In oersjoch fan Mercators aktiviteiten

With news about, among other things, Scotland's Gaelic community that could 'die out in 10 years', the discrimination of Finnish-speaking children in Sweden, a call for more Irish-speaking teachers, the adoptation of an amendment on Hungarian Sign Language, human rights violations in Spain, ideas for multilingual classrooms and much more!

This Regional Dossier is the Italian translation of the dossier 'The Italian language in education in Switzerland', originally compiled in early 2020 by Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Todisco and his team of the research department of Didactics of Integrated Multilingualism at the University of Teacher Education of Grisons in Switzerland. Todisco and his research team made this translation in 2020.

With news about, among other things, the results of a survey on the demand for Catalan on digital platforms, a plea to the French government to support the teaching of regional languages, online seminars by the Centre de Recerca en Sociolingüística i Comunicació, interesting books and articles, the Occitan festival Premio Ostana and much more!

ENROPE’s second Intensive Study Week is held in Paris, at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle.

This Regional dossier on Romani and Beash languages in education in Hungary was originally compiled in 2005 by Kinga Magdolna Mandel, PhD habil, associate professor at Institute of Research on Adult Education and Knowledge Management, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest. She updated the dossier in 2019.

With news about, among other things, the results of the FUEN survey on the use of minority languages in the COVID-19 crisis, the first ever western PhD by a Nenets scholar, a new Occitan-French phrases dictionary, a manifesto book on creative multilingualism, the new journal 'Sociolinguistic Studies', the #Language-comfort project for primary education and much more!

Language policy is not a static but a dynamic process. Since the publication of our Regional Dossier 'The Hungarian language in education in Ukraine' (2019), a lot has happened. Professor and co-author István Csernicskó sent us new additional documents.

With news about, among other things, the call from the Council of Europe and ELEN to use regional and minority languages in the COVID-19 crisis, popculture in Sami languages, a bibliography of CUSC-UB researchers, the use of Hungarian sign language and Romani by Mercator Network partner Research Centre for Multilingualism (RCM), call for papers for ICML XVIII and ICMME IV and much more!

POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19. During this free one-day event you will hear about the Erasmus+project VirtuLapp and the latest research by world-renowned researchers in multilingualism.

With news about, among other things, the Catapult project for language teachers, an automatic translator for Aragonese, an open letter to the Council of Europe about the implementation of the Charter for Regional and Minority Languagages, a special font family for the Cymraeg language, and much more!