The project PEP (Promotion de l’éducation plurilingue/Promoting plurilingual education) aims to promote multilingualism in Europe, in particular in the education system. It is an ERASMUS+-Project (2023-1-FR01-KA220-HED-000160820, cooperation in the higher education sector) with seven participating universities: University of Reunion, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, University of Vienna, University of Hamburg, Universidade Católica Portuguesa und Πανεπιστημιο Θεσσαλιας – Universität Thessalien. The project is coordinated by Christian Ollivier (University of La Réunion) and Margareta Strasser (Co-Coordination, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg).

The third project meeting took place in Salzburg at the beginning of December 2024, whereby 15 scientists from the seven participating institutions met. The main focus of the meeting was to work on a collection of concrete practical examples for promoting multilingualism in the classroom. This collection will be published in English, German and French in order to reach the widest possible target audience and practical examples will serve as models and inspiration for (future) language teachers at secondary schools and universities. The good practice examples are also intended to promote multilingualism by taking existing multilingualism into account and further developing the multilingual skills of learners. During the project meeting, existing examples of good practice were analyzed and further examples were collected. The next steps are the planned publication of a bilingual reference work and the creation of a Wikiversity section on multilingual education.

After three days of intensive work, the project team was very satisfied with the results.