13 June 2024
Fostering linguistic capital in Europe: a new European Commission grant for the Center for Research and Practice in Cultural Continuity and its partners
We are happy to announce we have just received a collaborative grant
‘Fostering Linguistic Capital: A Roadmap for Reversing the Diversity Crisis and Activating Societal Benefits in Europe’
#FOSTERLANG HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-05.
(the project will be formally launched after signing the grant agreement with the European Commission)
Our center is the consortium leader with 13 other partners: European Language Equality Network, Linguapax International, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Stowarzyszenie Wilamowianie, Stowarzyszenie Ruska Bursa, Naja Szkola, Max Planck Institute for Sociolinguistics, Universidad del Pais Vasco/ Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Dublin City University, Universitetet Oslo, University of the Highlands and Islands, University of Wales Trinity Saint David Royal Charter and Pädagogische Hochschule Kärnten.
The FOSTERLANG project aims to have a transformative effect on how minoritised languages are protected, used and promoted in Europe in the context of the competitive societal dynamic between dominant and non-dominant languages. We will develop evidence-based diagnostics of the minority-language condition and propose strategic and technologically informed initiatives to protect and enhance their socioeconomic position. The project’s partners will work in tandem to develop a new societal and institutional dispensation by which minoritised language communities will catalyse their contested linguistic capital to counteract the socio-political and economic forces which continue to undermine a sustainable future for Europe’s linguistic minorities and migrants. Our project aligns with strategic priorities of EU and the Horizon Europe programme in fostering societal coherence of different linguistic communities living in their shared spaces. The major outcome will be a Linguistic Capital Road Map which will set out a substantive set of recommendations for the short, medium and long-term on effective and meaningful strategies for fostering Europe’s linguistic capital and for safeguarding grassroots multilingualism.
