The expert team leading this ECML project on plurilingual wellbeing came together again in Graz the first week of November to plan for the project’s immediate future and to look forward to the enduring impact they believe that Pluriwell will have. In the coming months, the Pluriwell team will have the chance to share the results of over a year’s work on the plurilingual wellbeing of teachers with an exciting group of colleagues and experts who will attend the workshop from a number of ECML countries. Meanwhile, they are working to shape the final online presence of the project, which should serve as a valuable resource for teachers well into the future.

The expert meeting in Graz was a chance to share Pluriwell’s recent work with representatives of the ECML. “We are really pleased with the guidance and feedback we have received from the ECML,” said project coordinator Caterina Sugranyes. High on the agenda was the planning of the international plurilingual wellbeing workshop, which the ECML and the expert team will host in Graz on March 25 and 26, 2026. The event will be a forum to promote plurilingual wellbeing and to demonstrate how it works in practice. It will also be a showcase for the tools created by participating teachers and their testimonials about how plurilingual wellbeing has affected their own teaching. “No one is better suited than Pluriwell teachers to tell us what plurilingual wellbeing means to everyday life at school,” said website correspondent Latisha Mary.

Beyond the workshop, the Pluriwell team is also looking at how to give the wide-ranging resources, which have been created as part of the project, their permanent online home. The website will be a user-friendly way to find all the theoretical background that underpins plurilingual wellbeing, as well as all the practical tools that have emerged from the project. “We imagine the website itself as embodying wellbeing,” second language documentalist, Gerit Jaritz, said.

Author(s): ECML PLURIWELL TEAM

• ECML project website “Fostering the plurilingual wellbeing of language teachers” (2024-26) (available in English and French): www.ecml.at/pluriwell