The NPLD aims to bring together partners with common interest to impart information, share best practices and develop projects under thematic areas which will promote language development and linguistic diversity across its linguistic communities. These projects range from bringing members together to discuss possible funding applications, research and dissemination exercises to working with grass-root level citizens in their day to day tasks of promoting and safeguarding linguistic diversity.
The Network is currently carrying out three projects under the following themes:
- Media- looking a the feasibility of an online Media festival for regional language communities
- Pre-School Education- developing a best practice handbook for practitioners working in bi-lingual/immersion day-care centres
- Youth - Comparative study of the factors that promote the continuation of language use amongst young people.
Other themes which are being considered for future collaboration and project work include:
- ICT - Terminology databases and machine translation for regional languages
- Research
If you are interested in these specific themes, and would be interested in finding out more, contact the Secretariat.