Council conclusions of 12 May 2009 on a strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training (?ET 2020?) [2009/C 119/02]

Language competences for employability, mobility and growth; Rethinking Education: Investing in skills for better socio-economic outcomes (20.11.2012, SWD(2012) 372 final)

Council conclusions on language competences to enhance mobility (2011)

Providing multilingual communication skills for the labour market, Report from the thematic working group ?Languages for Jobs?, ?ET 2020?

European Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages

Multilingualism for stable and prosperous societies

Training teachers in the Use of ICT and Teaching Greek as a Second Language in Cyprus: the design, trial and evaluation of a blended teacher training curriculum, part of a European Socrates, Comenius 2.1 project

Language policy and language planning in Cyprus in pdf format

Language Policy in Greek Cypriot education tensions between national and pedagogical values

Information about the current situation of the Cypriot educational system

Published by the German Secretariat of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs

Goethe Institute is non-profit cultural and language education association, founded by the government of Germany.

The national report on education periodically presents a major empirical review which covers the entire German education system. Published every two years, each report provides indicator-based information about the general conditions, features, results and output of education processes. The national education reports are jointly commissioned by the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Lander in the Federal Republic of Germany (KMK) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and collaboratively written by an authoring group that is also jointly accountable.

Through the Official Language Schools, the Ministry for Education and Culture and regional education public administrations offer the chance to learn, throughout life, a variety of foreign languages and the co-official languages in Spain. The courses are offered at various levels of competence (from the A2 level to level C2).

The Consortium for Language Standardisation as a public institution formed by the Generalitat of Catalonia, municipalities, county councils and Girona Provincial Council, cooperates with the public administrations to extend the knowledge of Catalan language, promote a sense of belonging among citizens and foster social cohesion.

The General Secretariat of Linguistic Policy is the body of the General Administration of the Region of Galicia for the promotion and teaching of the Galician language and direction, planning, coordination and implementation of the language policy of the Regional Government (Xunta de Galicia). Its aim is to promote the development and implementation of linguistic legislation deriving from the Statute of autonomy of Galicia.

The Directorate General for Language Policy and Management Multilingualism assumes the functions of the language policy of the Valencian Regional Government (Generalitat) and multilingualism in non-university environments, as well as the management of official language schools. Coordinates the Interdepartmental Commission for the Use of Valencian, promotes the development of language legislation deriving from the Statute of Autonomy and the management of multilingualism.

This Department belongs to the Basque Regional Government and holds, among others, the functions related to language policy in Basque region and the promotion of Basque language.

http://www.caib.es/govern/organigrama/area.do?lang=es&coduo=2390443 Carries out the following functions in its territorial scope: normalization of the Catalan language, promotion and defense of linguistic rights, certification of knowledge of Catalan of adult population outside formal education through the organization and management of exams, and recognition of equivalent certificates, approval of Catalan studies of Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) and high school (Bachillerato) with official certificates of Catalan knowledge.

The Hellenic Culture Center is an institution specialized in organizing Greek language courses for foreigners and educational programs for adults. It was founded in 1995 and since then it has carried out its programs in Athens, where it is based, and in selected venues throughout Greece and abroad. The Center is work has been planned on the reality of modern multicultural life, taking into consideration both the value of communication among cultures as well as the educational, professional and social needs of citizens. In order to achieve our educational and cultural work, the activities we organize address directly two target groups: the students and the educators.

The mission of the HFC is to facilitate engagement with Greek culture abroad. HFC aims to function as a hub for Greek culture addressed to all those outside of Greece ? students, artists, past or future visitors to Greece and Greek cultural sites elsewhere, diaspora Greeks ? interested in some aspect of Greek culture. HFC maintains satellite offices in various cities around the world. The satellites organize cultural events locally and support the teaching of Modern Greek, either through direct teaching or through proficiency certification.

The General Secretariat for Lifelong Learning, acting as the executive authority for Lifelong Learning in Greece, conducted for the first time at national policy level, an initial registration of all LLL activities organized and implemented by state agents and major social partners.

