crealang. research & innovation (CRI) is an internationally operating Finland-based research & innovation agency (non-profit) specialized in supporting all language education and professional communication performance through manifold research activities, research-based technology innovations and a wide range of accompanying measures such as lectures and workshops, consulting and advisory services, materials’ production, proficiency diagnostics as well as documentation & evaluation activities. As an academic spin-off emerging from in-depth language education research, and positioned today at the exciting and challenging crossroads between research, practice and decision-making, CRI follows its mission in designing and conducting innovative, high-quality research & development work and making its findings and “output” more easily accessible and as widely usable as possible throughout diverse settings of institutional language education, professional communication training as well as context-relevant decision-making processes. In so doing, and last but not least, CRI also strives to contribute to an evidence-based development and an inspirational, genuinely future-oriented innovation work of the research sector itself.