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SUMMARY:ELEN GENERAL ASSEMBLY BILBO 2024
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n\nELEN GENERAL ASSEMBLY BILBO 2024\, EUSKAL HERRIA\, 8-10th November \nELEN is delighted to announce that it will be holding its 2024 General Assembly in the vibrant Basque city of Bilbo hosted by the outstanding Basque language NGO and founding member organisation\, Kontseilua. The theme for the 2024 ELEN General Assembly will be\, “The importance of public policies in the normalisation of minoritised languages.” We’re looking forward to welcoming expert speakers to what has become the main annual event in Europe for organisations working for the protection and promotion of European minoritised and endangered languages\, and featuring Basque experts who will deliver a plenary speech on the successful revitalisation of Basque in Tolosa. \nThe General Assembly will start on Friday afternoon November 8th at 14.30 with the new “Research and Activism” section featuring the latest relevant language-orientated research from the Basque Country and elsewhere\, as well as our success with the new COST Action network on Language Plurality in European media. The session is open to ELEN members and invited guests. \nThe Saturday (Nov 9th) session is more NGO-orientated and features presentations on successful public policies and language recovery in the Basque Country\, the new Welsh Government report on areas of higher density linguistic significance. In the afternoon the event features a presentation from the EU Commission DG Education and Culture on EU funding for language projects as well as a workshop with Basque MEPs on how to work effectively with the EU institutions. \nWe’ll also be following up on our very successful conference in Barcelona on strengthening language rights\, and hearing about our success with the Horizon project application on Fostering Linguistic Capital in Europe (Fosterlang\, led by Univ. of Warsaw) as well as the new COST Action Plurilangmedia led by ECMI. \nSaturday afternoon also features a series of workshops for ELEN members. We’re looking forward to a workshop with NGOs on the impact of over-tourism and 2nd homes on our languages. Parallel workshops will feature discussion on next steps from the new working group on strategic litigation as well as a workshop on developing ELEN Youth with a presentation from the successful HIGA young language activists project. Saturday afternoon is also open to invited guests. \nThe timings are below: \nFRIDAY November 8th\n14.30 Research and Activism (Open to Members and Invited Guests)\nPresentations and workshops\n17.30 Close\n19.00 Civic Reception\n20.00 Dinner \nSATURDAY November 9th\n8.45 Accreditation opens.\n9.05 Opening speeches (ELEN\, Basque Government\, MPs\, MEPs\, Bilbao Mayor)\n9.30-12.30 Plenary Speech Presentations and Panels (Open to Members and Invited Guests).\n– The importance of public policies in the normalisation of minoritised languages\n– Successful language recovery for the Basque language in Tolosa.\n12.30 ELEN Business (Members Only).\n13.30 LUNCH\n14.30 Afternoon presentations\, resolutions\, workshops (with MEPs and the EU Commission)\, new members.\n– EU funding for language projects\, a guide for NGOs\n– Workshop with MEPs on working with the EU institutions\n– Workshop with NGOs on the impact of over-tourism and second homes on our languages.\n– Workshop on strategic litigation for NGOs\n– Workshop for ELEN Youth\n– Resolutions\n– New Members\n– Special Items\n17.30 GA Closure\n19.30 Reception\, Dinner and Party. \nSUNDAY November 10th\n10.00 Visit to the Fine Arts Museum. \nDelegates depart. \nGeneral Assembly Hotel: Hotel Carlton\, 2 Federico Moyua Plaza\, Bilbo.\nGeneral Assembly Venue: Itsas Maritime Museum\, 1 Ramon de la Sota Kaia\, Bilbo. \nBasque TV\, EiTB\, will be broadcasting the whole event live.
URL:https://elen.ngo/event/elen-general-assembly-bilbao-2024/
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SUMMARY:Council of Europe Committee on Anti-Discrimination\, Diversity and Inclusion - CDADI
DESCRIPTION:Plenary Session \n 
URL:https://elen.ngo/event/council-of-europe-committee-on-anti-discrimination-diversity-and-inclusion-cdadi/
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SUMMARY:UN FORUM FOR MINORITY ISSUES
DESCRIPTION:UN Forum for Minority Issues\, 17th Session. \n 
URL:https://elen.ngo/event/un-forum-for-minority-issues-3/
LOCATION:Palais de Nations\, Geneva\, 1211\, Switzerland
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SUMMARY:ELEN - ECMI Side Event at the UN Forum for Minority Issues
DESCRIPTION:ELEN – ECMI Side Event at the UN Forum for Minority Issues. \nMinoritised Language Media \nThursday 28th November\, 14-15.00\, Room XXII. \nTitle: Improving policy and representation for minoritised language media – challenges\, best practices\, and looking to the future. \nCONCEPT  The media landscape globally is transforming rapidly with an ever increasing array of platforms and social media outlets. At the same time we\, as speakers of minoritized languages\, work to ensure that we can live every aspect of our lives in our languages. Having a wide variety of media in our own languages and being fully represented in mainstream media is vital to that aim. This side event will explore the current challenges to\, and best practices in\, minoritized language media\, looking at successes\, the current legal framework and how to improve it\, as well as challenges such as the exponential rise in hate speech against minoritized language speakers and how rapid digitalisation is adversely affecting media in endangered languages. Experts from across Europe will discuss these issues with the event having a focus on new initiatives and looking to how minority language speakers can ensure the future for their languages in all types of media. \nPanellists: \nProf. Nicolas Levrat – UN Special Rapporteur for Minority Issues. \nProf. Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones – ELEN President / Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant. \nDr. Sergiusz Bober – European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI). \nDr. Elena Jiménez i Botías – ELEN Vice-President/ Omnium Cultural. \nDr. Craig Willis – ECMI. \nModerator: Dr. Davyth Hicks\, ELEN Secretary-General. \nTopics to discuss: \n\nDealing with hate-speech against minoritised language speakers\nImpact of geo-blocking in the EU on minoritized languages.\nPublic service media in minoritised languages\, the need for greater support.\nSocial media algorithm promotion.\nHighlight the provisions for media in UN and Council of Europe instruments (ECRML\, FCNM) and call for more countries to support and/or ratify.\nHow can we more effectively implement existing provisions?\nNeed for new legislation to support minoritized language media as media itself transforms.
URL:https://elen.ngo/event/elen-ecmi-side-event-at-the-un-forum-for-minority-issues/
LOCATION:Palais de Nations\, Geneva\, 1211\, Switzerland
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