In the age of globalization, the need for language learning is greater than ever before. "Globalization is a process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society and [function] together" (Chomsky, 2006, cited in Ivan, 2012, p. 81). As global citizens we need to be able to work in settings characterized by linguistic and cultural diversity and that means that "language competencies and intercultural skills [are] more than ever a part of the key qualifications needed to successfully work and live in this new reality" (Perifanou & Economides, 2014, p. 3561). Even though many prestigious universities offer open language courses at a large scale, choosing well known Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) providers, the body of research on mapping existing language learning MOOC initiatives worldwide is rather poor. This paper aims to partially fill this research gap presenting the research contribution of the Erasmus+ KA2 project entitled LangMOOC project. More specifically, the paper first presents the main findings of the background research (Perifanou, 2014; Perifanou & Economides, 2014) of the LangMOOC project that has explored the first language learning MOOC initiatives and evaluated them based on the Massive Open Online Interactive Language Learning Environment (MOILLE ) framework. Next, the paper analyzes the overall aims of the LangMOOC project and in the end, it discusses its first research findings as well as its future research steps. [For the complete volume of short papers, see ED572005.]