BOLD Project

23/07/2026

👍👍👍A volume to be aware of: The Routledge Handbook of Language Education and Social Change, edited by Vander Tavares. This handbook "provides a comprehensive, global examination of the role language education plays in fostering positive societal transformation". See more at https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Language-Education-and-Social-Change/Tavares/p/book/9781041036104

🤓With a chapter by S. Melo-Pfeifer, S. Pinto and Ricardo Torres, called "Fostering linguistic and cultural responsiveness: Service-learning in (language) teacher education", based on the results of the Erasmus Plus BOLD Project.

☝️ Expected publication date: December 2026!

👍👍👍A volume to be aware of: The Routledge Handbook of Language Education and Social Change, edited by Vander Tavares. This handbook "provides a comprehensive, global examination of the role language education plays in fostering positive societal transformation". See more at https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Language-Education-and-Social-Change/Tavares/p/book/9781041036104

🤓With a chapter by S. Melo-Pfeifer, S. Pinto and R. Torres, called "Fostering linguistic and cultural responsiveness: Service-learning in (language) teacher education", based on the results of the Erasmus Plus BOLD Project.

☝️ Expected publication date: December 2026!

17/03/2026

Some key results from the BOLD Project - focused on teachers' professional development through service-learning and social action - will be presented at the upcoming ECSPM Symposium (19–20 March), which adresses the theme “Internationalisation of HE, Multilingualism and Translation”. The project will be featured as part of the LIDS presentation: “Integrating international approaches in research and teaching at the University of Hamburg,” led by Sarah McMonagle.
Looking forward to inspiring discussions, new perspectives, and meaningful connections! 🌍✨

More about ECSPMultilingualism: https://ecspm.org/

Excited to share that some key results from the BOLD Project — focused on teachers' professional development through service-learning and social action — will be presented at the upcoming ECSPM Symposium (19–20 March), which adresses the theme “Internationalisation of HE, Multilingualism and Translation”. The project will be featured as part of the LIDS presentation: “Integrating international approaches in research and teaching at the University of Hamburg,” led by Sarah McMonagle.

Looking forward to inspiring discussions, new perspectives, and meaningful connections! 🌍✨

More about BOLD Project: https://boldproject.eu/
More about ECSPMultilingualism: https://ecspm.org/

21/01/2026

BOLD has now reached the end of its formal funding period. Over the past three years, BOLD has focused on strengthening the connection between initial teacher education and civil society. Through service-learning and social action projects, the initiative has supported student teachers’ active citizenship while fostering collaboration between higher education institutions and civil society organisations, with a strong commitment to linguistic and cultural diversity.

While this marks the conclusion of the project’s institutional timeframe, it does not represent an end to what BOLD stands for. On the contrary, the ideas, approaches and collaborations developed throughout the project will continue to inspire future work. We will be committed to building on the project’s resources, data and results, and to carrying forward its core values in new contexts, initiatives and research pathways.

All BOLD resources are now finalised and publicly available. These include reports, digital modules, a toolkit, a portfolio and other project outputs, all designed to support educators, students and institutions in promoting linguistic and cultural diversity for social action. We invite everyone to explore, use and share these materials on the project website, section "results":
https://boldproject.eu/results/

The project may be formally concluding, but we will remain BOLD.

13/01/2026

🎖️NEWS! Introducing the BOLD Project Portfolio!
The “Portfolio for social action projects and service learning activities in pre-service teacher education” is a digital monitoring and reflection tool designed to support the implementation of social action projects rooted in linguistic and cultural diversity in higher education.
Developed within the European BOLD Project, the portfolio works hand in hand with our previously developed Handbook and Toolkit. The portfolio supports the implementation of social action projects by documenting, reflecting on, and monitoring learning and professional development throughout the journey. As a monitoring tool, the BOLD portfolio allows users to track learning paths, skills development, and social engagement over time.
What does the BOLD Portfolio offer?
• Structured reflection aligned with the Toolkit worksheets
• A way to make learning processes and competencies visible
• Support for monitoring social action and service-learning projects
• A focus on personal and professional development
Check it out here:https://boldproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/HAMBURGO-WP5-D10-MONITORING-TOOL-FINALISSIMO.pdf

27/11/2025

Working hard during the final (and hybrid) transnational BOLD Project meeting at the Universität Hamburg!

06/11/2025

Now nearing the final stages of development and implementation of the BOLD Project, the consortium invites the academic and civil society public to learn more about two of its products (the final handbook and the assessment portfolio) and hear the voices of some of the future teachers involved. This is an opportunity to get first-hand accounts from the real social transformers: teachers! Register at https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSdPpFUjI1fedJ.../viewform
Event details: Nov 13th, from 5 to 6.30 pm, through Zoom!

08/10/2025

Do you want to be inspired and inspire the world? Do you want to discuss issues of social and linguistic justice with university students interested in the same topics? Then these events from the BOLD project are for you. The motto of these activities is: let's think together so that we can act together for a more linguistically equal and just world. Sign up:
- November 10, innovative ideas sprint: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/MZxMy98TRrOcb5KfEm0psA #/registration
- November 11 and 12, collaborative hackathon: https://digieduhack.com/challenges/university-students-tackling-linguistic-cultural-injustices-in-education

25/07/2025

Yesterday, BOLD members Silvia Melo-Pfeifer, Lisa Marie Brinkmann, and Susana Pinto presented the BOLD Project at 11th EDiLiC conference in Hamburg! 🌎💬
In their presentation titled "Community engagement and service learning to foster (language) teacher awareness about societal multilingualism: insights from the European project BOLD", they presented data collected at the BOLD Summer School in Aveiro (last June).
The discussion ended with an exchange about the BOLD project aims and outputs in terms of professional development.

Yesterday, Silvia Melo-Pfeifer, Lisa Marie Brinkmann, and Susana Pinto presented the BOLD Project at 11th EDiLiC conference! 🌎💬

In their presentation titled "Community engagement and service learning to foster (language) teacher awareness about societal multilingualism: insights from the European project BOLD", they presented data collected at the summer school in Aveiro (June 2025). they analysed how student teachers research about linguistic and cultural diversity in their own classrooms, schools and communities, in an attempt to empower linguistic communities and reduce linguistic discrimination. The discussion ended with an exchange about the BOLD project aims and outputs in terms of professional development. 🌟

Thanks for the opportunity to present BOLD at the EDiLiC conference 2025! More on the EDILIC conference: https://www.ew.uni-hamburg.de/forschung/fakultaere-forschungsschwerpunkte/sprache-und-bildung/06-internationales/edilic-2025.html

10/07/2025

We are pleased to launch our open access handbook, featuring practical examples and ideas, as well as tools to guide the implementation of social actions in initial teacher training programmes. Give it a look! 👀
https://ria.ua.pt/handle/10773/45236

27/06/2025

You can still join us online today for the Multiplier Event. Please use this link: https://lnkd.in/dyKaPWFd