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Background

One of the principle goals of the Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning is to gather, store and distribute information on minority language education in European regions. There is a need for documents which give a brief outline of the most essential features of the educational system of regions with an autochthonous lesser-used language. With the establishment of Regional dossiers we intend to meet this need.

Target Groups  Policy makers Researchers  Teachers Students  Journalists

Aim

Regional dossiers aim at providing concise descriptive information and basic educational statistics about minority language education in a specific region of the European Union. For the definition of minority language used by the Mercator Research Centre please look here. The Regional dossiers are written according to a fixed structure. In this way the Regional dossiers can also be used for comparative research. This information can serve several purposes and contains among others:

• Features of the educational system

• Recent educational policies

• Division of responsibilities

• Main actors

• Legal arrangements

• Support structures

• Quantitive information