In oersjoch fan Mercators aktiviteiten

With news about, among other things, Irish as an official language of the European Union, new ECRML reports on Cyprus and Poland, a NPLD statement Catalan education immersion model, 1,500 languages at high risk of being lost this century, the book 'Pedagogical Translanguaging' for free, Calls for Papers, and much more!

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+

A webinar hosted by TESOL: "Family language policies among Quebec-based parents raising multilingual infants and toddlers."

With news about, among other things, the ELEN statement regarding the Spanish Supreme Court ruling against Catalan-medium education, Norway protects Lule Sami and South Sami, Mercator project VirtuLApp honoured with several awards, Welsh model for (Māori) language revitalisation, minority report presented in Schleswig-Holstein, and much more!

Free online lecture about the role of language exposure in early multilingual development. Registration is required.

Subject: 'Minority Language Rights to Education in International, Regional, and Domestic Regulations and Practices: The Case of Frisian in the Netherlands'.

Postponed, new dates t.b.a.: Mercator researcher Dr Jelske Dijkstra will host an information stand at the Symposium on Recognised Languages.

'Minority language education plays a crucial role in promoting the vitality of minority languages, and thus ensuring their maintenance.' A blog post about Mercator's online Wiki on Minority Language Learning, that offers information on the education of minority languages that have only a (very) small place in the national education system, or none at all.

We kindly invite you to the VirtuLApp project’s final event!