An overview of our past activities

The LANGSCAPE & ENROPE Online Colloquium will be a space for presenting and discussing on-going research and teaching projects related to plurilingualism and education.

Mercator (NL), the Endangered Languages Archive (DE), and CIDLeS (PT) cordially invite you to join the conference on Minority Languages in the City in Leeuwarden.

With news about, among other things, 25 year anniversary of the treaties Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM) and European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML), the demand of the NPLD to include Catalan, Basque and Galician in the Online Language Support tool, a Friulian interface for Facebook, a call on the Netherlands to strengthen the use of Frisian, Limburgish and Low Saxon, and much more!

In this extensive report on 2022, the Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning is looking back on its activities. These activities can be divided into research, documentation services, the application of research outcomes, (international) events and (joint) projects.

LANGSCAPE & ENROPE, of which Mercator is part, invite early-career researchers to explore multilingual teaching practices with them in Berlin.

Mercator/ Fryske Akademy en Tresoar fersoargje in wurkwinkel foar learlingen fan OSG Singelland yn Burgum yn it ramt fan it WikiWomen projekt (besletten).

In the context of International Mother Language Day, the EBLT, Mercator and Slieker Film screen the Irish language film 'An Cailín Ciúin'.

Mercator/ Fryske Akademy en Tresoar fersoargje in wurkwinkel foar learlingen fan Singelland/ Het Drachtster Lyceum yn it ramt fan it WikiWomen projekt (besletten).

With news about, among other things, Irish as an official language in Northern Ireland, an appeal filed against the court decision on the Minority SafePack Initiative, the percentage of people able to speak Welsh is the lowest ever, an Occitan first name was rejected because of an acute accent, there are concerns in Brittany about Breton teaching, and much more!

This Regional Dossier is the third and fully updated edition of the dossier 'The Basque language in education in France'. This Regional Dossier was updated in 2023 by Beñat Lascano, PhD. He is a teacher of Basque in secondary education in Iparralde and holds a doctorate in Basque studies. The first edition of this Regional Dossier was written by Mark Stuijt in 1998, and the second edition by Daniel Sanchez in 2007.