Acknowledgements

Gail Tyrrell As Lead Developer and then Project Manager 2003-2005 and author of Cosmogonías precolombinas was instrumental in moving the project from a pedagogical structure on paper to online reality. She has worked in the ICT industry since 1997. Clients have included from blue-chip development house Scient (British Petroleum) to online men’s underwear merchants UnderU.com for NetBanx. She has also created some of the first secure Mobile Phone banking applications. Her company GBT Enterprises Limited manages a group of freelance developers who specialise in creating online management applications for the Human Resources Industry and bespoke ICT training courses for Everywoman/IBM. Never wanting to be someone who stands still, she has continued to innovate in the field of Usability and online education. Gail is the author and creator of HTML4KIDS.net, her personal project, an online web development course with teacher support for children aged 8 to 80.

Solenn Alazet After finishing her studies in Angers, France, at the Institut de Perfectionnement en Langues Vivantes at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest, Solenn came to work in London. Before that she worked for a year and a half in Madrid in a translation agency. Now, she is settled in England as a translator and sub-editor.

Colin Baxter Former Project Manager, 2002-04, he played a key role in designing the project's pedagogical structure. A joint modern languages graduate from Durham University, specialising in Spanish and French, with Portuguese. Having been trained at the Language Teaching Centre of York University, Colin has spent a decade teaching in Comprehensive schools, finally as Head of Modern Languages, before moving into the private sector, where he currently teaches at Oundle School. He also co-established and co-directed a successful English language academy in Cadiz, Spain. He has maintained a keen interest in modern language teaching methodology and has recently been recruited to write materials to stimulate oral work in schools based on interactive whiteboard technology.

Estelle Box Born in Besançon, France Estelle obtained a Masters of English linguistics (in English lexicology - 1st class honours) in 1996 and the CAPES (French teaching degree) in 1997. She then taught English as a foreign language for nearly four years in France. In 2002, Estelle relocated to London where she taught French as a foreign language for a year in a private school in London and started writing and translating, essentially for Mary Glasgow Magazines, Scholastic. In 2003, she decided to leave teaching in order to have more time to write and translate. Having passed the Diploma in Translation of the Institute of Linguists in January 2004, Estelle is now a freelance writer, translator and proofreader. She says of herself, "I love writing for children and I am currently working on a couple of interesting writing projects. I also love reading, photography, traveling and cooking!".

Philip Ford, Reader in French and Neo-Latin literature Department of French Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages University of Cambridge, specialises in French and neo-Latin literature, with special emphasis on the relationship between humanism and writing, particularly poetry. Publications include George Buchanan, Prince of Poets, a book on Ronsard's Hymnes (1997), and proceedings of seven conferences organised in Cambridge on the French Renaissance. His most recent book is Jean Dorat, Mythologicum, ou interprétation mythologique de l'Odyssée X-XII et de L'Hymne à Aphrodite (Geneva: Droz, 2000), and he is at present continuing to work on the reception of Homer in the Renaissance thanks to a British Academy research readership. Dr. Ford was Chair of the MultiKutur@ committee from inception to 2003 and was instrumental in creating the project pedagogical structure. He is also first Vice-President of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies.

Impington Village College is full of life and laughter. There are also places to be still and reflect. In his play, Torquato Tasso, Goethe tells us that "talent develops in quiet places, character in the current of the world." We aim to provide a balance between a rigorous and supportive focus on learning and an abundance of sporting and cultural activities, as well as a wealth of clubs that enrich the curriculum.

Neil Kenny, Churchill College University Senior Lecturer Department of French, works on literature and thought in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was instrumental in creating the project pedagogical structure and securing initial funding for the MultiKultur@ Project. He is the author of The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany (OUP, 2004); Curiosity in Early Modern Europe: Word Histories (Harrassowitz, 1998); and The Palace of Secrets: Béroalde de Verville and Renaissance Conceptions of Knowledge (OUP, 1991). He is also the editor of Philosophical Fictions and the French Renaissance (Warburg Institute, 1991).

Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle C'est en 1980 que l'établissement fut officiellement baptisé Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle. Il offre aux élèves issus de familles françaises et domiciliés à Londres, le cursus scolaire officiel de la maternelle à la terminale. Il donne également la possibilité aux enfants anglophones de continuer leurs études dans un établissement français pour préparer, à partir de la troisième GSCE, A-S levels et A levels, les examens anglais. Le lycée accueille également la communauté étrangère francophone.

Veronique Manand