Le tecnologie come motore di innovazione e sinergia con il territorio.

The first part this article presents the history of CLAT of the University of Genova since its creation in 2012, showing how internationalization and inno-vation have always been the focuses of the three types of services it provides: language courses, services for the university itself and services for society’s language needs. In particular, the article illustrates the structure and meth-odology of CLIL courses for schoolteachers, the CLAT adaptive tests, and a specifically conceived learning environment and platform for online courses. It then proceeds to describe a few projects and experiences involving collabo-ration with social actors, such as the FAMI project, which aims at the promo-tion of heritage language for second and third generation schoolchildren of non-Italian origin (mainly South American Spanish speakers)