I collaborate with individuals, multilingual families, educators, schools, organizations and international teams who want to develop more sustainable ways of living, learning and communicating across languages and cultures.
Whether you're looking to rediscover a language, strengthen multilingual practices, or navigate intercultural complexity, every collaboration is tailored to your context and guided by The Sustainable Multilingual™ philosophy.
Depending on the context, collaboration can take different forms.
Individuals
Sustainable Language Journey
A personalised programme designed for adults who want to rediscover, strengthen and sustain German, Italian, French or English through meaningful conversation and authentic language use.
Ideal for:
- adults returning to a language
- heritage language speakers
- internationally mobile professionals
- lifelong language enthusiasts
Multilingual Families
Research-based guidance for families raising children across multiple languages and cultures.
Together we explore sustainable approaches that support language development, family communication and long-term multilingual wellbeing.
Services include:
- consultations
- webinars
- educational resources
- talks
→ Explore multilingual families
Schools & Educational Institutions
Professional development and strategic guidance for educators and schools working in multilingual and intercultural environments.
This may include:
- workshops
- keynote talks
- professional learning
- educational projects
- curriculum reflection
Organizations & International Teams
Advisory services for organizations where multilingual and intercultural communication plays an important role.
Collaborations may include:
- strategic advisory
- project collaboration
- intercultural communication
- multilingual communication
- policy reflection
- international initiatives
Each collaboration is tailored to the organisation's goals and context.
Speaking & Workshops
I regularly deliver keynote presentations, workshops and webinars on topics including:
- multilingualism
- sustainable language development
- intercultural communication
- heritage languages
- language and identity
- accent and belonging
- multilingual education
Available online and internationally.
Writing & Collaborations
I welcome invitations to contribute to:
- books
- podcasts
- interviews
- conferences
- research dissemination
- educational projects
- media collaborations
Let's explore how we can work together
Every collaboration begins with a conversation.
Whether you are an individual, a school, an organization or an event organiser, I'd be delighted to explore how my expertise can support your goals.
Highly recommended Ute's workshop for multilingual children. Ute has an excellent academical background on the subject backed up with her family experience, having children speaking several languages. She answer with detail any question during the workshop. This workshop has been a big relief from my wife and me, because it knocked down some myth on this subject that other (uninformed) people told us. –(Antonio G.)
This workshop is a must for parents who raise their children with more than one language! Ute is a specialist in bilingualism and speaking many languages herself and her children speaking several languages too, she knows exactly what she is talking about. She answers all questions (and catches up after the workshop: brilliant!). We will surely attend the next one too! – ( Paola and Hernandez G.)
Ute's workshop is fantastic! We moved in May [2017] and we didn't know how our children would cope with the change of school and language. We got plenty of information and support from Ute even after our move! She helped us decide which school is better for us and gave fantastic suggestions so that our children have a good start in the new place. She is the person to go to ! – (Pietro and Anna Capresi)
Ute has helped us through many stages with our 3 children during the past 2 years, especially when our twins showed signs of regression in their language development, and developed a secret language when our youngest one was born. Ute gave us very useful tips and provided resources in our languages (French and German) that helped us parents choose activities that were entertaining, fun and didn't require preparation. Having three children under 4 is already difficult! Thank you, Ute. Merci und danke!!! (Sylvie & Bernd Hochstätter)
Grazie, Ute, per averci aiutato con i nostri due figli. Sei stata gentilissima anche con i nostri figli che, all'inizio non volevano più parlare italiano con noi. Ti siamo tanto grati per i tanti suggerimenti che ci hai dato. Ci sentiamo molto più preparati per quel che ci potrebbe aspettare quando L. e C. saranno adolescenti... Semmai sappiamo dove trovarti... (Giovanna e Pietro Callesi)
