The project is fully aligned with the priority of inclusion as its aim is to promote social inclusion and active participation of women identified as targets in education and training. The most powerful tool of social inclusion in society and community is the language. A better understanding of how we learn and how we adjust our emotions through language is very important when we learn a second language.

Those tools are used in order to offer training by emerging the user in the specific communicative context and offering the ability to communicate, rephrase, correct and learn through the whole experience.

The three specific objectives are directly linked to the project’s priorities and contribute to the areas of inclusion, promoting equality and non-discrimination, and aiming at the reception and integration of refugees and migrants.

The specific objectives of the project are:

• Promote language learning for communication through XR tools for inclusion, civic engagement, and participation and support adult educators/language teachers in improving their teaching practices
• Create upskilling pathways and improve accessibility in education for refugee women and women with fewer opportunities
• Empower women refugees and women with fewer opportunities through education and the use of innovative technological tools

Work package 1 – Project Management: it consists of the overall management and coordination of the project including the financial management.

Work package 2 – Toolkit for integrating XR in language learning: It comprises resources for language education, research, pedagogical material, and a collection of useful resources and activities for educational centres, schools, language teachers, leaders, researchers and academics.

Work package 3 – Training Material & online learning space: it consists of four self-paced modules, providing innovative quality pedagogical material and resources to promote language learning in specific communicative situations.

Work package 4 – Dissemination and Sustainability: it refers to specific results and activities that aim to share the project’s deliverables for increased participation, exploitation, and sustained usage.

Detailed desk research in each partner country has been conducted to collectively design the XRWomen Methodology. The desk research focuses on the state-of-the-art in each country regarding the use of XR in language education, teaching methods used and approaches. Furthermore, field research techniques have been used.

The project has developed a collection of best practices, XR tools & applications from partner countries, focusing on the effective use of XR in real language learning environments. In addition, lesson plans have been developed and a list of XR tools and applications is provided. The list includes important information on each tool/application on how practitioners could incorporate them into their teaching.