The main scope of the Research Centre for Language, Teaching, Testing and Assessment (RCeL) is to carry out research in language teaching, testing and assessment, to develop teaching and testing materials, to produce relevant publications and ?? develop data bases which facilitate linguistic research. It supports research and education projects of the Greek Ministry of Education and of educational and research institutions in Greece and abroad. With highly qualified staff, since 2004 the Centre has been developing into a reputable organization.

The Greek Language Center operates since 1994 and it is a research institution, established as a private legal entity according to Law 2083/92, and is based in Thessaloniki. It operates under Presidential Decree 100/1994. I is supervised and funded by the Ministry of Education and its administration is also shared among the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture. The Greek Language Centre operates as a coordinating and executive body of the Ministry of Education in language policy issues

The Organization for the Promotion of Greek language was established in 1985 with the aim of promoting Greek language and culture all over the world. The website offers information about the activities and also about courses of Greek language all over the world. The website is addressed to those who love the Greek language and are interested in its dissemination and aims to facilitate communication, exchange of views and establishment of a fruitful and constructive dialogue.

Abstract di sintesi sulle minoranze linguistiche presenti in Italia

wedsneday 27 may 2015 - Workshop of presentation of Smile project as an opportunity for responsible tourism activities

This Law shall regulate the use of the state language in public life of Lithuania, protection and control of the state language, and the responsibility for violations of the Law on the State Language.

The Law under consideration stipulates that the Republic of Lithuania, adhering to the principles of ethnic equality and humanism, guarantees all ethnic minorities residing on its territory the right to freely develop, and would respect every ethnic minority and language. Any discrimination based on race, ethnicity or nationality, language or anything else related to ethnicity would be prohibited.

This Law shall establish the goals of the education of the Republic of Lithuania, the principles of the educational system, the foundations of the structure of the educational system, educational activities and educational relationships as well as obligations of the State in the area of education.

The Language Commission shall decide issues concerning the implementation of the Law on the State Language, establishes the directions of regulating the Lithuanian language, decides the issues of standardisation and codification of Lithuanian language; appraises and approves the most important standardising language works (dictionaries, reference books, guidebooks and textbooks), etc.

The main aim of the state language policy is to preserve the language heritage and to foster its development in order to ensure the functionality of the Lithuanian language in all the spheres of public life. The main objective of the language policy is to influence the development of the state language in a planned and creative fashion in such a way that the society realise the value of its own language and is not disappointed in its powers.

?Term Bank of the Republic of Lithuania? means a state-run information system comprising the aggregate of entries of Lithuanian language terms, approved, acceptable or unacceptable, which are processed and presented on the Internet in accordance with the established procedure.

The purpose of the Terminology Bank of the Republic of Lithuania is to ensure consistent usage of standardised terminology of the Lithuanian language, and in the legislation of the Republic of Lithuania in particular, to design a uniform information system for different governmental bodies that other entities and persons could access and contribute to; this system would also be easily available to specialists from different fields based both in Lithuania and abroad.

The Institute of the Lithuanian Language is a centre for research into the Lithuanian language.

Guidelines for Official Language Policy for 2015-2020 (hereinafter - the Guidelines) are a medium-term policy planning document which determines the basic principles, objectives and action directions of the official language policy for the next six years.

Latvian Language Agency is a direct administration institution supervised by the Minister of Education and Science, and its aim is to enhance the status and promote sustainable development of the Latvian language ? the official state language of the Republic of Latvia and an official language of the European Union.

(VVC; Latvian: Valsts valodas centrs) is the language regulator of the Latvian language.

The primary goal for the State Language Commission is to identify strategic directions for language policy, doing so on the basis of all-encompassing research that is based on situational analysis. The commission also supervises the implementation of the State Language Policy Programme, and it takes part in the drafting of legislation in the relevant area.

O portugues e atualmente a quarta lingua mais falada no mundo, segundo dados apresentados na exposicao ?Potencial Economico da Lingua Portuguesa? em exibicao no Parlamento Europeu.

