Hi everybody!

Your antennas have showed interest in joining the European Year Of  Languages-
project. It is European wide project supported by the European Comission and
The Council.

We talked about the issue at Agora in November in Udine during a workshop
called "The Biggest Language Course Ever".

Aegee wants to do its part for the EYL and we have found two activities, which
could be possible to carry out.

Please, read information below (preliminary plan, changes and improvements may
occur. Your ideas are also very welcome) and write us your reactions. We truly
hope that you are still into this and want to make one of these activities to
happen in your city.

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

I wish you all successful New Year 2001 and hope to hear from you soon!
Anne Turunen


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. For the Language
course the registration deadline is the 13th of January. For the meetings the
deadline is the 2nd of March.

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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Anne Turunen

Voichita Radu

Projects
AEGEE Europe


tel +32 2 245 2300

fax +32 2 245 6262

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