DIALLS is an EC-funded project of nine countries working with schools to understand and develop how young people make sense of Europe and its differing cultures. The project includes a Cultural Literacy Learning Programme of lessons (the CLLP) to teach children dialogue and argumentation skills in order for them to better communicate with each other and understand each other’s perspectives.

The learning programme uses wordless short films and picturebooks to stimulate classroom discussions about social responsibility and living together in 21st century Europe, and students have also created artworks as creative expressions of their values and ideas in response to the texts. An important outcome of the project is a vast, open-access multilingual corpus of more than 100 discussions in pre-primary, primary and secondary classrooms. Read more about the project here.