EUROPEAN CIVIL SOCIETY PLATFORM FOR MULTILINGUALISM

EU Legislative Interests

ACTIVITIES aiming at supporting EU legislative proposals or policies targeted, including: -THE 2008 multilingualism policy (COM 2008), Brussels, 16.7.2008. -THE 2014-2020 Strategy for Education (Commission COMM (2012) 669 final, Strasbourg, 20.11.2012)ERASMUS+ initiatives. -CONCLUSIONS on multilingualism and the development of language competences, Council meeting, Brussels, 20 May 2014. -RECOMMENDATION on improved language teaching and learning (5/2/2018). -COUNCIL Recommendation on a comprehensive approach to the teaching and learning of languages. -RECOMMENDATIONS about school education as described in School Education Gateway and about multilingual classrooms as recommended by the Council of Europe. -SUPPORTING multilingual Europe through. o The European Language Grid (ELG) as the primary platform and marketplace for the European language technology community, both industry and research. o The European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC) which manages, maintains and coordinates the relevant language resources in all official languages of the EU and CEF associated countries, so as to help improve the quality, coverage and performance of automated translation solutions in the context of current and future CEF digital services in various domains such as natural language processing, social sciences and humanities. -SUPPORTING the European Education Area.

Communication Activities

POLICY IMPLEMENTATION o Supporting the European Education area through the ECSPM CURUM synergies https://ecspm.org/organisational-structure/the-curum-constituent/ o Espousing the European (digital) Language Equality project in order to support all the languages spoken in Europe so that no language is threatened with digital extinction EVENTS o Annual symposia from 2017 to 2024 hosted by universities in different European countries https://ecspm.org/ecspm-events/conferences-symposia/ PUBLICATIONS o All presentations by symposium speakers which are uploaded on each symposium webpage https://ecspm.org/ecspm-events/conferences-symposia/ o The CURUM booklet https://ecspm.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/CURUM_%CE%92ooklet_Jan2021.pdf o News bulletins https://ecspm.org/category/news-bulletin/ PROJECTS o Participation in the European Language Equality Project o Participation in MUDExl Project, Le multi-/plurilinguisme dynamique, terreau de l’excellence inclusive dans l’enseignement supérieur / Dynamic multi-/plurilingualism as a breeding ground for inclusive excellence in higher educationUniversity of Strasbourg o Participation in CoARA and the CoARA Work Group on Multilingualism

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

CoARA - Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment

Organisation Members

1) ALTE Association of Language Testers in Europe 2) Bilingualism Matters, Edinburgh, UK 3) Cambridge Language Sciences Interdisciplinary Research Centre, University of Cambridge, UK 4) CDL Centre for Diversity & Learning, Ghent University BE 5) Center for Multilingualism, Universität Konstanz, DE 6) Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholms Universitet, SE 7) CLUSS (Centro Linguistico), Università per Stranieri di Siena, IT 8) DCU Department of Culture Studies, Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Management Working Group, University of Tilburg, NL 9) Division of Multilingualism, Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Technische Universität Darmstadt, DE 10) DLCM Research Unit for the Study of Linguistic Diversity and Multimodality, Dipartimento di Lettere e Culture Moderne, Sapienza Università di Roma IT 11) DyMe The Dynamics of Multilingualism with English at the University of Innsbruck AT 12) EDiLiC – Éducation et Diversité Linguistique et Culturelle 13) European Artists' Rights 14) EFNIL European Federation of National Institutions for Language 15) EIPOL (Research Centre for Multilingualism and Language Policy), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. 16) FIPLV European Federation of Language Teacher Associations 17) FUEN Federal Union of European Nationalities 18) GEO Groupe d'Études orientales, slaves et néo-helléniques/Centre for Research in Greek, Slavic and Oriental Studies, Université de Strasbourg, FR 19) GL/ML Greek Language and Multilingualism Laboratory, University of Thessaly, GR 20) GS/FL German as a Second / Foreign Language, Research Group, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, DE 21) ICC The International Language Association 22) INN Language Teaching and Learning in Multilingual Context Research Group, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences NO 23) LAF Literature Across Frontiers 24) LEND (Lingua e nuova didactica - Language and new didactics), IT 25) LIDS Literacy in Diversity Settings, at the University of Hamburg, DE 26) LiLPa linguistique, langue, parole, Université de Strasbourg, FR 27) Mercator Network of Language Diversity Centres 28) MIRCo Centre on Multilingualism, Discourse and Communication), the Autonomous University of Madrid, ES 29) NPLD Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity 30) SeDyL Research Center, (CNRS, IRD, INALCO) FR 31) Sprachenraat Saar, Language Council of Saarland, De PARTNERS 1) ECML European Centre for Modern Languages 2) Cracking the Language Barrier 3) CCERBAL (Canadian Centre for Studies and Research in Bilingualism and Language Planning) at the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute (OLBI), University of Ottawa, CA 4) LLLP LifeLong Learning Platform - European Civil Society for Education 5) CLPP (Consortium for Language Policy and Planning), University of Maryland.

Additional Information

Our source of income during 2026: Membership fees: 7.750€