This project involves the collaboration of three partner organisations based in three differentEuropean countries, organisations which work in different ways and with differing targetaudiences, but ultimately similar goals. We have identified an opportunity to capitalise upon thediverse approaches being put into practice by having each partner select and share their mostvaluable experiences with the others. Thus partners can simultaneously contribute their provenmethods to the others and learn from the novel expertise of the others.This collaboration grew out of a mutual desire to strengthen our teams and diversify and expandour skills bases to cater for the broadening of our respective fields of activities and increase inthe number of tasks we are each dealing with.One such shared goal among the partners is the reestablishment of dedicated teams oflecturers to teach Esperanto to older/disadvantaged citizens who have not learnt a secondlanguage. The teams will work primarily among towns and villages to teach this easy language,the main strengths of the project being how quickly and easily it can succeed on the scale ofsmall communities.A key component of the project will be to augment the language specific skillset of the lecturerswith skills to teach and encourage community involvement and social activism. This additionalinput will mean that budding centres of international communication can also develop intoeducational and cultural centres in their own right, where until now TV has been the dominantmedium for entertainment and the sharing of knowledge.Such places simply require the arrival of people who can open up the world to them throughcommunication and assistance, for example in running social activities, courses, educationalevents etc. as well as in founding their own organisations. As such, we require individuals thatare socially engaged as well as intellectually able.We are already drawing up a list of potential partner organisations to receive them, where theycan provide the educational and organisational help required. This will help previously insularrural communities to recover and become more dynamic. In the long run, it will have the addedbenefit of improving the prospects of the Esperanto movement as a generation of new speakersdevelops and becomes active in the wider community.Any and all materials created/used during the course of the two year project will be made freelyavailable online at the close of the project, meaning not only the partner countries can accessand benefit from the experiences, discoveries and novel approaches of the lecturers. Theseplans, materials, experiences and recommendations will serve as a fantastic resource fororganisations working in the fields of formal and/or informal education of adults.Classified as a small project, there is a team of 13 lecturers who will take 3 courses in total tocomplete preparation for the project. Language, societal and communitybasedgoals are all important to each of the partners, but each will contribute to the training according to theirspecific field of expertise: the Polish partner, the management of community/social events; theGerman, the matter of teaching; and the Slovak, the introduction and utilisation of elearningresources, as well as the publication of results.Each partner organisation has it’s own weaknesses and needs as well as strengths, so allparties serve to benefit from the collaboration in it’s own right. The ongoing need for mutualsupport will mean that the completed project will be a general model for the process of buildingan international team to achieve a goal, not only in the spheres of language education andsocial participation.Planned publications for the close of the project include written guidelines for teaching plansand the utilisation of e learning platforms, and a brochure reflecting on the delivery of languagecourses augmented with the teaching of other topics and skills. The participating lecturers willfinalise their training with an international examination with ORIGO, leading to a certificate fromthe ELTE University in Budapest, signed in 4 different languages.The new teachers, esperantists and socially active citizens produced by the project will have theopportunity to further develop their abilities through other activities, events and internationalprojects as a part of current and future partnerships. They will have the opportunity to participatein the Esperanto movement in many interesting and satisfying ways, ranging from the scale oflocal communities all the way up to international projects.