The book "Innovation in Foreign Language Teaching" offers a comprehensive criteria catalog for describing, designing, and evaluating innovative language projects. It highlights the current situation of foreign language teaching in Austria and places it in a European context. The research process that led to the findings is described in detail. Additionally, a process-oriented model of innovation is presented, which evaluates alternative methods of foreign language teaching. Through exemplary text-linguistic analyses, a corpus of applications and reports for the European Quality Seal for innovative language projects in Austria is made accessible. This book is a valuable resource for educators and researchers engaged in the further development of foreign language teaching.