In oersjoch fan Mercators aktiviteiten

The focus of this afternoon event will be the development of professional identities for junior researchers working in the field of plurilingualism and foreign language education. Join us!

ENROPE’s Online Study Phase #3 is going to take place as an online/ blended learning event on March 15 (full day) and March 16 (morning), 2021. It is being organised by the Universität Siegen.

Spanish speakers constitute the largest heritage language community in the US. The state of Florida is unusual in that, on one hand, it has one of the highest foreign-born resident rates in the country, most of whom originate from Latin America—but on the other hand, Florida has a comparatively low Spanish language vitality.

With news about, among other things, the ELEN call on the French state to immediately reverse its decision to reduce the amount of teaching hours in Breton, a new Catalan-Romani publication, the inspiring ICML XVIII conference, a Mobile Speachlab to study dialects, a call for testers for the multilingual AR-game by VirtuLApp, a German youth initiative for multilingual signs in Poland, an invitation to the free webinar 'Towards plurilingual professional identities' on 16 March, and much more!

Online lecture by Mecator researcher Dr Ruth Kircher, hosted by the Canadian Centre for Studies and Research on Bilingualism and Language Planning (CCERBAL)

With news about, among other things, the disappointment now the European Commission (EC) will not propose new laws in response to the Minority SafePack European Citizens’ Initiative, the first Irish hearing in European Court of Justice, international comparative research on intangible heritage, the smearing bilingual town signs in Carinthia, the approvement of the Bulgarian Sign Language act, and much more!

Met o.a. een Mercator-presentatie over het onderwijsproject GCMC. Georganiseerd door het Lectoraat Meertaligheid & Geletterdheid, NHL Stenden Hogeschool.

This ENROPE Multiplier Event, hosted by İstanbul Üniversitesi-Cerrahpaşa, is a combined seminar/ workshop about 'Reflective Portfolio-Based Approaches in Language Education & Research'.

The members of the European project ENROPE (European Network for Junior Researchers in the Field of Plurilingualism and Education) give a short insight into their conceptual design based on three intellectual outputs and report briefly about to date realised and further planned activities to strengthen plurilingual practices in research on education.

With news about, among other things, the adoption of a resolution in support of the Minority SafePack Initiative by the European Parliament, a huge grant for the development of a mobile solution for automatic translation between sign and oral languages, a linguistic emergency for Catalan, the ENROPE events for junior researchers, over 130 podcasts available in Welsh language, and much more!