EUROPEAN CIVIL SOCIETY PLATFORM FOR MULTILINGUALISM

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ACTIVE MEMBERS
1) ALTE Association of Language Testers in Europe
2) Babylon Center for the Study of Superdiversity, University of Tilburg, NL
3) CeLM Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism, University of Reading, UK
4) Center for Multilingualism, Universität Konstanz, DE
5) Division of Multilingualism, Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Technische Universität Darmstadt, DE
6) EEU Eŭropa Esperanto-Unio
7) European Artists' Rights
8) EFNIL European Federation of National Institutions for Language
9) FIPLV European Federation of Language Teacher Associations
10) FUEN Federal Union of European Nationalities
11) Literature Across Frontiers
12) Mercator Network of Language Diversity Centres
13) NPLD Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity

PENDING MEMBERS
14) European Association for Language Testing and Assessment
15) European Forum for Vocational Education and Training
16) International Association of Multilingualism

PARTNERS
1) ECML European Centre for Modern Languages
2) Cracking the Language Barrier
3) OLBI Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute, University of Ottawa, Canada

PENDING PARTNER
1) Life Long Learning Platform - European Civil Society for Education

MULTILINGUALISM EXPERT GROUP
An international group of ten eminent scholars.

http://ecspm.org/organisation/

Jan 2017 - Dec 2017

2,600€

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Symposium entitled “BEYOND LANGUAGE BARRIERS” (1/12/2017) in Athens, Greece, with the support of the Hellenic Open University and the School of Education of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Three themes were addressed:
a) the social, aesthetic and linguistic literacies for the creative participation in European societies of displaced populations and people in adversity;
b) the role of translation, technology and linguistic resources for the safe-guarding of multilingualism in Europe;
c) The work of other ECSPM member and partner organisations http://ecspm.org/ecspm-events/beyond-language-barriers/
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Symposium being organized to celebrate the European Day of Languages, with the support of the Language, Linguistics and Multilingualism Centre of the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, 26-28 September 2018.
The theme of the symposium is “How to make a paradigm shift for the development of multiliterate and plurilingual agencies: Policies, pedagogical practices and action research”.

As of early 2016 the ECSPM is an independent non-governmental, non-profit association, registered according to Danish Law: Registration No. CVR 37116866, to carry on the work of the ‘Platform’ on Multilingualism, launched by the Commission, supported by the DG EAC, in 2009, and re-launched in 2012, and mandated to work toward the development of: (a) coherent plans to raise awareness regarding the value of European linguistic diversity (b) strategies allowing Europeans to learn at least two languages plus L1 starting from an early age, and (c) proposals facilitating the mainstreaming of multilingualism in relevant EU programmes and policies.
While the ECSPM continues to work for the right of all students to learn two languages in addition to their mother tongue, and to ensure that Europe’s rich linguistic and cultural resources are maintained because they are viewed as crucial for the future of Europe, the organisation operates for the promotion of research into multilingualism, as well as for the endorsement and development of language policies for multilingualism in all aspects of social life by way of focusing on people, and on their ability to use a variety of semiotic resources to access education, social affairs and culture, to participate as active citizens, to benefit from better communication and wider employment opportunities. It has 29 European Networks as its founding members, 13 European Networks as its active members (2 more pending for active membership), 3 partnerships (and 1 more pending) while it is advised by a Multilingualism Expert Group of 11 distinguished academics.

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