An overview of our past activities

Seminar organised by SOAS (London), CIDLeS (Minde), and Mercator Research Centre on language documentation, and didactics.

With news about, among other things, the new COMBI project, the endangered language conference in Tiblisi, and the status of the Bildts language.

For more than nine years Mercator's Expert in the Spotlight feature was in the capable hands of Mercator's information specialist Elly Albers. But all good things come to an end, and Elly will leave Mercator to retire next month. The Mercator team will sorely miss her and take over her many duties as best as possible. The final Expert in the Spotlight of 2016 is about Elly herself and her work at Mercator Research Centre.

25, 26 November 2016 - Symposium: Documentation, Standardization and Teaching of Endangered Languages in Northern Eurasia, organized by the Foundation for Endangered Languages.

11 November 2016, Ljouwert (NL) - Symposium, organized by Mercator Research Centre dealing with the influence of migration on the position of minority languages

The Nenets, Khanty and Selkup language in education in the Yamal Region in Russia is compiled by Dr Roza Ivanovna Laptander.

The project aims at clarifying why teachers need to teach diversity, how to teach in diversity and how to manage diversity.

Duration: 11/2016 – 11/2018

Funding: Erasmus+ programme of the European Union

The goals of COMBI project are to develop innovative and inclusive/systemic practices and methods focused on acquiring communication competences in the languages required in the workplace. It takes into consideration the multilingual reality of European regions.

Duration: 01/11/2016-01/05/2018

Funding: DG Education and Culture – Erasmus+, KA2 Strategic Partnerships for Adult Education

With news about, among other things, the Mercator-SOAS-CIDLeS seminar.