Official kick-off of the 'European Language Diversity for All' research project is to take place in Mainz
3/8/10
Source: Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz
EU funds research on individual and societal multilingualism with €2.67 mio. 19.02.2010
ELDIA - European Language Diversity for All - is an interdisciplinary research project for reconceptualizing, promoting, and re-evaluating individual and societal multilingualism. It is funded by the European Union with €2.67 million. Experts on applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, law, social studies and statistics, drawn from 8 universities in 6 European countries, work together to contribute to a better understanding of how local, "national," and "international" (vehicular) languages interact in contemporary Europe.
The results of this research project will be generalizable: They will contribute to the study of multilingualism and the development of language policies in other multilingual contexts as well, inside and outside Europe. The project will develop a systematic and generalizable way of describing, measuring, and evaluating the effects of the changing balances between European languages by creating a commensurable and easily applicable instrument, the European Language Vitality Barometer (EuLaViBar). Furthermore, the project will develop a general and testable model of the European practices of using vehicular languages in international, intra-national, and regional settings.
The formal launch of the ELDIA research project is scheduled for Monday, March 8th, 2010, 2:00 p.m. Everyone interested is heartily welcome to join the official kick-off to take place in the Hermann Staudinger lecture hall of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, on the campus of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. After the opening speech by the project coordinator, Professor Anneli Sarhimaa, presentations by Professor Laakso (Vienna), Professor Lainio (Stockholms universitet), and Professor Spiliopoulou-Akermark (Aland Islands Peace Institute) will follow. Concluding remarks by the Mainz University's Vice-President for Research, Professor Förstermann, and the Dean of the Faculty, Professor Dreyer, will then mark the official starting point.
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