To successfully write and perform plays in a new language requires an impressive mastery of the foreign language. This ambitious, bilateral educational project went one step further by folding in a multilingual aspect, including pupils with behavioural problems and implementing it at two separate European schools. This exchange’s main goal was to conduct public performances of diff erent plays for large audiences. This meant that pupils not only had to rehearse the plays, but also create leafl ets and posters to advertise them. Pupils penned their own plays – creating both Czech and French parts – before rehearsing and performing them as a team. In keeping with the spirit of the exchange, the French pupils performed their parts in Czech while the Czech pupils did their best to speak French. The French pupils attended an intensive course in Czech and relied on their Czech partners to help with pronunciation. Both exchanges included visits to places of natural, industrial and cultural interest. During the visit to the Czech Republic, Czech students acted as interpreters and guides to their visitors, giving them additional motivation to improve their language skills. Traditional meals also enhanced the event. During those evenings, students performed typical dances and gave presentations about their local customs and traditions. They even devised quizzes for their guests. The students contacted each other before the exchanges, piquing their interest in each other’s countries and motivating the pupils to prepare for being both visitor and host. The successful performances helped the students with behavioural problems focus on succeeding. All of the students in the exchanges learnt the importance of tolerance and felt integrated. The programme fostered a European spirit by showcasing cooperation between diff erent cultures and schools. At the same time, the students learned about creativity, common initiative, joys, success and failure, responsibility and integration. The project increased the participants’ ability to communicate via new technologies. They also became signifi cantly more competent in a foreign language. The Czech school won many awards and some of the pupils participating in the exchange passed the Diplôme Approfondi de Langue Française (French as a foreign language) exams.