As part of the PRONET sub-project "Multilingual Teacher Action in Bilingual Subject Teaching - a Project for the Professionalization of Prospective and Active Teachers" of the Foreign Language Teaching and Learning Research & Intercultural Communication and the Didactics of History, Prof. Dr. Claudia Finkbeiner, together with research assistant Regina Kaminski and Prof. Dr. Christine Pflüger, organized two interdisciplinary seminars on bilingual teaching and learning in the summer semester 2019. In these courses, students dealt with narrated life stories ("Life Stories in the Present and Past: A Multilingual Approach to Life Stories") as well as written self-testimonies ("Französische und deutsche Tagebücher aus der Zeit des zweiten Weltkriegs als Quellen im bilingualen Geschichtsunterricht / Journaux intimes et témoignages comme sources historiques dans l'enseignement bilingue").

On June 19, 2019, as a culmination of the two parallel events, a joint student workshop took place. In this workshop, students worked together in groups consisting of seminar participants from both events. After a short presentation of the seminars by the lecturers, the students were given the opportunity to report to each other on the contents and processes of the respective events in a subsequent exchange phase. Subsequently, they received three theses on multilingual teaching, which they dealt with and discussed in their groups. They collected their results as mind maps under the heading "I - in historical perspective" and then presented them to their fellow students in the form of a poster tour.

The students who took part in this workshop found it very enriching to exchange views on the similarities and differences in dealing with narrated life stories or written self-testimonies in the form of a free discussion.  Thanks to the participation of fellow students from the departments of English and History, the interdisciplinary student workshop led to a lively and diverse exchange during the group work and the subsequent poster tour. There were many links to other university events and the students' life experiences. In the discussion that concluded the workshop, they also stated that students from both seminars had the opportunity to broaden their perspectives and experience other perspectives during the workshop.