On 24 and 25 September 2026, the first collaborative workshop with lecturers took place in Budapest at the Eötvös Loránd University as part of the Cost Action (CA24137) MultiLiliTrans. The event was the third Training School jointly organised by the second and third working group of the Cost Action.

The programme aimed, firstly, to reflect on the results of the previous two Training Schools (in Vienna and Brno), secondly, to critically review and discuss teaching material; thirdly, to bring together different perspectives and identify potentials for multilingualism in teaching material; and fourthly, to develop a concept and schedule for producing new teaching material (educational toolkit) and a teacher’s handbook.

Following a brief welcome, on 24 September Hannes Schweiger (Vienna) and Martina Trombiková (Brno) summarised and reflected on the key findings from the two previous training schools. Subsequently, the criteria for the analysis of textbooks– which had already been compiled and discussed in Vienna – were systematised and finalised. The academic programme on the first day concluded with a presentation by Feike Dietz (University of Amsterdam), who introduced the LitLab project (https://litlab.nl/).

The second day began with a keynote presentation by Gabriella Perge (Budapest). The presentation covered the curricula for German as a Foreign Language teacher training at the Eötvös Loránd University, the structure of the training programme, and some teaching material for German as a Foreign Language in Hungarian schools. The focus of the intensive workshop sessions on this day was on identifying gaps and potentials for multilingualism in teaching material across different education systems, developing a concept for the creation of new multilingual teaching material and an educational toolkit, and developing the concept for a teacher’s handbook.

An important part of the programme involved defining the next steps and future tasks, and allocating the work accordingly. The approximately 30 participants from more than ten countries engaged in intensive discussions over the two days, and during these discussions they worked on the deliverables to be produced by the two working groups. The Training School was organised and run in collaboration with Gabriella Perge, Hannes Schweiger, Martina Trombiková and Nazli Hodaie.

A report on the event in Hungarian can be found on the website of the Faculty of Philology at the Eötvös Loránd University: https://btk.elte.hu/nemzetkozi-workshop-az-elte-btk-n-a-tobbnyelvu-irodalom-oktatasarol

The full programme for the Training School can be found on the project website: https://www.ucc.ie/en/multililitrans/newsandevents/teacher-training-school.html