Anna Solé Mena currently works as Senior expert on multilingualism at the Schools and Multilingualism Unit in the Directorate General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture of the European Commission. She studied Business administration and Humanities in Spain and France. Anna’s current work is focusing on the implementation of the EU Recommendation on a comprehensive approach to language teaching and learning.

Multilingualism is supported through EU funding programmes, notably Erasmus + enabling young people to study and work abroad, but also co-financing innovative projects and good practices aimed at promoting language skills. She is the author of “Multilingual from the cradle. Growing up with different languages”, 2010; Main character in the documentary on multilingualism “The Power of Babel”, 2012.

Jonas Erin was a teacher for German as a foreign language but also for CLIL before becoming a teacher trainer, inspector and state administrator.

Since 2012, he has been working as an expert at the ECML. He has been part of various projects and publications. He was associated expert for the project Towards whole-school language curricula (PlurCur) and moderated the ECML think tank on language learning pathways. He was the coordinator of the project Learning Environments where Modern Languages flourish (EOL) and contributed in 2021 to the Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to the member States on The importance of plurilingual and intercultural education for democratic culture.

He currently coordinates the Training and Consultancy offer on EOL, including how language learning environments are impacted by AI. Areas of expertise: plurilingual and intercultural education, international cooperation, citizenship building, social cohesion, hybrid and distance learning, professional development, artificial intelligence, change and crisis management.

Ursula Lanvers is Professor in language education at the University of York. Before this, she worked at the Open University, University of Durham, and University of Exeter. She obtained her first degree at the University of Münster (Germany), a teacher training qualification at the University of Oxford, and PhD at the University of Exeter. She has published extensively on language learner motivation, language education policy and the language learning landscape in the UK. She has a keen interest in language education policy, attitudes to language learning, Global English and equality and equity in language planning.

Cristina Blaj is a teacher of modern languages and a school inspector for modern languages in the Hunedoara County School Inspectorate, an institution subordinate to the Romanian Ministry of Education. Since 2016, she has worked as a school inspector for modern languages, coordinating the activities   of   the   foreign   language   teachers (English, French, German, and Italian).

Ada Bier is a Post-doc Researcher in Educational Linguistics. She is a former Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, where she carried out the project entitled “Promoting Friulian within Multilingual Education: A cross-country, cross-stage, cross-level comparison of Friulian and Basque teachers’ language attitudes and motivation in search of best practices” (acronym: FURLEUS) under the supervision of Prof. David Lasagabaster.