In oersjoch fan Mercators aktiviteiten

With news about, among other things, the ELEN call on the French state to immediately reverse its decision to reduce the amount of teaching hours in Breton, a new Catalan-Romani publication, the inspiring ICML XVIII conference, a Mobile Speachlab to study dialects, a call for testers for the multilingual AR-game by VirtuLApp, a German youth initiative for multilingual signs in Poland, an invitation to the free webinar 'Towards plurilingual professional identities' on 16 March, and much more!

Online lecture by Mecator researcher Dr Ruth Kircher, hosted by the Canadian Centre for Studies and Research on Bilingualism and Language Planning (CCERBAL)

With news about, among other things, the disappointment now the European Commission (EC) will not propose new laws in response to the Minority SafePack European Citizens’ Initiative, the first Irish hearing in European Court of Justice, international comparative research on intangible heritage, the smearing bilingual town signs in Carinthia, the approvement of the Bulgarian Sign Language act, and much more!

Met o.a. een Mercator-presentatie over het onderwijsproject GCMC. Georganiseerd door het Lectoraat Meertaligheid & Geletterdheid, NHL Stenden Hogeschool.

This ENROPE Multiplier Event, hosted by İstanbul Üniversitesi-Cerrahpaşa, is a combined seminar/ workshop about 'Reflective Portfolio-Based Approaches in Language Education & Research'.

The members of the European project ENROPE (European Network for Junior Researchers in the Field of Plurilingualism and Education) give a short insight into their conceptual design based on three intellectual outputs and report briefly about to date realised and further planned activities to strengthen plurilingual practices in research on education.

With news about, among other things, the adoption of a resolution in support of the Minority SafePack Initiative by the European Parliament, a huge grant for the development of a mobile solution for automatic translation between sign and oral languages, a linguistic emergency for Catalan, the ENROPE events for junior researchers, over 130 podcasts available in Welsh language, and much more!

A full day of information and discussion about multilingual teaching in different parts of Europe.

This Regional Dossier is the second and fully updated edition of the dossier 'The Hungarian language in education in Slovakia', originally compiled in 2005 by Dr Ildikó Vančo (Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Literary Science, Univerzita Konštantína Filozófa v Nitre). Dr Vančo updated the dossier in 2020.

‘Of course I’ll care for my patients in their mother tongue – even if it’s my third language!’. A blog post about promoting minority language learning among migrants working in the health care sector in bilingual regions of Europe, e.g. to encourage the learning of Frisian in Fryslân (based on the Erasmus+ funded COMBI project).