Intercomprehension in UNITA: promoting multilingualism in the framework of the European Universities Initiative

Through the experience of pluralistic approaches, with a particular focus on intercomprehension (IC), students, teachers, and administrative staff can be trained to communicate with each other by using their mother tongue. Within the European University Alliance UNITA-Universitas montium a whole work package (WP3) is dedicated to implementing intercomprehension for the first time on a large scale, empowering both students, staff, and citizens through active use of IC strategies. WP3 is developing and testing new syllabuses and creating new resources which have already started to produce excellent results in terms of openness to linguistic and cultural diversity, autonomous and learner-centred language learning, and motivation in the area of language learning. At the end of the first phase of the European Universities Initiative UNITA will provide a wide range of materials to be shared and disseminated in the EHEA and beyond to foster practices of international multilingual communication in academia