In oersjoch fan Mercators aktiviteiten

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...

This Regional dossier about the Hungarian language in education in Romania has been compiled by Attila Papp Z. (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Minority Studies and University of Miskolc, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Institute of Applied Social Sciences).

This Regional dossier about the Catalan language in education in France was originally compiled by by Mr. Daniel Sanchez. Dr. James Hawkey, University of Bristol, revised and updated the dossier in 2019.

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

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...

Victor Denisov (PhD, Associate Professor) is a specialist in Udmurt philology (phonetics) and general linguistics and an expert on the preservation of the sound heritage of minority peoples. Denisov is also consultant of the Center for International and Interregional Cooperation (Moscow). In 2019, Victor Denisov wrote the first edition of the Mercator regional dossier about the Udmurt language in the Udmurt Republic in Russia.

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...

Join the CSLW team at the launch a new learner and teacher toolkit, take part in discussions with researchers and language teachers, learn about how refugee professionals can get back into work and network at a free lunch and drinks reception.

With news about, among other things, a successful International Conference on Minority Languages in Friesland, the importance of sign language (and sign language dancers!), the strengthening of the protection of national minorities in Serbia, a new Welsh curriculum, initiatives for a new Low Saxon and Limburgian learning line, a free online course Sorbian, a Digital Language Survival Kit, three documentaries about how minorities think about the EU, and much more...

Globalization has affected our world in countless ways. ICML XVII will address the challenges and opportunities of smaller languages such as minority languages in a globalized society.