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Preservation of Minority cultures and languages. An entrepreneurial opportunity to embrace the past and the future

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 589939-EPP-1-2017-1-PT-EPPKA2-CBY-ACPALA
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia Funder Contribution: 149,700 EUR

Preservation of Minority cultures and languages. An entrepreneurial opportunity to embrace the past and the future

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Many less used and minority languages are in danger of extinction because they are not spoken by the younger generations. However, recent legislative initiatives in the countries of Latin America together with the European framework for multilingualism develop a trend to reverse this situation and now the knowledge of a local/ minority language can be an important asset in order the young people to find an employment. It is also true that the areas where minority languages are spoken are those where unemployment rate is very high especially between the young people. The knowledge of how to improve this knowledge and valorise it for employability purposes will help them a lot to find an employment or begin an entrepreneurial career with the skills and assets they already possess. Youth work has a very important role in order to raise the awareness of these opportunities, support the young people to valorise them and support intergenerational learning which is a key factor in this process.To fulfill this purpose a wide international consortium has been gathered. Partners from South America, Argentina and Peru with very strong ties with their communities and equipped with a very innovative character and experience with young people mobility. Action Synergy has a big experience in European projects and are specialist in the development of online education tools. CIDLeS from Portugal has developed projects in the framework of language documentation and The Fryske Akademy from Netherlands belongs to a association with the main goal of promote linguistic diversity. In the framework of the project three capacity building courses for youth workers are going to be organised (in Netherlands, Argentina and Peru). Also an e-learning course is going to be developed in order to extend the training also to youth workers that are not able to follow the online courses. Moreover, a research is going to be organised in each country in order to evaluate the minority language situation and legal status. Also, there are going to be organised cultural events for the promotion of minority languages, there are going to be developed awareness raising videos in the minority language (with subtitles in all the languages of the partnership plus English) and recordings of songs in local language which are then going to be published on the web.Capacities necessaries to promote with the media their cultural roots are going to be build, a space to valorise the cultural characteristics related to each minority language is going to take place. All these are activities are going to be available for an international public through the website, Facebook page in many other media in order to multiply its effect beyond the project duration. At the end of the project the young people involved are expected to improve their employability through the valorisation of the asset of their local/ minority language.

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