Miriadi - Projects (Galatea, Galanet, Galapro, Redinter lineage)
Author: Miriadi network (EU Lifelong Learning Programme) · Type: practitioner · Status: draft · URL: https://www.miriadi.net/en/projects
Licence: Project website; factual description freely citable; Galapro-era teaching materials planned for release under a free licence
Summary
Miriadi is the EU-funded network and web platform for online intercomprehension training, the direct descendant of a 25-year lineage of European projects: Galatea (1995-1999, CD-ROM courses for reading related Romance languages), Galanet (2001-2004, online plurilingual interaction platform), Galapro (2008-2010, tutor training), and Redinter (2008-2011, the first research network for intercomprehension). It won the European Language Label in 2017 and hosts scenarios, resources, activities, and assessment instruments, including a skills reference framework for intercomprehension. This demonstrates that Immersive’s approach sits inside an established, institutionally backed European pedagogical tradition, not a fringe method, while also showing that no one has productized it commercially.
Insights
- Intercomprehension pedagogy has an unbroken 25-plus-year lineage of EU-funded projects (Galatea 1995-1999, Galanet, Galapro, Redinter, Miriadi), giving Immersive’s method deep institutional pedigree. (medium, draft)
intercomprehensionpositioninghistoryParaphrase of project page: Galatea (1995-1999) produced 7 CD-ROMs for learning to read across Romance language combinations; Galanet (2001-2004) created an online platform; Galapro trained tutors; Redinter was the first intercomprehension research network. — Projects page
- The intercomprehension field remains academic and project-based (platforms, teacher networks, reference frameworks) with no dominant commercial consumer product, leaving the market position Immersive targets open. (low, draft)
intercomprehensionpositioningmarketParaphrase: Miriadi offers scenarios, resources, activities and assessment instruments for networked intercomprehension courses, aimed at educational partners rather than consumers. — Projects page