Overzicht evenementen

May, 8 and 9, 2014 - workshop: ‘revisiting, reanalysing and redefining research on linguistic diversity: education, policy and media’, organised by the Mercator Network.

June 4-6 2014 - The Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity (NPLD), chaired by the Frisian Commissioner for Culture Jannewietske de Vries, held its annual General Assembly Meeting in Leeuwarden (the Netherlands).

20, 21 November 2014: Conference, organised by LangOER, focussing on the benefits of Open Educational Resources (OER) for small languages.

November 28, 29 2014 - International conference on Multilingualism and Social Media in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, co-organised by SOAS (University of London) and Mercator Research Centre (Fryske Akademy).

To celebrate Mother Language Day, EBLT and Slieker Film present the Welsh movie “Y Syrcas” to play at Slieker FIlm, Ljouwert.

In March 2015, the University of Barcelona became an official partner within the LEARNMe project. The Centre Universitari de Sociolingüística i Comunicació at the University of Barcelona (CUSC UB) replaces our very valued partner CIEMEN, that needed to withdraw from the LEARNMe project due to financial issues.

A delegation of representatives of the Bunjevac minority in Serbia, including Suzana Kujundžić Ostojić, president of the National Council of the Bunjevac national minority, community activist Apolon Savanov, and intermediary Dragan Kostadinović, visited the Fryske Akademy.

The third Workshop of the LEARNMe project took place in Barcelona, under the title "Recent developments regarding the legal protection of minoritized languages: different European perspectives". The workshop brought together specialists from a wide range of European regions.

On 26 and 27 June 2015, SOAS and Mercator Research Centre co-organised the workshop and seminar 'Re-visiting language pedagogy of minority (and community) languages' at SOAS, University of London.

On 17 - 19 September, 2015, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy Science, one of the Mercator Network partners, organized an international LEARNMe conference.

October 8, 9 2015 - Seminar, organizsd by LANGoer, hosted by the Fryske Akademy/Mercator Research Centre, addressing ‘How Open Education can Empower Minority Languages”.

With support from Mercator, an international expert seminar under the working title “Languages at risk of extinction and the digitization of educational materials for minority education“, was held in Subotica (Serbia) from 24 to 25 November 2015.

Member of European Parliament Nils Torvalds visited the Fryske Akademy and the province It Bild, where the Bildts application for the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages was presented.

To celebrate Mother Language Day, EBLT has arranged for the Basque movie “Amama” to play at Slieker FIlm, Ljouwert.

Students following the Master’s programme ‘Language, Humanities, and Society’ at the University of Utrecht came to Fryslân.

May 3 2016 - Mercator colleagues Richt Sterk and Cor van der Meer presents the publication: Papiamentu in Perspectief

May 26th - NPLD discusses strategy over the next years, Mercator Network members Jarmo Lainio and Cor van der Meer elected on the NPLD steering committee

June 15 2016 - Stakeholders of the MIME Project, including Cor van der Meer of the Mercator Network, gathered at the Universidade do Algarve.

June 23, 24 - Gathering in Hernani (Spain) of the Hitzargiak Consortium, including Mercator Research Centre.

A delegation from Malta visited Fryslân and the Fryske Akademy. The delegates were Ms Rita Saliba and Ms Leanne Ellul, both active in the cultural and literary field in Valetta, Malta.

Conference organized by the Giorgi Akhvlediani Society for the History of Linguistics and Ivané Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, under the auspices of CIPL, Comité International Permament des Linguistes. The aim of the conference was to gather the researchers working on the problems on endangered languages in different countries.

The final conference of the LangOER project, held in Brussels, and coinciding with the European Day of languages.

11 November 2016, Ljouwert (NL) - Symposium, organized by Mercator Research Centre dealing with the influence of migration on the position of minority languages

25, 26 November 2016 - Symposium: Documentation, Standardization and Teaching of Endangered Languages in Northern Eurasia, organized by the Foundation for Endangered Languages.

Seminar organised by SOAS (London), CIDLeS (Minde), and Mercator Research Centre on language documentation, and didactics.