The MOBILES project aims to document, understand and support the spatial and language learning practices of international students.ales hosted in higher education in France. The originality of the project consists in the analysis of the learning process within a long-term and immersion stay, through the angle of the spatial practices using digital tools. The project will (1) analyse the students’ spatial practices, i.e. shed light on the learning opportunities harboured by the context; (2) conceive a mapping of the city as it is practiced, by means of a cartographic interface that allows combining heterogeneous sources of data and exploring them in a quantitative and qualitative manner; (3) examine ways in which recommendation systems based on users’ participation can be set up in order to support the goals of learning.