 Helix is an inter-institutional project led by University College Cork with partners at Waterford Institute of Technology, Maneuth University and Dublin City University. The project has been developed in response to the National Languages Strategy Languages Connect, which was published in 2017. Two key goals of this strategy are to increase the uptake of language learning in Ireland in all sectors, including higher education, and to improve the quality of language provision in Ireland. Helix stands for Higher Education Language Educator Competences. The aim of this project is to create an evidence-based digital, spiky profile tool which enables language teachers to self-assess their language teaching competences. This will allow higher education language teachers to recognise the myriad competences they possess and to identify any upskilling they might need. The profile tool will direct language educators to resources and activities that they could avail of in order to address any competence needs they have identified. The tool will be freely available under a Creative Commons license. We will also develop a digital badge system to acknowledge language educators' professional development activities. The overarching aim of the project is to work towards the professionalisation of the field of language teaching in higher education in Ireland and to develop a community of practice among higher education language educators. This will facilitate a sharing of language teaching expertise across higher education institutions and the diverse languages they teach.