EU projects DIVIS and Speech Bubbles

Our EU partner project “Fasten Seatbelts to the World” (http://www.fastenseatbelts.eu) is on the Berlin underground televisions from this weekend.

Not properly introduced yet and not without faults but this might be something useful on the long run. And what works now already is an automatic timing feature, where your titles will come up at the right moment without you putting them on the track:

If you live in the UK (and if you are between 13 and 21 - check this out.

Check out an interesting conference “Languages and intercultural Dialogue in Sport” in Trieste on the 16th and 17th October 2009. You find more information about this conference here.

Multilingualism - can we overcome the gap between principle and reality?

Read the speech of EU Commissionar Leonard Orban at the Free University in Berlin on 13th February 2009. Here is the link to the pdf file.

A new 2008 from Eurydice: “This second edition of Key Data on Teaching Languages at school in Europe gives a clear picture of the language teaching systems in place in the schools of 31 countries covered by the Eurydice Network. It covers aspects ranging from foreign language learning at a very early age, the variety of languages learnt, the taught time at various education levels, the proportion of language learners at each level, content and language integrated learning (CLIL) to the training of teachers of foreign languages from primary to secondary general education.”

Click here for the report.

The award winners have been anounced and this years competition is over. You find the list of all winners and more information here.

And here is the best overall entry:

There is a new communication from the EU Commission about Multilingualism. You find it in all official European languages here.

Today is the European Day of Languages with lots of activities across Europe related to the rich diversity of cultures. We will have a special broadcast on the Open Channel Berlin today at 18.00 hrs. You can also watch it on the livestream on the Open Channels website.

The next “ExpoLingua” international fair for languages and cultures takes place from November 14th-16th in Berlin.

You can find more details here.