An overview of our past activities

Dr. Suzanne Dekker (Fryske Akademy/Mercator) on 'Multilingual teaching practices: need for values-based education in a linguistically diverse society'.

On 'Examining Frisian Language Attitudes: Harnessing Citizen Panels for Sociolinguistic Research' and collaboration between minority language regions.

With news about, among other things: FUEN’s European Dialogue Forum calls on CoE to strengthen protection and monitoring of minority rights, a new ECRML report on Finland, Cornish revived thanks to psych-pop and Covid, 110 new languages added to Google Translate, Plataforma per la Llengua obtains consultative status with a UN body, and much more!

This Regional Dossier is the third and fully updated edition of the dossier 'The German language in education in France (Alsace)'. This Regional Dossier was updated in 2024 by Dominique Huck and Pascale Erhart (University of Strasbourg).

Mercator researcher Suzanne Dekker hopes to obtain her PhD from the University of Groningen. The ceremony can be attended online from 2:30 CET.

As part of Erasmus+ project Lingotell, Mercator is organising an afternoon on turning traditional stories into theatre, oral history and escape rooms.

During Exchange Week, organisations and companies in the Northern Netherlands open their doors to each other's employees. The Fryske Akademy is also participating.

Fryske Akademy/Mercator is partner from RUG/Campus Fryslân in the organisation of the speech technology summer school (3-7 June).

With news about, among other things: Europeans and their attitudes towards languages, two new ECRML reports on Croatia and Czechia, a new German naming law, Andorra approves a historic Catalan law, a new declaration on Nordic language policy, election checkstones of FUEN, the Premio Ostana Festival, Maartje Draak Seminars on Early Modern Irish, and much more!

Dr Jelske Dijkstra (Mercator/Fryske Akademy) gives a lecture on 'Weaving an Enduring Net! Nourishing Minoritised Language Community Networks'.