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Fifth European Expert Seminar: “Cultural Education and Civil Society: How can Languages contribute?”
Together with the Basque Autonomous Community the Mercator Research Centre of the Fryske Akademy (Frisian Academy) organised the fifth European Expert Seminar: "Cultural Education and Civil Society: How can Languages contribute?" The seminar took place in Ljouwert/Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, on Thursday the 26th and Friday the 27th of May. All participants, experts from the Basque Country and Fryslân, but also from all around Europe, look back on a very succesfull seminar. After five years of cooperation, this would be the final seminar in the context of the cooperation project, but that won't be the case.
The Basque government and Mercator are so pleased with the results of the cooperation, that both parties decided to continue working together. To confirm this, representatives of the Basque government and Mercator signed a declaration of intent for the period 2012 - 2015. In this period research will be executed on bi- and trilingual education, with special attention for Inglish classes, and results will be exchanged. The situations in both regions related to minority languages are quite similar and thus they can learn a lot from each other. The aim is to come to a definitive contract in which all the details are worked out as quickly as possible.