Celebrations of the European Day of Languages 2005
in Latvia

 

On the 26th September The European Day of Languages 2005 was marked on a wide scale in Riga. The photos below will give you an insight into this unique event.

Programme of the Week of the European  Languages
19th – 26th September, 2005

 

 

Language - a means of integrating the society

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European Day of Languages 2005

 

5th  September

A quiz devoted to the European Day of Languages in the newspaper “Latvijas avīze”  (the answers are expected by September, 19)

 

19th September – 25th September

A variety of activities at schools, higher educational establishments and national cultural societies (more information is available on the websites www.izm.gov.lv; www.isec.gov.lv; www.lvasa.lv )

 

Monday, 26th September

                  Conference at the Latvian Society House (13 Merkela St.)

 

 

 9.00   – 10.00     Registration of the conference participants

10.00 – 11.00

Opening address by Anita Vanaga, the Latvian  co-ordinator of the  European Day of Languages 2005

 

Address by prof. Ina Druviete, Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia, and  Helmi Stalte, Chairperson of the Culture, Arts and Religion commission, the Riga City Council

 

Performance of the Liiv and Latvian folk groups

 

Welcoming addresses by the representatives of the foreign embassies  and other guests

 

11.00        – 12.00

Quidelines of the state language policy and the EU language policy.

Prof. Jānis Valdmanis, Director of the State Language Agency

 

The language in education 

Evija Papule, Deputy Head of the Department of the General Education, Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia

 

The Latvian language and the new technologies.

Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Program Director of the “Tilde” company

 

 

12.00 – 13.00

Multilingual performance of the participant of the schoolchildren public speaking competition in different languages

 

Awarding the European Label for Innovative Projects in Language Teaching and Learning 2005

Baiba Sermuliņa, Program co-ordinator, Academic Program Agency

 

Presentation of the International Award of the World Federation of Language Teacher Associations (FIPLV)  

Denis Cunningham, FIPLV President, Australia

 

 ‘The Language Wealth of Latvia” – a multilingual performance  on the open-air stage of the Vermanes garden

(producer: Jānis Siliņš, Academy of Culture of Latvia)

 

14.00 – 17.00 Performance in the numerous languages of Latvia: Lithuanian, Estonian, Polish, Russian, Ukranian, Belorussian, Jewish, Georgian, Hungarian, English, German, French, Armenian  etc.

 

Awarding the prize of the newspaper “Latvijas avīze” to the winners of the quiz on the European Day of Languages

 

Organizers: Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia

                    Latvian Association of the Language Teachers (LALT)

                    The State Language Agency

                    Translation and terminology centre

 

Supporters: The Riga City Council

                    Academic Program Agency

                    The British Council, Latvia

                    French Cultural Centre, Latvia

                    Goethe Institute, Riga

                    The State Language commission under the auspices of the president

                    Dārzi un parki (‘Gardens and Parks’)

 

Informative supporters:

                    Latvian Radio

                    Newspaper “Diena”

                    Newspaper “Latvijas avīze”

                    Newspaper “Izglītība un kultūra”