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EC 2013 Call for Proposals – The multilingual challenge for the European citizen
Aneta Quraishy, LRE Senior Project Manager, shares some key points from the EC 2013 Work Programme SSH.2013.5.2-1. The multilingual challenge for the European citizen call for proposals 2013. In this...
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Language Rich Europe launch – Wales
At a time of globalisation, troubled economies and increasing migration, knowledge of foreign languages is critical to building social bridges, improving job prospects and enhancing competitiveness in...
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LRE Launch – Ukraine
Language Rich Europe launches the results of its research in Kyiv, Ukraine on Friday 9 November at the Institute of Social and Political Psychology of the National Academy of Pedagogic Sciences of...
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Regional and Minority Languages: An inevitable decline?
Martin Dowle, Director British Council Ukraine, presented the language situation in Wales at last week’s Language Rich Europe launch in Kyiv. In this blog post, he summarises the approaches Wales is...
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It’s up to the majority
Svenska kulturfonden (Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland) annually organises an international seminar on language minority issues. This year’s seminar took place on 13 November 2012 in Brussels and...
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Language Rich Europe launch – Denmark
In the latest of our launch events, Language Rich Europe will be launching the results of its research in Denmark on 6 February 2013. The programme is as follows: Welcome: Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen,...
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Learning languages a way out of crisis, says Vassiliou
Androulla Vassiliou posing in front of the poster of the “Language Rich Europe” networking project Our Language Rich Europe Closing Conference took place earlier this week in Brussels on 5 March and...
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Have you seen our European Recommendations? Call to action!
The Language Rich Europe (LRE) consortium called on European institutions and member state governments to initiate new policies to support immigrant language teaching, revise trilingual learning, and...
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International Conference on Endangered Languages in Europe
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation (CIDLeS) invites scholars working on endangered languages in Europe and on Language Documentation to attend the International...
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How multilingual is your country/region? Language Rich Europe self-evaluation...
How multilingual is your country/region? The LRE framework for language policies and practices in the form of questionnaires is intended as a practical tool for self-evaluation, for awareness-raising...
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Language Rich Europe chiude a Bruxelles e lancia il suo messaggio. Le parole...
This week’s blog comes from our Language Rich Italy partners Silvia Minardi and Monica Barni. Here they are reflecting back over our final conference: Il progetto Language Rich Europe è un progetto...
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Welcome Croatia, Croatian and further debate
Welcome Croatia resonated across Europe this week. Croatia has become the 28th country to join the EU. The official ceremony took place in Zagreb on 30 June and celebrations carried on late into the...
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The five cities with the most developed language policies according to LRE...
Language Rich Europe research provides a rich source of cross-national insights into multilingualism across the education sectors. This week we highlight Language Rich Europe findings in public...
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Online assessment and linguistic support for mobility of individuals under...
Prior Information Notice In the framework of the new programme the European Commission aims to provide a centralised online scheme to assess, monitor and support linguistic competences of individuals...
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Minority languages fight for survival in the digital age
Language is about much more than just about talking to each other; it’s one of the bases of identity and culture. But as the world becomes increasingly globalised and reliant on technology, English has...
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E.U. Fights to Get Everyone Speaking Same Language on Education
In 2002, government leaders of the member states called for “at least two foreign languages to be taught from a very early age,” and in 2005, the Union’s executive body, the European Commission,...
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At risk of digital extinction: Europe’s smaller languages fight to survive
New language technologies present an important way in which we can enable smaller languages in the linguistically diverse digital age, helping them be heard around the world. This threat of digital...
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Languages 2014 – 2025: are we set fair for the challenge?
The real significance of Language Trends Bernardette Holmes, Speak to the Future’s Campaign Director, comments on research published on 25 March, 2014. The publication of the 12th in the series of...
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Universities must make languages relevant
The numbers of students studying languages degrees is at its lowest in a decade – universities must make their academic study more pertinent, argues Professor Katrin Kohl, vice-chair of the Faculty of...
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Why UK Schools Need Foreign Languages Now
Good intentions alone will not help us introduce languages such as Chinese and Arabic into the curriculum. If we want to thrive in a global society, we need to take firm action now, says the British...
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