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The project - Aims
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Aims
As expressed in the Statutes of the Observatory, the aims are as follow:
- Support the linguistic diversity of the European Union in all its political, administrative, economical, social and cultural components
- Further the emergence of an active European citizenship based on the understanding of European languages and cultures
- Promote, through plurilingualism, the cultural diversity, the foundation of every creativity, the exchange and respect of the other, a basis for a peaceful progress
- Contribute to the prejudice against xenophobia and aggressive linguistic communitarianism through the promotion of plurilingualism and interculturality
- Create collaborations for the conduct of events and research on the same matters
- Contribute to a collaborative Internet website whose missions are the following:
- Build up a European and multilingual data base on languages and plurilingualism
- Be a direct publication site for feature articles on languages and plurilingualism
- Be a source of information and exchange for the civil society on the various components concerned by the linguistic questions, namely: families, teachers, companies, workers…
- Further the coupling of scientific research and civil society
- Publish an electronic newsletter.