An overview of our past activities

The team behind the Global Citizenship and Multilingual Competences project gathers at the University of Newcastle for a meeting.

Mercator researcher Cor van der Meer gives a guest lecture about sociolinguistics and minority languages for the Master students Multilingualism (not open to public).

The Afûk/ Mercator WikiWomen team runs 4 workshops for students from Comenius Mariënburg on digi-sources and the gender gap on Wikipedia (not open to public).

Dr Jelske Dijkstra and Ydwine Scarse (Fryske Akademy/ Mercator) deliver a lecture on Frisian at the alumni evening of the University of Groningen.

Mercator researcher Ruth Kircher gives a guest lecture as part of the university's course 'Multilingualism: The Case of Frisian' (not open to public).

With news about, among other things, a Northern Catalonian municipality taken to court for using Catalan, an avatar displays travel info in Dutch Sign Language, a new report on minority languages in Germany, a Friulian Pac-Man, Langscape & Enrope Winter School 2023, an international conference on 'Minority Languages in the City', and much more!

Jelske Dijkstra (Fryske Akademy): 'Speakaboo: sustainable and inclusive speech therapy screening of speech development in multilingual children (3-6 years)'

Our (former) researcher Helga Kuipers-Zandberg wil present her report 'Accessibility for regional or minority languages to EU programmes' on behalf of Mercator/ Fryske Akademy.

2-day Transnational Partner Meeting from the consortium behind the Erasmus+ project 'Ownership and Leadership (OWL+): Pathways for (Endangered) Languages’ Use' in School'.

A festive gathering at Tresoar, with a special focus on language diversity in schools. Everyone is welcome, admission is free.