Abstract
This article reviews the European Network for Combining Language Learning with Crowdsourcing Techniques (enetCollect), an extensive network project created to foster research and innovation (R&I) on the combination of crowdsourcing and language learning. Accordingly, we explain how it began, introduce its overall logic and organization, and discuss its achievements in terms of both (1) creating a new R&I community through a concluded large network project, and (2) fostering R&I on a high-potential and mostly unexplored subject.
We also discuss the challenges involved and lessons learned, whether in orchestrating and leading a new R&I community or the challenges we faced and generally observed in the efforts of enetCollect members, as they explored the many facets of such a versatile enterprise.