As the first full year of the ECML project Pluriwell came to a close, the participants held an online meeting to continue their collaboration, share their ideas and celebrate their progress. Over 30 participants from all over Europe joined the event via video chat on 16 December 2024. The meeting was an opportunity for Pluriwell teachers to reconnect, look back at what the network has accomplished in 2024 and look ahead to the coming year.
Pluriwell teachers around Europe have been collaborating with a view to creating tools designed to increase teachers’ plurilingual wellbeing. The meeting offered a space for participants to compare notes about this work in progress. Teachers were able to exchange impressions about how their colleagues and schools have responded to Pluriwell’s ideas about plurilingual wellbeing and to compare the issues that have emerged as they have explored their colleagues’ experiences and attitudes in different contexts.
The fact that the meeting attracted such a large number of attendees from the participating schools reflects the continued strength of the project network as Pluriwell enters its second year and a new phase of work on the plurilingual wellbeing of teachers. Many of the attendees had already attended the initial network meeting in Graz in October, and were joined by colleagues who have been taking part in Pluriwell remotely. Attendees connected from several countries including Spain, France, Switzerland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Hungary, Slovakia, Montenegro and Czechia.
Caterina Sugranyes (project coordinator), Latisha Mary, Gerit Jaritz, Karen Aarøe
