exist in Europe, what their sociolinguistic situation is and what policies are being applied to promote their survival.

4. to increase and help others increase the rates of real use of our minority languages at school and in our everyday life, by involving students in a project where some of them would demonstrate and others find out that the flourishing of a minority language is possible and that living in that minority language can come true.

Now, at the end of our two-year project life, we can proudly say that the objectives have been fulfilled satisfactorily.