Hello dear friends!

Do you know anything about the European Year of Languages?

Would you like to know more and get involved?

Please read the following info:

You can also get familiar with EYL-sites, which you can find on I-net at http://culture.coe.fr/AEL2001EYL/ 


European Year of Languages 

The European Year of Languages is a celebration of Europe's linguistic diversity and promotes language learning and related skills. Everyone could take part in this project by organising a language course or a seminar/meeting to raise the awareness of people about learning languages.

Activity 1 
Courses of Language and Culture, which will take place all over Europe in summer. Emphasis will be put not only on the language but especially on the culture of the people who speak it. This is actually nothing very new for the antennas, which already have organized language SUs.The courses will last for 14 days, 6 hours a day (4 in the morning, 2 in the afternoon). Only professional teaching stuff will be used. The organisers are free to choose the language, the level of the taught language and the teachers. A final brochure will be made in autumn in order to centralise all the results. Funding will be available in the limit of the funds coming from the European Commission. The price of the courses should not exceed the price of a Summer University. 

Activity 2 

In cities all over Europe local committees will gather at the same time 
(e.g. 1 PM (CET)) people on market squares or other suitable locations 
for an event of app. 60 minutes. The focus will lie on languages, which 
are not that wide spread in Europe. So might people in Helsinki (FIN) 
learn Basque, people in Odessa (UKR) learn Gaelic or people in Paris (F) 
learn Estonian. A professional partner has to be found, for example 
teacher(s) he/they play(s) a decisive role as he/ they has/ have to be 
able to speak and entertain a big group of people. On the other hand he/ 
they should be native speaker(s) of the taught language and able to use 
modern interactive tools of language teaching. If financial means are 
available some highlight squares could be connected via 
video-transmission to demonstrate the European dimension. A cheaper 
solution is to set up web- cameras and bring pictures from events all 
over Europe together on one web page. 
As it should reach as many people as possible, AEGEE does not want to 
organise this activity alone. There is not a defined target group; 
everybody should be free to attend this event. On local base one can 
co-operate with the local authorities, universities and other NGOs. We 
expect to reach a group of 50.000 people+x. The number depends on which 
partners can be found for this project. 


If you have decided to organise an event in the frame of this project or 
if you are interested to find out more, contact us at: 
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You can also get familiar with EYL-sites, which you can find on I-net at http://culture.coe.fr/AEL2001EYL/ 


Anne Turunen

Voichita Radu 

Projects 
AEGEE Europe 
tel +32 2 245 2300 

fax +32 2 245 6260

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