"SYSPELL - Systematic and Computer Assisted Written Language Acquisition is a project in the field of school education that takes on the challenge of helping every student in primary school to acquire sufficient writing skills. The project lasts for 24 months and consists of the introduction of linguistic research into practice, a freely available digital platform to assess students writing skills in an objective way, and modern teaching materials - managed and suggested by a specially developed algorithm.The project deals with a topic that is gathering more and more attention - the lack of spelling skills and, associated with this, very often poor reading skills, which prevent school children from acquiring basic and key skills. In the project, materials are developed, and primary school teachers are empowered to remedy fundamental deficits here.With SYSPELL, teachers are introduced to the linguistics, data-based lecturing, and a mix of materials for further training and use in class. The goals of the project are:• Strengthening of the students' spelling skills in a sustainable way• Data-based objectification students’ spelling performance• Creating a tool that makes teaching easier and supports the teacher in bringing students to the required writing proficiency level• Professionalisation of the teachers through the imparting of linguistic knowledge – this is also an additional effect that arises from using the tool and materials• Bootstrap effect – provide teachers the possibility for deeper examination of certain topicsTherefore, the following intellectual outputs will be produced in the project:1. Explanation of the English Orthography - based on prosodic characteristics of the language (O1)This Output covers the transfer of linguistic knowledge on the orthography from German to English. To adapt the structures that already exist for the German language to English, the phonological, prosodic, and also morphological structures of the English language must be analysed and categorized. In the systematic presentation, English and German can then be used to develop the further outputs.2. Guidebook for Teachers ""How to teach Orthography with help of Linguistics and Data"" (O2)Development of a guidebook as an accompanying work and with the most important information on linguistic background knowledge for the teachers3. Digital Tool for Teachers to Assess their Students' Spelling Skills (O3)Creation of a digital tool accessible as a website for an objective error analysis in writing acquisition in elementary schools for the languages English and German - to test the spelling performance of students in a systematic way.4. Teaching and Guidance Materials (O4)Development of materials and didactical guidance information that are suggested by an algorithm to the teacher, according to predefined requirement. The material collection will be deeply structured so that it can be used by the algorithm. The target group of the project are teachers from primary school and their students in the age of 6-10 years.In addition, the group of those teachers from focus schools will be addressed, as well as those teachers who look after children with special needs. The project is also aimed at decision-makers in the education sector and the products can also be used in higher school levels to remedy deficits.The project SYSPELL is carried out with a total of five partners from Austria, Germany and Great Britain, Hungary and Malta. The participating organizations have specialized knowledge of education, linguistics in German and English, and computer sciences. Their common drive is to improve the situation in which many children find themselves - the lack of writing skills and therefore also the development of insufficient reading skills, which hinders them to excel in their school career. In the end, the results of the project will have the greatest impact on the children themselves, as:• concrete improvements in spelling performance can be identified• curiosity and motivation in dealing with the exercise materials will be determined• the system of writing can be explained to children in an understandable wayThe project includes multiplier training in which 100 teachers and educators from five countries are trained based on the content and results of the project. The intellectual outputs of the project will be available in digital form in the languages German and English, so non-project teachers from other EU member states are also able to use the results. The dissemination of the results is supported by ELINET and other associated partners who are involved from the start of the project.The project covers several desiderata from the EC regarding the development of key competences and supporting individuals in acquiring them, reduction of early school leaving, the use of digital technologies in modern teaching and acknowledging writing as a life skill and the basis of a successful working life"