The EU's language policy recognizes the promotion of less widely used European languages as an important contribution to multilingualism and invites the Member States to broaden the selection of languages taught at different levels of education.The aim of the E-LOCAL project is to promote multilingualism by developing original learning tools and materials for 6 languages: Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Portuguese. This objective will be achieved through the preliminary definition of an innovative methodology in which: 1) the gradual acquisition of linguistic skills combines with the attendant acquisition of cultural competence; 2) the combined use of local and vehicular language (English) makes it possible to introduce cultural contents in a way that will be to be both effective (i.e. understandable, which explains the intermediation role of English) and linguistically useful (i.e. strictly connected with the acquisition of communicative skills in local language). A common framework of topics to be developed for each language will be also defined, so as to ensure the homogeneity of the products. Final outputs will be on-line and DVD courses for each language involved. The leitmotif of each course will be an english-speaking foreigner who comes to a given country: initially he does not speak a word in that country's language, but later, going to school and living in the local environment, he gradually gets to know both language and cultural realia. The aim is to offer courses with authentic language, situations and cultural material, thus motivating the learner who can identify himself with that foreigner. The final level of language proficiency for each course is A1.Target users are students from schools and universities. The replicability of the courses ensures a long-lasting impact on the promotion of these languages in the institutions involved as well as, through dissemination and exploitation activities, beyond the E-LOCAL partnership