Round table: Adding value to EU-funded projects

In this Round Table, the invited participants and the audience discussed and commented about what can be learnt from the experiences of CALL EU-funded projects and how projections towards the future can be made. Under the main topic, the issues proposed for discussion were: 1) the consequences of the rapid pace in technological changes; 2) the transferability of the achievements, products, or research of CALL projects; 3) the contribution of innovative uses of established or leading-edge technologies to the development of real-life language skills; and 4) the impact of EU-funded CALL projects on European multilingualism.The questions of the choice of technologies and of the sustainability of projects were among the main concerns during this discussion, and whereas a number of problems were raised, solutions were also explored to make the experience of project coordinators and partners an asset for the future. The end users of the products developed in CALL EU-funded projects were also very much at the centre of the discussions.