October 2005

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THE ADUM PROJECT ENTERS THE DISSEMINATION PHASE

October 2005 - The Adum consortium held its last meeting in the present phase of the project at the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel on Wednesday October 5th. For nearly two years, in the context of the Action Plan for Language Learning and Linguistic Diversity, six institutions from Catalonia, Wales, Friuli, Slovenia, Belgium and Ireland have developed this project, which aims to offer people and organisations throughout Europe that work for the regional or minority languages information on the European programmes that can be taken advantage of to (co)fund projects to promote these languages. Adum includes an interactive networking environment to aid the drafting of proposals.

During this phase Adum members also met M. Jacques Delmoly, head of the Multilingualism Policy Unit of the DG for Education & Culture, and Mme. Teresa Condeço, the Action/project manager and policy developer on Regional and minority languages. The rapid increase in the number of partners and experts who have registered in the website's data base was underlined by the team, for it is a good sign of the growing use, and usefulness, of the website.

The Adum steering committee members had a meeting with the European Parliament Intergroup for Traditional National Minorities, Constitutional Regions and Regional Languages. They agreed that they will co-operate closely in the future as strategic partners. The members of ADUM offered their expertise and support for the Intergroup. They also agreed that the ADUM will have to opportunity to present the project on the Intergroup and it is hoped that MEPs interested in the issues covered by the Adum project, will not only take note of the website, but also disseminate widely in their constituencies, and invite potential partners to register. Other events at which the Adum project will be presented include the forthcoming IV Mercator Symposium on "Translation of Culture, Culture of Translation: Languages in Film, Television and Literature" (26-28 October 2005, Aberystwyth - Wales).