The Mercator Regional Dossiers

For an overview of the Dossiers, click here.

The Regional Dossiers focus on the educational system in European regions that have an autochthonous lesser-used language, and on how the lesser-used language is embedded in this system. The dossiers provide information on:

• educational statistics, such as number of bilingual schools, percentage of children learning the lesser-used language, language skills of teachers, etc;
• policies regarding education of the lesser-used language;
• the structure of the educational system in the area;
• speakers numbers of the lesser-used language;
• institutions supporting the lesser-used language.

The Regional dossiers are written according to a fixed structure, so that they can be used for comparative research. The dossier's contents may be reprinted for non-commercial use, provided that the extract is followed by a complete reference to Mercator Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning.