An overview of our past activities

The objective of OWL+ is to innovate in curriculum building for and about endangered languages by contextualising them within the big picture of language diversity in Europe and by providing stakeholders with practical tools to help them foster the transmission of the language.

Duration: 01/02/2022 - 31/12/2024

Funding: Erasmus+

Women in Wikipedia (WikiWomen) will bring together schools, Wikipedia foundations and language organisations in minority language regions of Europe to use Wikipedia as a tool to teach digital literacy, social engagement and language skills.

Duration: 01/01/2022 - 31/12/2024

Funding: Erasmus+

This project aims to empower teachers of all subjects to integrate GCE goals (Global Citizenship Education) with a plurilingual approach into their regular teaching.

Duration: 01/09/2020 - 31/08/2023

Funding: Erasmus+

This project focuses on high-quality qualification and networking structures for professional development for junior researchers in the field of language education and plurilingualism.

Duration: 01/09/2018 - 31/08/2021

Funding: Erasmus+

Holi-Frysk 2.0 is the successor of Holi-Frysk 1.0. Holi-Frysk 1.0 showed that using multilingualism in the classroom was of added value to the pupils and their development. The wish to continue this project with more and improved activities, more schools and structured research on the effects of these activities on attitudes, proficiency and didactics, led to Holi-Frysk 2.0.

Duration: 01/09/2019 - 31/12/2020

Funding: Provinsje Fryslân

This project promotes and develops sustainable measures for language revitalization and maintenance. Key words: Collaborative Research, Community Engagement and Innovative Educational Tools.

Duration: 01/01/2018 - 31/12/2021

Funding: Marie Skłodowska-Curie RISE / Horizon2020

This project focuses on and develops courses for youth workers, who are well situated to advise young people on how capitalizing on their minority language skills can help them in their search for work.

Duration: 01/10/2017 - 30/09/2019

Funding: Erasmus+

This project aims to design and implement effective training tools for enhancing key skills and competences of both highly skilled refugees and the language teachers who work with them, and thus enhance employability and societal integration.

Duration: 01/09/2017 - 31/08/2018

Funding: Erasmus+

This project will develop new methods for teachers in primary schools that make use of and value migrant languages in the class room. In addition these methods will focus on combining languages in the class room, as opposed to teaching each language separately.

Duration: 01-09-2017 - 31/08/2021

Funding: Provinsje Fryslân, SIA

This project will serve as a pilot study for the development of multilingual teaching methods for different types of secondary schools. Research will be conducted into the implementation of new teaching methods and the effects it has on the language attitudes and the effectiveness of teachers.

Duration: 01/09/2017 - 31/08/2018

Funding: Provinsje Fryslân