In oersjoch fan Mercators aktiviteiten

With news about, among other things, the passing away of minority rights defender Willy Kuijpers, the new FUEN resolution, a perception change for Catalan speakers, an emergency fund for Irish language groups, the LoCALL project on linguistic landscapes, an article on ethnolinguistic vitality of West Frisian, and much more!

ENROPE’s second Intensive Study Week is held online from 23-27 November 2020, hosted by University Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris (FR).

The Multilingual Primary Schools virtual multiplier event will share context and outputs of the VirtuLApp project. Chaired by Prof Lorna Carson.

How do Frisian speakers in Fryslân perceive the measures that are in place to protect and promote their language? This article is the first contemporary investigation of the subjective compared to the objective ethnolinguistic vitality of West Frisian.

This Regional Dossier is the third edition of the dossier 'The Basque language in education in Spain', originally compiled by Dr Nick Gardner and upated in 2005. Ines-Mª Garcia-Azkoaga and Maite Garcia-Ruiz were responsible for the updates in this newest edition.

With news about, among other things, the public hearings on the Minority SafePack initiative, the recognition of Dutch Sign Language as official language besides Dutch and Frisian, the declining amount of people that can speak Occitan, a thesis on language awareness in foreign language education, the first radio station in the Venetian language, and much more!

Learn about the various tools and resources that VirtuLApp develops which include an AR-Game to stimulate the use of pupils’ (home) languages!

This project aims to empower teachers of all subjects to integrate GCE goals (Global Citizenship Education) with a plurilingual approach into their regular teaching.

Duration: 01/09/2020 - 31/08/2023

Funding: Erasmus+

With news about, among other things, European concerns about the Cornish and Irish languages, new reports and evaluations about the implementation of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML), a Scots language recognition campaign, a day of mobilisation in France to defend education in regional languages, a joint statement on the European Day of Languages, and much more!

2-3 Sept. 2020. Mercator researcher Tjeerd de Graaf presents: 'Historical data on the languages in Witsen's Noord en oost Tartarye'.