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Project summary (from the
proposal):
The project EURO LANGUAGES NET PLUS
(ELN PLUS) is initiated by a large group of institutions in Europe
to promotelinguistic diversity and offer a network focusing on dissemination
of less widely-used languages. ELN PLUS concentrates on oneof the
main European Union priorities for languages - networking, publicity
and information. EURO LANGUAGES NET PLUS will cover 23 languages
and will be designed to create an Internet resource of less widely
usedEuropean languages for the general public. 12 languages - German,
Bulgarian, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian,Lithuanian,
Polish, Portuguese, Romanian and Slovak are already represented
on the European Languages Net project web site (http://www.euro-languages.net),
the newly presented ones, namely Czech,Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian,
Irish, Greek, Maltese, Icelandic, Turkish and Spanish will be introduced
to the general public. The website will also offer LINGUA Products
Fair, where the most successful Lingua 1 and Lingua 2 projects and
their productswill be available for the general public. On-line
forums for language providers, professionals and the general public
will be organised to discuss the future of less widely-used languages
in Europe, to compare the existing language policies, traditional
and innovative approaches to teaching lesswidely used languages
as mother tongues and as foreign languages, to share ideas on promoting
learning languages and raising awareness of its importance.
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