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Latest newsletters

Here you will find an overview of the latest newsletters of the Mercator Network.

Since June 2007 (newsletter #31), the Mercator European Research Centre in Leeuwarden (NL) has been providing the newsletters of this European network. The newsletters on this website go back to 2015 (#109). 

Jun

30

With news about, among other things, the results of a survey on the demand for Catalan on digital platforms, a plea to the French government to support the teaching of regional languages, online seminars by the Centre de Recerca en Sociolingüística i Comunicació, interesting books and articles, the Occitan festival Premio Ostana and much more!

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May

29

With news about, among other things, the results of the FUEN survey on the use of minority languages in the COVID-19 crisis, the first ever western PhD by a Nenets scholar, a new Occitan-French phrases dictionary, a manifesto book on creative multilingualism, the new journal 'Sociolinguistic Studies', the #Language-comfort project for primary education and much more!

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May

01

With news about, among other things, the call from the Council of Europe and ELEN to use regional and minority languages in the COVID-19 crisis, popculture in Sami languages, a bibliography of CUSC-UB researchers, the use of Hungarian sign language and Romani by Mercator Network partner Research Centre for Multilingualism (RCM), call for papers for ICML XVIII and ICMME IV and much more!

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Mar

27

With news about, among other things, the Catapult project for language teachers, an automatic translator for Aragonese, an open letter to the Council of Europe about the implementation of the Charter for Regional and Minority Languagages, a special font family for the Cymraeg language, and much more!

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Feb

21

With news about, among other things, the ENROPE calls, new reports on the implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities in Denmark and Poland, interesting conferences such as the ECSPM and NEWCON 2020, a blog on intergenerational language transmission and much more...

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Dec

06

With news about, among other things, the SOAS-CiDLeS-Mercator conference in Graz, protests for minority languages in Paris, International Romani Language Day, and much more...

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Nov

12

With news about, among other things, a Frisian version of the Speakaboo app, a joint statement of Ukraine and NATO on language rights of Ukraine's Hungarian minority, a new Regional Dossier and much more...

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Oct

01

With news about, among other things, the European Day of Languages 2019, VirtulApp's first Multiplier event, a photo contest for young members of local communities and much, much more...

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Aug

29

With news about, among other things, funding for Cornish language and culture, EU developments for online multilingualism, a symposium on education policy for regional languages (call for papers!), language discrimination by Spanish officials, the best way to teach children a second language and much, much more...

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Jul

02

With news about, among other things, the future of the Basque language, new ECRML reports on Hungary and the Czech Republic, a young Dutch language virtuoso teaches himself endangererd languages to save them, a new online tool to document minority right breaches, the effect of early childhood education on bilingual families, and much, much more...

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