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First Soillse Residential Conference: “Maintaining and Revitalising Minority Languages in their ‘Heartlands’”
SABHAL MÒR OSTAIG UHI, Sleat, the Isle of Skye, Scotland, 31 August-3 September 2011
Soillse is a 5-year, £5.29 million research project involving the University of the Highlands and Islands (with Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, UHI's Gaelic college in Skye, and Lews Castle College, in Lewis participating), as well as the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and funded by the Scottish Funding Council, Bòrd na Gàidhlig (the language planning body created under the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005) and Highlands and Islands Enterprise. The purpose of Soillse is to enhance the research capacity to inform public policy towards the maintenance and revitalisation of Gaelic language and culture. One of the ways in which Soillse is intended to enhance research capacity is to hold two residential conferences, the first of which will be held at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, in the beautiful and historic Sleat Peninsula, the Isle of Skye, between 31 August and 3 September 2011.
http://www.mercator-research.eu/downloads/soillseconference_call-2_english.pdf