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The RISE UP Digital Toolkit is now available! ๐ฑ
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๐ OLMi Workshop 2026: call for presentations ๐
The YAR (ANR) and Cais (B-Monde/Agile Cymru) projects are co-organizing a workshop on tools for minority languages with a focus on teaching contexts.
More information on the workshop and call for proposals here: mgrobol.codeberg.page/olmi/#-olmi-...
After 3 years as YEN Project Manager for RISE UP, Jenny is saying goodbye to the YEN Office ๐ Big thanks to the RISE UP team, the YEN network & the communities we met across Europe - itโs been an honour working for #youthempowerment & #minoritisedlanguages!
10.02.2026 11:21 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Cornish place names carry meaning and history. A proposal now open for public support is a petition calling for dual Cornish and English place-name signage for villages and towns across Cornwall.
Read more and sign it here:
New linguistic data reveals a complex reality for Aranese:
the language is holding steady in number of speakers, yet losing ground in everyday use.
๐ Only 16.8% use Aranese daily
๐ฅ ~2,200 speakers
๐ง Over 50% can speak it โ but donโt use it regularly
The challenge isnโt survival.
Itโs social use.
This year, the Austrian Language Committee (รSKO) hosted its annual รSKO Day in Salzburg. Eva Vetter and Stefanie Cajka gave a talk on โMinoritised Languages and AIโ, sharing their work in collaboration with Mรฉlanie Jouitteau (IKER, CNRS), minoritised language communities and the RISE UP project. ๐ค
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Yesterday, we held our final RISE UP Networking Event "Get Inspired! Celebrating Minoritised Language Arts" ๐ฅณ๐ผ๏ธ
The event was a wonderful celebration of minoritised language arts, and the people we met along the way who shaped RISE UP into what it was ๐
www.riseupproject.eu/events/get-i...
Seto Christmas (Talsipรผha) was celebrated on 4.1. at Tartu Town Hall Square, marking the end of the townโs Christmas season. Seto heritage was shared by leelo choirs Kullakรตsรต, Ilolang, Liinatsuraโ, Marโatsรคuk & Seto Latsi Kuul, with speeches by รlembsootska Jalmar Vabarna & Tartu mayor Urmas Klaas.
19.01.2026 07:02 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The Seto Institute organized a conference on November 21 to celebrate its 15th anniversary. The conference also marked the 30th anniversary of the Setomaa newspaper. The first half focused on life-story research, the second on Seto media โ past, present, and future.
www.youtube.com/live/fWweMh9...
โ๏ธ New Yearโs Eve in the Vall dโAran is pure magic: snowy villages, Pyrenean traditions, and the iconic torchlight descent in Baqueira Beretโจ
Fireworks, aprรจs-ski, mountain vibes, and the perfect mix of celebration + nature to welcome 2025. ๐ฅ
www.visitvaldaran.com/en/
The 49th Austrian Linguistics Conference (รLT) took place from December 5โ8 at the University of Klagenfurt/Univerza v Celovcu. Our colleague Katharina Strasser presented her talk โThe Future of Minoritized Languages from the Perspective of Their Speakers: Insights from the EU Project RISE UPโ.
25.12.2025 11:34 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Wrapping up another exciting and productive year of RISE UP, we want to use this time to thank you for all your support, participation and inputs throughout 2025. ๐๐ซ
The RISE UP Team wishes you relaxing holidays and a good start into the new year! โค๏ธ๐
The final session of "Speak on Screen: Translating Audiovisual Content in Minority Languages", a workshop series organised by RISE UP & HOW TIMELY, took place on December 10th ๐ฌ๐ค
If you missed the event, you can watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Jm...
NEW! Vlach Internet Radio Greece ๐ป
#LaVerliga Radio, a new Vlach and Aspropotamis internet radio not only informs, entertains ad keeps you company 24 hours a day but also provides Vlach language lessons on the radio in Greece! Check it out and pass on the news!
laverliga.gr
SAVE THE DATE ๐
The fifth and final RISE UP Networking Event, โGet Inspired! Celebrating Minoritised Language Artsโ, will take place on January 20, 2026, from 2PM-5PM CET!
