{"title":"Imagining the future of multilingualism: education and society at a turning point","authors":"P. V. D. Craen","doi":"10.3828/EJLP.2021.7D","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/EJLP.2021.7D","url":null,"abstract":"Van de Craen examines the future of multilingualism, highlighting education and society as a turning point and the issues discussed at the 2020 CEL/ELC forum held in Milan Italy. On December 3-4 2020, the Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan organized the bi-annual CEL/ELC forum. This event took place in difficult circumstances while Brexit, Covid and pandemic raged and the world is confronted with counter-productive anti-democratic, anti-scientific and anti-multicultural opinions and fake news. As with so many other events, the forum took place in a virtual environment. Despite this, 200 participants had enrolled. The bi-annual forum offers an opportunity to the ELC participants to discuss current European issues related to the area of languages in its broadest sense. In that sense a forum is different from a conference where attention to research results are more prominent.","PeriodicalId":193898,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Language Policy: Volume 13, Issue 1","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133870132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The importance of languages in global context: an international call to action","authors":"Anonymous","doi":"10.3828/ejlp.2021.7a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/ejlp.2021.7a","url":null,"abstract":"The importance of languages in global context is discussed. As global businesses, diplomatic corps, and other leaders have repeatedly stated, language education, and the accompanying linguistic and intercultural competencies, are a necessity for social, political and economic development. and for effective collaboration. During a global health crisis, researchers, governments and health care workers must be able to share accurate information. In such times, language matters, and fluency in the languages matters, the people of the world must be able to speak to each other and be understood - to communicate as effectively and as rapidly as technology allows.","PeriodicalId":193898,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Language Policy: Volume 13, Issue 1","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128278874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}