Multiliteracy and Multiculturalism - An Opportunity for Europe?

From June 21 to 24, 2006, around 180 experts of higher education and secondary education as well as school administration staff will hold a meeting at IUB to explore "Multiliteracy and the European Educational Agenda". The conference is organized in cooperation with the University Bremen. Main focus lies on the effects of global migration processes on European school systems.

[ Jun 23, 2006]  Today, at many educational facilities, school life presents itself as multilingual and multicultural. European education politics, in particular language politics are handling the altered school reality by demanding a creation of a multilingual and multicultural authority. Therefore, the aim of the conference focuses on learning and teaching of languages as well as their coherent application.

One of the initiators of the conference, the INFORM institute of the University of Bremen, as creator of the European-wide network LANGSCAPE, developed into an international point of intersection in the sector of multilingualism research and scientific navigation in bilingual education