Office InterActors project works on transferring the existing didactic model InterAct to new contexts and target groups, but also to new countries. Whereas InterAct courses have been proven very successful in Health&Care and Tourism in the UK, Norway, Spain and Romania, the new Office InterActors partnership uses that experience to transfer the didactic model to Business&Administration used in Spain, France, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Romania collaboratively. This includes both international tutor trainings and courses with end-beneficiaries (where the groups will include students in their final years, newly graduated students, unemployed and employees in need of training, all from the areas of Business & Administration).

There are two levels of learning objectives: general and professional, in which the general refers to the development of transferable New Basic Skills, among which foreign languages – refining the use of English as the main business language currently in use, as well as gaining partial skills in French and the less widely used languages Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Romanian and Basque. This is done through collaborative learning between the Office InterActors beneficiary groups located in the countries where these language are spoken. The need to introduce less widely used languages as part of the training of office workers who may work internationally either in multinational companies or in national companies involved in international trade is reflected in the results of the ELAN study commissioned by the European Commissioner for Multilingualism, Leonard Orban, in an attempt to analyse the impact of foreign languages on the development of trade and commerce. The study has shown that when one wants to buy, English or another widely spread language is enough, but when one wants to sell, speaking the language of the potential buyer makes a significant difference.