"LATE" (Language Audits - Tools for Europe) was a project subsidized by the Leonardo da Vinci programme of the European Community. It ended in June 2004.

The specific aims of the project were:

to develop diagnostic tools for carrying out a language audit, enabling companies to identify their communication needs and plan the necessary language training courses for their employees;
to develop ESP language teaching materials aimed at the kind of formal English that is used in "European documents".

The participants in the project were 16 organisations (universities, teacher training colleges, SMEs and government organisations) in seven countries: the Netherlands, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece, Great Britain, Poland, Ireland. Co-ordinator was Taalcentrum-VU, the Free University Language Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

There is further information on the background of the project and on its two focus points: Language Auditing and ESP material on "EU English" .