Since its foundation, AEGEE has been involved in projects related to languages and intercultural learning. Building Language Bridges presents AEGEE-Europe's celebration of the European Day of Languages, which will take place in autumn annually.
By celebrating the European Day of Languages, we would like to promote the rich cultural heritage of Europe and foster mutual understanding among different language communities all over Europe with a special focus on young people.
Our project is aimed at motivating the European youth to learn different languages, especially not the very common ones.
By organizing simultaneous language courses and different types of language related events with broad media coverage all over Europe we would like to bring international attention to the importance of language learning and raise awareness among the general public and decision-makers.
As our celebration of the European Day of Languages will involve thousands of young people from all over Europe and target a broad variety of languages spoken inside and outside the European Union, the linguistic and cultural diversity of Europe will be made visible to the European citizens. The EDL encourages them to focus on the advantages of language learning.
Information provided in the “Language Fairs” is a first step in learning a new language and will motivate young people to dive further into it. By being multilingual they can understand other cultures better, open up their minds and feel increasingly European, and therefore can participate actively in the European democratic process.
EDL in Florence