The COVID-19 crisis and the unplanned shift to online content has given an unprecedented push to digital teaching and learning practices. But it has exposed the gap for digital technologies to fully support high-quality and inclusive education. It has also negatively affected planned activities under the Erasmus+ programme, and DIAL4U aims at facilitating the evolution of learning/teaching online in a key discipline supported by Erasmus: foreign languages. This situation requires our full attention as language acquisition mainly takes place through interaction and usage. Following a trend developed even before the extreme context of the pandemic crisis, learners have developed new strategies to keep on practicing and have used an increasing number of external language apps. This relates to the broader crucial question of the integration of informal learning in language education: How to take into account language practice outside the classroom walls? Many aspects of language learning development remain “invisible”: the learners develop informal practice and are hardly aware that it could support their formal learning. At the same time, teachers ignore some practices that are part of the learners’ biography, with no transfer to the classroom context. The project’s goals is to co-develop an innovative approach and digital tools in order to: facilitate mediation in all dimensions of the language learning process (taking into account both formal and informal situations); build capacity and autonomy of all language-learners ; develop or upgrade the digital/blended pedagogy competence of language educators ; facilitate the recognition and validation of knowledge, skills and competences.Overall, the DIAL4U project will contribute to taking up digital technologies and open pedagogies in language teaching and learning. This will be reached through motivating and recognising the students’ and teachers’ skills, including the use of Open Educational Resources. The acquired results will be transferable, easy to share and verifiable at a distance, thanks to open badges, micro-credentials, stored in Europass and in the European Blockchain Service Infrastructure (EBSI).These goals will follow 4 steps, developed through the Intellectual Outputs: (1) Analyse informal and formal online language learning/teaching and provide a database to support language learning mediation.(2) Develop virtual reality and gamification for inclusion and language Learning Interaction (3) Enhance multimodal language learning and teaching material to develop autonomy(4) Allow recognition and validation of non-formal and informal language Learning Process through badges and micro-credentialsThe variety of educational and cultural backgrounds of the 8 partners provides a scientific validity and offers complementary competences for a multilingual collaboration. The answer to the problems raised cannot be found individually at the national level but rather at the European level, with representatives from 8 different countries and 10 languages. The learners will leave university, ready for a lifelong learning process to be continued independently, equipped with effective tools ready to apply to their professional career.The four intellectual outputs will be jointly coordinated by two universities. The other partners will take an active part in the implementation of the intellectual outputs by providing their expertise to perform the tasks identified. Throughout the project, several events will contribute to collaborative work, develop testing and then dissemination. The DIAL4U consortium members will be working closely and openly throughout the project in order to achieving the following results: - share the best practices in teaching and learning methods in foreign languages, and adapting existing open educational resources.- design open badges dedicated to language learning and addressing particularly the informal aspect of the activities and providing links between the learning/teaching process to issue well accepted certificates / badges. - collaborate on a collection of open badges in an open database- issue the open badges within the European Blockchain Service Infrastructure. - disseminating within their own networks the results of the project and through national and European associations of language centers together with institutional dissemination. The synergy of the partnership will lead to the official recognition of language competences at European level and this project is an essential step towards that goal.