Calender event list

With support from Mercator, an international expert seminar under the working title “Languages at risk of extinction and the digitization of educational materials for minority education“, was held in Subotica (Serbia) from 24 to 25 November 2015.

October 8, 9 2015 - Seminar, organizsd by LANGoer, hosted by the Fryske Akademy/Mercator Research Centre, addressing ‘How Open Education can Empower Minority Languages”.

On 17 - 19 September, 2015, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy Science, one of the Mercator Network partners, organized an international LEARNMe conference.

On 26 and 27 June 2015, SOAS and Mercator Research Centre co-organised the workshop and seminar 'Re-visiting language pedagogy of minority (and community) languages' at SOAS, University of London.

The third Workshop of the LEARNMe project took place in Barcelona, under the title "Recent developments regarding the legal protection of minoritized languages: different European perspectives". The workshop brought together specialists from a wide range of European regions.

A delegation of representatives of the Bunjevac minority in Serbia, including Suzana Kujundžić Ostojić, president of the National Council of the Bunjevac national minority, community activist Apolon Savanov, and intermediary Dragan Kostadinović, visited the Fryske Akademy.

In March 2015, the University of Barcelona became an official partner within the LEARNMe project. The Centre Universitari de Sociolingüística i Comunicació at the University of Barcelona (CUSC UB) replaces our very valued partner CIEMEN, that needed to withdraw from the LEARNMe project due to financial issues.

To celebrate Mother Language Day, EBLT and Slieker Film present the Welsh movie “Y Syrcas” to play at Slieker FIlm, Ljouwert.

November 28, 29 2014 - International conference on Multilingualism and Social Media in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, co-organised by SOAS (University of London) and Mercator Research Centre (Fryske Akademy).

20, 21 November 2014: Conference, organised by LangOER, focussing on the benefits of Open Educational Resources (OER) for small languages.

June 4-6 2014 - The Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity (NPLD), chaired by the Frisian Commissioner for Culture Jannewietske de Vries, held its annual General Assembly Meeting in Leeuwarden (the Netherlands).

May, 8 and 9, 2014 - workshop: ‘revisiting, reanalysing and redefining research on linguistic diversity: education, policy and media’, organised by the Mercator Network.