LILAMA Network at the European Languages Council forum

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LILAMA Network attended the The Conseil Européen pour les Langues / European Languages Council (CEL/ELC) Forum held in Brussels on December 2 and 3. The CEL/ELC is an not-for-profil organisation whose aim is to promote the study of languages and cultures in order to encourage the multilingual and multicultural development of Europe and internationally. It fosters cooperation between educational institutions, associations, private organisations and policy-makers.

The forum gathered researchers representing CEL/ELC institutional membership, often members of European projects, policy-makers from the European Commission (EU), the ECML (Council of Europe) and members of the European Research Council. The CEL/ELC forum listed burning issues regarding multilingualism to be addressed by research or projects. and expressed its intentions to help detect emerging topics, laying the ground for future projects and disseminating results, in order to engage a dialogue with stakeholders in education, policy-making and the economy. Anne-Claude Berthoud, responsible for the research sector of CEL/ELC, called this approach “embedded, policy-driven action-research”.

The forum was also the opportunity to present the results of three European research projects, DYLAN, LINEE and ELDIA. In the framework of DYLAN, whose aims is to explore the conditions under which individual and society multilingualism can be turned to an advantage, language economist François Grin presented a model to select, design and evaluate the impact of language policies. Eventually, Hanna Klimek, from the Language Technologies, Machine Translation, Information Society and Media Directorate-General of the European Commission, answered the question “is the human being to be replaced by technology in Europe 2020?” by saying “no”. However, language support is required in IT for social inclusion.

For more information: http://www.celelc.org/