CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT The project TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED BILINGUALISM MODEL has three fundamental priorities. One is HORIZONTAL: INNOVATIVE PRACTICES IN A DIGITAL ERA. And the other two concern the HIGHER EDUCATION: Addressing the existing gaps and inadequacies with respect to linguistic accreditation models and rewarding excellence in learning, teaching and skill development. With the objective of REWARDING EXCELLENCE IN LEARNING, TEACHING, AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT, the project offers an opportunity of academic training based on educational research and innovation. In this way, the specific priority of DEALING WITH EXISITING GAPS AND INADEQUACY OF LINGUISTIC ACCREDITATION is addressed by providing a study of learning outcomes to introduce innovative changes in pedagogies and assessment systems. In addition, the project includes key elements associated to the priority INNOVATIVE POLICIES IN A DIGITAL ERA by incorporating digital technologies and innovative pedagogies in education by means of creating openly accessible digital assessment materials and tools. This project addresses the fact that the implementation of bilingual programmes in schools in Europe is posing a challenge for Higher Education institutions in the training of future teachers.OBJECTIVES • To promote a coordination structure between content specialist teachers and foreign language specialist teachers. • To design collaboration and coordination strategies between the teachers of the schools and the teachers in language schools. • To establish coordination parameters and to define an improved model through pilotage and the definition of satisfaction indicators. • To create new assessment tests to determine specific levels of competence, support and motivation of students in their learning process. • To encourage the creation of specific materials to contextualize and specify the response to the needs of the students of the schools. PARTICIPANTS In order to develop the training activities of the project we will have teachers and management teams, as well as representatives of the School Councils, heads of the Territorial Delegations of Education, Inspectors of Education, management teams of other local schools, institutions and organizations in the educational field at local, regional and national level. We will include students with special educational needs on a regular basis, and the teachers of Therapeutic Pedagogy will receive specific training. ACTIVITIES Some of the planned activities that will be carried out with the help of the requested grant are:1. Project website. 2. Monographic article in a high impact academic journal. 3. Publication of a report that includes the conclusions of a pilot study in Primary and Secondary schools in collaboration with language schools. 4. Publication of a report with the results of the effect of official certifications on the progression of language learning at disciplinary and non-disciplinary levels. 5. Elaboration of a specific test to measure the academic language related to the content subjects. 6. Creation of supplementary material for the effective use of standardized certification tests. 7. Design of a standardized digital tool to enable the coordination of teachers. 8. Creation of digital content material for English-taught areas. 9. International conference at the university level on bilingual education. 10. International workshops on evaluation. 11. National seminars on bilingual methodologies and materials. METHODOLOGY For the proper development of the project we work on two clear parameters: COORDINATION of the activities and CONTINUOUS EVALUATION of the process at 4 levels: - coordination of the different actions. - monitoring their application. - evaluation of their results with quantitative and qualitative tools. - implemention of the necessary changes.RESULTS AND IMPACT The impact of the project is developed at various levels: - Teachers of Primary and Secondary schools and associated language schools. - University Degree students as teachers to be in bilingual schools. - Primary and Secondary school students in bilingual programmes and in language schools. - Educational authorities.- Educational centers and school community.DISSEMINATION AND SUSTAINABILITY OF THE PROJECT A dissemination plan will be established with the objective of sharing the results and encouraging improvements for bilingual programmes, and it is designed for: - Political, social and educational authorities and local and regional advisers. - Associations of Principals/Heads of Primary and Secondary schools and teachers in bilingual programmes. - Teachers of Therapeutic Pedagogy and school counselors.- Teacher training centers.

COVID-19 pandemic has shown many severe problems worldwide in both educative and socio-economic sectors, making it very difficult to produce an effective response to online education. What seemed to be a non-formal or Higher Education option, it is now a real challenge when it includes millions of students in compulsory education from 3 to 16 years old. E-DUCATION: TEACHING AND LEARNING AFTER 2020 focuses on three important items: new active online methodologies, online assessment and school coordination (headteachers, counsellors, teachers, families… ) when we talk about students in need of special attention due to the so-called digital divide.Therefore, our main object groups are: - SCHOOL TEACHERS (including counsellors teams), in order to give them there types of fundamental tools: new active online methodologies, proper assessment instruments for online envirronments and protocols for a better coordination when facing students in situations of digital divide. - HEADTEACHERS, in order to provide them with strategies to introduce processes of educational digital transition and encourage them to control and mantain the necessary eduaction quality of their schools. - STUDENTS, FAMILIES AND SOCIAL AND EDUCATION MEMBERS, in order to help them with a tool to identify and intervene in cases of digital divide together with teachers, headteachers and social authorities.Our project is base don very clear needs that we have identified among school teachers and headteachers. This group of professionals has had to deal with a very fast change in their realities and the way they have had to adapt their methologies and assessment in a digital environment. This situation has caused many difficulties in different stages: teaching, communicating with students and families, evaluating the learning process, taking care of students with special needs…For that reason, this project aims at giving specific answers to tackle the main problems we have identified. So, we are going to produce a sound report called CHALLENGES AND PROPOSALS IN DIGITAL EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY and the interactive e-book CHECK&ACT.A specific training on active online methodologies will be created in a digital platform called MOBILE LEARNING. It is also essential for us to provide techniques and tools for a proper online assessment that is in line with digital methodologies. This way, teachers and headteachers can control students´ progress. For this reason, we will design the digital tool E-TESTING, where teachers will learn how to use them and also will be able to produce their tests thanks to a TEST GENERATOR application. With the clear aim to amplify the impact and sostenibility of the project, we have designed different multiplying events such as the International Congres on digital education and digital divide, the International Conference on digital methologies and evaluation and also National Seminars to present the project results in the different members´ schools (from Pre-Primary to Primary and Secondary education in formal and non-formal environments).Our partners are: - In Spain: The schools group Fundación Santos Mártires de Córdoba, Universidad de Córdoba, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR) and Conecta 13- In Italy: CREATIV, Istituto Istruzione A. Lincoln and Eurolingue Schools- In Portugal: Dr. Joaquim Gomes Ferreira Galves High School and the schools group Agrupamento de Escolas Rainha Santa Isabel. Member universities and educational research institutions will give us the necessary scentific support in developing the intelectual products. The schools in Spain, Italy and Portugal are basic in our project because, thanks to them, we will have Access to the reality of more than 10.000 students and their families and 800 teachers. For this reason, this association has the required capacity to carry out the previous research and investigation and, then, try out the different digital tools. Also, being such an ample group of members allows us to disseminate the results of our project not only locally or regionally but also in a national and international dimension.