Transform4Europe presents: the European Day of Languages 2021

Initiated by the Council of Europe in 2001, the European Day of Languages on the 26th of September has become a symbol of promoting and celebrating linguistic and cultural diversity of Europe as one of its fundamental values and assets. Multilingualism has also been declared as a value by the partners of the Transform4Europe alliance which aims at educating future European knowledge-entrepreneurs who are well-equipped with plurilingual and intercultural competences and are well-prepared to make transformations for a more inclusive Europe.

The Transform4Europe Alliance invites you to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the European Day of Languages on the 24th of September together. With this initiative we wish to promote multilingualism and language learning as an inevitable component of HE in Europe, raise awareness among the communities of all partner universities about the languages of the Transform4Europe alliance and engage the communities of all partner universities and their stakeholders in a discussion of the benefits and challenges that linguistic diversity brings into the European corporate, public and academic discourses.

During the event short introductory language tasters of 8 Alliance languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Estonian, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish and Spanish, including survival phrases, interesting facts, cross-linguistic comparisons, etc. will be presented. Representatives of international companies and organizations will deliver presentations on intercultural and plurilingual (mis)communication in corporate and public discourse. Presentations will be given in English, German, Italian and Spanish and will focus on language needs in the contemporary corporate and public life, cases of miscommunication, challenges encountered, solutions found and examples of good practices.

The preliminary programme of the online event on the 24th of September:

09:30 – 09:45 Opening of the event.

09:45 – 10:30 Transform4Europe Language Tasters – short introductory presentations about the languages of the alliance including survival phrases, interesting facts, cross-linguistic comparisons, etc.

10:30 – 11:30 Intercultural and plurilingual (mis)communication in corporate/ public discourse – presentations by representatives of international companies and organizations.

We are kindly inviting you to participate in the event, receive positive impressions, promote multilingualism across Europe and raise awareness about the importance of languages/multilingualism in the contemporary world. The registration is open till 22nd of September. Please register here: Registration