The Mercator Network of Language Diversity Centres is an EU funded project connecting multilingual communities across Europe, promoting knowledge sharing and facilitating structured exchange of best practice and cutting edge initiatives through its programme of activities.

Focus lies on multilingual regions dealing with regional or minority languages, but also immigrant languages and smaller state languages, with emphasis on language needs arising from migration and globalisation.

The Network consists of five partners. The partners are:

• Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning/ Fryske Akademy in Ljouwert/ Leeuwarden (Fryslân, the Netherlands) (lead partner)
  
• Mercator Legislation/ Ciemen in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain)
• Mercator Media/ Aberystwyth University (Wales, United Kingdom)
• Research Institute for Linguistics/ Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest (Hungary)
  
• Centre for Finnish Studies/ Mälardalen University in Eskilstuna (Sweden)

Go to www.mercator-network.eu for more information.