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The Goethe-Institut e.V. is a registered, non-profit association under German private law that promotes German language and culture worldwide. The objective of the Association is to further knowledge of the German language, foster international cultural cooperation, and convey a comprehensive picture of Germany by providing information on cultural, social and political life in Germany.

Role in the project:
In recent years, GI Sweden has expanded its focus beyond German as a foreign language. GI Sweden has become increasingly involved in issues around HLT provision. Home language teachers for German contact the Swedish branch of Goethe-Institut to ask for support, advice on materials and general guidance. Additionally, GI Sweden addresses with all matters of language teaching and learning from a new diversity-orientated perspective. Thus, many students in Sweden no longer follow the traditional language sequence (Swedish, English, German) but already bring different home languages into language learning.
Besides a high level of experience in the field, GI Sweden also manages and organises the whole project and is responsible for the website development. Sabine Brachmann-Bosse
Head of Language Department 
sabine.brachmann-bosse@goethe.de

Elisabeth Schmidt
Coordinator
schmidt.elisabeth.c@gmail.com

Rainer Fussgänger
Education Advisor 
Rainer.Fussgaenger@goethe.de

ELIX - Conservation Volunteers Greece - is a non-profit organisation that has promoted voluntary service and education since 1987. The main goal is the personal development of individuals as global citizens through active participation. Social service, environmental protection, cultural heritage conservation and cultural promotion are the main thematic fields of voluntary projects.

Role in the project:
ELIX has developed a large network of collaborations with Civil Society actors, migrant communities, and formal education stakeholders. The ELIX educational team has published and co-written several handbooks and guidelines for non-formal education of migrants and refugee children and young people focusing on blended learning, multilingualism and social - emotional empowerment, Greek as a second language learning materials.
Thanks to their large network, ELIX will share its experience in community work and especially in family outreach, mediation between families, teachers and school administration.
  Judith Wunderlich-Antoniou
Director judith@elix.org.gr

Aliki Tzatha
Coordinatora.tzatha@elix.org.gr

TnK offers schools hybrid language education in languages that students choose themselves, including the home languages of multilingual students. The foundation works with qualified and diversely trained language experts, who collaborate in teams to develop educational content. (Language) teachers affiliated with a school can also contribute to TnK education. TnK operates in a hybrid way, i.e. education and guidance both at school and online, across schools.

Role in the project:
From 2017-2019, the pilot TnK was implemented, in partnership with the Municipality of Amsterdam and the Board of Esprit schools. Around 450 students took the opportunity to learn a language in addition to the languages offered at school. About half chose their home language other than Dutch or English, and the other half another foreign language.
During the pilot, it became evident that many languages of refugees, economic migrants, and students from former colonies were not covered by the list of available languages.
Therefore, TnK brings valuable experience in HL teacher programs and materials and will be responsible for evaluating the pilot implementation as well as working on a roadmap for teachers and schools.
  Dr. Karijn Helsloot
Director 
khelsloot@taalnaarkeuze.nl

Mara Kyrou
Coordinator
mkyrou@taalnaarkeuze.nl

Marta Prats
Coordinator
mprats@taalnaarkeuze.nl

Claudia Pinto
cpinto@taalnaarkeuze.nl

The University of Duisburg-Essen is located in a region boasting the highest concentration of universities in Europe. Established in 2003, the University of Duisburg-Essen is the youngest university in North Rhine-Westphalia. Offering a broad range of subjects, the University of Duisburg-Essen has already built a strong reputation in fields as disparate as social sciences, economics, the humanities, design, engineering, and natural sciences, including medicine. Students from 130 nations come here to pursue their studies.

Role in the project: 
Researchers at the University of Duisburg-Essen have been involved in numerous research and transfer projects on multilingualism in education. The two researchers from the Institute of German as a Foreign and Second Language, who are responsible for a work package in this project, Prof. Tobias Schroedler and Dr. Erkan Gürsoy, have substantial expertise in designing and evaluating research on languages in education. Both researchers have over 10 years of experience in the field of project management, and in employing different research methodologies (both quantitative and qualitative). They will therefore design, assess and evaluate the pilot and contribute to an implementation handbook. Dr. Erkan Gürsoy
Head of ProDaZ
guersoy@uni-wuppertal.de

Dr. Tobias Schroedler
tobias.schroedler@uni-due.de


Clarissa Diekmann
clarissa.diekmann@uni-due.de

The Department of Education (EDU) is one of the largest departments at Uppsala University, which is the oldest university in Scandinavia. The subject areas are: Curriculum Studies, Educational Sciences and Sociology of Education. The most extensive education commission is within the core courses of the Teacher Education Programs. Internationalisation of higher education is also a high priority for the department.

Role in the project:
The Department of Education has made significant efforts in recent years to strengthen teaching and research competence regarding the education of new arrivals, in fields such as additional language learning, mother tongue tuition for speakers of languages other than Swedish, inclusion and diversity, social justice, adult education (short-track programs for immigrants to utilize their previous work experience). The department conducts research on segregation, migration, mobility, and education, among other topics. They will therefore develop a suitable teacher program, materials for HLT and an implementation handbook.

Department of Education - Uppsala University Sweden

Familia was founded in 1988 and is a national expert organisation for intercultural families. Familia supports the well-being of intercultural families by offering peer support and volunteer activities, information, and advice. The organisation also aims to improve the social and legal systems in Finland, so that the needs of intercultural and multilingual families and Finns are better met.

Role in the project:
Familia has a long history of advocacy and expertise in multilingualism and family-related issues. Familia advocates for mother tongue/home language education and multilingualism in Finland, working closely with multilingual families. Familia is the working group lead for family outreach, utilising its understanding of the challenges and benefits that families experience in relation to multilingualism.
 

Enheten för flerspråkighet (EFF) is the local coordinating department for mother tongue tuition in Uppsala, Sweden. EFF also provides study guidance in the mother tongue. EFF has about 150 staff members approximately 6,200 primary, secondary, and upper secondary mother tongue students in over 50 different languages. Mother tongue tuition is a school subject within the National School Curriculum.

Role in the project:
EFF’s areas of activities, experience and expertise:

• Services for both municipal and independent schools
• Mother tongue tuition in compulsory school, upper secondary, and special schools
• Mother tongue support in preschool
• Study guidance in the mother tongue
• Introductory support in the mother tongue
• Assessment of knowledge through the mother tongue
• Assessment of proficiency in mother tongue education

Simeon Oxley
simeon.oxley@uppsala.se

OAO stands for heritage teachers’ wellbeing and supporting them at work by providing information, courses, opportunities for collaboration and peer-support. The association also works to improve the position of HLT as a subject in the framework of the national core curriculum and the position of the teachers as well. It is important to provide equal employment opportunities for teachers with a migrant background and to provide students with migrant backgrounds with highly qualified role models coming from the same background.

Role in the project:
The association has run several projects in previous years, mostly concerning organising services for migrant-background teachers, courses and peer-support groups and meetings with the education authorities. In the project the association will mostly be involved in the piloting stage and teacher training, networking and dissemination. Larissa Aksinovits
Chairperson 
larissa.aksinovits@gmail.com