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Testing students' knowledge of Europe's languages

 Quiz/Game, 23 Sep 2024 - 04 Oct 2024, Thessaloniki, Greece

As part of the implementation of the eTwinning project titled "An Ideal World," the students participating in it will collaboratively create a short video in various languages to promote linguistic diversity and the ability to speak other languages. Additionally, within the framework of the Civic Education course, we will celebrate this day with 10th Graders by utilizing the 20th event idea suggested for this special day (Test out your knowledge of Europe’s languages) . Specifically, we will use part of the material available on the following website: [https://edl.ecml.at/LanguageFun/LanguageTrivia/tabid/3129/Default.aspx) (Language facts, Language games, Language fun).

Venue: 7th General Lyceum of Kalamaria (Show On Map)
Target groups:  Pupils Children Students

Organizer: 7th General Lyceum of Kalamaria
Estimated number of participants/people involved: 100
Address: Adrianoupoleos 2, 55133, Thessaloniki, Greece
Contact Name: Konstantza Tagara
Website: https://7lyk-kalam.thess.sch.gr/

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20 ideas for this year's European Day of Languages

Struggling to find ideas for an event for this year’s European Day of Languages? It can be challenging to organise events that are fun, inclusive, have an educational element and motivate a large number of people. Below are a few ideas to get your creative thoughts flowing, most of which are based on the principle of “starting small to go big”! 20 ideas for activities that can be carried in celebration of this year's EDL.

20 ideas for this year's European Day of Languages

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Vote for this year’s most innovative event!  

To add a further element of spice to the Day, anyone visiting the website can vote for what they regard as the most innovative EDL event. This can be due to its creativity, transferability or just because it truly represents the spirit of the Day. Voting will be open for one month, from 20 September – 20 October, with the winner to be announced in December. There will be a small prize for the organizer of the event which receives the most votes.

2024's 'most innovative event' is
Long live the European Day of Languages/ Vive la Journée européenne des langues

The event received 1900+ votes and was organised by Lycée Alfred Mézières de Longwy, France.

Congratulations to the winners!

We were greatly impressed by the creativity and great effort which went into organising the events submitted and would like to thank all organisers of EDL events in 2024.