In oersjoch fan Mercators aktiviteiten

'Supporting the transmission of heritage languages: insights from multilingual family language policies in Quebec'. Free after registration.

Mercator researchers Anna Fardau Schukking and Ruth Kircher have published a new blogpost about the challenges faced by refugees, and what host societies can do to help them re-build their careers.

In this extensive report on 2021, 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.

With news about, among other things, the delay of the Irish language legislation, the signing of the local charter for the Basque language in France, the passing of Catalan sociolinguist Strubell, the new WikiWomen project, the study on Catalan language use in schools by CUSC-UB, Calls for Papers, the Hamburg University and UG/Campus Fryslân Summer Schools, and much more!

This Regional Dossier is the second and fully updated edition of the dossier 'The Croatian language in education in Austria', originally compiled in 2001 by Gerhard Baumgartner. Katharina Tyran (Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Vienna) updated the dossier in 2022.

Zoha Bayat, whose PhD is co-supervised by Hans Van de Velde (Fryske Akademy) and Ruth Kircher (Mercator), has first-authored this important new paper, which looks at Minority Language Rights to education with a focus on Frisian in the Netherlands.

Guest lecture by Mercator's Ruth Kircher as part of the MA course 'Language Contact and Language Planning' at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE).

Mercator's Ruth Kircher on 'Family language policies in Quebec: How and why parents raise multilingual children'. Free after registration.

Mercator European Research Centre (Fryske Akademy) welcomes the international partners of the OWL+ project to Leeuwarden.

A new open access paper about professional intercultural communicative competence and labour market integration among highly-educated refugees in the Netherlands.