More information and registration here: www.eventbrite.at/e/get-inspir...
Inaugural Lecture from SOAS @soasuni.bsky.social Linguistics Professor Julia Sallabank, titled 'Language revitalisation and reclamation: theorising processes and ideologies'
Dec 11 ยท 5:30 pm GMT
#linguistics #language #Languagerevitalisation #Endangeredlanguages #Languagedocumentation
Real momentum was created by the synergy between deep (re-)thinking of the media and language vitality relationship by experts, and integrating new contexts and media from around the world. #RISE UP (Eva Eppler) and #HOW TIMELY (Floriane Bardini) presented #โSpeak on Screenโ.
09.12.2025 07:29 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The UK Government recommended the Cornish language for Part III status under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. This places Cornish on a par with Welsh, Irish & Scottish Gaelic.
Congratulations to the Cornish people & all the actors involved in the language's promotion!
The RISE UP Travelling Exhibition is now available online!
Explore the amazing artworks by Yyhely Hรคlvin, Teano Kardula, Ricard Novell, Viktoria Ratasich, and Lianne Wilson, and learn more about Europe's minoritised language communities in 11 languages!
www.riseupproject.eu/exhibition/t...
Prof. Julia Sallabank, who leads RISE UP's SOAS team, will give her inaugural lecture on the pressures facing minoritised languages and what is needed to keep them in use.
Although an in-person event, it will be recorded and available to watch online afterwards.
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
With Christmas coming, itโs the right time to talk about Nadau - โChristmasโ in Occitan, and one of the most iconic bands of Occitร nia. ๐
They shaped the nova canรงon movement and have long supported social causes + the Calendreta Occitan-language schools.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnXm...
Last week, the team of UNIVIE participated the annual FORUM Minderheitenschulwesen 2025, a forum concerned with minoritised language education. Together with Zwetelina Ortega, we briefly presented the concept of a "language village" for Burgenland Croatian, a strategy for language learning and use.
27.11.2025 11:34 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
At the end of October, RISE UP presented findings from its transnational questionnaire at the conference "Aromanian on the Path to a Literary and Standard Language", hosted by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. We presented an analysis of attitudes towards standardisation of the Aromanian language.
24.11.2025 08:59 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
A joint project by Vรตru Institute, Seto Institute and Vรตrumaa Development Centre has created a web platform www.umakultuur.ee, bringing together vรตro- and seto language study materials for schools and kindergartens to support the teaching of local language and culture.
24.11.2025 07:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Setomaa was not the last stop for the RISE UP Travelling Exhibition! Thanks to Thede Kahl, it was shown again in the foyer of the #OEAW as part of the "Aromanian on the Path to a Literary and Standard Language" conference in Vienna, 30-31.10.2025.
20.11.2025 07:37 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
RISE UP researcher Julia Sallabank is adapting the Cornish language course Bora Brav to teach her heritage language, Guernesiais (Guernsey, Channel Islands), together with Guernsey teacher and researcher Yan Marquis . On 1st November, Yan and Julia held a very successful pilot workshop in Guernsey!
18.11.2025 11:34 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Last Monday, RISE UP & #HOWTIMELY launched โSpeak on Screen,โ a workshop series exploring #dubbing/#subtitling to strengthen language learning. 13 participants joined to learn about #AVT in the framework of minority/minoritised languages ๐๐ฌ
Read more here:
mon.uvic.cat/how-timely/2...
Eva Eppler was invited to share the results of the transnational RISE UP survey on #Aromanian with the community at the #Symposium commemorating the arrival of the first Aromanians in Romania 100 years ago. Stakeholders praised the findings as important for the community.
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Last week, our consortium met up in Vienna for its last official consortium meeting!
We spent three days with meetings and discussions on our outcomes, final steps, and sustainability and uptake of our results.
We also visited the Croatian Centre in Vienna - thank you for having us!
On October 3, our Travelling Exhibition visited Bucharest, Romania! ๐โจ
Thank you to the Aromanian Cultural Society for hosting us โฅ
If you want to see more, you can have a look at this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQmB...