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and enhance the opportunities to translate TITA’s innovative measures
into ESL policies and practices at the school, local, regional, national and
international (EU) levels.

Possible uses of the TITA scientific base
The TITA consortium contends that ESL policies and practices should be
evidence-based and adaptable to local, regional and national conditions.
Developing such policies requires a strong political commitment but also
solid knowledge of ESL processes among the wide range of actors involved.
The TITA scientific base has therefore been prepared as:
− Scientific input for the TITA consortium when preparing and im-

plementing evidence-based and targeted policy experiments for
addressing ESL by promoting and supporting multi-profession-
al teams in schools and for successfully conducting other project
tasks.
− Scientific input for practitioners, implementing policy exper-
iments in three consortium countries (France, Luxemburg,
Switzerland). To work on ESL with other professionals and es-
tablish student-centred measures, education staff need to under-
stand ESL and develop or strengthen special related skills. The
scientific and comprehensive database on ESL, as summarised in
the Briefs for Practitioners, has been prepared in order to support
these ends.
− Scientific input for policymakers at the national and EU levels
(European Commission) to understand the policy relevance of
the project results. From the policy point of view, the TITA sci-
entific base establishes the foundations for the effectiveness, ef-
ficiency and conditions for the scalability of the policy experi-
mentation results and enables the transnational transfer of good
practices. Ultimately, the TITA consortium believes that use of
proposed and tested measures has the potential to act as a major
catalyst for integrating effective and efficient ESL measures into
education systems across the EU.
− Scientific review of ESL for other interested actors. The comprehen-
sive TITA scientific base is freely available to other interested ac-
tors so they can exploit it in support of their particular require-
ments and interests. Although an enormous amount of research

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