"BAQONDE (Boosting the Use of African Languages in Education. A Qualified Organized Nationwide DEvelopment Strategy for South Africa) represents a EU-SA well-defined collaborative response to the established national priority for CB projects ""The development of African Languages"". Departing from a rigorous need analysis that certified the dominant/detrimental role of English as the main language of instruction, BAQONDE aims to capacitate academic staff at HEIs to develop multilingual pedagogical skills that will enable the development of African languages as MoI at the tertiary level. The outputs of BAQONDE will contribute to develop a coordinated national strategy through the establishment of African Language Development Units (ALDUs) at each SA partner HEI. ALDUs will:1.Develop and implement a training program (including SA-EU mobilities) for a core group of lecturers from different disciplines to master context-relevant multilingual pedagogies2.Lead the production of digital subject-relevant multilingual materials for lecturers and students. These resources will be accessible from the project website to optimize the production/usage of materials in different disciplines/languages and harmonize multilingual teaching standards3.An inter-institutional Network of ALDUs will be established with the purpose of coordinating efforts, sharing resources and good practices in order to guarantee a culture of quality during the project and after its subsequent expansionBy fostering a culture of quality and coordinated cooperation, BAQONDE seeks to generate a major short-term impact in the teaching-learning process that will enable a greater long-term impact with far-reaching implications: the intellectualization of previously marginalized languages. This is in line with both the priorities of the country and the principles of equity, as it entails a better assimilation of contents and a greater development of professional competences by L1 African (Bantu) students."