A ideia de criacao de uma comunidade de paises e povos que partilham a Lingua Portuguesa ? nacoes irmanadas por uma heranca historica, pelo idioma comum e por uma visao compartilhada do desenvolvimento e da democracia ? foi sonhada por muitos ao longo dos tempos. Em 1983, no decurso de uma visita oficial a Cabo Verde, o entao ministro dos Negocios Estrangeiros de Portugal, Jaime Gama, referiu que: "O processo mais adequado para tornar consistente e descentralizar o dialogo tricontinental dos sete paises de lingua portuguesa espalhados por Africa, Europa e America seria realizar cimeiras rotativas bienais de Chefes de Estado ou Governo, promover encontros anuais de Ministros de Negocios Estrangeiros, efectivar consultas politicas frequentes entre directores politicos e encontros regulares de representantes na ONU ou em outras organizacoes internacionais, bem como avancar com a constituicao de um grupo de lingua portuguesa no seio da Uniao Interparlamentar".

O Camoes - Instituto da Cooperacao e da Lingua, I. P., abreviadamente designado por Camoes, I. P., e um instituto publico, integrado na administracao indireta do Estado, dotado de autonomia administrativa, financeira e patrimonio proprio, que prossegue atribuicoes do Ministerio dos Negocios Estrangeiros (MNE) sob superintendencia e tutela do respetivo ministro. - See more at: http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/quem-somos/root/sobre-nos/quem-somos#sthash.mvVbI0h0.dpuf

Index to the articles of the CONSTITUTION OF THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC

This document was prepared for the 2nd Conference of Education Ministers of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPSP) held in November 1998 in Brazil, in accordance with the decision, taken at the 1st Conference held in Lisbon, for the seven member countries to present to each other a picture of their educational situation, so as to open the way for debate and definition of areas of co-operation

O Portal da Lingua Portuguesa e um repositorio organizado de recursos linguisticos. Pretende ser orientado tanto para o publico em geral como para a comunidade cientifica, servindo de apoio a quem trabalha com a lingua portuguesa e a todos os que tem interesse ou duvidas sobre o seu funcionamento. Todo o conteudo do Portal e de livre acesso e esta em constante desenvolvimento.

The goal of this conceptual framework is, on the one hand, to improve the quality of language courses and, on the other, to develop instruments to assess the communicative competencies acquired by the learners. The fide systems exists in the three main languages of Switzerland ? in German under the name «fide | Deutsch in der Schweiz ? lernen, lehren, beurteilen» (fide ? learning, teaching, appraising German in Switzerland). It aims to contribute to the reflexion and the improvement of current practice within the traditional course structures and to offer support to the various professionals involved.

On 1st January 2005 the Federal Office for Migration resulted from the amalgamation of the Federal Office for Refugees (FOR) and the Federal Office of Immigration, Integration and Emigration (IMES). This new authority regulates the conditions under which people can enter Switzerland in order to live and work here.

In Switzerland, the main responsibility for education and culture lies with the cantons. They coordinate their work at the national level. The 26 cantonal ministers of education together form a political body to carry out this work: the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education (EDK). Legally binding, intercantonal agreements (known as concordats) form the foundation for the work of the EDK. The EDK has a secondary function and fulfills tasks that cannot be performed by the regions or cantons. The EDK programme of activities describes the current projects of the Conference.

The Forum for the Italian in Switzerland was established November 30, 2012 in Zurich on the initiative of the cantons Ticino and Grisons. The purpose of the Forum is the correct positioning of Italian in the framework of constitutional multilingualism of Switzerland by 2020.

The Federal Commission on Migration FCM is an extra-parliamentary commission with 30 members, which advises the Federal Council and the public administration on questions of migration, supports projects to promote social cohesion and publishes studies and recommendations on migration policy and also the journal «terra cognita». The FCM consists of 30 experts from the field of migration, who are elected by the Federal Council and determine the commission?s positions. The FCM is mandated by law to address social, economic, cultural, political, demographic and legal issues that arise from the residence of foreign nationals in Switzerland. The subject areas covered range from refugee protection and economic migration to social cohesion and transnational issues.

The coalition united cultural organizations, non-governmental organizations and individuals. It is committed to the promotion and protection of cultural diversity, which is threatened by the international liberalization of trade.