Kolibrí – the Ibero-American children’s cultural festival is a way to experience multiculturalism and multilingualism in Finland through children’s eyes. Kolibrí offers an artistic, recreational
Category: Multilingual projects
Leikin sata kieltä ja tarinaa / The hundred languages of playing
Leikin sata kieltä ja tarinaa / The hundred languages of playing is a fare about children’s education in multilingual and intercultural contexts. In 2018 the
Tema morsmål – support for multilingual education
Tema Morsmål is a website that offers resources to support different mother tongues and multilingual work in child care, mother tongue education and bilingual education in
Somali Nordic Culture promotes reading and writing in Somali
Somali Nordic Culture is an association located in Sweden. It works to increase interest towards Somali Culture organizing events and festivals, activities for children, film
Café Lingua – Living Languages – Lifandi tungumál
A worldful of languages! Café Lingua is a platform for those who want to enhance their language skills, Icelandic or other languages, a place to
The Flying Carpet – Fljúgandi teppi
The Flying Carpet – intercultural encounters The Flying Carpet is a method of facilitated intercultural encounters created by Kristin R. Vilhjálmsdóttir. By implementing the The
The Women’s Story Circle (Söguhringur kvenna) in Reykjavik City Library
Image: a visual art piece, a new map of Reykjavík, created by The Women´s Story Circle under the guidance of Lilianne Vorstenbosch A worldful of
Learning for Integration: multilingual language cafés, language-specific playgroups for kids, language expert services etc.
Learning for Integration ry promotes the learning of languages and cultural sensitivity of migrant, immigrant and refugee children and youth in Finland and other Nordic countries.
Story Sharing Universum
Story Sharing Universum is a project which helps immigrants, asylum seekers and Finns to meet and share stories together in several languages. The project has two
Ós Pressan
Ós Pressan is a non-profit initiative designed to think of literature in an updated way, to bring out and promote new authors, to create an inclusive, multilingual
Sivuvalo – Is This Finnish Literature?
Sivuvalo project is a creative platform for writers who write in other than the two national languages in Finland. It offers information about transnational writers, edits
NolitchX, Nordic Literatures in Change and Exchange
Nolitch X, Nordic Literatures in Change and Exchange, is a literature project (2017) with the objective of creating networks of immigrant language writers in the Nordic
Reading by listening – a Nordic collaboration produces talking books in Arabic and Sámi
In the Nordic countries, the need for talking books in other languages than European languages has increased during the last few years. Due to the
