DiCE.Lang – Digital Citizenship Education and Foreign Language Learning – is a transnational European project aiming to strengthen the profile of Digital Citizenship Education vis-à-vis Foreign Language Education.Digital Citizenship Education (DCE) has emerged as a supranational priority, as has been strongly affirmed through recommendations issued by the Council of Europe. This educational initiative seeks to empower younger citizens to participate actively and responsibly in a digital society and to foster their skills of using digital technologies effectively and critically. In order to facilitate the implementation of DCE in schools and in curricula across Europe, subject-specific adaptations are required which, at moment, are still lacking – despite being explicitly called for in available DCE publications published by the CoE. This would include a thorough adaptation of DCE principles and objectives into foreign language education (FLE) – a field at the heart of a unified vision of European education that involves the fostering of foreign language competencies needed for intercultural communication, mutual exchanges and civic action. Against this backdrop, this three-year Erasmus+ KA203 project aims at modeling the specific perspectives of FLE into available European initiatives of DCE. This entails: - the foreign language component necessary for digital citizens to communicate in the digital world, - an intercultural perspective to initiate cultural exchanges in digital environments,- an identity component to strengthen learners’ personalities with respect to their online lives,- a content perspective by relating current themes to digital transformations (e.g. migration or sustainability),- a critical component for reflecting on the increasing digital transformation of society. To reach this large-scale objective, DiCE.Lang will conceptualize how DCE can best be implemented in FLE by providing novel pathways into educational resources, professional development, and policy updates. These trajectories will hinge centrally on quantitative and qualitative research activities that yield the backdrop for the whole project. In detail, the project will produce four intellectual outputs:(1) a survey to research teachers’ knowledge, skills and attitudes related to DCE, which will later be turned into a tool for teachers’ professional self-reflection;(2) a comprehensive set of open educational resources available in English and additional European languages;(3) a teacher training package for DCE in FLE providing various scalable opportunities for professional development;(4) a new policy framework serving to guide adaptable implementations of DCE in FLE in local and national educational contexts across Europe. To ensure that all objectives and outputs are reached, DiCE.Lang will employ a rigorous methodology moving from a survey-based, state-of-the-art analysis to the cyclical piloting, improvement and implementation of all educational resources and teacher training elements, and then up to the research-driven conceptualization of a new policy framework. The project follows a sustainable open-access policy to ensure widespread European outreach, coupled with local, regional, national and European dissemination activities that address the following cascade of target groups set to benefit from DiCE.Lang on the longer term: - European and national stakeholders – with an expected impact of updating and transforming educational policies and curricula;- in-service foreign language teachers at schools and pre-service teachers in their teacher education phase at university – as involves their professional development and teaching practice;- teacher trainers as multipliers – who will in turn prepare other teachers for DCE in FLE;- ultimately, learners at school as the key beneficiaries of the project’s value chain and the recipients of the most up to date education involving digital citizenship while learning foreign languages. Additionally, the activities of this project group aim to directly impact 200 foreign language teachers equipped to teach DCE to roughly 4000 learners, as well as 50 expert teachers being trained to multiply DCE back into schools, and 40-200 student teachers per semester receiving DCE training for their professional futures. DiCE.Lang will be realized by a project consortium with experts from five European universities and research centers. Since digital citizenship at the intersection of FLE is truly a transnational European challenge, partners as diverse as Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia and Portugal will unite their various areas of expertise (e.g. foreign language didactics, citizenship pedagogy and digital education) into a shared project marked by both context-sensitivity and multi-perspectivity. This potential will generate educational innovations that strengthen today’s learners to become the citizens of tomorrow’s Europe in an era of digital transformation.