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Programme: accepted abstracts

Abstract ID: 1436

Part of General Poster Session (Other abstracts in this session)

Languages in Urban Communities – Integration and Diversity for Europe (LUCIDE)

Authors: Young, Andrea Susan; Nortier, Jacomine
Submitted by: Young, Andrea Susan (Université de Strasbourg, France)

The LUCIDE project aims to develop policy ideas about how to manage the new and more complex citizen communities. It wants to present a comprehensive picture of how communication occurs in multilingual/multicultural settings across the EU and beyond and so to support institutions (councils, schools, hospitals) and national economies to make better productive use of diversity as an economic resource and also to shore up social cohesion by fostering better communication and mutual understanding.

Five major issues will be examined during the course of the project:

1. What constitutes “good practice” in language learning for immigrants?

2. How do cities foster social inclusion through linguistic support in social services?

3. How do cities provide for communication and cultural exchange with “neighbouring languages”?

4. How do cities promote intercultural dialogue and understanding by celebrating community cultures in common spaces?

5. Are there any particular challenges for cities for cities which have traditionally been in countries of emigration, but which are now receiving many immigrants?

Whilst the long term goal of LUCIDE is to suggest some viable and convincing policy directions to support a vision of the 21^st century city, strengthened by its diversity, our poster for SS19 will present an initial snapshot of the realities of the multilingual city in education, in the economy, in civil society and in cultural life, based upon recent data (such as theUtrecht city report) from the range of cities involved in our network (Athens, Greece; Dublin, Ireland; Hamburg, Germany; Lemesos, Cyprus; London & Sheffield, UK; Madrid, Spain; Melbourne, Australia; Osijek, Croatia; Ottawa & Toronto, Canada; Rome, Italy; Sofia & Varna, Bulgaria; Strasbourg, France, Tromsø, Norway & Utrecht, Netherlands).

The LUCIDE project is funded by the EU’s lifelong Learning Program, Key Activity 2 (Languages)/Networks and will be conducted between December 2011 and December 2014.