Individual plurilinguality and poor reading skills are relevant topics in society and education policy across European countries. The project initiative responded to three key problems in the field of school, foreign and multilingual teaching practice: - large deficits exist in reading skills in school and foreign languages of pupils at the primary and particularly at the secondary level, - curricula demand a stronger linkage between the teaching of school and foreign languages in place of an isolated language learning, - demands to target the promotion of plurilingualism among learners due to increasing globalisation. In this project, four institutions that focus on teacher education and training co-operated: the Universities of Education in Weingarten (Germany), St. Gallen (Switzerland), and Vorarlberg (Austria), the Ministry of Education, SCRIPT (Luxembourg), and four partner schools with grade 6-8 classes as well as a Swiss primary school.At the core of the project was the didactic-methodological design for a multilingual readers' theater. For this purpose, literary texts were transformed into readers’ theatre texts in dialogic form. Pupils practice reading aloud in groups and afterwards present their individual parts in plenary. The design includes reading aloud by the teacher as an important modeling measure, as well as the subsequent communication based on the literary text between teacher and pupils. The design was developed following the design-based research approach (Van den Akker et al. 2006). Based on close cooperation among researchers and practitioners, the aim of DBR is to generate methodological and pedagogical innovations through systematic design, testing and redesign while working within the school context. The project aimed to contribute to the theoretical foundation of a multilingual approach through collaboration between research and practice, as well as providing a viable product for a multilingual approach to teaching: - a teaching / learning environment entailing multilingual readers’ theatre was developed, which increases the motivation for reading and consequently the reading skills of learners, whilst also increasing the acceptance among teachers and learners to engage more in learning processes in multilingual education settings, - best-practice examples of multilingual readers’ theater were developed that can be transferred to other contexts and allow differentiation according to performance levels as well as the inclusion of minority languages. 32 readers’ theatre scripts that combine different languages (e.g. german-english, german-french, german-english-french-minority languages, etc. ) are available for download from the project’s website (see below).- a professional development module for teachers was developed that instructs teachers in readers' theater and provides them with the necessary skills to implement the design. Two international Multiplier-Events were conducted in order to distribute the training module among those working in the field of teaching and education. A movie showing how MELT can be implemented in various classroom settings is available for download from the project’s website.- the project contributed to the theoretical substantiation of the multilingual-didactic approach in which the teaching /learning environment and multilingual readers 'theater' are supported by solid knowledge of the school and foreign language reading research as well as language teaching and learning research according to the design-based research approach. An international conference on the topic of multilingual reading intervention was held at the University of Education in Weingarten. A significant number of international experts in the field contributed to this event that attracted approximately 100 participants. The following measures are in place to ensure sustainability: All products (the multilingual readers’ theatre scripts, movie, didactical-methodological instructions) are available for free from the project’s website (http://melt-multilingual-readers-theatre.eu/ , see http://melt-multilingual-readers-theatre.eu/en/ for an English version). Next to papers published in educational journals, two books are available for purchase: a handbook that contains theoretical background and practical instructions on multilingual readers’ theatre and a further publication contains a collection of papers presented at the international conference on multilingual reading intervention. In the near future, more dissemination activities are planned (poster presentations, talks, publications). The Universities of Education will offer seminars on MELT to increase the sensitivity and knowledge of future teachers with respect to multilingual reading intervention. Further professional development sessions on MELT are also planned, for example a one-day event to be held in Luxemburg (organized and financed by SCRIPT) in the school year of 2018-2019.

The aim of the project is twofold:1) Promoting the professional development of adult educators by gathering best practice expertise from partner institutions in TIP Adult project;2) Fostering the competences of Adult educators, particularly on knowledge transfer as well as in gaining experience in international cooperation.Objectives:To create high-quality professional development for adult educators on creativity and innovation; To implement ICT tools to generate OERs to enable effective cooperation and promote flexible learning pathways and professional development in line with the European transparency instruments. This will be accomplished by turning knowledge into digital micro-knowledge chunks to make it easier and faster to distribute (e.g. real time on social networks). TIP Adult project is geared specifically to these 3 target groups:(1) adult education organizers - with the aim of finding out how to better organize and ensure the professional development of adult educators; (2) developers and managers of adult education programs - with a view to improving their knowledge and skills in finding out the needs of learners, using ICT, knowledge transfer (visualization, sharing); (3) adult educators - with the aim of improving their knowledge of adult pedagogy methods and techniques, ICT use, knowledge transfer (visualization, sharing). Project results1) Website/Portal for adult educators professional development (TIP ADULT): 2) Experience exchange/ micro-knowledge chunks on the use of IT and Moodle; 3) Piloted and internationally tested criteria for the provision and training of adult educators as well as Adult Education Program Development.4) 0n andragogy issues, Research on adult learners’ needs; Virtual Reality and serious games in adult education. 5) Enhancement of Soft Skills (both Educators & Leaners): Knowledge and experience gained by the target groups in the field of transnational cooperation, project management; exchange of experience and good practice in the field of adult educators' professional development; enhanced awareness of lifelong learning opportunities of the target groups. All of the organization partners in this Partnership are experienced in the field of providing structured courses to various profiles and number of candidates and they will contribute to a great extent for the realization of the proposal. 2 transnational meetings and 6 best practice exchange and training activities (15 people for each training (2 from each participating country) to improve knowledge and skills in innovative provision of adult learning and education, notably strategic use of open and flexible learning, OERs - knowledge visualization and knowledge sharing, best practice exchange on adult education methods and techniques (namely, design thinking, flipped classroom, VR, and gamification).The implementation of the project will be realized through the development of several Work Packages that will included in the methodology applied: 1. Establishment of a communication network, organizational upgrades, informative activities, selection and preparation of participants;2. Dissemination phase with previously defined activities in a dissemination plan.Impacts: 1. Impact on participants: higher opportunities for acquiring skills and qualifications, particularly among LTUs (long term unemployed) and NEETs (young adults between 18-25 who dropped from their education and training). 2. Impact on the participating organizations: improve their organizational skills. Offering training based on the project guidelines will assure comparable training across Europe. 3. TIP Adult project will indirectly help partner institutions to extend their network (whether through the partners of the project or through contacts made due to the publication of the project results) and raise the visibility of the partners in their region.The project will reinforce the network of adult education providers and supporting institutions, like Universities, increase capacity to operate at the transnational level, share and confront ideas, practices and methods. Long-time goal is to establish these guidelines as European Reference Framework when it comes to Media and Information literacy for adults. Having such a reference framework will ensure a comparable quality across Europe.The project idea is to extending and developing the competencies of educators and other personnel who support adult learners, particularly in motivating adults to take part in learning and in the effective teaching of literacy, numeracy and digital skills to low-skilled or low-qualified adults, including through the effective use of digital technologies to improve the learning experience.