*Fryske Akademy (Mercator Research) 

Name of organisation

Country

Fryslân, The Netherlands 

Type of organisation

Short note on organisation background

Research of the Fryske Akademy focuses on the language and history of Fryslân and the Frisian community.

The Fryske Akademy is also the home of the Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, formerly Mercator Education. The Mercator Research Centre aims at the acquisition, circulation and application of knowledge. It gathers and mobilises expertise in the field of language learning at school, at home and through cultural participation in favour of linguistic diversity of Europe. The Mercator Research Centre is an independent and recognised reference centre for policymakers and professional workers in the field of multilingual education and language learning. The Mercator Research Centre brings Europe to Fryslân and Fryslân to Europe.

Other elements of Mercator Research Centre are a database of experts in the field of multilingualism, a series of Regional Dossiers that the describe the position of lesser-used languages in education, and a series of language fact sheets that give brief overviews of language diversity in the current and new member states of the European Union. 

Website address

Postal address

Deolestrjitte 8
PO Box 54
NL 8900 AB
Ljouwert / Leeuwarden
The Netherlands