ELN PLUS (2005 - 2007)

Euro Languages Net Plus (2005 - 2007)

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OBJECTIVES

The ELN PLUS aims:

To select, promote and disseminate less widely-used European languages, traditional and innovative language learning/teaching techniques and best practices, as well as to improve access to language resources.

To raise awareness of the importance and uniqueness of less frequently used languages and to promote the learning of these languages. In this way, the quality, effectiveness and mobility of the workforce in Europe will increase and intercultural awareness, as well as better communication between cultures, will improve;

To encourage the general public of all age groups to learn the less widely-used languages in order to be effective in multicultural and multinational Europe; it will also enhance the possibilities of integration into European infrastructure;

To select, provide and disseminate information on newly developed and pre-existing best practices, LINGUA products, materials, methods and various opportunities to learn 23 European languages. To make an extensive use of the European Languages Net project, its achievements and products;

To raise awareness of the advantages of learning modern European languages by using modern

EURO LANGUAGES NET PLUS PROJECT (22511-CP-1-2005-1-LT-LINGUA-L1)

The ‘EURO LANGUAGES NET PLUS’ (ELN PLUS) project has been initiated by a large group of institutions in Europe to promote linguistic diversity and to offer a network focusing on dissemination of European languages. ELN PLUS concentrates on the main European Union priorities for languages - networking, publicity and information.

The ELN PLUS project is based on the successful and valuable achievements of the European Languages Net project: it will cover 23 languages by adding Czech, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Irish, Greek, Maltese, Icelandic, Turkish and Spanish to the already existing websites which promote 12 languages - German, Bulgarian, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian and Slovak - on the European Languages Net project web site (http://www.euro-languages.net).

Best practices, high quality language learning and teaching resources as well as novelties in language learning possibilities are available.

International and national forums are organized to discuss language learning possibilities and challenges.

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