All the studies in this volume document the inventiveness of language centres and foreign language practitioners in their specific emergency situations during the pandemic. However, they are also a collection of ideas that may serve as a new starting point for innovation and change. The terrible crisis also led to a new awareness of opportunities and new perspectives in language teaching and assessing that are worth thinking about: will the quick and easy digital access to breakout rooms make short-term group work a standard feature of interactive language tasks? Will the new necessity to consider open-book exams make assessment more realistic? Will the legal and ethical constraints of remote testing force many final classes back into the classroom? Will new forms of blended learning be established? Will professional language service providers be integrated remotely into realistic classroom work? Etc. Sometimes we have to be forced to see the beauty that we had not expected or to appreciate the efficiency of digital real-life exposure in the classroom that we might not have dared.