An overview of our past activities

Fryske Akademy/ Mercator is invited to attend this member conference on 'Intergenerational Language Transmission in Multilingual Contexts'.

With news about, among other things: French justice prohibits the use of Catalan in municipal meetings, Iceland allies with ChatGPT to preserve its language, Spanish Senate rejects Catalan on traffic signs, Centre de Recerca en Sociolingüística i Comunicació (CUSC-UB) celebrates 25 year anniversary, a special edition of DIALECTOLOGIA on dialect classification of languages ​​in Europe, and much more!

In the afternoon of 3 May, 15:30 CET, Anne Pauwels (SOAS University of London) will give a lecture on 'Exploring multilingual soundscapes in the city'.

With news about, among other things, South Tyrol, East Belgium and Hungary wanting to back MSPI in court, a French court will judge city council for using Catalan, a barometer for the Valencian language, a translation application for the Romansh language, the publication of the The Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights, the Europeana Translate project about multilingualism and cultural heritage, and much more!

As part of the WOW festival for inspiring Frisian and multilingual education, our colleagues from Afûk are hosting a workshop on the Wikiwomen project.

Mercator (Fryske Akademy) is hosting the GCMC project members from Germany, Italy, Austria and the UK for two days.

Sharing first versions of projects tools with the aim to gather feedback and encourage educators to make use of OWL+ tools.

With news about, among other things, the opinion of the UN special rapporteur on minority issues, Fernand de Varennes, about the French ban on the Corsican language in debates, less Basque speakers in Northern Basque Country, a report on European Union's support for regional and minority languages, Digital Language Equality in Europe, the XV OSTANA PRIZE ‘Writing in indigenous language’, and much more!

This Regional Dossier is the third and fully updated edition of the dossier 'The Slovene language in education in Austria'. This Regional Dossier was updated in 2023 by Ursula Doleschal. Doleschal, PhD, is full professor of Slavic linguistics and head of the writing centre at the University of Klagenfurt (Austria). The first (1997) and second (2005) editions of this Regional Dossier were written by Brigitta Busch.

This Regional Dossier is the second and fully updated edition of the dossier 'The Lithuanian language in education in Poland'. This Regional Dossier was updated in 2023 by Jowita Niewulis-Grablunas, PhD and Piotr Grablunas, PhD (both working at the Institute of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Unique Languages and Literatures at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland). The first edition of this Regional Dossier was written by Dr Tomasz Wicherkiewicz in 2005.