EU Multilingualism, Language Education and Intercultural Dialogue

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"The Jean Monnet module on EU Multilingualism, Language Education and Intercultural Dialogue aims to take EU language policies closer to students of Humanities and Social sciences, the general public and professionals in various fields (language teaching, translation, linguistic services, etc.). It aims at promoting European integration studies at the Wisdom College University and at giving them a greater visibility at a local, regional and national levels. Its main scope is to expand teaching activities in this field by addressing a key issue for our societies: linguistic diversity as a distinctive character for Europe. Moreover, we consider that European citizenship has to be multilingual and multicultural. In line with the history and linguistic features of Albania, where four ethnic minorities, Roma, Greek, Serbo-Montenegrin, Macedonian and one ethno-linguistic minority Vlach live, the module puts together the European dimension and the regional one. Its goal is to enhance the knowledge of European integration and to boost students’ consciousness on European issues with concrete references to their everyday life. The multidisciplinary approach, the attention for an issue which constitutes at the same time one of the bases of a European citizenship and an asset for the development of the integration process, as well as the openness to civil society with reference to multilingualism and minorities protection: all these features could be considered as the most innovative characters of the project. The Module involves four Albanian lecturers and two guest lecturers (from Italy and Belgium). Outputs: Developing and delivering the course “EUMLEID""; Developing and publishing of a textbook on EU values, such as multilingualism, language issues etc.; Publication of scientific articles in the Wisdom Journal. Activities: Module preparation and course piloting; Creation of module website; Organization of two annual roundtables, a workshop, an international conference."